In ToS last boss I use icy rays on tab, steal time (for dealing with 2+ add spawns), entangling force (for those random blademasters) and disintigrate. For dailies I use OF and ice storm (Ice storm for when all the adds group up on top of tank, it can prevent him from being overwhelmed as well as providing a prone)
I never even considered Ice Storm. Hmm.
And steal time really helps in that fight?
I suppose if you want to dump cash into the game, buy <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> loads of Zen and convert it to AD and buy all R12 Radiants and Transcendent Soulforged (for pve) and Negation (for pvp) and Terror. Then buy enough RP to make your artifact set Mythic. Then, you STILL have to deal with getting your T2 set from epic DDs and grinding out enough Black Ice to upgrade your stuff to Elemental. With unlimited AD from dropping cash, you can buy all the Unified Elements though, so at least there's that. At this point, you're in the hole for probably $1000 though, if not more, and you still won't have your BiS gear until actually play the game a bit. Hope you consider it worth it
For me- I haven't spent a penny and I've gotten myself to the point where all the campaign areas dailies and lairs are soloable. IWD is harder than it was, but it's still soloable, though there's not enough ppl about to do any of the major or epic HEs anymore.
I think we have provided you enough info so that you can deal with most if not all of the solo encounters, but if it has to be repeated: engage with shard. During trash fights in dungeons, and in solo content. It's a great spell.
I don't need shard for mobs. When my damage regularly tops 100 million in a dungeon run(Yeah I use The lostmauth set). Adds die quickly. It's boss fights. They make me want to never play again.
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I never even considered Ice Storm. Hmm.
And steal time really helps in that fight?
Yes they do, it helps that when I first approached those dungeons, it was with open minded groups of friends who were also approaching them for the first time so there was no frustration at each other and we could experiment with rotations together to see what worked.
Yeah well I'm a solo player. So finding a good group is hard for me. My guild has one member (me) and My friend list has 0 people on it. (not even my children). It's the way I play. In this game and every game. I have NEVER joined a guild/clan and never will. I play on my schedule. Not when the clan/guild says so. I WILL NOT change. In mod 5 I could carry almost any team to a dungeon victory. I even soloed CN once.(But I used several Scroll of Life and was never able to repeat it) So I don't actually count it as a win. Draco should have reset. No matter how much time or money I spent, it seemed worth it. I was having fun.
Now even with a good group the dungeons are virtually unbeatable and NOT FUN. I leave angry every time. I don't want to be angry. So I haven't done a dungeon in days. (I also haven't been angry)(Except for earlier when my posts kept getting deleted)
I miss one shot Chill Striking the mobs in IWD and collecting the loot. Selling it when it was a stack. Soloing the blue heroics and selling the stacks of rank 5 Black Ice Enchantments. I was fun. I could do it all day. (And usually did)
I haven't looked at all HP pets but didn't see anything worth a <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>... like 500 hp .. seriously PW thinks that's a good number of HP for a max level 70 to have on a pet.. #smf
as for radiants, I don't know either, even at rank 12 in all def slots how many hp is that going to add vs Savages? 2-3000? not enough. probably not even 10k would be enough.
you would have to be adding 20k++ hp to be worth it. prefer. more like 35-40k hp.
even then you are sacrificing a lot of offense/control for it.
IMO:
defense - NO. NO NOOOOO. NO. just NO.
life steal - questionable. I run 10% and it's okay for soloing, spares me using a few potions. not reliable enough in dungeons though.
HP - maybe. but you need to add a LOT to make it worthwhile.
also for the love of pete use Icy Terrain ( RANK 3 DO NOT USE RANK 4 NO RANK 4!) with Icy Veins feat (top feat tree, wtf it's called...) this is basically 100% freeze on non-resistant mobs (at least until they fix that bug.. yes bug, sorry hope the cat's not out of the bag..). AND use Steal Time. BOTH use both. then use Shield on tab, basically mandatory for all level 70+ content. MUST have. then for your 3rd encounter, idk it doesn't really matter, I use Sudden Storm for extra DPS.
I haven't looked at all HP pets but didn't see anything worth a <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>... like 500 hp .. seriously PW thinks that's a good number of HP for a max level 70 to have on a pet.. #smf
as for radiants, I don't know either, even at rank 12 in all def slots how many hp is that going to add vs Savages? 2-3000? not enough. probably not even 10k would be enough.
you would have to be adding 20k++ hp to be worth it. prefer. more like 35-40k hp.
even then you are sacrificing a lot of offense/control for it.
IMO:
defense - NO. NO NOOOOO. NO. just NO.
life steal - questionable. I run 10% and it's okay for soloing, spares me using a few potions. not reliable enough in dungeons though.
HP - maybe. but you need to add a LOT to make it worthwhile.
also for the love of pete use Icy Terrain ( RANK 3 DO NOT USE RANK 4 NO RANK 4!) with Icy Veins feat (top feat tree, wtf it's called...) this is basically 100% freeze on non-resistant mobs (at least until they fix that bug.. yes bug, sorry hope the cat's not out of the bag..). AND use Steal Time. BOTH use both. then use Shield on tab, basically mandatory for all level 70+ content. MUST have. then for your 3rd encounter, idk it doesn't really matter, I use Sudden Storm for extra DPS.
This is exactly where I am at. Near the end of mod 5 I sold off 2 pages of companions from my guild bank. 30 or so stacks of rank one savages (From the first time the event ran and CW got tons lol) got 30k each stack! At the beginning of mod 6 I had many millions and a perfect lightning in the bank. Now I'm almost broke with a Transcendent Vorpal (Until it's fixed) in the bank.
All that equity gone. And I still get one shotted by powries... *shakes head*
I have 85k HP and swapping my savages for radiants seems like it's not worth it. Each slot will give me and additional 520 HP x 8 slots = 4160 HP. Definately would help. But I lose 4% lifesteal. Doesn't seem worth it.
buy a trans negation. if you want something thatll help use shield on tab and i suggest buying a healer companion though it prob would die to often. learn to dodge well and with that gs you prob need to work on your build.
For me- I haven't spent a penny and I've gotten myself to the point where all the campaign areas dailies and lairs are soloable. IWD is harder than it was, but it's still soloable, though there's not enough ppl about to do any of the major or epic HEs anymore.
that's where I'm at.. purple artifacts and rank8s. I still stay out of the WoD mini dungeons though. I can do most of them but there's 1 boss that kicks my ***, alchemist or something, can't remember which one that is so I just avoid all of them, not worth my time even if it's easy... speaking of, if you want easy ToD campaign items (to build Hordes etc) do the dragon in Neverdeath... easy soloable, takes 4-5 minutes but basically you can't lose.. and usually 1-2 more people join in to make it go faster. he literally crit me for 30. 30 damage.. on a crit. rofl GG PW "level scaling".
I have 85k HP and swapping my savages for radiants seems like it's not worth it. Each slot will give me and additional 520 HP x 8 slots = 4160 HP. Definately would help. But I lose 4% lifesteal. Doesn't seem worth it.
better idea is put level 70 blue gear on your augment pet (ring, neck, icon, you can find all that have ~1300hp each), that's worth a few K HP. I'm also using alliance whatever (blue t1) rings for the HP (HP, Arp, and a defense slot) instead of jewlcrafted ones, because.. HP
All this and I'm right back where I began(with 6 hours of my life gone). Only come to the realization that there is NOTHING I can do to improve survivability. My character is good the way he is.
better idea is put level 70 blue gear on your augment pet (ring, neck, icon, you can find all that have ~1300hp each), that's worth a few K HP. I'm also using alliance whatever (blue t1) rings for the HP (HP, Arp, and a defense slot) instead of jewlcrafted ones, because.. HP
I would but I have companion only gear (From Sword Coast adventures) on my Black Dragon Ioun stone and don't want to give them up for 3900 HP. Thanks for the suggestion though
The days of face tanking things is gone I'm afraid. Running T1's and T2's is very possible with a good team (eCC is still indeed tough). No one has to join a guild, you do though need to meet players who are like you. Watch the lfg channel, look for high level groups, run instances with them and remember names.
You can't expect the average pug player to roll through these instances, they are probably WAY less geared then you are.
With a good tank, healer and fellow dps you can get away with some flair as you dps.
I would agree.
Go either way, but not half HP and half LS. 4k gives you 1 free trash mob hit. 4% extra LS on skills like steal time can make a much greater difference, depending on how much you already have. As soon as you start dividing your slots between 2 stats, neither will be reliable.
I don't agree.
Every offense and defense stone is rank 9 (Except bonding which are all perfects)
Changing my Savages for Radiants will increase my HP by 4160 but reduce my Life Steal 4% (200x8=1600) taking it to 6.1% from 10.1 and making it useless
Changing my Savages for Darks will increase my lifesteal 2.6% (8x130-1040) taking my life steal to 12.7% from 10.1 but reducing my HP by 6400 (8x800)putting me below 79K (not acceptable)
Both changes do not seem like smart decisions
Hence the reason for this post. I feel like I have the perfect build and don't see any way to improve it.
With 20+k power, 63+% crit and all epic/legendary companions. I should squish Syndrith like a bug. Yet one bite from one of her spiderlings and I'm dead??
I just want to have fun. The whole purpose of buying these things was to make the game easier and more fun. Now it all seem like a waste. What was the point?
I have the GWF Sigil at legendary. But the HP it gives seems useless. Am I wrong?
Well, no - you got the gist from the other posters, too: HP are centrally important. But the flaw of the GWF-Sigil is that the +HP are its 3rd boon, and hence just 2.4k max (thogh ArPen and Pow are good).
Re. HP Artifacts: There's also the Pala class artifact, The White Dragon Heart (all Defense...) and the new Elemental Evil ones. Pala ofc requires rolling and leveling one - they're actully somwhat fun to play. Then get to IwD... ...and for the Beholder fight you can esaily get some friend to come along, this quest can be done as a party, you just have to have the lead. But it's stat mix is quite useful for boss fights: It has (at teal colour...) 4k HP, 1k Power, and 400 AoE resist... ...and Artifacts are easily swappable for bossfights.
Even more helpful (stat-wise) might be the Wheel of Elements (+Stamina regen => more dodge!) and the Vanguard Banner (+LS) to go along with HP and Pow - just press [Ctrl]+[J] and go through the list for yourself. These are expensive, or hard to achieve (PvP campaign for Banner), but that doesn't lessen the value of their stat boons. And as you a) seemingl have sufficient money to burn, and b) specifically asked "what to buy"... ...there you go.
But again: One- or two-shots are an unfortunate reality currently, and even 150k HP won't save you from the occasional leap-baba double crit in IwD, or those bosses and lieutenants that have 250k+ attacks.
I would agree.
Go either way, but not half HP and half LS. 4k gives you 1 free trash mob hit. 4% extra LS on skills like steal time can make a much greater difference, depending on how much you already have. As soon as you start dividing your slots between 2 stats, neither will be reliable.
I don't agree.
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...also don't forget that the combo enchants give more total points than the single-stat ones - like 20% more sometimes. So if you're balancing your base gear, the use of these split stat enchantments can be quite helpful when it doesn't leave crucial gaps (or boosts to underdeveloped stats like e.g. deflect). Though as with all stacking: You have to stack real high in order to really profit. Also: All those HP are nothing after one hit, unless you have the means to recover them. And when the DC has to care for the tank, the CW in the distance can get into trouble... ..even more the soloist.
buy a trans negation. if you want something thatll help use shield on tab and i suggest buying a healer companion though it prob would die to often. learn to dodge well and with that gs you prob need to work on your build.
I've considered that. I still am. Giving up my Trans Soulforged will be tough.
Probably the best suggestion I've heard.
My Black Dragon Ioun Stone is not going anywhere except in 2 case. Sometimes I run around with my legendary Blink Dog as my active companion, an I "May" use the chicken I have in the bank. I haven't sold it yet, and am afraid to bind it. I could sure use the 2 defense slots in it though. I'm on the fence.
Unless you have a really strong urge and the AD to back it up, I'd sit out the next few weeks of patches before making too many drastic changes. The future is simply not clear enough to simply say "do this and you'll be good till mod8".
I know this. I just can't help myself. Since mod 6 started I've spent XX million (Not willing to say for fear of ridicule). All of it to make the game fun again. No matter what I do or what I buy nothing helps. I can buy DPS. I can't buy survivability or fun.
You should know that Neverwinter/D&D is a team-based game now so unless you don't have a tank or healer you are dead no matter how powerful you are. Wizards are not high damage resisting machines, they are controllers/dps. If you are worried about the boss aggro to you, get a threat generating companion.
And yeah I have great difficulty with ToS as well. Hope to actually beat the thing this weekend, ugh. It just takes so long and there are so many chances for mistakes.
Yeah true I have work and life to take care of so usually I run one 40 cache a day on 2 toons. I do not run anything by going in and blowing everything up. Which was boring and killing the game. I do not miss that and I am glad that it is gone. If it slows my progression than so be it. I can't log in without gtting a party invite because the toons I play I play well and skill is in demand across the board. This, to me, is a sign that the game is becoming healthy again. Sorry if your experience has been different.
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I never even considered Ice Storm. Hmm.
And steal time really helps in that fight?
For me- I haven't spent a penny and I've gotten myself to the point where all the campaign areas dailies and lairs are soloable. IWD is harder than it was, but it's still soloable, though there's not enough ppl about to do any of the major or epic HEs anymore.
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I don't need shard for mobs. When my damage regularly tops 100 million in a dungeon run(Yeah I use The lostmauth set). Adds die quickly. It's boss fights. They make me want to never play again.
Yes they do, it helps that when I first approached those dungeons, it was with open minded groups of friends who were also approaching them for the first time so there was no frustration at each other and we could experiment with rotations together to see what worked.
Now even with a good group the dungeons are virtually unbeatable and NOT FUN. I leave angry every time. I don't want to be angry. So I haven't done a dungeon in days. (I also haven't been angry)(Except for earlier when my posts kept getting deleted)
I miss one shot Chill Striking the mobs in IWD and collecting the loot. Selling it when it was a stack. Soloing the blue heroics and selling the stacks of rank 5 Black Ice Enchantments. I was fun. I could do it all day. (And usually did)
Don't sacrifice Offense for Defense.
Prioritize HP over all other defensive stats.
DO NOT buy HP companions? (Sacrificing offense for defense)
Yeah??
I haven't looked at all HP pets but didn't see anything worth a <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>... like 500 hp .. seriously PW thinks that's a good number of HP for a max level 70 to have on a pet.. #smf
as for radiants, I don't know either, even at rank 12 in all def slots how many hp is that going to add vs Savages? 2-3000? not enough. probably not even 10k would be enough.
you would have to be adding 20k++ hp to be worth it. prefer. more like 35-40k hp.
even then you are sacrificing a lot of offense/control for it.
IMO:
defense - NO. NO NOOOOO. NO. just NO.
life steal - questionable. I run 10% and it's okay for soloing, spares me using a few potions. not reliable enough in dungeons though.
HP - maybe. but you need to add a LOT to make it worthwhile.
also for the love of pete use Icy Terrain ( RANK 3 DO NOT USE RANK 4 NO RANK 4!) with Icy Veins feat (top feat tree, wtf it's called...) this is basically 100% freeze on non-resistant mobs (at least until they fix that bug.. yes bug, sorry hope the cat's not out of the bag..). AND use Steal Time. BOTH use both. then use Shield on tab, basically mandatory for all level 70+ content. MUST have. then for your 3rd encounter, idk it doesn't really matter, I use Sudden Storm for extra DPS.
This is exactly where I am at. Near the end of mod 5 I sold off 2 pages of companions from my guild bank. 30 or so stacks of rank one savages (From the first time the event ran and CW got tons lol) got 30k each stack! At the beginning of mod 6 I had many millions and a perfect lightning in the bank. Now I'm almost broke with a Transcendent Vorpal (Until it's fixed) in the bank.
All that equity gone. And I still get one shotted by powries... *shakes head*
that's where I'm at.. purple artifacts and rank8s. I still stay out of the WoD mini dungeons though. I can do most of them but there's 1 boss that kicks my ***, alchemist or something, can't remember which one that is so I just avoid all of them, not worth my time even if it's easy... speaking of, if you want easy ToD campaign items (to build Hordes etc) do the dragon in Neverdeath... easy soloable, takes 4-5 minutes but basically you can't lose.. and usually 1-2 more people join in to make it go faster. he literally crit me for 30. 30 damage.. on a crit. rofl GG PW "level scaling".
better idea is put level 70 blue gear on your augment pet (ring, neck, icon, you can find all that have ~1300hp each), that's worth a few K HP. I'm also using alliance whatever (blue t1) rings for the HP (HP, Arp, and a defense slot) instead of jewlcrafted ones, because.. HP
I would but I have companion only gear (From Sword Coast adventures) on my Black Dragon Ioun stone and don't want to give them up for 3900 HP. Thanks for the suggestion though
You can't expect the average pug player to roll through these instances, they are probably WAY less geared then you are.
With a good tank, healer and fellow dps you can get away with some flair as you dps.
I don't agree.
Every offense and defense stone is rank 9 (Except bonding which are all perfects)
Changing my Savages for Radiants will increase my HP by 4160 but reduce my Life Steal 4% (200x8=1600) taking it to 6.1% from 10.1 and making it useless
Changing my Savages for Darks will increase my lifesteal 2.6% (8x130-1040) taking my life steal to 12.7% from 10.1 but reducing my HP by 6400 (8x800)putting me below 79K (not acceptable)
Both changes do not seem like smart decisions
Hence the reason for this post. I feel like I have the perfect build and don't see any way to improve it.
With 20+k power, 63+% crit and all epic/legendary companions. I should squish Syndrith like a bug. Yet one bite from one of her spiderlings and I'm dead??
I just want to have fun. The whole purpose of buying these things was to make the game easier and more fun. Now it all seem like a waste. What was the point?
Well, no - you got the gist from the other posters, too: HP are centrally important. But the flaw of the GWF-Sigil is that the +HP are its 3rd boon, and hence just 2.4k max (thogh ArPen and Pow are good).
Re. HP Artifacts: There's also the Pala class artifact, The White Dragon Heart (all Defense...) and the new Elemental Evil ones. Pala ofc requires rolling and leveling one - they're actully somwhat fun to play. Then get to IwD... ...and for the Beholder fight you can esaily get some friend to come along, this quest can be done as a party, you just have to have the lead. But it's stat mix is quite useful for boss fights: It has (at teal colour...) 4k HP, 1k Power, and 400 AoE resist... ...and Artifacts are easily swappable for bossfights.
Even more helpful (stat-wise) might be the Wheel of Elements (+Stamina regen => more dodge!) and the Vanguard Banner (+LS) to go along with HP and Pow - just press [Ctrl]+[J] and go through the list for yourself. These are expensive, or hard to achieve (PvP campaign for Banner), but that doesn't lessen the value of their stat boons. And as you a) seemingl have sufficient money to burn, and b) specifically asked "what to buy"... ...there you go.
But again: One- or two-shots are an unfortunate reality currently, and even 150k HP won't save you from the occasional leap-baba double crit in IwD, or those bosses and lieutenants that have 250k+ attacks.
...also don't forget that the combo enchants give more total points than the single-stat ones - like 20% more sometimes. So if you're balancing your base gear, the use of these split stat enchantments can be quite helpful when it doesn't leave crucial gaps (or boosts to underdeveloped stats like e.g. deflect). Though as with all stacking: You have to stack real high in order to really profit. Also: All those HP are nothing after one hit, unless you have the means to recover them. And when the DC has to care for the tank, the CW in the distance can get into trouble... ..even more the soloist.
I've considered that. I still am. Giving up my Trans Soulforged will be tough.
Probably the best suggestion I've heard.
My Black Dragon Ioun Stone is not going anywhere except in 2 case. Sometimes I run around with my legendary Blink Dog as my active companion, an I "May" use the chicken I have in the bank. I haven't sold it yet, and am afraid to bind it. I could sure use the 2 defense slots in it though. I'm on the fence.
I know this. I just can't help myself. Since mod 6 started I've spent XX million (Not willing to say for fear of ridicule). All of it to make the game fun again. No matter what I do or what I buy nothing helps. I can buy DPS. I can't buy survivability or fun.
In ToS/syndrith my encounters are the following: shield, CoI, disintegrate, steal time. At-will is ray of frost.[/QUOTE]
You use Ray of Frost? Is this because of Storm Spell procs?
I am Master of Flame, so I still use Chilling Cloud. Good idea/bad idea?
The fact that you're MoF is a bad idea in itself.
Once day maybe
4.1K?
how do you do that?
All my stuff is purple but 2 things which is orange
I am at 2.8
it is too hard for epic DD (for me) and some Daily mini dungeons but much is doable
please let me know how you did get 4.1K