2. DPS - Warlocks with BiS gear can still dish out high DPS for dungeon runs. But, lower-geared warlocks don't have sufficient stats to keep up with other DPS classes. The outcome here is that SW becomes essentially worthless to a party unless they are BiS. There are many ways to address this, but I think looking at the way Creeping Death is stacked could be a good place to start, as the main damage of the Warlock is centered around necrotic DoT, but this capstone was nerfed pretty hard.
How about gearing up?
Or joining to a guild for being helped to gear up?
Or having other characters to make AD to your SW?
LOL, that is exactly my point.
So, my only solution is what? Park my SW until I can save up enough AD to get better gear by playing other toons, which, with similar ilvl, carve through the same areas that SW gets steamrolled?
Come on--not everyone has 3k ilvl. It's silly that the class is basically worthless from the time they hit lvl 70 until they can save up enough for 3k ilvl just to survive endgame content. And, by endgame, I am talking campaign content--WoD, Sharandar, Dread Ring, IWD are all a joke with SW unless you have massive gear.
BTW, saving AD does very little to gear up, considering all of the T1/2 gear is now account bound and you need seals (which you have to complete epic dungeons to receive) to buy them. Not like I can scoop up an Alliance Assault set from the AH.
2. DPS - Warlocks with BiS gear can still dish out high DPS for dungeon runs. But, lower-geared warlocks don't have sufficient stats to keep up with other DPS classes. The outcome here is that SW becomes essentially worthless to a party unless they are BiS. There are many ways to address this, but I think looking at the way Creeping Death is stacked could be a good place to start, as the main damage of the Warlock is centered around necrotic DoT, but this capstone was nerfed pretty hard.
How about gearing up?
Or joining to a guild for being helped to gear up?
Or having other characters to make AD to your SW?
LOL, that is exactly my point.
So, my only solution is what? Park my SW until I can save up enough AD to get better gear by playing other toons, which, with similar ilvl, carve through the same areas that SW gets steamrolled?
Come on--not everyone has 3k ilvl. It's silly that the class is basically worthless from the time they hit lvl 70 until they can save up enough for 3k ilvl just to survive endgame content. And, by endgame, I am talking campaign content--WoD, Sharandar, Dread Ring, IWD are all a joke with SW unless you have massive gear.
BTW, saving AD does very little to gear up, considering all of the T1/2 gear is now account bound and you need seals (which you have to complete epic dungeons to receive) to buy them. Not like I can scoop up an Alliance Assault set from the AH.
It would be a long journey for this game to fix this silly giant gap between players caused by gearelitism and exploits
How many players in this game exist that have time to grind legally to get there and how many want to spend 1000 of dollars for a weak , bad designed product?
This only serves very few ppl
And as you can see it takes ages to fix lttle small things for a class like warlock..only to mention Harrow storm
No, thats far to slow to have any trust in this game
Well, they broke Harrowstorm with a "bug fix" to some curse related skill in the first place.
And if i'm not mistaken, they also nerfed Harrowstorm damage with the patch, that got it working proper again...
I am getting worried about Strumslinger. We haven't heard anything since he went off to level an SW.
I also started a new one at the same time to get an idea of the leveling timescale.
My new SW is now lvl 62 and in Drowned Shore, where it starts to show the poor state of the class.
Now I'm used to this, but for anyone (or in this case Strum) who is maybe experiencing this uphill turn for the first time - it might come as a bit of a shock.
So, a little guide Strum:
- It is perfectly normal for your attacks to show very little damage on mobs.
- When using Dreadtheft get close to the screen so you can actually see the health reduction of the target. You may want to compare this health drain to sand going through an hourglass if you have one handy.
- Do not be surprised when you crit the mob, only for it to show very little or no effect. And you may in fact see the mobs health rise considerably if it was in the middle of a health potion, as your attack will be ignored.
- It is normal to feel increasingly depressed when you see other classes carve through the mobs that you have taken ages to get to 80% health. You're best bet here is to stand at the side and cheer them on.
- Do not check your LS health feedback, it is insignificant. You'd be better off watching the tide come in - far more rewarding.
- Seeing most of your health disintegrate in the first second of combat is normal, this saves you from possible glare issues if you feel your health bar is too bright.
- When you rise from a struggling lvl 61 to the heights of lvl 62 - do not assume that this will make things better on the same mobs. Your struggles have only just commenced.
and that's about it for a quick guide.
Now, as we've not heard from Strum since he started an SW I will head back to Drowned Shore and search round for an SW corpse, hopefully identified by having Strum, or Slinger somewhere in their character name.
If that fails, I'll go for the back up plan of looking for him in the invoking area in PE.
Look on invoking area xD best bet.
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treesclimberMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 1,161Arc User
So it's a thing damnation use mod 5 equipment now to beat up every class including GWF? Any info on this?
fabeled iliabruen is broken, this is an old vid mod 5 i guess, but this also works in mod 7 only problem , u are very squishy with 40k HP since its a setbonus related to the actual HP of the target it is very effective in the beginning of a bossfight, its 3% from the current HP per tick....3% from 10 million is.. 300k per tick
I'd honestly like to see the SW's animation speeds increased... I remember around this time in 2014 the CW got a 33% increase in their casting times, right?
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zebularMember, Neverwinter Moderator, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 15,270Community Moderator
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LOL, that is exactly my point.
So, my only solution is what? Park my SW until I can save up enough AD to get better gear by playing other toons, which, with similar ilvl, carve through the same areas that SW gets steamrolled?
Come on--not everyone has 3k ilvl. It's silly that the class is basically worthless from the time they hit lvl 70 until they can save up enough for 3k ilvl just to survive endgame content. And, by endgame, I am talking campaign content--WoD, Sharandar, Dread Ring, IWD are all a joke with SW unless you have massive gear.
BTW, saving AD does very little to gear up, considering all of the T1/2 gear is now account bound and you need seals (which you have to complete epic dungeons to receive) to buy them. Not like I can scoop up an Alliance Assault set from the AH.
It would be a long journey for this game to fix this silly giant gap between players caused by gearelitism and exploits
How many players in this game exist that have time to grind legally to get there and how many want to spend 1000 of dollars for a weak , bad designed product?
This only serves very few ppl
And as you can see it takes ages to fix lttle small things for a class like warlock..only to mention Harrow storm
No, thats far to slow to have any trust in this game
And if i'm not mistaken, they also nerfed Harrowstorm damage with the patch, that got it working proper again...
only problem , u are very squishy with 40k HP
since its a setbonus related to the actual HP of the target it is very effective in the beginning of a bossfight,
its 3% from the current HP per tick....3% from 10 million is.. 300k per tick
" Watch the numbers"
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