Upcoming weapon enchant changes

adinosii

As you may know, Bilethorn, Feytouched, Flaming, Frost, Holy Avenger, Lifedrinker, Lightning, Plague Fire and Terror enchants are getting a rework.

Now, I'm a DO DC, focusing on buffing/debuffing. I currently use a Trans Dread enchant - It works nicely for me and my group, but the the upcoming changes to the other enchants might change the situation - Faytouched, Plague Fire and Terror all seem more interesting now than before.

What do others think? (and yes, you can get Trans versions for all the above enchants for one copper on the Preview server if you want to try things out).

jazzfong

Nothing big happenned as a DC. In terms of dps, trans dread is still king for pve while trans fey is king for pvp. Other option is slightly buffed but the BIS enchant is still dread for pve and fey for pvp. Didnt test it seriously, but against dummy using trans dread, my dpm is 4% higher than using the buffed trans fey. Others with different crit/power stat allocation may have different result.

nickjdowe

I see a lot of potential in T. Lighting, looking forward to these changes.

bvira

They're all still weak compared to dread/vorp/fey. Maybe some niche builds may find them useful.

putzboy78

nickjdowe said:

I see a lot of potential in T. Lighting, looking forward to these changes.

if your going dps maybe, but not for healers and buff/debuffers

nickjdowe

I'm a DPS/Buff/Debuff/Healer lol

The Heals will take a big hit, so will the overall DPS, but think of the mayhem caused by 1 CoBL on a mob lol. I have other ideas about it that I'm not ready to share just yet

plavia

i saw the new Vid of Kali gold (thx for all the vids)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x581tUVassg

so I went and checked the new weapon enchants on preview.
its look very bad.
feytouch, vorpal and dread are by far better than all other enchants. especialy when the tooltip tells you what each enchant do

feytouch: flat increase of your damage by 18% and reduce the target damage by 18%.
Vorpal: increase your heal and damage, (no tick etc). Dread doing similar thing

Terror:
damage increased but its still ticks that will do nothing in PVP (they will actually heal the target with today mechanics)
damage resistance reuduce by 6% ... players in PVP with tenacity reach more than 100% DR. this is usless in PVP
damge dealt by target reduced by 8%... less then half than feytouch and with today piercing damage, reduce damge dealt is the most important debuff

Plgue fire:
same tick damage (stronger i admit)
slighly better debuf then terror but u need to hit the targt 3 times
still doing half debuff then feytouch (at best case)

Frost:
better debuff than the terror or plague fire but only last 4 sec with 20 sec cool time




consider i spend 5 min on last boss in CN and one hour on daily grind of guild inlfuance and campaign.
even as healer claric I will benefit more from a rank 9 feytouch than a trans Terror. (in PVP and PVE)

or i am missing something?