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polaris1986polaris1986 Member Posts: 320 Arc User
Hello, My Soulbinder SW is depressed now.
You was upgrade Gates of Hell, and Pillar of Power now and its all about HellBringer. Why?

SB haven't enough AOE damage, of course we can use AOE encounters but without PoP buf it always will be weaker than HB can do it.
PoP will critically strike now, so it once again up of HB damage. I'm good about it but what we can oppose in SB?

Gates of Hell beats harder and have aoe effect but Immortal Spirits are too stupid for AOE also it has 14 hits for 8 seconds. We are forced to use Flames of Phlegethos as better daily because it have 22 ticks for 5-6 seconds. Early when Spirits gave sparks it was useble for daily damage and SS spam but now we lost it.

Today SB need 2(!) encounter powers to have possibility use SS with full spark!! we have only few skills that brings sparks as fast as possible (and before is may be fixed). Also we can't use Blades of Vanquished Armies all the time because it recharge after cast so you always need to wait. Only few powers in the game have such recharge its for exemple, Mage's Shard of the Endless Avalanche but it have only 3 seconds befor recharge. WTF? My recharge time is about 14 seconds + 6 sec that you MUST wait when using power. I understand maybe its very-very stong power to use it all the time? So why we can use PoP all the time? or ITF or Hallowed ground? We can use 2 dailys in the same time but not BoVA SW?

In solo target we can use SS. Its the only way for use soulbinder in the game. but even here SS with all sparks can't be better than Gates of Hellbringer with PoP buff. I play in SB since my main SW was made. and the only situation when SB with Soul Scorch may be better it when Last Boss is moving on area. in ANY other ways GoH will hit harder.

I ask what will be with SB path? Why Spirits so stupid and weak and why we should use 2 weak encounter to have full Soul Sparks (in case it all will crit). why SB haven't strong buffs as PoP?





"sometimes the world doesn't need another hero, sometimes what it needs is a monster"

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  • polaris1986polaris1986 Member Posts: 320 Arc User
    "sometimes the world doesn't need another hero, sometimes what it needs is a monster"

  • sandukutupusandukutupu Member Posts: 2,285 Arc User
    My SW uses both builds. I have one load out for Soulbinder which I do use, and another for Hellbringer. I don't see SB as an AoE class, of course I don't use it as AoE. They are suppose to make some improvement to the SW with the upcoming mod 13. However I don't plan to make any drastic changes to my builds either way. I use my SB with the perma soul puppet that and my companion is epic rank man at arms. They do the up close fighting, my soul puppet has tons of threat and my soulbinder has reduced threat. As SB I attack from afar and the enemies drop. If I am going up against big crowds then I will swap to HB and use the pillar of power and spam the AoE attacks.
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  • mamalion1234mamalion1234 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,415 Arc User
    edited January 2018

    this is dragon turtle fight.

    debuffing was not and optimal .


    duration of 2 minutes and 11 seconds vs turtle is something can do an underpower sw soulbinder??( for aoe i can agree).



    preview server 1 minute 31 sec the same boss.


    debuffing here was a lot better and buff a bit better.



    I really dont know how sw soulbinder do it but he is a strong single target path and i think a hellbringer cant have the same personal damage potential.
    SO the way i see it the one is a pure damage dealer while hellbringer is more buffer.







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