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Weapon Enchantment: What's the best?
shadr0z
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Hey guys,
I am pretty new to Neverwinter. I recently got my CW to lvl 60 and I am wondering, which enchant is the best?
Perfect Vorpal versus Perfect Terror versus Greater Plague Fire.
They all seem pretty great. Vorpal especially for Renegade.
Perfect terror seems great too, but the way I see it is:
Perfect Vorpal > Greater Plague Fire > Perfect Terror.
I was just wondering what your thoughts were?
I am pretty new to Neverwinter. I recently got my CW to lvl 60 and I am wondering, which enchant is the best?
Perfect Vorpal versus Perfect Terror versus Greater Plague Fire.
They all seem pretty great. Vorpal especially for Renegade.
Perfect terror seems great too, but the way I see it is:
Perfect Vorpal > Greater Plague Fire > Perfect Terror.
I was just wondering what your thoughts were?
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If I had a choice to get one of the 3 you mention, I would go for Perfect Vorpal. Eye of the Storm is so important in CW builds that although it's not up all the time, the damage output during the times it is, is huge when having a Perfect vorpal.
Saying this from a PvP point of view, but I guess that PvE damage would also be amazing.
Yay, teamwork!
Then, add that Shard crits for around 50k on trash with my CW (G. Vorpal, 3k power) it's rather clear Vorpal is the best choice.
I'm running a Greater Frost (since I am nowhere near a solid vorpal yet) on my CW, and it is fantastic. Not just because it looks cool, but the recovery debuff is very useful. If they every allow it to stack with cold skills, that will just be gravy.
So Vorpal all the way.
Lightning will give about the same damage output as vorpal on a cold build, but beware of aggro.
Could you be more specific about how is the "recovery debuff ... very useful" in PvE, please? Because from the tooltip description, it is clear Frost is the 2nd lowest dps of all the weapon enhancements, only beaten out by Lifedrinker as the worst.
I am genuinely interested in how this enhancement works in practice since no one ever seems to make one other than for visuals. I do not think anyone has ever even seen a Perfect version or know its stats!
Plague doubles your stormspell proc chance and debuffs, Vorpal will give you a big +% of damage. (15% normal 20% greater, roughly/depending on gear)
Haven't got terror so havent been able to test it out.
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Does anyone of you have any experience with the Feytouched enchantment. As it is based on Encounters, I'm currently considering using it with my CW.
It is useful in that enemies are less able to use their encounter powers in both PvE and PvP. They have fixed the bug where it was breaking other player's cooldowns (e.g. going from 8 seconds to 120+ seconds), so it is no longer an unfair PvP enchant. When facing higher HP enemies, it mitigates some of the damage they're able to do. For lower HP enemies it doesn't matter much, since they tend to die very swiftly.
Yes that's true. I personally use GPF for PvE, I know it's bugged right now but they have said they're going to fix it heh. So I increase the entire parties damage by 9%, that is better than just increasing mine IMO. If you want the biggest burst damage then P. vorpal, If you want the most personal damage then P. lightning.
We are definitely dominating, and we are always about to win.
9% damage increase is what you get when GPF is working normally at max stacks, if I recall. With the current bugged state of the enchant, it would be a ~3% damage increase (?).
Edit: Tested to refresh my memory. Something like 2.95%.
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That's right. But GPF, even in its current pitiful state, is still a very good party enhancement for a CW.
It is actually even better between the Lessers because that rank can still stack up to 3% whereas Lesser Terror = 5% Defense reduction = 1% maximum buff, and its stacking DoT is worse than Terror's weapon damage.
Btw, can the recovery debuff be applied to multiple targets when you use aoe spells?
And from the description itself, it doesn't sound too good:
Normal Frost Enchantment: "+6.9% Cold damage . Reduce foes recovery by 20% for 4s once per 20s."
So, for example: Let's take somebody with 2500 Recovery, which is like 20% cooldown reduction. So when I hit him, his recovery is reduced by 20%; so to 2000, which is like 17% cooldown reduction. So he lost 3% cooldown reduction, which in seconds for his powers is like nothing. Uuuhmm, yeah, what a powerful enchantment.
I think this enchantment should affect the cooldown of powers ITSELF. So when anyone has a power with 10 seconds cooldown, and I hit with this enchantment, increase the cooldown of the power by 20%, so to 12 seconds.
All anecdotal, and it seems to work with AoE's just fine.
For targets that last more than a few shots such as Fomorians, they are less able to use their special attacks. So once you teleport away from the first one, they aren't likely to get another.
It's enough of a difference if the extra seconds shaved off are enough to kill the monster.
I expect the reason to go with a greater or perfect is because it does the least amount of damage when compared to other enchants.
The extra seconds in which the monster isn't able to use their encounter powers since they are on a longer cooldown.
If you look at the numbers, a frost enchant does less damage than other similarly ranked enchantments.
Yes, I am running a Greater Frost now.
No idea how to record/post a video from game. Sorry.
Sure, do you want to give me the AD to unsocket it or a spare CN Orb? If you don't have a spare CN Orb, I'd be cool with trying out the one from Malabog's.
While I would be happy to do such a test, I don't think it is very likely for three reasons. The first is above. The second is that would involve me playing with a stopwatch. The third is that I'm simply not all that invested in it. As I said above, this is purely anecdotal. For all I know the difference it entirely based on my expectation and it is a bugged enchant. I don't think it is, but I have no problem with being wrong.
And maybe a stopwatch is not needed. Because the difference should be a noticeable (I personally expect it to be at least 3 seconds), it's okay to count it yourself.
It won't matter though, b/c PWE won't experience enough loss from disappointed players to motivate them to do what is right and fix their errors in a timely manner. GPF has been around plenty long enough to be corrected.
I'm not sure if that will really work either, since while in theory that makes sense part of the challenge is the speed at which I kill things.
I would imagine that because it is not yet fixed that it isn't a simple fix.