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As it is this ability is worse than cancer whenever some clown uses his daily with more than 8 people around. Change it in to something which doesnt cause lags yet powerful and unique. For example: After Paladin uses daily he gets 1/2/3/4/5s CC immunity and restores all missing HP over next 10/8/6/4/2s. (only works on self).
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I love prism but sheesh, didn't they realize this would be a problem already with the astral seal + feat + burning guidance fiasco? This is just version 2.0 of that.
Not too fond of the suggestion, as it makes a great healing path for the devotion OP without sacrificing solo sanity. They just need to fix the healing loop and possibly which sources of healing triggers prism.
However, I don't like OP's suggestions either as they're too overpowered.
I sometimes wonder if they designed this cheap power to deal with their cheap one shot killers to make this game "challenging".
The OS?
The graphics card?
The graphics drivers?
The RAM?
Dont think so. If players can run multiple dragon runs or Tiamath without isues and then get frezzes only when PRISM appear it's obvious that it needs to be looked at. Unless you imply that 90%+ population have 6 years old PC and outdated drivers.
Considering I've been running several dungeons several dragon runs and so forth for hours at a time, and I don't experience this legendary prism lag, then yes, it's quite possible. Also, 90% is a bit of a stretch there. And actually, yes, it can be that simple. Just owning a PC doesn't make people good with them, even if they did build them themselves, and quite a number of people don't bother to keep up to date, refuse to keep up to date, and so on and so forth. It's not as isolated as you would make it believe. So, yea, more pertinent information is needed.
In a 5 man group, if I were to use my daily and trigger prism, then someone else uses their daily and triggers prism, I get a slow down, everyone else complains about "lag", then it's prism, period. I think the issue here is how much healing is going out. How much healing is OP A getting along with OP B. Essentially how much healing is going back and forth between those 2 OP's, this could be a cause of how bad the "lag" gets.
Either way it's broken and needs fixing.
After using a daily prism feat activates and for 20s allies in 30' radius share the heals the Paladin receives.
I'd rather the dps feat tree improved damage and gave utility for dps instead of shared heals (?). Such as the tier 5 feat making aura of solitude work even with allies around or something similar. Close to GWF destroyer's tier 5 feat improving the feature Destroyer.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Justice is not a dps tree...
Riight, because capstone giving +35% damage is not a clear indication. How silly of me. /sarcazm
It's the closest equivalent on the Pally.
That is a possibility however prism does not display any numbers. All it does is spam seizure inducing word prism. That is not saying there is poor coding involved and wants to render numbers but it doesn't show. Otherwise I normally don't have any problems, even with number tickers when I used to run Tiamat.
You can turn off the prism spam to. People say that floating combat text in Cryptic's engine tends to cause lag in massive quantities (ie large numbers of people). Again not something I've ever experienced, though supposedly STO has fixed this.
Considering it doesn't work right now, the only thing the capstone is useful for is getting pips of divine power back faster when using encounter powers. The 35% damage boost won't be all that noticeable in the long run, though the recharge is what the real deal is after. So no, it's not a DPS tree, as most of the feats in the tree are more group utility than anything, like most of our feats are from all trees.
Huh? It works since the last patch. What rock are you living under?:-P
And it's a dual spec tree utility and damage. You certainly won't deny that Purifying Fire feat is not utility, will you? And the utility greatly benefits damage dealing too.
I have to agree with zvieris, they just need to fix the lag part only and leave the rest as it is.
军医骑士 超过三千水平 突破极限释放开
Daily: Granworm Sword
Enounter: Vow of Enmity | Worm Smasher | 縮退砲
Class Feature: Kabbalah System
Aura: Warp Field
IGN: Faluzure 19k Tenebrous Soulbinder Scourge Warlock
(The Corrupted) (Retired)
Strange because I use my taunt regularly and I see no noticeable difference in my damage. As far as purifying fire... a power that makes my at will cause a Dot damage; if you are any kind of paladin you are already using aura of courage, if you are after DPS, which makes purifying fire kind of worthless, so calling it a DPS power, since its design goes against the majority of feats that would be picked in that tree, well, stupid. maybe if it was a BulWark power would it have made more sense.
It's slightly more powerful than everyone's imagination,
I'll leave you guys think about it. No more arguments from me.
Maybe with luck I can show you how it works in pvp or pve or whatever that takes damage.
And if it's worthless to anyone, then maybe they should buff it up and I will welcome that change.
军医骑士 超过三千水平 突破极限释放开
Daily: Granworm Sword
Enounter: Vow of Enmity | Worm Smasher | 縮退砲
Class Feature: Kabbalah System
Aura: Warp Field
IGN: Faluzure 19k Tenebrous Soulbinder Scourge Warlock
(The Corrupted) (Retired)
It does not cause DoT damage. Each at-will hit simply does additional weapon damage. Which sums up to a 310% weapon damage between 5 hits. The problem is that it stops proccing after the 5th hit and needs an encounter to hit the target it was applied to to reset. Which might be a bug on its own. Nevertheless, it procs with Radiant Strike which is an aoe at-will that has no target limit. Coupled with Templar's Wrath you can take care of trash real quick.
And no, it does not make sense if it was in Bulwark tree which doesn't have any feats that would deal bonus damage. Prism is the one feat that doesn't make sense in Justice tree as it's a heal sharing feat. Bulwark tree which is pure tank spec, which is supposed to tank the most damage and protect the group is where Prism should be.
I would prefer if they only fix the lag or bugs and just leave the feats and trees alone. Else that would wreck people's build, I dont think they give out respecs a lot.
And prism does makes a lot of sense in justice tree because it simply more than a healing sharing feat. Majority has yet to grasp its true power.
军医骑士 超过三千水平 突破极限释放开
Daily: Granworm Sword
Enounter: Vow of Enmity | Worm Smasher | 縮退砲
Class Feature: Kabbalah System
Aura: Warp Field
IGN: Faluzure 19k Tenebrous Soulbinder Scourge Warlock
(The Corrupted) (Retired)
I'll look at the settings. Didn't realize the prism spam could be disabled. I wish the game had a better way to notify the player of a power activation besides the spam or tiny icons.
I can see prism fitting into the justice tree. I would consider it more of a utility feat. Justice is good for buffing the team, hence when the OP gets healed from, for example another source, say a DC, they would just share that buff (heal). The thing is that both protection and devotion work well as justice which makes it extra good, whether it was their intentional design or not. I don't want to see any nerfs, just a fix. I would just smack my head against the wall if I had no ability to do dailies as an OP. Justice allows me to play solo AND with a group. One of the reasons why I don't want to play a healing DC due to the lack of a dual spec to handle solo game play.
Funny, the description calls it a dot that gets disabled as soon as you use an encounter power, and since a few feats in the tree are based around recovery of encounter, that seems counter productive.
In Options>Interface>HUD there is an option called show created-entity floaters. You can disable that and that should remove any of the Prism word spam you typically see. You can disable most floaters, as I said floating combat text typically causes lag in the Cryptic engine, except supposedly STO. They apparently solved it there.
Wouldn't shock me either since it seems the two likely to work best together classes seem to do nothing right now but cause bugs to one another (like temp HP wiping).