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CW Cant Dps Due To Being Nerfed
blackwolftundra
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I was in ballad last week on my Spellstorm Mage cw where I had no trouble killing Baphomet while he's minions and when i go back today that i noticed how my spells where not going through him like he's minions for how they could go through me and my bubble in seconds for how my Lillend companion could not keep me live so when i die and use Master of Flame i noticed i couldn't use both builds for how frustrating this was so why did they even Nerf the cw if you cant even play them now in ballad so annoying
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CW as a class may not be top of the paingiver chart anymore (GWF is there) but the class certainly has the DPS to handle any content in the game except possibly ToNG (and many CWs do well in ToNG as Debuffers ....).
Winter Lily (CW) / Winter Rose (DC) / Winter Ivy (HR)
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(for the record, the weirdest ToNG run I have ever been in was one where the OP was the top DPS with over 2 billion, and I (DC) was in second place, ahead of the GWF, CW and the other DC). I still don't understand how we managed to finish in 24 minutes.)
Anyhow, back to the CW - while it is hard for a CW to be the Top-DPS, it is absolutely not hard to be "good enough". With the right build, gear and powers, a CW should have no reason to complain about DPS (They have a reason to complain about their "Control" powers becoming more and more pointless and more mobs are control immune, but that's a separate issue).
As for your build, @kiraskytower is absolutely correct. I also suspect your ArPen might be painfully low.
That is one way I judge my build etc, by repeating things such as Biggrins Tomb solo and looking at how long and how easy/hard it is.
So has CW been nerfed recently?
Anyway take this in the optimistic way: You will learn a lot now
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There have been no documented changes in the last week to either CW or Ballad. It is possible that there is a bug, but no way to even begin to test given the lack of information. Without actual facts, it is pointless to speculate what is going on witj the OP.
However, I would say that my alt CW runs Ballad weekly as MoF Thaum without any issue and additionally just completed SKT, again with no problem. The paragon might not be best for personal DPS but isn't noticeably weak in solo content.
Same for the Lillend. I'm not running one on any characters, but as a bonding pet it is acceptable and it is no worse than most summoned pets that people use without bondings.
But maybe some dungeons got buffed secretly?
I run a random Master of Ilusion and the mobs eflt much tougher as before, maybe it was the miserable group, but I am pretty sure the mobs got bufffed.
1. it is cheap (actually free).
2. it is epic
3. 3 offense slots and 3 rings.
4. She can proc bonding. Not great but it works.
Since OP said there is a noticeable difference between "last week" and "this week", my wild long shot guess is he switched the loadout (with missing feats or even no feat) and did not remember that.
As for the OP's direct experience, I can't really speak to it since I haven't bothered with Baphomet since about a month after it came out. I haven't noticed any difference in my own CW's effectiveness though, aside from the bonding nerf.
On the other hand, I have noticed a weird thing from time to time. Sometimes, my characters (any of them) melt things unusually well for a time, then other times they feel like playing a wet paper towel. These phases can last from a few minutes to an hour or more. I can't explain it, but it doesn't feel like I'm playing differently, it feels like streaky RNG making me hit unusually hard or soft. If I'm not crazy, that could be what the OP experienced. I'd suggest going back and trying your Spellstorm CW in Baphomet again and see if you have the same experience again or if it went back to normal. The dice gods may have just been out to lunch that day.
And before the obligatory "streaky RNG is a figment of your imagination" post, the random Throne run I did a couple weeks ago that gave out three (sadly useless) +5 rings and a Sgt Knox at the end would beg to differ.
Not sure if they're related, but it sounds like they could be...
GWF have been roflstomping on content since ages ago topping those charts!
"Ok, but let's make them a specific sub-class of Wizard, specializing in Control Powers like slows, stuns and roots"
"Right... We wouldn't want them to be too powerful, blowing up everything in the Dungeon..."
2 days later...
"Yeah, the 27 guys playing PvP really hate slows, stuns and roots..."
"Make EVERYTHING immune to Control!!"
GF tank, DO DC, CWmof, CW SS (13k) as main dps.
One of my fastes runs ever and no OP involved, that debuffs were huge, the 13k SS CW dealt pretty nice DPS.
Average effectiveness about 220+%.
Get a mof debuffer
Do SS and mof stack different debuffs?
At boss encounter effect. 280+% was no issue
have you fighted to the end or reseted out of instance to test it again ?
PS. I'm Asking because i will use my CW alt to see what happens tonight... i will also play as spellstorm, i will get a lillend i have in bank too, but knowing you GS would help to imagine how hard was for you there
Tks in advance...