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warandchaos
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I feel like this game does an abysmal job of giving me any understanding of some of these stat terms.
What is it? It seems important, but I have no idea what it is. Also, what stats should I be focused on as a tank? Life steal? Def? Power?
What is it? It seems important, but I have no idea what it is. Also, what stats should I be focused on as a tank? Life steal? Def? Power?
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Cheers.
Actually Recovery is better for PVE. Crit is more of a PVP stat for the burst.
Recovery it is.
Anyone who tells you to stack Recovery as a low level player is either trolling you or an idiot. Either or; no two ways about it. You have to stack such copious amounts of Recovery for it to be of any noticeable benefit that it's a largely ignored stat until late game FOR A REASON. When you receive copious amounts of it attached to stats you want anyway.
As a leveling GWF and/or GF you have two routes to take that won't involve gouging your eyes out in boredom.
1.) Grab gear that has Pen/Life Steal or Pen/Regen if you want to do damage and survive.
At first I was a Life Steal advocate through and through. Then I decided to regear for regen and haven't looked back. Death simply doesn't happen lest I pull half a zone and sit still like a doofus.
Or 2.) Grab gear that has Power/Crit or Power/Pen and rely on pots.
Some people are lucky and never run out of pots. Some people are not. If you're on Beholder send me an ingame mail and I'll give you the 7 or 8 stacks of pots I saved up since I used maybe a dozen of them while leveling. They're just wasting space in my inventory anyway.
Whatever route you decide to choose just make sure that you focus and don't split your stats all willy nilly. All your gear needs to be the same composition. Don't to a couple pieces power/pen and a couple pieces power/crit. You simply don't have the stats to itemize effectively until late game. Focus your stats and you'll do fine. When you get to cap then you can start playing with itemizing in order to get the DPS or TTK ratio that suits your fancy.
I'm on Dragon, sadly, cause I chew through pots like a <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> so far.
Thanks for taking the time to write that up for me, it seems like legit info. Regen stacking here I come!
Thank you for a well written amd informative post, a feast for sore forum eyes!
I was stacking leach and pen as well becuase of bad experiences with hp regen in most other games, ill stop avoiding the s
I really like your info but I have a question about regen vs life leach. Regen as I understand it regens more when you are lower health and less once your health is closer to topped off. How much regen do you see your guy doing on average? I went the life leach route since it made solid sense to me. The more mobs I swipe and knee cap as a guardian warrior the more health I get back. Seems to work well in almost every fight. I have a cleric healer and I often use my daily that gives back huge hp per damage dealt if I get into a tuff fight or my cleric dies. I found that potions at lvl 28 don't even heal for 1/3 of hit points and are a bit useless. I have a huge amount of them stacked for making an alt. My point is that I would like to know what you found of benefit from regen vs life on hit gear. My idea is to get to around 8% or 10% life leach. I am over 4% now with only 3 or 4 pieces of gear towards it. If I can get it up that high I might just become an unkillable wrecking ball.
Do you have your cleric companion yet? I haven't really used a potion leveling up since I got her. I disagree with stacking regen, leveling in this game is ridiculously fast I just stacked power, crit and whatever else was on the armor I found with those stats and it wasn't uncommon to blast through a zone in short time and gain 4-5 levels just questing there.
Also like was mentioned earlier just hover over your stats and it will tell you what you want to know. There is zero reason you should be level 35 and not know what your stats are for. You should already know what skills give the biggest boost to your action point counter, how to build your guard, and how your skills synergise already. I don't mean that to be rude, because if you don't know ask now as from 35 onward things get very difficult for a GF let alone one who doesn't understand their class.
Each point of AC above 10 reduces the damage you take from all sources by 0.5%.
So a 20 will drop the damage by 5%.
And unlike other dnd games where AC only helps versus physical damage, in neverwinter it works against pretty much everything in the game - magic, trap or otherwise. The only thing I know that ignores it is Rogues daily - shocking execution.
So yea it's very important for a tank.
At lower levels, a lower ac piece with more defense focus may give more mitigation - check your char sheet. At high lvls, its unlikely, as youll have a lot of def either way, and defense has diminishing returns, while AC does not.
In general at endgame id aim for:
max AC
5k defense
rest in power if you take the double power feat.
Else mixing some power/crit may be good.
Recovery imo is far better suited to other classes. As it ups action point and cooldowns.. Guardian cooldowns arent bad, and we gain AP like crazy as unlike most classes, both taking and dealing damge generates them.
Lifesteal/Regen are for complete **** players. Or very antisocial ones who want to solo difficult foundry quests or something at endgame. Completely unneccesary for guardians 1-60+ who play normally.
And potions arent even needed either. I did 1-60 without purchasing a single one aside from for 5man dungeons. If you skip dungeons, you should never need to purchase one - and if you play defensively - most combat can be completed without even drinking any.
-Epic Dread Vault Crushed.
Characters (Dragon): Axer (60 Guardian, Leader of Crush It!), Controller (60 Wizard), Warlocker (60 Warlock)
As others mentioned, Fighter's Recovery is a great solo skill when you get in trouble ... and it only gets stronger when you focus on dps stats.
What he means is you HAVE to run Conq build. The other 2 trees are broken.
I have been fighting this for a long time and am slowly moving toward more and more DPS. The reason for this DPS is taunt and without DPS you cannot taunt mobs. The Protection and Tactics trees do not generate enough threat to tank the mobs. To make matters worse after you graduate to T2 dungeons DPS is required to kill the bosses. The current meta does not favor GF as anything other than DPS.
I know as a MT this is very hard to digest. I am slowly stripping my defenses down in favor of offense. I am still at 52% Damage Resistance but I know in the end even with this I am hurting my team more than helping.
Regen heals you for a % of health drained every 2 seconds. So the lower your health the larger the heals. At lvl 30 it's not difficult to hit near 10% regen if you're gearing with split stats on all you're gear (IE pen/regen). I'll cut a clip from some videos I made last week to illustrate how it works. I'll post it tonight after I get off work.
Good thing that's not what I told him to do.
Respeccing is pointlessly expensive
Well, it works out well enough and I never complained. Then I switched to Regen and it was just soooo much better. But I imagine once you get fully epic'd out that's when Life Steal runs away. On my TR I run life steal and it's insane but TRs do ridiculously more damage that GWFs do at lower levels.