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A few Lvl 60 CW questions (PvE)
kgrizzle22
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So I recently hit 60 and as of now I have 2 piece High Vizier with the rest being mostly PvP filler gear. I'm curious about which rings/main hand/off hand/necklace to go for besides completing the HV set. (From a Pre-CN stand point)
I'm also somewhat unsure as to which powers are ideal for dungeons. Particularly which power is best for Spell Mastery slotting.
Thanks
I'm also somewhat unsure as to which powers are ideal for dungeons. Particularly which power is best for Spell Mastery slotting.
Thanks
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Amulet - Ancient excorcist necklace of blessing (or lower, but they are cheap now (beholder))
Belt - Ancient fugitive belt of revolt (or lower, they are cheap too)
MH/OH - gauntlgrim weapons (if pre-CN)
For powers - that depends of your playstile. Some perverts love Entangling Force on tab, cause it gives them opportunity to spam AS. But I can spam it w/o EF on tab and I don't know, what they are doing wrong. I advice to use CoI on tab in case of AoE damage and control synergy with Chilling Cloud and Icy Terrain. In thau spec it also debuffs mobs for -15% mitigation. For some cases you maybe want to use Steal Time on tab, cause it gives your group Combat Advantage against all targets (not just affected by Steal Time). For single target take Icy Rays, for solo questing - Chill Strike. For Spellplague/CN - Repel on tab is your bread and butter with some caviar.
Think I'd probably murder anyone who used tabbed Steal Time in a normal fight. That thing seriously messes up people's dodging and positioning, particularly so for other CWs or GFs.
It's best use, in my experience, is speed running through trash and for that its funny enough to use sometimes!
I noticed that the "Pyrotechnic Band", "Ancient Excorcist Necklace of Blessing", and "Ancient Fugitive Belt of Revolt" actually give no Recovery whatsoever? I was under the impression that Recovery was our most important stat?
Can you elaborate on why these are the best choices for those slots?
DPS stats are power, crit, armor penetration.
(Relevant) defensive stats are: defense, life steal and regeneration (but you need a lot if it if you want a steady regen).
You can find jewellery with a good mix of both. I myself use berserker's ring of cleaving, it has armor pen, power and life steal. That's good stuff, and it's really cheap, since it's not one of the ulta popular rings. I also get some defence and life steal with a brawler's belt of guts.
There are actually many good choices, it's just up to you, think about your build, what you want, what you see you don't do well currently (be it dps or surviving), and remember about the soft caps.
If the price is an issue, don't buy ancient gear, it's vastly overpriced for a small upgrade, +12 gear score only.
The main job of a CW is pushing stuff of edges. During boss fights, all people want is adds control, with some rare but noticeable exceptions. You don't need to dps adds, they will respawn anyway. And no, defence isn't wasted. You'll tell to the ~25 mobs running after me during boss fights they should stop attacking me when i run out of stamina, let's see if it works
I also mostly do pugs. Sometimes, the best protection is just some basic defence.
Fired? Since when CWs able to perma stun are fired? :rolleyes: Anyway, the damage a CW does mostly comes from base damage. Yes, some more dps stats are useful, but all in all, it makes almost no difference, if you except the fact that a CW operating on his own without the support of a cleric can save the run. That's just a different perspective, and no, yours isn't in any way better. Trading some crit for +power, +armor pen and +life steal works/is viable/makes sense.
By the way, yes, EF on tab has a small AOE effect (up to 5 targets). Just FYI.
Well, I can stun pack for 80~90% of time, but do significantly more single target damage on last boss fight. And what will do you? How would you save your mates from Valindra? And defense won't help you to survive Valindra's attack or Fulm's AoE.
About EF on tab. Just tested, it doesn't do any damage for grabbed targets.
No, but if EF crits, it tends to crit for every tick. So as I understand it, the Critical Power feat will give you somewhere around an extra 25% of your max AP if you crit with Entangling Force.
So Critical Power is a bit of a feast-or-famine thing. If the feat's internal cooldown happens to lapse just as you crit on a single attack of (for example) Ray of Frost, then you won't get much out of the feat for that 10-second period. But occasionally you'll hit pay dirt thanks to the curious crit mechanics of certain DoT and/or AoE powers.
GG weapon (Main Hand) even post-CN. Betters stats, a bit lower damage. CN's bonus set is useless with High Vizier.
And I also found another interesting thing. Even when not hitting any target, Shield pulse now sometimes still increase 5% AP. Sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn't. Any idea?
Don't worry, oppressor feats are good for dps too. I do quite a lot of it, and no one ever complained about me not doing enough dps anyway, since i'm often top damage in karundax.
I said EF had an AOE because i ran a test some time ago in a foundry farm mission, the HV set seemed to get several stacks from tabbed EF. I don't know why, might be a bug, but i assumed it affected several targets. Could be fixed now, but afaik, i haven't seen anything in the patch notes.
Not a bug. EF on tab is affected by aoe procs like HV set bonus. But a proc is not the same as tabbed EF itself doing aoe damage...
Confirmed. That's what I get for trusting out-of-date hearsay. Apologies.
Looks like Critical Power isn't giving out per-tick bonuses for Conduit of Ice either. At least not as of now, on the Preview Shard.
Well making a build for one encounter would be utterly ridiculous. I'm sure you will agree.