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IWD PVE Tier 5 Boons
mateodiscus
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I thought I would start this up for people to discuss the tier 5 boons for the Ice Wind Dale PVE campaign.
I took the avalanche boon today and have done some minor testing. I figured it would be good on my GWF as I tend to take a beating. No dung runs yet. I am pretty disappointed in it. I went to a lower level area so I could let trash beat on me for a while.
I gathered up about 8, no elites because I wanted the attacks to be fairly fast, and I let them beat on me. First of all, its a chance when getting hit to get one stack of avalanche. When you get a stack, a 20 second cooldown starts. Every time a stack is added it refreshes the cooldown until 20 stacks and them bam...damage. Well with 8 mobs hitting me for quite a while, the best I could manage was 15 stacks. I would start to slowly gain stacks, I would hit 10 or 11, and then nothing for 20 sec when then the whole lot would just drop.
Its not that its just a chance to proc and it can take some time, its the proc rate is really streaky. I guess during certain times in dung when you are getting hit by an insane amount you could get it to proc, but I wouldn't count on it happening much.
So far I am not liking these tier 5 boons, at all.
I took the avalanche boon today and have done some minor testing. I figured it would be good on my GWF as I tend to take a beating. No dung runs yet. I am pretty disappointed in it. I went to a lower level area so I could let trash beat on me for a while.
I gathered up about 8, no elites because I wanted the attacks to be fairly fast, and I let them beat on me. First of all, its a chance when getting hit to get one stack of avalanche. When you get a stack, a 20 second cooldown starts. Every time a stack is added it refreshes the cooldown until 20 stacks and them bam...damage. Well with 8 mobs hitting me for quite a while, the best I could manage was 15 stacks. I would start to slowly gain stacks, I would hit 10 or 11, and then nothing for 20 sec when then the whole lot would just drop.
Its not that its just a chance to proc and it can take some time, its the proc rate is really streaky. I guess during certain times in dung when you are getting hit by an insane amount you could get it to proc, but I wouldn't count on it happening much.
So far I am not liking these tier 5 boons, at all.
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So i guess us Gf's will be using it.
What?!!!, 200 each min???... Seriously, how can they make boons like this!!!...
Why the hell do they never mention the ICDs in tooltips... it looked fairly useful on a GF, until I stumbled upon this. We always have to rely on someone doing the testing before doing anything
WRONG!
cold shoulder last 10 sec on affected target so every of hes attack is reduced by 200 for 10 sec and the ICD is 30 sec
im more worried about 5th boons they all seem to be useless thou.
Yeah you're right, Rousing Warmth does seem to proc on any healing, but it has a minute or longer internal cooldown so it's also garbage. The only useful one seems to be the potion one since everybody chugs pots anyway, even in PVP.
Yeap, tested it more careful. The proc chance is about 5-10%, it debuffs the target on ~8 sec reducing all their attacks by 200 for the duration. I don't think there's ICD at all, just very low proc rate.
UPD. I let 5 mobs in Blacklake hit me for 5 minutes and this boon proc'd only twice.
I didn't notice that about cold shoulder. But even knowing that, is it worth taking?
So, even in the most possibly favourable situation to get the stacks, you never reach 20? Well then, maybe a mod will redirect the thread into the Bug Report section.
BTW:
CW: Winter's Bounty and its decent
GWF: Winter's Bounty/Avalanche/Rousing Warmth.
I guess Rousing W. is not working for lifesteal/reg but it can has some use for restoring strike/dc around
DC: ??? As I see neither is good for it!
Maybe Avalanche if it procs Plaguefire. (?)
CRAZY MIKE - 14.6k PvE CW
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That was my opinion too.
internal cooldown can be about 3 minutes then. the new boons and damage from weapons proc twice in few seconds like BOOM BOOM but ACT says one of them is false.
OK! I did some testing myself and this is what I have on Winter's Bounty:
I doubt I was killing 1 mob every second so some margin for error should be taken into account.
hour:min:sec
20:14:07 proc
20:14:47 proc - 40 secs later
20:15:50 proc - 63 secs later
20:16:47 proc - 57 secs later
20:17:48 proc - 61 secs later
20:18:49 proc - 61 secs later
20:19:48 proc - 59 secs later
20:20:49 proc - 61 secs later
20:21:49 proc - 60 secs later
20:22:52 proc - 63 secs later
20:23:49 proc - 57 secs later
Looks like a nice signature.
Rousing Warmth:
The boon does not procc from regeneration or lifesteal. It does, however, procc from Astral Shield and Astral Seal.
ICD seems to be around 1 minute which makes it utterly useless for basically every class.
Winter's Bounty:
We did not experience an ICD on this boon, I had it procc multiple times in rapid succession. Chance to procc does not seem too high, however. Over the course of multiple CN 4/4 runs it contributed to ~9-10% of my Action Point Gain which is fairly decent.
For classes that regularly kill stuff (GWF, CW, HR) it seems like Winter's Bounty is the way to go. All alternatives are lackluster or completely useless in comparison.
Since most of the boons are garbage just like the 2p bonus from the BI weapons the whole Icewind Dale ordeal turned out to be a huge disappointment from a PvE standpoint. I hope they step it up for mod 4 and hire someone who actually understands what he's doing.
WTB Class Reroll please
Nice work. Anyone tested to see if rousing warmth procs off an HRs pvp set bonus heals..?