Survey: Artifact weapons

davecheese · October 2014

Hi fellow CWs - just a quick question on artifact weapons. If you could pick just one, which would be your primary choice?

To my mind, the Arcane Eye seems somewhat less useful than the others. If you PvP you'll want the Gelid Eye for faster freezing. If you're PvE, you'll want chilling cloud for mob clean up. I'm interested in other opinions though

rashylewizz · October 2014

I'd take Gelid eye for PVP.

No competition in PVE anyways. You could clear anything nowadays with mediocre gear, mediocre enchants and a sub-optimal build.

crazymikee · October 2014

i use magic missile more then rof in pvp

helpimblindinrl · October 2014

Damage in PvP = base damage * (1+ Σ buffs %) * (1+ Σ booster debuff multipliers %) *(1 + RI % – DR% (including any effects from defensive boosts and defense debuff multipliers)) * (1- TeR %)

The TeR at the end is tenacity RI is resistance ignored and DR is damage resistance.

"f you fight naked, or have your entire DR penetrated by an attacker’s RI, you will always be taking full damage if TeR didn't exist. With tenacity you get 1% DR per % of TeR. "

So if you have enough arp to punch through damage resistance they will take the full damage. The magic missle one stacks arp heavily. Even without it reaching 30% resistance ignored is easy with corrupted ice gear. So like if a dude had 50% from defence and that gets reduced by 30% by plaguefire (lets say you get 2 stacks instead of 3 for the sake of being conservative) to 35% resistance the magic missle one could put you within striking distance of completley negating defence and tenacity.

Of course that's meaningless against a hr deflecting with 65% chance and 85% deflect severity.

And I have see peeps freeze people super fast with the ray artifact.

So yeah i dunno.

I can totally see the magic missle being a valid choice if you have the dark 10s and red glyphs to nuke people straight through defence but utility of a frost man faster is also nice.

MM also works better with some macros.

wimpazoid · October 2014

My choice is definitely arcane eye. Giving damage back to mm and the crit and arp stats seems best to me.

hfgtfsdfs · October 2014

Since the new dungeons seem to have less adds and more strong single target or small groups of adds I would go with Gelid Eye (RoF boost) for both PvE and PVP.

asterotg · October 2014

I use gelid eye for PvP and single target boost and I still feed my lvl 60 <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> drops to my chilling eye.

asterotg · October 2014

double post, sorry

pointsman · October 2014

Chilling Eye. No question. Thaum CW is going to be using Chilling Cloud as primary at-will in the first place. So the weapon will buff most of what Thaums hit.

chemboy613 · October 2014

As long as you are fighting more than one thing, chilling cloud is superior to magic missile in DPS.

and as long as you have the frozen power transfer feat (which you should), chilling cloud is superior to magic missile in DPS.

As of the current mod, there is no reason to ever use magic missile in PvE, unless you are renegade.

Considering almost no one is renegade, the main reason people use magic missile is "the animation is cooler."

GG.

hefisdo · October 2014

I took the Arcane Eye even though I mostly use Chilling Cloud on PvE.

Recovery is meh and I see no utility in another source of Chill stacks for SS.

diotelp · October 2014

The animation is cooler though

Survey: Artifact weapons

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