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trluminary
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After the mod6 patch the lifesteal stat, of which I am focused, was like 11% to trigger. At that rate almost any confrontation from groups, which is the norm for all content and the rule for end-game content, will kill me because I do not get any kind of consistant life return from lifesteal (which feels far less than 11% to trigger) and the potions cool-down timer is to long to stay alive. I find most battles consist of me running then turn and hit a few time before my life is almost gone, then run some more.
Well, after todays patch my lifesteal is now 7.5% to trigger. I do not see any kind of return now. Fights now consist of: hit enemy, enemy group surrounds you, you are dead, or simple running away for my life and praying i can get away. old content does not seem to be much of a problem, but all new content and areas are to difficult to be fun anymore. The map dungeons seem to keep scaling up to 70, even old content dungeons.
There are going to be those of you that say I just dont know how to play a CW, and that you are not having any problem, but I simply do not believe you. I have been playing this CW from the very start. I have never had a problem with them. The only way to not be having a problem is to have bought your character the very best of everything.
the CW is useless.
Well, after todays patch my lifesteal is now 7.5% to trigger. I do not see any kind of return now. Fights now consist of: hit enemy, enemy group surrounds you, you are dead, or simple running away for my life and praying i can get away. old content does not seem to be much of a problem, but all new content and areas are to difficult to be fun anymore. The map dungeons seem to keep scaling up to 70, even old content dungeons.
There are going to be those of you that say I just dont know how to play a CW, and that you are not having any problem, but I simply do not believe you. I have been playing this CW from the very start. I have never had a problem with them. The only way to not be having a problem is to have bought your character the very best of everything.
the CW is useless.
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I play a MoF skilled on the Renegade Path. Before the Mod I had 15k GS, now I have the equivalent of equipment. Nothing better than purple, no enchantments better than lvl 7.
My fights in Sharandar, Dread Ring and Sunken Shore consist of: Choosing group of enemies, Tab: Conduit of Ice and Fanning the Flames on the Strongest in the group, Icy Terrain while they run at me, Time Steal, Dodge, using Chilling Cloud and more dodging, repeat. Sometimes I also use Oppressing Force.
Works for me quite good and I don't get much damage. My Life Steal is at 1250 and procs quite often (but then I deal damage quite often too). Though I have to admit, that I have to tweak my stlye a little bit. Since enemies hit very hard I need to find an alternative for Time Steal. SInce there is not much good AoE I tend to switch to Shield. The DR could be very helpful and save me one or two dodges.
Also I have problems in IWD, but then I'm not on lvl 70 yet and should not be there.
I'm sure you played your CW for a long time and knew, what you did. But now you have to adapt, and I think that's what is a bit difficult for you. Without Life Steal as it was, you need to focus more on a defensive build with more HP and Defense, so you have enough time to get procs out of Life Steal.
Or, if you already have a very defensive build, you need to play a bit more and get used to the new enemies behaviour. I'm sure you will do well after some time.
There are those of us who are still in Shadow Weavers. I re-scpec'd twice last night trying to come up with a build that would survive Solo Sharandar. I barely can do smaller groups without dying, but as soon as something adds, I am toast. Control powers help but I still have to mash on potions to stay alive. It's just frustrating that content I could solo last week, now I ahve to have a group to do.
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"It's just frustrating that content I could solo last week, now I have to have a group to do."
I get that it is level 70 "Duh!" ... lol I'm just frustrated is all because I am still having a hard time understanding the "why" it has to be this way.
Because it is end-game content - just that the end-game cap increased from 60 to 70. Call it "growing pains."
You'll be able to get back to it once you grind through all that "flooded" stuff . . .
myles08807 said, "Back in my day, we didn't have any of this fancy Mulhorand gear while we were leveling . . . we walked uphill both ways while dying once every five seconds while leveling, and we liked it fine!" . . . Now, get off my lawn, you kids!"
pointsman said, "I don't rue the game. In fact I don't feel any regret for the game at all."
looomis said, "I don't like people changing to alts and then bragging about their mains like schizophrenic role players."
-A TR caught out of stealth by the same mobs will have the same survivability problem.
-SW's are even squishier than CW's (since no dodge) and have been hit just as hard by the lifesteal nerf.
-GWF's have to be in melee range to attack and yet they have no dodge and their DR is reduced.
-GF's still take forever to clear enemies. Tasks of "kill 100 of these thingies" are quick for a CW. Those are brutal for GF's especially with how much HP enemies now have.
-DC's can't out-heal incoming damage so they're in much the same "kill before stuff kills you" boat as a CW, only with lower DPS.
I've had little to no problems on my CW so far. But then, I was on the preview server getting a hard reality check months ago about what this new Module would be like. I've had time to adjust and adapt. If you've been playing since launch you probably know the class well enough to eventually do the same. The devs have given CW's the tools to survive this content. It's just gone unused in favor of "whatever does the absolute most DPS" up until now.
Life Steal happens, but it's luck now.
I just finished VT run with some people and it was an enjoyable experience. Got some elven raid armor to check it out.
CW's far from useless, but this is finally a stop to all those game'breaking kids who rush ahead to grab damage. I salute that : = )
Do you have any of the currencies from the WoD? if you do then when you get to lvl 61 go to the WoD campaign shop and buy the Eternal set ,it adds a bunch of HP and has better stats but you lose the set bonus , it will make life a lot easier.
Correction:
No!
GWFs do tremendously more dmg in dungeons with recent buffs.
TRs do more damage in LOL/SOT
Havent party with Sw but I think they still do much more dmg!
Hr the same I guess.
I used to think that as a SW, life couldn't get any worse. Not wanted in parties, useless in PvP, hard time questing.
Then I read this and I feel so much better.
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2.) Storm Spell
3.) Lostmauth set
4.) Transcendend Feytouched
5.) win
I've run eCC today with 4CW/HR. Of course the endboss is untouchable but you can comfortably farm Seals without DC/GF.
I hope this is addressed on 4/23. It's... awful.
Ok, so you're in pvp somewhere on the map. You hear the "poof" sound of a red TR near you, going into Stealth. Fortunately you feel more powerful than ever and you can think out of the box. What do you do?
Or you can call it smoke and mirrors. Level 70 is weaker than level 60 used to be.
Yes, level 70 in level 60 gear is weaker. Time to start re-gearing.