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Please Stop Using Sunburst
ponyforever
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Tell your friends!
Every other class needs the enemies to be grouped up in one place. The last thing they'll appreciate is you coming into the middle of everyone and knocking them a mile away with your ability. I've sadly had to kick many a cleric after asking them repeatedly to stop doing that. I'm a CW, at least I can usually group them back up. I can only imagine how frustrated the melee classes get (except rogues, nobody cares how they feel
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The only time to use it is in PVP, or when enemies can be knocked off platforms (like in Dread Vault).
Take it off your bar. Replace it with Bastion and/or Astral Shield--the god of all your abilities!
Every other class needs the enemies to be grouped up in one place. The last thing they'll appreciate is you coming into the middle of everyone and knocking them a mile away with your ability. I've sadly had to kick many a cleric after asking them repeatedly to stop doing that. I'm a CW, at least I can usually group them back up. I can only imagine how frustrated the melee classes get (except rogues, nobody cares how they feel
).The only time to use it is in PVP, or when enemies can be knocked off platforms (like in Dread Vault).
Take it off your bar. Replace it with Bastion and/or Astral Shield--the god of all your abilities!
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Its certainly frustrating to see it used to the detriment of the rest of the party, just to maximise personal DPS.
When running with my alt I use sunburst while I'm soloing the quests but take it off or only use it in Divinity for skirmishes etc.
regular or empowered is infuriating
When I've slotted heals and (de)buffs, that leaves me with very few options for defense. So while the glory seekers are busy tanking and DPSing and crowd controlling, and I get swarmed by mobs.. yes, I'm going to Sunburst. When I'm in ToT with my DC and I'm Protecting the Clerics, yes, I'm going to Sunburst.
Do NOT tell me how to play my character. The quicker she dies, the quicker the rest of you die because the interventions that I've been doing have been keeping you alive.
Oh, and yes, I use Astral Seal. "But it doesn't heal enough!" Then you need to be doing more damage. The more damage you do, the more it heals.
"...I grab my wiener and charge!" - ironzerg79
if I see a CW taht CONTROLS there is no need to use sunburst, it is shown 100 times that running the right spec and running the right feats you can do this with ease and make the run very comfortible, but as long as there are some nub player in your group who even do not find the door to get out the dungeon, sunburst deals good assist
So it sounds like you are agreeing that it is a very situational power. I don't think anyone is disagreeing there. And neither is anyone trying tell you how to play. What I am saying, and what I think the OP is saying, is that you shouldn't use it all the time. When there is no danger to yourself, or the party and we're just burning down trash, don't run into the nicely grouped up mobs and hit sunburst...
No.
Again, don't tell me how to play my character.
Obviously it's a situational power and people sometimes "abuse" said power, but for a non-DC to presume to tell DCs to stop using our only defensive spell is horsesh!t.
"...I grab my wiener and charge!" - ironzerg79
LOL. I'm not a non-DC. My first level 60 is a full-heal DC. I stopped using Sunburst around level 15-ish.
I'll also add that a cleric is tanky enough that they don't have to Sunburst mobs off themselves. They can use dash and try to off-tank the aggro. They have a shield for heaven's sake. In situations where a cleric is getting mobbed that badly, Sunburst is going to get them off for like 1/2 a second at best anyway. It just makes the enemies pay even more attention to you...
Sunburst IS very useful in something like Dread Vault or maybe Spellplague, where the cleric can bop adds right off the edge. It's also wonderful in PVP. Divine Sunburst is okay anytime. Otherwise, Sunburst just disrupts the grouping of mobs and makes it very frustrating. It benefits nobody for enemies to be scattered all over the room, forcing the party to kill them one at a time.
Play your character however you want to, just don't be surprised when you get kicked for messing up everyone's rotations and making the dungeon take twice as long to complete.
Im a 16.5k DC and The FACT is, the ONLY time Sunburst is useful in any means, is spell plagues boss, and pirate kings first boss. Other then that, There are better encounters, debuffs,buffs to use. Sunburst is a joke and if you're experienced in end game content you'll most likely agree. If you as a healer is getting swarmed, then the group is doing something wrong.. Don't use a shiity encounter and mess up everyone else because of that.
While we're at it, you CW's need to stop using that ice storm daily... that's even worse.
Agreed. Ice Storm is the Sunburst of the CW abilities. Don't use that either, LOL.
BTW, IMO best solo set up is:
- Astral Seal + Brand of the Sun
- Chains + Glow + Daunting Light
- Foresight + Terrifying insight
- Flame Strike + whatever
Pug groups in lol/elol and shores sun burst is amazing for disrupting the drakes from their one hitter quitter spin move. All the noobs who think having a cleric means they can stand in red are saved by this one during the trash pulls.
Chuck Norris
I would go even further and chastise any DC that is not using Sunburst during Tiamat's cleric phase. For extra push area+distance, remember to use it [fully] empowered.
I need it at this point if I draw too many near me and missed them with my potent AoEs. I'm only a lvl 30. Sheeesh!
.. Teucer (HR) / Maximus Decimus (DC) .. GT: ApexDemon
Seriously though, sunburst is very situational. Just say NO to recreational sunbursting.
Ha, I was just trying to 'lighten' the mood about SB. I have not had it enabled since lvl 15.
.. Teucer (HR) / Maximus Decimus (DC) .. GT: ApexDemon
.. Teucer (HR) / Maximus Decimus (DC) .. GT: ApexDemon
just for fun i ran a group of 5 dc with the focus being sunburst mayhem
with a little ghost buster crossing the stream role playing too
our group was mostly dps builds of average gs rating of around 13k to 16k
not only was this fun but it was effective. how effective you may ask? well we went from a pk run to dread vault to even castle never with only one wipe on dv boss!
not only will i be doing this more cause it's mega fun i recommend this to anyone who can form a group (though i would say having a few dps builds would be ideal)
towards the end we lost one cause it was late but it was fun to hear the reaction of the random we picked up.
funny how he didn't quit right away and was very surprised how well we were doing