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Yea, that's my issue.. it's not now, I mean my gear isn't -bad- like I said it's almost all t2, and my build's solid enough -- I pulled about 4.5 mil in that PK run earlier, was in second place behind the uber geared CW who was trying to speed run it. So i'm not looking to becarried.. It's just.. low enough that I am a…
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The thing is, I HAVE t2 gear, almost full, even. It's just... kind of meh, I don't want to start blowing huge amounts of enchants (and $$, for that matter) on gear that i'm actively trying to replace -- which is double hard when I'm 4k GS short of what people want, and when you DO get a group it's an all greed run so if…
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This is what i've been saying. Not that we're weak, we do a viable role in a group, just that we bring nothing to the party (Besides SOTS) that a GF or CW couldn't bring and then some. (Hell, conqueror spec Gf's can tank better AND dps better than us.) Makes us expendable, unlike other classes.
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Pvp is a moot point, as pvp i nthis game is broken, and unstoppable gives GWF's an advantage anyhow. (50% flat damage resistance goes a long way.) As for your "combination of destroyer and instigator" that.. makes no sense, even if you don't get the cpastone in instigator, you still pretty much NEED grou passault, as it's…
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So, we're all doing it wrong, despite many people with TONS of experience with the class all trying different things and still coming up mid-par compared to dps GF's (who can pull twice our numbers if built right!) and CW's -- who bring the added happy of control. Because you do it right, and you are awesome. Even though…
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Honestly, and I feel bad since I got a shoutout in OP: This has been my experience, I tried going 4/4 titan, 2 titan/2 bladestorm (recovery), 4 duelist just.. Nothing seemed to work, party was a DC, 2 wizards, Tr, and me, and I couldn't hold threat off of anyone unless I started the fight with slam and spammed sure…
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It is, essentially, from the dev posts, plaguefire was reducing DAMAGE RESISTANCe, not defense by the number listed, so instead of -45% defense or what have you, it was just -45% DR flat. (less, in the case of normal/lesser plaguefire, obviously) It now does Defense, and at a reduced rate. It got spat on hard.
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I'm going to throw together a build and stress test it a bit then probably make a guide, but as selaral said, my thead has plenty of information to go off of for a build.
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Incorrect on the threat part, IT doesn't even do that for guardian fighters, marks work differently for each class -- for GF's, it's "10% DR reduction and double threat until they land a non-blocekd hit" -- you have to use a passive (Enhanced mark) to get threat-over-time, Marking is literally pretty useless for GWF's…
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That's what I meant, the argument "that's only 800 damage!" is invalid when yu can hit almost 100% bonus damage with all your multipliers up. Just pointing htat out, that's the real strength of the GF, they have larger %'s on their bonuses and more bonuses than any other class, the fact that they can hit stupid levels of…
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Mixing up bonuses; Stalwart is 5% of your maximum hp as power when hit, up to 5 stacks; so around 6k power minmum, more if you have high con. That said the REAL power of that comes from the massive number of % based damage bonuses guardians have which multiply the effect of power, as noted earlier
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This, also ironically enough you can block the pull and the black hole effect of AS if you are just facing it with your shield up.
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More than likely going to be a warlock; module 1 is fury of the faewild, Rangers are primal strikers but that's more physical attacks and animal emulation, power-wise, Warlocks have a full on class feature for Fae pacts and plenty of faewyld themed powers; If the class matches the module, Warlock seems to make the most…
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People miss where the strength of GF's come from, honestly. It's not power, it's overwhelming synergy. Conqureror master is a power boost, so is stalwarts, by itself pwoer is eh, but you can get it to the point it's respectable. The real power comes in when you realize if a GF optimizes for it, he can sit at almost 65-95%…
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To answer your questions. 1.) Ignore ARP till cap (If I remember Trickshaw's math right, it "ignores" DR, doesn't actually decrease it, so once the enmy hits 0%, it stops doing anything, and since mobs while leveling have less DR than endgame bosses, you need significantly less while leveling); That said, it's a matter of…
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Well the issue with that assumption is that combat advantage is an individual thing, it's not -- If you look athe the groundi n the targeting circle there is always a white chunk, if you stand on that side and swing the chunk becomes blue, meaning you are getting CA damage. When you CC the mob, or use NSF with allied…
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http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?330641-Sentinel-s-Assemble!-%28Sentinel-theorycraft-discussion%29 I've started a thread for number theorycrafting, but as it stands: On live we face twofold issues. 1.) Healing threat is absurd and applies to every target individually, meaning it's nearly impossible to beat…
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Nothing it's a joke. Shield adds 8-9 ac and bonus stats no damage. The joke is you go shield less and then pretend your longsword is a half lings great sword and giggle as you do 13 mil per run
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Yes. As a whole. also Cleaves is a 5 target aoe that doesn't lose 15% damage per target past the first like gwf ages AND hits harder than wicked strike on Live, and that's before all the flat damage increases they get from passives and feats. Then there is lunging strike which hits harder than ibs and with a decent amount…
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You are correct, sort of. A GF in WORSE gear would out dps a gwf. Best guardian dps set is a t1 defensive set. Honestly my main is a gwf and as much as I'd love to say this is true it's just... Not. A good cw actually makes the gap bigger in the favor of the GF. Why? Cleave. Hits harder than wicked strike, and doesn't…
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Well, I was noting it was proccing steel blitz when I DON'T have intimidation, I'm pretty much specced to execution's build on live and i've not hopped over to preview yet.
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Just confirmed, Steel defense does ****all for marks -- took forever to test, drow have this nasty habit of deciding to drink potions as soon as I hit slam, so they just stood there herpderping while marked. But managed to get a perfect setup 3 times in whispering caverns (That is,I hit slam then immediately daring shout,…
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It's about a a 20% increase in encoutner recharge speed, likewise, sure strike is a 20% upgrade; Not so fast however, got a massive 50% damage increase, so that's nice. Most of the "viability comes from the fact that duelist's flurry no longer stacks from multiple sources, so taking multiple rogues is less of a MUST DO,…
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Really wish you'd stop saying that, it's entirely untrue. All AoE's have a hitcap, save a short few. for control wizards, it's only Shield thath as no target cap -- Chilling strike hits 7 targets max, Icy terrain 5, Chilling cloud 5. Steal time 5. AS doesn't have a cap, but if you are going by that, neither does slam. CW's…
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Two things, Marks are ironically, not that important, to the point i'd almost skip powerful challenge, the goal is to have things hitting you, and provided you are doing that (since defiance gives slam a HUGE threat boost and slam hits like a ten trucks and has a huge aoe, it's not hard i'd imagine, the marks would fall…
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Shameless bump, since I was kinda stupiddumb and posting this at 3 am when the forums were dead. No more bumps after this.
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Daring shout is actually -really- useful, not for the marks, but for the damage resistance, hitting 3 drow warriors in the whispering caverns netted me a ~19% DR buff, it's got a 5 target cap, increases the DR buff for every target hit, and the DR buff scales based on the strength of the target hit, so on mini-bosses with…
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Honestly, I'm not 100% on it myself, the tooltip jsut says "Grants Combat Advantage", but as I noted my experience leveling seems to show that it's group-wide. Easiest way to tell, for those who don't know: If you look at the targeting circle on a mob, when someone else is fighting it, there is a chunk of the circle that's…
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Not to be a killjoy, love your guide, is one of the reasons I decided to stick with my GWF But pretty sure the wizard feat (which is almost universally taken) Nightmare Wizardry -- 20% chance on crit to give combat advantage against the target for 4 seconds -- Also applies to the group, since it doesn't specific WHO gets…
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Also likely not possible, the CW-PUSHCLIFF mindset was set for speed runs, use geometry glitches to skip content, bug bosses, melee that isn't a rogue is a liability. One of the biggest sections of the patch notes was the dungeon/zone fixes. Many shortcuts are done. Many exploits fixed. Speedruns aren't a thing anymore,…