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Nah, I worded that wrong. I quit just after the eLoL set nerf when the DPS order was: GWF>SW>>>>HR/TR/GF>>DC>CW>>>>>>OP. No trolling. Genuinely curious. I've been gone 6 months or so, vowing not to be a glorified buff HAMSTER. So, did they find a balance? Do CWs have a shot at the top slot? Did they make CC stronger?
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I do have a problem with people running the Fabled and HV gear, tbh. The devs discontinued the gear for a reason. During the pre-Mod 6 content, the sets were in-line with the difficulty of the content. Now our guild on PC has an HV CW at 3/5 harder SH dragons and we only have 2 SWs running the Fabled set, both of which are…
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At this point, I'm not sure buffs would do anything. We need a rework. It's so depressing that no matter what CWs have had that make them stand out, the whiners bitched and moaned so much that the class we have now is a result. PVPers complained about our CC in PVP, the devs response? They destroyed our CC by making Arcane…
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You do know that GWFs and GFs can solo CN, right? Why the hell wouldn't a full party be able to beat CN? Nothing needs to be changed there. GFs and OPs should use their damage transfer buffs for the party and if the tank dies, then there's no one else to blame except a faulty DC or DPS not avoiding the red circles. Imo,…
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Tell me they're any worse off solo than a DC or OP? You can't expect to be top DPS AND have survivability. GWFs have higher defensive stats because they're not ranged. Even though I think their def:power feat needs to be toned down, it at least shouldn't be affected by SH boons or any other outside sources and should be…
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I meant SS stacks. Sorry, I was tired lol.
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What if they renamed the CW to just Wizard? Would that put how we feel right now into perspective for you? By your own admission, CC is dead. What if they revamped the entire class into a traditional D&D Wizard class such as in Neverwinter Online or D&D Online? They summoned Familiar companions that gave them boosts unique…
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No. That would reward the elitist guilds. There are some guilds that have hardcore P2W members that, if they wanted to, could dump 1-2k on ZEN and have CN all to themselves. I think the guild boons are already too ridiculous. Anything like you're suggesting just promotes elitism, and that's not healthy at all for the game.
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Agreed. It would be a nightmare leveling up a CW with no CC lol. Also, I'm old-school. I've done my time on all 3 Paragon paths. The CW has a very clear-cut set of options. Oppressor is the CC path, Thaumaturge is the DPS path, and Renegade is the support path. If a CW chooses to be a Thaumaturge, shouldn't they have the…
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CWs and certain TR build took the biggest hit in terms of DPS balance with the eLoL nerf and are the only classes that need buffs. If they buff SW DPS, they better stop the eLoL set from building extra TT stacks, since no other classes get such a class feature bonus like that.
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Reading through this thread and trying not to laugh. SWs need more damage, when they're already top DPS. They should be fair like they were with the eLoL set nerf. Fix Damnation Puppet and Soul Spark proccing with eLoL procs before you worry about balancing them.
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Your responses are idiotic and dumbfounding. You've obviously never played a CW or you wouldn't make half of these unbiased comments. You state that our "role" is CC, when CC is dead. So if they gave CWs back the CC they had from vanilla-Mod 3, you wouldn't HAMSTER? If our Arcane Singularity, Shard of the Endless Avalanche…
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Certain "damage mitigation" buffs extend beyond the ARP cap. Which is why having a GF in the group is key, as I said. It's one of the main reasons we're seeing so many GF/SW combos lately, since SWs have a couple skills that also scale beyond the 60% vanilla cap.
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Are you referring to the Lostmauth set proccing on the extra Storm Spell proc? I would imagine it still procs, but it would only be doing weapon damage now. I honestly never really ran that on my off-hands, because I prefer the consistent 2.5% damage from the Chilling Presence bonus or the Arcane Presence AP bonus,…
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That's circumstantial without knowing their gear/load-outs. A good 3.5k+SS Thaum could out-DPS any equally geared Renegade, any day before this nerf. There are a few builds that can out-perform a SS Thaum, but not without a full understanding of your class. And if you using an AoE rotation with Lightning+Abyss, running…
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This. Most non-GWFs will tell you that GWFs were very over-powered before this nerf. This brings them down to where they should be, but they're still very powerful DPS. CWs were very under-powered without the Lostmauth set. Put it this way. A BiS GWF could out-DPS a BiS CW by 30-50% BEFORE the Lostmauth set nerf. Now after…
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*Edit. Double post.
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We started going for Vicious Enchants and maxing our recovery/power with gear. Not sure how obtainable those are for you, but those seem to be the magic button for the Owlbear build. Overstacking Armor Pen and running with a GF (damage mitigation debuff) is key now, we've found out. We'll still get obliterated by SWs in…
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You do realize that in real D&D (which is what this game is supposed to be based on), Wizards historically have been one of the top DPS classes, right? We're not asking for a free Paingiver button. We're asking to have an equal chance of getting it. And the trade-off between MoF and SS was pretty balanced before the nerf.…
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Read through our notes about the OBC+Lightning+Abyss. Until they fix the Dread Enchant, this is one of the more viable builds for CWs now. But also, as I said, it's a colossal pain in the HAMSTER to keep your damage % stacks up. I'm at work, so I can't provide the exact numbers. But well managed arcane mastery stacks and…
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He may act like someone who doesn't care about DPS, but let's weigh the facts. He wrote a guide called "DPS is the best CC", designed around SS+eLoL set. Then not long after SS got nerfed, he switched to a GWF if memory serves correct? Me thinks he 'does' care about DPS, he's just ashamed to admit it. If a CW doesn't care…
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Except not no one will be considering CWs DPS. I get what all of you are saying, but when you make comments like "everyone was impacted by the eLoL set equally", you have no idea what you're talking about. SWs lost less than 5% DPS, if they were even running it. HR was unaffected. GWF and TR lost about 1/4-1/3 of their…
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"Greatly" isn't the right word here lol. It made up around 35-40% the DPS of the eLoL set. It's not viable at all on a high crit CW. Between the SS nerf and this, that puts us around 70-80% behind the DPS we had on mod 5, which is pretty much half the DPS of We already knew the ACTs from before lol. A BiS CW (4k) was…
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Because they already HAMSTER Storm Spell by 40% damage and the eLoL set was another 20-40% damage for us. Unless you've played a BiS CW from Mod 2 on, you probably don't realize how much CWs have been HAMSTER over. They killed our control, they nerfed some of our best Powers and Paragon feats into oblivion, and with our…
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Thanks man. The basis of the build is ST cancellation+IC proc+Abyss+Lightning. We Tabbed ST and it's just as consistent as Nightmare Wizardry, since you can keep CA up at all times with cancellation. It's caused us to get kind of lazy, though. ST cancellation+At-Will+Disintegrate+Repeat. The DPS is actually higher than a…
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The Imprisonment method acts as a buffer. Instant 15% damage buff cast+release. As I said, it's only situational. It's possible (quite easily) to keep your stacks full using Shard+OF, but that's a much trickier situation. If you had told me this a month ago, I would've laughed. But the day I got out-DPSed by a 3.4k CW on…
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Rampage actually got the idea from one of Chem's old formulas, and I tweaked a couple things myself using your aforementioned appendix, as you could probably tell. Do you know what rotation Cyler's running? I've noticed everything has to been in alignment for the DPS to be maximized. I implore you to test it as we've…
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It's kind of a HAMSTER stacking power. I'm in the process of ditching all my crit, which is a slow process. I can stack power to around 25k and 6k crit, but I have to wait for double RP to get rid of my crit artifacts. I'm also trying to decide if it would be beneficial to run a set or just keep stat maxing on artifact…
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Yes, but the has compensation. Since most of the build benefits from multi-proccing Arcane spells, the only Ice spells I would even slot are maybe Chill Strike and Icy Rays for bosses. Each tick of Steal Time procs Infantile Compensation, which would be the majority of your DPS. Tested with a high Recovery+Spell Twisting…
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To the survivability point: I'd say CWs and GWFs are just about tied now since the massive nerf to temporary HP. I can solo T2s fairly easily on my CW and a buddy of mine who's a 4k GWF can no longer solo T2s for the simple fact that he can't face tank 75% of the stuff he used to. With a CW, though, I have to spam my…