It's none of the above, and you would do well to listen to any advice he has to offer, he's one of the better players in one of the best pvp guilds on the Beholder server. Even though I hold my own pretty well in PvP, I've personally benefited from advice he's offered, and you'd do well to ask him questions rather than…
You are "unlucky". Really it does not matter if at 44% you fail to get the tier 3 result 100 times in a row, on the 101st time your chances of getting a rank 3 are still only 44%.
It was perhaps narrow minded in that peoples gear varies enough that in some cases this might not be absolute truth, but I suspect they didn't mean an absolute 9 or nothing, but rather to slot something else at lower ranks.
Nice I never even noticed or thought about that, probably because even pre-nerf Hammer wasn't something I used often where the heal could be realized simply because In groups I've always viewed it as more of a superiority use daily, ie when it's not challenging at all. In the event myself or teammates needed health, other…
So to update my feelings post patch, there is a lot of stuff I like. Most of my concerns regarding the changes aren't all that bad, and mobs seem to have been scaled as well. It is now quite viable in some cases to deal with the boss trash adds by killing them off instead of kiting them, makes the fights feel much less…
That will only be true when our healing abilities are both strong and flexible enough to allow us to slot something besides heals and not have an inferior chance of success on encounters. I'd argue that this is easily true for trash, but most boss fights I'm not loading any nukes or debuffs which granted may have less to…
This isn't the first time I've seen an MMO do this, and while it may not be realistic, there are a lot of unreal elements to a game where you use magic to kill dragons ;-). That being said an AOE cap in a game where the primary challenge tends not be the big "boss" but the overwhelming mob spawns, makes a cap like this…
Thought I should add my thanks as well too sogronnwo, While I didn't respect I've had mad fun with my new blue set of PVP gear. Nothing like dragging 3 people off a node who are so frustrated trying to kill the squishy cleric that they forget about everyone else capping the node they just left.
So yea a week and 9 pages later I supposed I should clarify my response to the patch notes. I get that PE needs to slow down progression. It is far to easy for a person on their first level 60 character to gear up for the highest level of PvE content, and when it comes to Alts after that you can have them CN ready by the…
Quite a bit will change tomorrow, so the details on where to put points will probably change to a large degree depending on level. Early on in groups you really don't have the tools to do traditional MMO style group healing, your mouse right click seal on mobs is something you want to put on any mob people are attacking,…
I love it for pvp, mainly because I don't think I've ever seen it fail to dismount someone, also nice to hit people with when they run away low health.
Interesting that you would mention EQ clerics, after this last patch I've found myself fondly remembering grouping as an EQ cleric (not the stupid CH chain raiding mind you). Being able to yank a group out of the fire, ducking a CH to do DVA (I still think Divine Arbitration was one of the coolest healing mechanics I've…
vmlinux, kalycto hehe spoken like true troubleshooters. Take the limited information given and try and extrapolate the situation. vmlinux - it was a small change to a single field, I reverted it at the location, not in our source and then added the old one as a "new" report so essentially going forward that one client…
I'm a software developer, and I'm reminded of a time where I identified a report that was categorizing data in a way that was not intended and didn't really make sense, ie a bug. I made a change to fix that problem. Later on I updated a client with the fixed report. Unfortunately they had incorporated that bug into their…
Let me preface by saying I don't consider this much of an issue beyond ignorant people like the guy I had yesterday raging that I didn't keep AS us full time and arguing with me that it didn't have a cool down. Yes it makes things more difficult, but not insurmountable. One thing it does do is make it less tolerable for…