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This just might be the most informative post made by a dev since forever. Thank you. He basically just said that there is no DR limit since you can't stack it significantly above 80 no matter what you do and everyone has arp so it will always be below 80 anyway - but will still negate arp. A suggestion I can make is to do…
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This new pvp set is actually garbage as you hesitated to put it. So little armor penetration... Only fools will use it in pvp. Especially because of the 10-20 % mitigation buff everyone will get from tenacity. Most people don't seem to understand how mitigation works in relation to armor penetration. Look at this simple…
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If it didn't affect mitigation all the mentioned debuff feats/skills/sets would be useless because most mobs don't have much defense and you have armor penetration to deal with what little they have. It's most likely a tooltip error that is wide spread and has been known by pretty much everyone yet the devs don't seem to…
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Try not to do this in PE. Go to some newbie zone, I find that the odds there work better. I have had some instances where a 30% chance failed 15 times. The odds of that happening is 0.7^15=0.005 = 0.5% So yea, i call cryptic odds lies, they are probably filling out some sort of ward wastage quota. Doesn't seem to apply…
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This has been known for a very long time. The High Vizier 4set bonus says it 'steals' 450 defense per stack up to 3. It's 10% mitigation debuff per stack. Used to be very broken months ago when you could get up to 50+ stacks using shard (2) & OF (3). And yes, Plague and Terror work the same way. GPF 3% per stack, P. Terror…
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He probably refers to the fact that necrotic damage ignores all resistances. Which is nice though I am not sure how significant.
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Been a while since I used either but iirc Plague stacks don't refresh earlier ones so you need to keep attacking rapidly to keep all 3. There may be other intricacies as well but I imagine for pvp Terror is far better than Plague. For pve I'm not aware of any instance in which any version of Terror is better than GPF.…
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How does MM imply renegade? I have always been and still is Thaum if for nothing more than the CoI debuff. Although the shard feat is also awesome. The question is MM vs. CC not Thaum vs. Renegade because for pve there is no contest between the two. Guess it comes down to Power Transfer vs. Arcane Stacks + higher at-will…
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Click on K. After a minute of contemplation all the abbreviations will make sense. Click on L it will show current and near future events. DD is Dungeon Delve event during which every dungeon also gives a special chest to every member. That chest has a decent chance to contain the best set gear item for your class. Karr -…
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I suppose that would be a good deal. I can see CC coming in handy in the draco fight when mobs stay alive for quite a while and all bunched up right on draco, shard and SS getting a 25% boost there would be nice. I always just sorta slotted storm pillar as a second skill for AP regeneration, and only now I realize I almost…
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Lightning can give vorpal a run for it's money only in the perfect state. nlightning is vastly inferior to nvorpal. Although it might be slightly better than lvorpal.
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Do Karru/FH/ToS/SP during DD to get the chests. Do them until you have 4/4 High Vizier set, then you will have the best CW set in the game and be at least of some use in parties.
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Set yourself to invisible. No one can find you.
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It's a common tactic by MMO companies to try and manipulate the economy to promote premium currency sales. After all, you can't have content that would be too hard for 99.99% of the population they will come here to moan and neither could you have everything cheap because why buy Zen then?
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Had this problem before but then it just got randomly fixed. I suspect they just ran some script to clean up the database. Wait for them to do it again, after all the cryptic motto is if its broken patch it up, don't fix.
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There is nothing better than an augment for any class under any circumstances in a dungeon. So the only question is which of the 3 you should choose. If you have the AD get the Stone of Might and upgrade it at least once. The 3 offense slots will serve you best as you can get 900 power just from them which in itself will…
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AH. They are cheap. Other than that, you get them from some sort of zen packages, either some starter pack or locked boxes, never bothered figuring out.
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Most people in this thread don't even know what I'm talking about it seems judging by their rather stupid replies. But you nailed the main question. Yes CC gives you 25% dps increase if cast on 5 targets. But it's also situational and requires time. Whereas MM will let you have a pretty much permanent uptime on 5 arcane…
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Have you actually tried it? 'Control spells' is a pretty wrong name for the vast amount of spells that proc the mitigation debuff. One might say the tooltip is complete garbage. Should read as follows: Almost all your spells do 10-30 % mitigation debuff and a few of them also give you 450-1350 defense.
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You should test HV on dummies to see that it doesn't steal any defense. It's a direct mitigation debuff of 10% per stack. Some powers do give you stacks of 450 defense though.
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Unfortunately they fixed the HV glitch/exploit that let you butcher any boss in under a minute. But HV still gives party 30% dps boost. And because now there is not reason to use OF all the time maintaining stacks is not precisely elementary, 1CW will not be able to maintain constant 30% debuff without sacrificing lots of…
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Keep using shard on bosses with lots of adds, always. Because you need to sing on the boss constantly, I have seen countless noobs trying to separate draco from adds, it either ends in a 30 minute fight or constant wipes. Draco fight should be 3-5 minutes at most depending on dps level. Always sing on boss and use AOE…
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Ok, now please explain of what use is your "real" dps if you can't apply it to actual dps? And what makes you think they aren't sacrificing their "real" dps to get more damage in for more actual dps? Like attacking with shard only 2 targets etc. What you said makes no practical sense.
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I see so many 14+ CWs who have no idea how to dps that your discovery is hardly surprising. You can usually tell how bad they are by the simple fact that they don't use the vizier set, at that point I usually just leave the pug party.
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Armor penetration is pretty much a direct dps % increase up to 20% then diminishing returns up to 24% and nothing afterward. Always remember that arp is calculated first, then debuffs. Absorb the implications of that. TL;DR: arp >> anything | up to 20% arp.
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What "real" dps is this? Dungeon completion time is identical for everyone, actual relevant dps becomes total damage divided by time to complete dungeon...
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If you are farming CN with 3-4 CW it won't hurt for one of them to have that extra 900 power. The rest should be HV. 900 Power will give you a decent DPS increase, it scales differently with different abilities as it will give you a 4-20 % damage increase. How much actual DPS will depend on too much to calculate. Try it…
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EF on tab seems to lag the shard encounter. Hate it when people use it. Especially because the AP generation was fixed.
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It's a completely useless paragon path. Good job on making countless clueless CWs choose it and be even more useless than they are already.
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Long ago I tried everything. I use HV of course. Do you have a few screenshots with you and Zac?