This dungeon and everything involved in it is actually a perfect microcosm of the entire game. Everything that is wrong with PvE in this game is exemplified by the Spider Temple.
If you can't find a single group of people who want to play the game the way you do, even in a guild, have you ever considered the problem might be you? Shortcuts that bypass trash have no effect whatsoever on the difficulty of the game. Exploits on bosses is an entirely different discussion that I won't get into here.…
Another thing about achieving anything in this game: This game and basically everything in it was completely and utterly trivialized a few weeks ago, much of it by true exploiters, ones who actually do serious damage to game balance and economy. Epic content was trivialized, T2 loot was trivialized, AD items were…
If you want everyone to do things the way you personally want them to be done, and advocate for that to be enforced through penalty and punishment, that makes you an authoritarian. It's not name-calling, it's a classification. If you think that people will play MMOs in exactly the way developers intended, that makes you…
Also, just adding a 35% across the board threat increase to a class is incredibly sloppy and frankly, ridiculous. There is no basis for it. Threat should be built using specific skills, not coding that tells mobs to attack a GF just because it's a GF. I mean, I don't expect any better from the awful devs of this game, so…
Shadok has it right. I have a well-geared GF alt but I haven't been playing it due to spending time testing my cleric main. In any case, my friend, who runs a full Timeless GF, is having to basically completely regear and respec. We ran some dungeons on test with him doing DPS and he just gets flattened, died at least 2x…
Explain to me how a group bypassing trash spawns in a dungeon ruins the game for you? Further, explain to me how killing all the trash is "PLAYING" the game, but killing some of the trash is somehow not playing the game? Further, explain to me how it is that your personal idea of the right way to play the game is in any…
No offense, but it's clear you haven't participated in the endgame content, and perhaps you should refrain from commenting on the state of the cleric in endgame content until you have done so, to avoid saying things that are completely absurd from that perspective.
By the way, in case anyone was wondering, threads on this topic are being moved from General Discussion to the Cleric class forums. Apparently Cryptic is trying to mitigate the uproar that this is causing/soon to cause, but that's unlikely to help them when people simply quit playing their cleric/quit the game.
If you are in the hospital for a heart transplant and the doctor stops after removing your old heart, telling you he is going to wait a few months to put in the new one, surely you would thank him for doing such a great job, right?
Ok, Stalin 4 pages into this thread and nothing but the same HAMSTER from you. Maybe you should move to North Korea, I'm sure "cheaters" will be punished to your liking there. ****ing authoritarian nutbag.
Since there is apparently no cap to how many mobs can surround you and all hit you at once (20, 30+), there shouldn't be a limit to how many you can hit with AOE.
I think I've flip-flopped on crit builds again. Looks like Repurpose Soul might be the only available thing to try to bring our healing back in line with the AS nerf, considering how poorly power scales.
Thank you for injecting some sense into this discussion on Soothing Light. Not only is it incredibly weak, but there are about 5 more important things you could be doing with your time, need to be doing with your time, than standing still channeling a weak ***, divinity draining single target heal. If it healed the whole…
Please let this thread die and move discussion to a thread that isn't started by a troll. I realize I am perpetuating it by posting but, yeah, we should really let it die.
More on topic, I have to agree with some previous posters who have said this will move towards making 2 CWs a requirement. After having run with an incredibly well-geared GWF and another decent geared one, I can say that it doesn't come close to compensating for the CW's CC ability. I don't really see GWF's being an…
I just did some testing on Mimic server. Not sure which thread to throw this in so I guess I'll put it here. This is more on how important AS is and less on how people will complete content with the nerf, just fyi. I ran Epic Spider with DC, GWFx2, TR, GF. The DC (myself) is full t2 and CN set. GF is a regular in my groups…
No, not really. I live in the cleric forums and there has been next to zero meaningful suggestions for how to replace AS's utility. Pretty much every suggestion is trash, and that's because pretty much every power we have is trash except for AS.
All the White Knighting and eternal optimists and L2Pers and "adapt"ers aside, this is pretty awful news for Clerics. Awful news indeed. Much bad will come of this change.
Thanks for this update and your previous post in the thread. You should also check out the other Astral Shield thread and post your thoughts there, if it suits you. This is pretty much what I expected. I just posted in above mentioned thread saying that CN clearing groups defeating T2 instances on test server is…
Another thing. I have little doubt that groups on test server will be able to clear T2 dungeons without much trouble using 1 cleric. Of course, that's completely meaningless. With full T2 and often CN gear, T2 dungeons are for the most part pathetically easy. I started doing T2 dungeons around May 2nd on my cleric, and…