LA veno any good?

Ryiah - Heavens Tear

Ms_HopToIt - Sanctuary wrote: »

I loved LA for awhile, because it enabled me to do things in squads that i never wouldve done as an arcane veno, like tank a bh boss in foxform. (It helped cause i was sharded with garnets/citrines) But during 8x I opted to go full citrines, so i highly doubt I could still do that atm.

So far I've always opted to go full citrines. I might make an exception when I make the switch to "end-game" gear and go immaculates or better, but so far I'm not regretting it. I'm more than willing to try tanking a BH boss, but lets be clear on exactly which boss we're talking about here. Are we talking BH51, 59, 79, 89, or what?

So far the highest BH I've tried tanking is BH39 (which is a cakewalk) and the highest boss would be Chin near Angler's. In the case of Chin I was using level 3 fox form without any buffs save reflect. With my HP max at 4.3K unbuffed, I was dipping as low as 700 before the charm ticked.

Edit: Just tanked Gouf without only reflect using a charm and Jiaozi. Khewy with a level 41's cleric buffs. Tried Gargantakong without a cleric and got hit for 2K per hit and died after about four hits.

I'd be more than willing to try testing with a cleric sometime. Especially more so now that I've got sage fox form. With buffs and heals I'm reasonably certain BH59 would be easy. I'm not positive about BH79. And unless I get a genie and pet to interrupt Gaurnob and Polearm, I highly doubt I could tank BH69.

For anyone curious, here are the numbers I'm getting for a sage spark noxious gas against those acephalid things in FB89 Brimstone. Not the highest at 55895, but not bad either. The circled ones are the highest, but anything about 30K is probably a crit.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1894/critshled.png

Ms_HopToIt - Sanctuary

Ryiah - Heavens Tear wrote: »

So far I've always opted to go full citrines. I might make an exception when I make the switch to "end-game" gear and go immaculates or better, but so far I'm not regretting it. I'm more than willing to try tanking a BH boss, but lets be clear on exactly which boss we're talking about here. Are we talking BH51, 59, 79, 89, or what?

So far the highest BH I've tried tanking is BH39 (which is a cakewalk) and the highest boss would be Chin near Angler's. In the case of Chin I was using level 3 fox form without any buffs save reflect. With my HP max at 4.3K unbuffed, I was dipping as low as 700 before the charm ticked.

Edit: Just tanked Gouf without only reflect using a charm and Jiaozi. Khewy with a level 41's cleric buffs. Tried Gargantakong without a cleric and got hit for 2K per hit and died after about four hits.

I'd be more than willing to try testing with a cleric sometime. Especially more so now that I've got sage fox form. With buffs and heals I'm reasonably certain BH59 would be easy. I'm not positive about BH79. And unless I get a genie and pet to interrupt Gaurnob and Polearm, I highly doubt I could tank BH69.

For anyone curious, here are the numbers I'm getting for a sage spark noxious gas against those acephalid things in FB89 Brimstone. Not the highest at 55895, but not bad either. The circled ones are the highest, but anything about 30K is probably a crit.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1894/critshled.png

I was lvl 69 at the time, and it was BH51 (wyvern) Original tank left, so the cleric asked if i thought i could tank, so I gave it a shot and succeeded.
It was really really hard though normal hits on me were 700-1k(or more) and when he debuffed me (curse: decrease damage taken) He was hitting 1k-1.3k out. I have no clue how i survived it, but i did. Let's just say I felt very powerful that day ^.^ But tanking wouldve been alot easier in HA as opposed to LA

tweakz

Mystic-Night - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I've had archers non-crit me 8 times in a row..what's your point? If axt was able to crit that often in a set of hits like that, that's quite good..Just because someone doesn't crit 4 times in a row doesn't mean its a fail build. Crits are random, some archers have 40% crit now a days, but sometimes they miss 4 crits in a row.

Veno's aren't archers. 4 non crits make the difference between 3-4 hits per kill. If my Nix has 4-5 Styren Champions aggroed, I want to know I can kill them all in 3 hits. If I can't: then I have to take them down much slower. Then there's mobs in fb89,99 and public quest that I like to push to the edge of aggro. If my hits are that inconsistent: again it would slow me down. I'm not calling it a fail build, but survivability appears to be far costlier, and it doesn't seem good for PvE.

maxwel12

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Desdi - Sanctuary

Nice necro?

truekossy

Yep. +1 to my post count.