Wing Trophy-Lunar glade

Sherufaniru - Raging Tide
Sherufaniru - Raging Tide Posts: 47 Arc User
edited August 2010 in Wizard
I finally got one these since was shocked I got a item I thought I wouldn't get from a pack. But looking at both capes it seem it pretty useless for a Wizard and the Wing Trophy are the better capes right?
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  • Aquagirl - Raging Tide
    Aquagirl - Raging Tide Posts: 103 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    come again?
  • Borsuc - Raging Tide
    Borsuc - Raging Tide Posts: 1,526 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    Only cape in game with channeling -6% and you call that useless? :P
  • NonameWiz - Sanctuary
    NonameWiz - Sanctuary Posts: 506 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    It's not useless, -6chan is good but I like the pink Wing tropy which gives more pdef.
    Rank 8 Wizard: 1% farm b:shutup
  • Aquagirl - Raging Tide
    Aquagirl - Raging Tide Posts: 103 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    Borsuc - Raging Tide wrote: »
    Only cape in game with channeling -6% and you call that useless? :P

    unless you get about 75% channel with it, absolutely
  • Mumintroll - Heavens Tear
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,393 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    Borsuc - Raging Tide wrote: »
    Only cape in game with channeling -6% and you call that useless? :P

    Is not just this1. Also new lunar cape is -6% channeling, but it cost ~200M.
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  • Sherufaniru - Raging Tide
    Sherufaniru - Raging Tide Posts: 47 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    Maybe I used the wrong wording, but I was told you need a lot of channeling stuff to make a difference in faster cast time not just having one item with - 6% channeling stat.

    Or I'm I looking into this the wrong way?
  • fulgida
    fulgida Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    Sherufaniru - Raging Tide wrote: »
    Maybe I used the wrong wording, but I was told you need a lot of channeling stuff to make a difference in faster cast time not just having one item with - 6% channeling stat.

    Or I'm I looking into this the wrong way?

    I think you need to think about your goals: If you are in a pvp situation, the defenses you get from the one cape are a small amount of defense and the speed up you get from the other cap is a small speed up. If you are getting ganked by an assassin your small bonus to channelling not help you very much. Of course your small bonus to defense probably will not help you much either...

    So, where would channelling help?

    6% channelling is a quarter of a second off the time that you need to cast morning dew. So if you are a wizard healer, that's approximately a 5% increase in your healing rate.

    And its a similar kind of speedup on your ultimates, if you ever use them without sutra.

    For pyrogram and gush its not quite so impressive -- its a 4% dps increase on pyrogram and a 3% dps increase on gush (unless you already have a lot of channelling gear, then it becomes a slight bit better).

    And, no, that is not very much. In a PvP situation, this kind of thing would only help you if you were in a situation where it would let you get off your final attack a moment before you would have been killed.

    Then again, by similar logic, a bit of extra defense would only help you in PvP where it would keep you alive when you would otherwise have been killed.

    So... there really is not a definitive answer to this question that is always true, and instead you get a lot of opinions (and some flamage if people strongly hold differing opinions).

    But if you do world PvP, the whole assassin thing means you have to have enough defenses to tank a lot of melee damage, if you are going to survive their ganks. (And you also need other mechanisms you can use to reinforce your defenses.)
  • Borsuc - Raging Tide
    Borsuc - Raging Tide Posts: 1,526 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    That's the whole idea. You stack -channeling. Here's a thought. If you think "well -6% on cape isn't that good" then think "-6% on wrists isn't good" or "-6% on ring, meh only 6% is not much"... then how are you supposed to stack it?

    It adds up. Every piece adds a little. It's not just for channeling. It's for defenses as well. You can't say "well that's insignificant" because then you wouldn't stack anything at all. You have to start somewhere.
    Mumintroll - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Is not just this1. Also new lunar cape is -6% channeling, but it cost ~200M.
    oO

    Care to enlighten me about it please because I honestly have no idea what cape you are talking about. b:thanks

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