Sage or Demon?

Kiymori - Heavens Tear

mysteryveteran wrote: »

I've now decided I'm changing my mind and going demon.b:laugh
In PVP every second counts.

The already mentioned skills:

Tidal Protection

Settling Ripple 90 sec cd complete immunity comparable to veno feral concentration 3min cd that's half the cd of 3 mins. The original 80% dr lasts longer than the 4.3 sec cast time like 6 secs, if demon version immune lasts 6 secs we will be able to aoe paralyse and tele back into safety with ease.

Anti stun lasting 2 extra secs.

I thought sage had the survival cause of the 25% damage reduction, being able to use SR sooner, 1.6% more max reduction from passive and the damage evade but demons truly have better survivabilty to me because of the 3 above skills that prevent a Duskblade from being cced in the first place.

I underestimated demon Duskblade CC boosts, they aren't like CC boosts from other class cultis, they really aren't minor.
For example when wanting to stun lock that 1 sec extra stun duration from Relentless Drift is very nice, using 3 tele stuns in a row becomes a 6sec lock whilst sage remains at 3 secs.

Divine Moonlight lasting 1 sec longer, allows more time to use Moon Chant and gain chi and allows skills to come off cd. Grief lasting 1 more sec is very nice, on skills that have 30 sec cds Stigimorphic Dive and Blinking Moment those cds being reduced is pretty huge for faster lock.

Destinty Hunter lasting 7 long secs is very nice especially with the skill taking away 0.6 secs to use a skill after due to cast time. Demon Duskblades longer lasting ccs will put enemies under more pressure leading them to waste genie energy setting them up for a nice trap with Destiny Hunter.

Veno's Bewitch that can take us out of Reaper Form is a pain and having demon RF with a reduced cd of 5 secs is nice in general.

When it comes to genies I say every Duskblade in general should have tangling mire, for demons with the 60% pdef debuff bump genie strength to 25 upgrading the TM debuff to 40%, together making a 100% pdef debuff which they can have on a survival vit + magic genie. This debuff combo can be used at will like wizys use genie spark.

The 80 chi gain every 3 secs in RF and every 6 secs out of RF with both culti versions makes Duskblade chi gain comparable with sage venos and sins. The already mentioned extra chi on our combo opener Gale Mark is helpful. To add to this Duskblades can get chi out of combat by spamming Moon Chant whether demon or sage.
Demon Everlasting Ode reducing targets chi by 15 is very nice combined with Mo Zaun's Taunt. With 1 sec cds in RF and 6 sec cds out of RF 15 chi drain every 2 secs is no joke, think of all the sparks we can drain. While sage Duskblades have the chi advantage, demons s hit chi also and drain enemies chi by alot especially EO being aoe.

Crit boost from spark is also nice, demons truly can spike damage more. Now I realise reduced charge times are extremely useful majority of the time better cc from DT and longer wep disarm from SoP, demon Duskblades are even more fast paced on an already fast paced class. The 30% hf from sage DT only applies on the 4th hit, if interupted mid way or less or cancelled then no hf. lvl 100 skill ShadowSever is a 20% hf although 3 min cd, theres also bms to copy hf from.

Lastly the demon fairy looks badass. b:chuckle
These are my reasons for changing my mind if primal skills do come and sage gets better upgrades who knows I could change my mind again but its looking very unlikely.

Thanks for basically restating everything I said in my previous post with even more lines of textb:chuckle. Anyway.....Basically personally as I said already I feel demon is much more effective for PvP in the long run, but sage still has very nice perks.

sjampie

trying both sage (pve server) and demon (pvp) so cannot vote b:laugh