Yaaay the inevitable has come

[stille_nacht]

So after much complaining and unhappiness about how op casters were with their miraculous waves of exhaustion, and how they had far to much power in raids, the devs, in their wisdom decided to nerf exhaustion, again.

and now, the inevitable has come :] yaaaaay, Demon queen epic- now no casters allowed!, hurray!

my sarcasm meter just shorted out

on a more serious note, though casters can still contribute, there is really no call to go nerfing their usefulness even more, nuking is a non-form of damage, and for raid bosses, casters are becoming buff-bots...

[phalaeo]

LFM, EDQ- 11 spots, 6 Arcane Archer, 5 Hjeals.....

[JakLee7]

wait, this is not about VON3?
*** Mate?

[Tuney]

You know... I think more nuking casters make Epic DQ2 go faster. I remember one that had several casters and it went SO fast I was wondering if we were on epic at all.

[unscythe]

So after much complaining and unhappiness about how op casters were with their miraculous waves of exhaustion, and how they had far to much power in raids, the devs, in their wisdom decided to nerf exhaustion, again.

and now, the inevitable has come :] yaaaaay, Demon queen epic- now no casters allowed!, hurray!

my sarcasm meter just shorted out

on a more serious note, though casters can still contribute, there is really no call to go nerfing their usefulness even more, nuking is a non-form of damage, and for raid bosses, casters are becoming buff-bots...

You got a better version of ice storm, and Elite ToD was extremely boring.

[frznvimes]

You got a better version of ice storm

5d6 damage every 2 seconds... :O amazing! I think I'm going to have to keep using firewall so I don't feel like I'm exploiting. Good thing it can't be extended, hahaha! How crazy would that be?

[pSINNa]

Well, it looks like i've lucked out here, my caster has all his raid named loot, he has his 2 x tod rings (crafted on), and i've TR'd his metal bucket frame.

Looks like i'll be enchant speccing him this time round and we'll see where the dust lands by the time i get him to 20 and we've got a new lay of the land for casters at top end.

Becuase this will definitely change who wants what for what in classes/quests/raids.

The one thing that is constant in MMO's (and life) is change xD.

Coit out~

[unscythe]

5d6 damage every 2 seconds... :O amazing! I think I'm going to have to keep using firewall so I don't feel like I'm exploiting. Good thing it can't be extended, hahaha! How crazy would that be?

An aoe that slows down mobs, does cold and bludgeoning damage where your firewall cannot. There are alot of end game bosses immune to fire, so seems pretty good if you want to contribute some constant damage along with polar ray and cone of cold.

Ice storm is kind of like your cold firewall, blame the people in Lammania that nerfed it. :P It is still a solid spell imho, great for casters before disintegrate, and solid versus fire immune mobs.

[stoolcannon]

So after much complaining and unhappiness about how op casters were with their miraculous waves of exhaustion, and how they had far to much power in raids, the devs, in their wisdom decided to nerf exhaustion, again.

and now, the inevitable has come :] yaaaaay, Demon queen epic- now no casters allowed!, hurray!

my sarcasm meter just shorted out

on a more serious note, though casters can still contribute, there is really no call to go nerfing their usefulness even more, nuking is a non-form of damage, and for raid bosses, casters are becoming buff-bots...

While I whole heartedly disagree in every way that casters are ineffective in epics I do agree that this was one of their key utility points in a number of raids and epics. This is really unfortunate imo.

Should sell more mana pots though.

[sirgog]

Nuking sorcs are fine in EDQ2 (it's the only tougher raid they shine in).

Lailat's HP are so low that a crit DBF or Polar Ray drops her HP by almost 2%.

Of course, Firewall was nerfed which hurts them, but it's still useful in the raid.

[anemephistus]

I have a 20th lvl sorc I just capped (my first capped char). I don't know a huge amount about the epic raids. But what I do know is I have been nerfed alot. I played two-man DDO almost exclusively so every spell I layed down was really needed to keep my partner up.

I have seen my fire wall DPS fall, which is a huge blow as it is my bread and butter for horde killing. I invisioned a nuker, I worked hard to reach 20th because of the way I enjoy playing and now the exaustion spell has been nerfed, You can't slow the raid bosses, and the paltry ice storm upgrade can't even go for a minute at 5D6 against things with more hit points than super-man.

I feel kicked. I just hope hope I can still group as a raid-noob with the almost certain increase in difficulty and decrease in availability for the spell caster spots in the raids.