I see myself sticking with my current gear to be honest. There may be an item or two of use to slot in around existing gear sets. If that is what you were going for, that is fine and mission accomplished.
I question who would be getting up into the 4, 5, 6, 7 piece set bonuses though. Every set has such a mix of stat areas that you'll have to be, for example, a dps wearing 2 bits of caster gear, 1 tank item, 1 universally unattractive item and 3 actually relevant items if you wanted a 7 piece bonus. I just don't see it happening, especially when they're all on the same power level as previous content which means they're contending with actual strong, synergistic items.
I'm sure I'll still enjoy the expansion but it will mainly be for the content, not the gear.
Maybe make each item have a blank set bonus, and have set bonus tokens drop uncommonly in chests (and a guaranteed drop in the raid) that the player can apply to the items, so they can mix and match better.
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10-22-2020, 05:29 AM #121Community Member
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Figured I should run the calcs on the hp difference.
Originally Posted by Monkey_Archer
Ah, was about to run gear tetris but you did it for me
Bascally what I expected. More tanky, less crit damage.
Sorc U48 (see item build above)
Reaper points: 82Code:Build U48 Sorc Base 45 Barbarian 0 Fighter 0 Paladin 0 Monk 0 Cleric 0 Druid 0 Favored Soul 0 Ranger 0 Warlock 0 Artificier 0 Bard 0 Rogue 0 Wizard 0 Sorcerer 20 Alchemist 0 Epic 10 Total class 225 Constitution Base + levels 18 Tome 8 Item 21 Insight 10 Profane 2 Quality 5 Stance/rage 2 Exceptional 1 Enhancements 0 Destiny 0 Other 0 Past lives 6 Buffs 0 Reaper 5 Total 78 Modifier to Hitpoints 1020 Feats Toughness 2 Epic Toughness 1 Scion 0 Primal past life 12 Barb past life 3 Total 324 Enhancements Racial 10 Class 35 Total 45 Misc Draconic favor 10 False life 81 Vitality 20 Leg Greensteel 0 Airship 20 Filigree 0 Destiny 0 Other 0 Total 131 Reaper Dread Advesary 0 Dire Thumaturge 41 Grim Barricade 41 Barricade core 1 10 Barricade core 2 20 Barricade core 4 100 Total 622 Percentage increases Competence 0% Insight 0% Profane 0% Quality 0% Sacred 0% Racial 0% LGS 20% Other 0% Total 120% PRR Items BAB 15 Armor Medium Shield None/Buckler PRR from armor 22.5 PRR from shield 0 Sheltering 54 Insightful 27 Quality 15 Profane 0 Artifact 20 Luck 0 Mythic 0 Reaper 22 Total 138.5 Feats Rage 0 Natural Fighting 0 Shield Mastery Yes Imp Shield Mastery Yes Two weapon Defense 0 Past Life PDK 9 Past life Divine Sphere 36 Epic DR 10 Scion 10 Fighter feats 0 Total 65 Misc Racial Enhancement 0 Class Enhancement 20 Stance 0 Destiny 0 Other 0 Total 20 Total PRR 223.5 Total Reaper PRR 245.5 Avoidability Dodge Base cap (max dex or 25) 8% Racial 0% Class 0% Scion 0% Monk Stance 0% Guild Buffs 2% Filigree 0% Other 0% Reaper 0% Total 10% Total Reaper 10% Concealment Displacement/Blurry 0% Other 0% Total 0% Incorporeality Item 0% Form 0% Other 0% Total 0% Other Feat 0% Other 0% Total 0% Total Evade Chance 10.00% Total Evade Chance Reaper 10.00% Extra DR Barbarian DR 0% Destiny 0% Total 0.00% Hitpoints 2094 Hitpoints Reaper 2840 Effective 1 hit HP 6774 Effective 1 hit HP Reaper 9814 Effective HP 7527 Effective HP Reaper 10904
Past lives: all for survivability (12x primal, 12x divine, 3x pdk, 3x barb, all racial for con)
Reaper 1shot HP: 9814
EHP reaper: 10904
U47 4x LGS:
Reaper points: 82Code:Hitpoints Build Fire sorc Base 45 Barbarian 0 Fighter 0 Paladin 0 Monk 0 Cleric 0 Druid 0 Favored Soul 0 Ranger 0 Warlock 0 Artificier 0 Bard 0 Rogue 0 Wizard 0 Sorcerer 20 Alchemist 0 Epic 10 Total class 225 Constitution Base + levels 18 Tome 8 Item 21 Insight 10 Profane 2 Quality 0 Stance/rage 2 Exceptional 1 Enhancements 0 Destiny 0 Other 0 Past lives 1 Buffs 2 Reaper 5 Total 70 Modifier to Hitpoints 900 Feats Toughness 2 Epic Toughness 1 Scion 0 Primal past life 12 Barb past life 3 Total 324 Enhancements Racial 10 Class 35 Total 45 Misc Draconic favor 10 False life 81 Vitality 20 Leg Greensteel 56 Airship 20 Filigree 0 Destiny 0 Other 0 Total 187 Reaper Dread Advesary 0 Dire Thumaturge 41 Grim Barricade 41 Barricade core 1 10 Barricade core 2 20 Barricade core 4 100 Total 622 Percentage increases Competence 0% Insight 0% Profane 0% Quality 0% Sacred 0% Racial 0% LGS 24% Other 0% Total 124% PRR Items BAB 15 Armor Medium Shield None/Buckler PRR from armor 22.5 PRR from shield 0 Sheltering 54 Insightful 27 Quality 0 Profane 0 Artifact 0 Luck 0 Mythic 0 Reaper 22 Total 103.5 Feats Rage 0 Natural Fighting 0 Shield Mastery No Imp Shield Mastery No Two weapon Defense 0 Past Life PDK 9 Past life Divine Sphere 36 Epic DR 10 Scion 10 Fighter feats 0 Total 65 Misc Racial Enhancement 0 Class Enhancement 20 Stance 0 Destiny 0 Other 0 Total 20 Total PRR 188.5 Total Reaper PRR 210.5 Avoidability Dodge Base cap (max dex or 25) 8% Racial 0% Class 0% Scion 0% Monk Stance 0% Guild Buffs 2% Filigree 0% Other 0% Reaper 0% Total 10% Total Reaper 10% Concealment Displacement/Blurry 0% Other 0% Total 0% Incorporeality Item 0% Form 0% Other 0% Total 0% Other Feat 0% Other 0% Total 0% Total Evade Chance 10.00% Total Evade Chance Reaper 10.00% Hitpoints 2084 Hitpoints Reaper 2856 Effective 1 hit HP 6014 Effective 1 hit HP Reaper 8867 Effective HP 6682 Effective HP Reaper 9852
Past lives: all for survivability (12x primal, 12x divine, 3x pdk, 3x barb, all racial for con)
Reaper 1shot HP: 8867
EHP reaper: 9852
Difference:
U48: 10.6% more 1hit HP
Damage difference to follow:
U47 sorc meteor fire dmg + EB dmg
Meteor blunt dmg + EBCode:Build Sorc Drac U47 Spell 1 Meteor Only Fire Spell 2 Energy Burst Spell power 14.89 Equipment bonus 202 Insight bonus 101 Quality Bonus 38 Implement 29 Enhancement bonus 150 Exceptional 57 Artifact 50 Skill 90 Destiny 80 Enhancement 152 Epic levels 60 Meta Magics 300 Feats 60 Filigree 20 Critical Chance 0.83 Item 29 Exceptional 10 Artifact 10 Destiny 10 Enhancement 10 Feats 5 Past life 9 Filigree 0 Other 0 Critical Damage 3.15 Item 30 LGS set 25 Destiny 30 Enhancement 0 Feats 25 Filigree 5 Caster Level 35 Item 0 Levels 20 Enhancement 7 Feats 0 Destiny 8 Extra Max Caster level 5 Item 0 Enhancement 2 Feats 0 Destiny 3 Average no-crit dmg Spell 1 4,467 Spell 2 11,986 Average Crit Spell 1 14,071 Spell 2 37,757 Average Cast Spell 1 11,679 Spell 2 31,339
U48 Meteor fire dmg + EBCode:Build Sorc Drac U47 Spell 1 Meteor Only Blunt Spell 2 Energy Burst Spell power 8.44 Equipment bonus 0 Insight bonus 77 Quality Bonus 38 Implement 29 Enhancement bonus 0 Exceptional 20 Artifact 0 Skill 90 Destiny 20 Enhancement 30 Epic levels 60 Meta Magics 300 Feats 60 Filigree 20 Critical Chance 0.83 Item 29 Exceptional 10 Artifact 10 Destiny 10 Enhancement 10 Feats 5 Past life 9 Filigree 0 Other 0 Critical Damage 3.15 Item 30 LGS set 25 Destiny 30 Enhancement 0 Feats 25 Filigree 5 Caster Level 35 Item 0 Levels 20 Enhancement 7 Feats 0 Destiny 8 Extra Max Caster level 5 Item 0 Enhancement 2 Feats 0 Destiny 3 Average no-crit dmg Spell 1 2,110 Spell 2 6,794 Average Crit Spell 1 6,647 Spell 2 21,402 Average Cast Spell 1 5,517 Spell 2 17,763
U48 Blunt only dmg + EBCode:Build Sorc Drac U48 Spell 1 Meteor Only Fire Spell 2 Energy Burst Spell power 14.51 Equipment bonus 202 Insight bonus 101 Quality Bonus 0 Implement 29 Enhancement bonus 150 Exceptional 57 Artifact 50 Skill 90 Destiny 80 Enhancement 152 Epic levels 60 Meta Magics 300 Feats 60 Filigree 20 Critical Chance 0.83 Item 29 Exceptional 10 Artifact 10 Destiny 10 Enhancement 10 Feats 5 Past life 9 Filigree 0 Other 0 Critical Damage 2.95 Item 35 LGS set 0 Destiny 30 Enhancement 0 Feats 25 Filigree 5 Caster Level 35 Item 0 Levels 20 Enhancement 7 Feats 0 Destiny 8 Extra Max Caster level 5 Item 0 Enhancement 2 Feats 0 Destiny 3 Average no-crit dmg Spell 1 4,353 Spell 2 11,681 Average Crit Spell 1 12,841 Spell 2 34,458 Average Cast Spell 1 10,658 Spell 2 28,600
U47:Code:Build Sorc Drac U48 Spell 1 Meteor Only Blunt Spell 2 Energy Burst Spell power 7.29 Equipment bonus 0 Insight bonus 0 Quality Bonus 0 Implement 29 Enhancement bonus 0 Exceptional 20 Artifact 0 Skill 90 Destiny 20 Enhancement 30 Epic levels 60 Meta Magics 300 Feats 60 Filigree 20 Critical Chance 0.83 Item 29 Exceptional 10 Artifact 10 Destiny 10 Enhancement 10 Feats 5 Past life 9 Filigree 0 Other 0 Critical Damage 2.95 Item 35 LGS set 0 Destiny 30 Enhancement 0 Feats 25 Filigree 5 Caster Level 35 Item 0 Levels 20 Enhancement 7 Feats 0 Destiny 8 Extra Max Caster level 5 Item 0 Enhancement 2 Feats 0 Destiny 3 Average no-crit dmg Spell 1 1,823 Spell 2 5,868 Average Crit Spell 1 5,376 Spell 2 17,312 Average Cast Spell 1 4,462 Spell 2 14,369
Meteor total dmg: 17 196
EB dmg: 31 339
U48:
Meteor total dmg: 15120
EB dmg: 28,600
U47 does
meteor: 13.7% more dmg
EB: 9.5% more dmg
Conclusion
U47 does 12% more dmg roughly
U48 has 10% more survivability roughly
Note: U47 can socket a 3-set augment set for +25 PRR, this will make the difference in survivability only 3.9% in favor of U48. It won't stack for the U48, since it's artifact.
It's not a bad item setup, and it's nice that we can finally move away from LGS. I just wish the expansion(!) could offer a bit more. Putting a 15-25% crit dmg set for 3 augments (non-stacking) would ensure that a full U48 build with an augment set (suuuuper grind) pulls ahead slightly. Or at least is fairly even dps wise. This to me, would make it feel like we're making some progression. Then you could either go 4xlgs and do like 3% more dmg with 3 augment set. Or go 4x winter and have 3%ish more survivability. Making the item builds pretty **** even. Add some way to get potency/ins potency/qual potency on the winter set pieces, and it would be a clear winner.
Which is good, since that would require grinding the new expansion like hell, and you'd still be using loads of Sharn + KT gear, etc. A perfect mix of "new and old". The item build I posted includes: 5 pieces from sharn, 1 pieces from KT, 2 pieces from Lshroud, 1 piece from slavers, 4 pieces from Fables of Feywild, 1 piece from age of rage, 3 set augment pieces.
please let it get crit dmg from augments, and some way to fit potency and it'll be a superb item set including content from the past like 5 years. Including stuff just released AND lshroud which you don't wanna people feel sad about losing.
Notes
I accidentally put 20 artifact prr on the U48. It should be 25. So 11% instead of 10% difference, roughly.Last edited by A-O; 10-22-2020 at 06:25 AM.
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10-22-2020, 06:59 AM #1232015 Players Council
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Wildhunt Melee Staff
I believe the Horned Lord is the leader of the Wildhunt so I assume this was intended to be a melee quarterstaff. I suggest using some or all of the effects below Originally Posted by Cocomajobo
The Hunt Begins: Duplicate effects of First Blood feat but with significantly more damage and have the damage be cold based for Wild Hunt flavor
Wildhunts End: Strikes with this weapon apply Wildhunts End. When an enemy under the effect of Wildhunts End is killed, it explodes dealing 1000d3 cold and 1000d3 piercing damage to nearby enemies. Wildhunts End can be applied to a new enemy once every 15 seconds(*).
(*)Wildhunts End can combine the technology of Judgment from Exalted Angel with a more damaging version of the spell effect from Ice Flowers
Master of the Hunt:: You receive a primal bonus to Deadly, Seeker and Accuracy for half your Wilderness Lore feats
No Where to Run:: If the enemy is moving when struck, the enemy is frozen solid for 9 seconds (**)
(**) Reuse technology from Otto's Whistler in Shiradi Champion and substitute frozen for dancing
Whatever you decide to do...please, please, please make the material Wood so that it will work Shillelagh spell and the 3rd core of Seasons Herald...It is frustrating how few Epic named melee quarterstaffs are made of wood. I understand the durability concerns. Artificially increase the durability of Staff of the Hornlord but keep it made from wood if possible
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10-22-2020, 07:56 AM #124Community Member
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Melee Dex Assassin build Originally Posted by Lynnabel
Red Dragonscale Boots Boots
Minimum Level: 5/29
Fire Shield (Hot)
Seeker +4/+21
Combat Mastery +3/+17
Protection +3/+17
Blue/Green Augment Slot
Set Bonus Seasons of the Feywild/Eminence of Summer
Lionheart Ring Ring
Minimum Level: 5/29
Stunning +4/+23
Minor Action Boost Enhancement
Insightful Armor-Piercing +2/+16
Insightful Constitution +1/+10
Yellow/Green Augment Slot
Set Bonus Seasons of the Feywild/Eminence of Summer
The Lotus Mail Light Armor
Minimum Level: 5/29
Fortification +59%/+214%
Healing Amplification +14/+85
Reflex +3/+17
Dodge +4%/+21%
Blue/Green Augment Slot
Set Bonus Seasons of the Feywild/Eminence of Spring
Rockslide Ring Ring
Minimum Level: 5/29
Shatter +4/+23
Insightful Dexterity +1/+10
Insightful Combat Mastery +2/+9
Improved Earthen Guard
Yellow/Green Augment Slot
Set Bonus Seasons of the Feywild/Eminence of Spring
Cloak of Spring Cloak
Minimum Level: 5/29
Electricity Absorption +16%/+50%
Dexterity +4/+21
Insightful Dexterity +1/+10
Parrying +1/+10
Blue/Green Augment Slot
Set Bonus Seasons of the Feywild/Eminence of Spring
The Changestone Raid Trinket
Minimum Level: 29
One of the following:
Strength
Dexterity
Constitution
Intelligence
Wisdom
Charisma
One of the following:
Doubleshot
Doublestrike
Accuracy
One of the following:
Seeker
Deception
Deadly
One of the following:
Speed
Insightful Deadly
Insightful Accuracy
Blue Augment Slot
Green Augment Slot
Set Bonuses Eminence of Spring
Thats the best I could come up with to fit into the build as both ring slot used so requires. The Spring set also has redundancies.
Devilscale Bracers
Improved Deception
Assassinate +10
Insightful Assassinate +4I
Deception +18
This gets 2 piece summer and 3 piece spring.
2 Pieces Equipped: +25 Artifact bonus to Magical Resistance Rating
2 Pieces Equipped: +10% Artifact bonus to Missile Deflection
3 Pieces Equipped: +10% Artifact bonus to damage versus the Helpless
Looses Part of the Family and Mantle of Suulomades
+15% Artifact bonus to Doublestrike
+25 Artifact bonus to Melee Power
+15% Artifact bonus to damage vs the Helpless
+10% Artifact bonus to Fortification Bypass
and/or
+20 Artifact bonus to Physical and Magical Resistance Rating.
+3 Sneak Attack Dice
+10% Artifact bonus to Doublestrike and Doubleshot.
So at best I will most probably use 1 or 2 of the new items. Whether this is a good thing or not I'm still not sure. The new augment sets will most probably provide so some extra option adding to my existing gear set up. I also like the fact you have not increased gear power so much especially in terms of stats that would make existing items obsolete.
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I'm not really seeing any loot I want, which is pretty surprising for a new expansion.
I'm getting tired of seeing decent looking gear with the wrong stats on it. I would like to see the stat items with more universally useful bonuses as separate items instead of linking them to the various sets. That way despite what set we use we can choose our stat gear separately.
Also there are too many runearms in the game with spell power on them. We are not all pure artificers, some of us just use runearms for the imbuement and never actually fire them. it would be nice to see some designed for the less magically inclined users with effects such as seeker, deadly or crippling.
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10-22-2020, 08:13 AM #126Community Member
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Also, all of this is kinda weird, in the sense that we're now talking about how to make the tank-set viable for casters. Because we can all clearly see the caster set is absolutely bonkers bad. The 20% SP does *not* belong there. Make it 25% crit damage and you can go: Originally Posted by A-O
4 piece autumn
3 piece sharn
etc.
Then the choices are:
3x sharn + 4x lgs = most dmg, second most survivability
3x sharn + 4x winter = Least dmg, most survivability
3x sharn + 4x autumn = second most dmg, least survivability
It's a very large disconnect from the game to think that 20% sp is going to be built for. The reason people go LGS is for the hp and crit dmg. So leaving out both* out of the caster set is weird. If you still want the SP in the set, put it at 7 pieces. And the crit dmg *needs* to be 25%.
* I consider putting 15% @ 7 items leaving out. When you get 25% from 4 items with lgs, and 26% hp to boot.Last edited by A-O; 10-22-2020 at 08:15 AM.
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10-22-2020, 08:22 AM #127Founder
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Can we prioritize more AC over Threat and Healing Amplification? 10% hamp to tanks with 300%++++, and 100 threat when running over 1000% threat doesn't seem more important then AC. That and leaving no Natural Armor on this set should be a crime :-), but something has to give I suppose. Originally Posted by Cocomajobo
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Another way to solve a lot of issues (but not all), is to let an item called e.g. "Orb of seasons" to drop, which allows you to change the set which an item is a part of. Either that you can change any item to any season, or that some items can be e.g. Winter/autumn, other's spring/winter, etc.
Will make the gearing far easier, and you won't be stuck with ****-poor items for your item build if you do choose to go the 7-item route.Formerly known as Absolute-Omniscience, co-creator of the old DPS calc.
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What sort of upgrade/changes would you like to see that would make it equivalent to Baz without being a linear upgrade? Also factoring Baz requires a lil work after you get it? Originally Posted by Cetus
One of the major design goals as seen in the first post is to not replace stuff. While I agree the current Magmatic Reaver won't be worth more than a cosmetic vs Baz, I don't want to see Keen 7 or something?
Suggesting changes has long been a better method than saying stuff is bad. What about if it was Quality Armor-Piercing instead? Baz has two fairly-mediocre effects as well, so it seems reasonable to have at least one on Magmatic; but I'd also prefer to see one of the damage procs upgraded or otherwise changed.
Thanks for some numbers! Originally Posted by A-O
Isn't that the point of the update though? You have more choices and more gear flexibility without significant power-creep?-Khysiria of Cannith Originally Posted by zehnvhex
Originally Posted by Lynnabel
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"more options", is not enough. "powercreep" would be that deadly was now 20, crit chance was 36% instead of 31%, etc. I.e. an ilvl increase. Originally Posted by SpartanKiller13
"more options" to build bad item builds is very bad design in my opinion. I mean, we all have options to wield a level 1 +2 dagger at level 30. But we don't because it's useless. Bad example, but my point is that "more options" requires that those options open up builds that offer more. Right now this is not the case really for anythig but hybrid builds.
If you see my notes on the other comment, you can note that just changing a few things, and we'd have more than 1 viable endgame build. But as they are now, we have "grind a lot and use hte good item build (lgs+sharn+3xaug), or use the inferior stepping stone gear (new expansion)". Good enough for a patch. But not good enough for a new expansion imo.
This is further significant since the augument sets are very bad for a caster. All a caster can expect from this entire expansion is another 25 prr, some helpless dmg, and the choice of skipping lgs farm. Yay. And the fun thing with that is, you don't even need the expansion for that, since the augment sets are from old raid gear. Melees, at least, will get +15% fort pen, +4 main stat, +25 prr. Not a lot. I'd add more, but it's something.
Sharn we got minor artifacts (+3 filigree slots), etc.
ravenloft we got (a lot)
feywild we're getting bad items. I'd say augments, but that's not tied to the expansion, only the patch. So the expansion ($40) only gets you some new quests to play. No new gear, no need levels, no new progression at all.
EDIT: I guess maybe you need an item from the new exp to get the augments to begin with. If so, that's what you're paying for.Last edited by A-O; 10-22-2020 at 08:51 AM.
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I tested these again on Lamannia preview 2. I've reproduced the bug where Legendary Negation was not working for me on preview 1. Details below. Originally Posted by Cocomajobo
Bugs found:
- Unequipping (or logging out while wielding) the Devourer of Forms permanently removes the Legendary Negation mod from the item.
- The "Soul Eater" bonus damage per negative level does not apply. Tested on legendary Subversion, on elite, r1, and r10, against both orange names and trash mobs.
Power level / usability feedback:
- With the addition of a Ruby of the Endless Night, and with Legendary Negation functioning, I was able to inflict negative levels on a single target more quickly than they recover.
- At the current power level, they are an effective swap weapon for beating orange-names in r10.
- This item is less effective than other raid handwraps for fighting trash mobs.
- This item is not even slightly effective on red names, nor purple names. All bosses are blanket immune to negative levels.
Please consider making this item more broadly-applicable. Since all bosses, all undead, and all constructs will be blanket-immune to the negative level effects, this item should be improved for fighting trash mobs which are not immune. It is possible that once the Soul Eater bonus damage is functioning, this issue may be fixed as well, depending on the magnitude of the bonus damage. If Soul Eater cannot be fixed or is not good enough as designed, I feel like replacing Soul Eater instead with a Trap the Soul / Slay Living / Legendary Vorpal effect would be on-theme and help the item's usefulness against trash mobs.
Edit: Identity Crisis would be amazing, if "speed of killing things" is off the table.Last edited by Noircere; 10-22-2020 at 09:27 AM.
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10-22-2020, 08:59 AM #132Hero
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No thank you. Healing amp is the most important quality of a tank. If a top geared healer cannot bring the tank to full HP after taking damage with one spell cast, then the tank doesn't have enough hamp. Originally Posted by Anuulified
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https://www.twitch.tv/videos/777776761https://www.twitch.tv/videos/777862141
ok these two videos show my main char on lamannia with new gear and with old gear, keep in mind i use as much of new as i could. my findings are i like the current set bonuses for the way i build. i was disappointed in some of the items for winter as they are counter intuitive, like it being undead friendly but having the cloak that is very unfriendly to undead with that life sealed... also sad that i am better off farming a augment for boon of undeath than using the necklace as the artifact gloves are far better to use. i definitely have to rework my gear and might need to change the gear focus a bit. the biggest wins for me are the +3 artifact to all scores, legendary hp, artifact to ac, the con boots and the raid artifact gloves with con and heal amp. the biggest fails are the cloak, the lack of good items after 3 and the lack of cha/int stat items. i seen some great dex, str, and con items though. need to look again for wis. I am really sad that the raid longsword is hands down better than the b-sword... i would like to see the manslayer changed out for something that either adds threat procs, more dmg like vulnerability, reduces the dmg dealt by affected mobs , or more reliable cc.
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Craftable Season set bonuses?!?
I love the idea of just having all the gear then crafting the Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter set bonus you want on any Feywild item! This will allow flexibility and hybridization (even though that’s dead I hear). Maybe this could be accomplished through an extra augment spot on the gear since we are playing in that realm already. You can have a tank caster or a tanky tank. Healer with some DPS gear, sure why not. Originally Posted by Codect
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Double post
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I hate to say it, but this looks about right. Originally Posted by A-O
I love supporting this game. I instantly purchased the $130 pack to put my money where my mouth is, as I do each expansion. But man...I would at least like this greataxe to be attractive for crying out loud. Nevermind this set-bonus mess we're in lol
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Where do I start? Oh I know with the mouthwash because I vomit every time I look at this gear. And not just a little bit in the mouth I mean like full on projectile vomit! This gear is absolutely wrecking peoples builds. It's catering to an infinitesimally small fraction of the player based that plays hybrids. Tilomere has already debunked the myth of players actually playing hybrids in this thread. Thank you Tilomere (said genuinely not sarcastically) But yet those of us who are playing everyday on lives, running on Lamannia and speaking out about how horrid this junk is are deemed "haters" and ignored. or *snip* 'd
It's inferior sets that are designed to break Sharn sets and LGS and that's if you even want it. It's not designed to compare to them, period. It doesn't even synergy well with them. With the non stacking bonuses, what's the point? ooooh this is pretty, I'll cosmetic it then jewel food it!
Then there is the Autumn set, oh god the Autumn set, it's still worse than an amtrak train wreck with its mix of melee and caster stats on the gear and lack of MEDIUM armor. I have already shown in the thread for the first preview that all classes except alc can wear medium armor by level 6. Multiple people have railed against the helm from the set having melee stats on it. I guess you have to throw the bards a bone every now and then? Even swapping around the bracers and summers heat ring has fallen on deaf ears
Yes there may be 15 items with any seasons set bonus on it but in reality 3 are armor and last time I checked you can only wear one armor at a time so the other two types are thrown out the window. So call it what it is 13 USABLE pieces.
Who in their right mind is going to break a Sharn and/or LGS set for any of this gear?? I'm already looking at "how many of these drops are going to be SXP." They are jewel fodder. The nerf bat came out before it ever went live and now the sets all have only +3 stat artifact bonuses. So if you do want the +4 stat bonus you can only have one stat and that is IF you are able to farm up the raid gear needed to complete a 3 piece set. And then you have to choose it wisely so it doesn't conflict with any other set(s) you might be running.
Then there are the raid weapons. The Scimtar is wisdom to hit and dmg right off the bat so it screws any fighter str crit builds or drow scimitar bard builds since its designed for a druid. Long sword is INT to hit and dmg right off the bat so its designed for some sort of vague EK build or maybe some sort of alc melee build. Who knows? And I doubt very much rogues are gonna go running around with a longsword. At least make the scimitar and long sword have 2 stats for to hit and dmg. INT/WIS and STR at least then it can be used by the mythical hybrid builds and real builds. Only thing this has done is made me decide that I should change my melee scimitar crit build over to a Khopesh user which is *yawn* boring and something I've already done. At least with the feywild raid Khopesh I can get a 16-20 x4. I rolled up similar version to my toon on lives and was critt'ing in the 3200-3500 range with like 78% double strike. I could probably push that to 100% with some additional epic past lives and changes in gear/filigrees.
Rant over. now to go regret dropping 130 buck on feywild instead of a bottle of brandy. At least the brandy would have been good!Last edited by Amastris; 10-22-2020 at 09:58 AM.
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10-22-2020, 09:57 AM #138Community Member
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As an int based xbow user I am hard pressed to find more than 2 items in a set I would ever use. Certainly nothing to make me consider breaking up my Sharn set.
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10-22-2020, 10:11 AM #139Community Member
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So since this looks to be generated on loot pull, that means there is 162 versions of this item. Please let us know if this item is taking up a primary loot spot on raid chest or will be a secondary like schisms. Originally Posted by Cocomajobo
Originally Posted by Cordovan
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10-22-2020, 10:36 AM #140Hero
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So this is the expansion without goggles? Similar to no hats in Ravenloft, and no trinkets in Sharn.
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