Boon of the Shadowed

[myrii]

<DIV>ok couple things on this </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1) how do you knwo if this goes off </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2) 30 sec duration is kinda lame imo</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>3) have adept I version of this used it a few times it never went off but since i am not sure what triggers it i coudl be wrong </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>also  while i am on the subject</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>i used this for one full level <A href="http://eq2.ogaming.com/db/abilities/VenomousRunes.php" target=_blank><B>Venomous Runes</B></A> i dont think i ever saw it go off not once is it me or  do they seem broken</DIV>

[CoebyWu]

<DIV>I haven't spent much time testing Boon of the Shadowed, so I'm not really sure.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Venemous Runes is nice and should always be up on your melee'ers.  From the times I've parsed, it wasn't uncommon to see it represent 10% of the melee'ers damage.  Now that it's a 10 minute buff, it's even better.</DIV>

[myrii]

<DIV>butu how do you tell it goes off though Venom that is i have never seen any dot dmg from it and all my dmg goes into a sep window </DIV>

[Zentor]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> myriick wrote:<BR> <DIV>butu how do you tell it goes off though Venom that is i have never seen any dot dmg from it and all my dmg goes into a sep window </DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <P>Venomous Runes is essentially a direct dmg proc.   It has a chance to fire on every melee hit, not spell cast.  This damage will show up on the person that melees.  If you put runes on yourself and go melee, and you are able to hit the creature, it should proc for you.  However, true melee classes will see much better results. </P> <P> </P> <P>As far as boon of the shadowed...I don't think it works. </P>

[Latnam]

<DIV>I could be wrong on this, yet I generally keep Venomous Runes on my tanks. After my small nuke fest, I give some time to the tank to make sure aggro was still maintained.  Occasionally I'll see the image of a snake attacking (Curse of Darkness) or a green cloud (Dark Distortion) hit the mob when I didn't cast.  Not sure if that is the Rune proc or not, but someone can correct me on this.  Oh group make up is generally 2 Paladins, 1 Mystic, and myself.  I thought the mystic was creating this, but claims his spells don't have a graphic that look like mine.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As for Boon of the Shadowed, would like to hear more people's opinion on it.  Considering I've been watching the price on it for an Adept 1 version.</DIV>

[SilentSam]

<DIV>I've never actually seen a visual effect from venomous runes at all.  Were those maybe delayed (lagged) spell effects from you?</DIV>

[Baug]

Boon does fire up an icon when it goes off. It's sort of a star/swirly icon with a gold background.It's not much bang for the buck considering it only lasts 30 seconds. They should just make this an accord upgrade, or make it return waaaaaay more power and put a recast timer on it -- then it would see some use in those crunch time situations.

[myrii]

<DIV>boon needs to last 10 minutes as well 30 seconds is just stupid with what maybe a .005% chance of going off</DIV>