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Korpo

11-09-2006, 03:51 AM

So basically everything has changed recently:Power regens are definitely back to where they are on live. Everything else looks like it's back to normal as well, nukes, debuffs, etc.The AA tree is changed slightly. Screenshot:<img src="http://lh4.google.com/korpo53/RVJWyefMABI/AAAAAAAAACw/nAC51LmRTrM/background.jpg">I'm going to go left to right down the lines, but it should be fairly easy to figure out what description goes with what icon.These are all just the default tooltips, no points in any of them. They all seem to scale as one would expect.Efficiency:<ul><li>Enhance: Deep Focus</li><ul><li>Improves reuse speed by 1s</li><li>Improves reuse speed by 0.1s</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Ruinous Hesitation</li><ul><li>Improves casting speed by 0.1s</li><li>Improves reuse speed by 0.5s</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Confoundment</li><ul><li>Improves casting speed by 0.1s</li><li>Improves reuse speed by 1.5s</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Ego Torrent</li><ul><li>Improves reuse speed by 1.5s</li><li>Improves casting speed by 0.1s</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Sonic Boom</li><ul><li>Improves casting speed by 0.1s</li><li>Improves reuse speed by 1.5s</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Thought Snap</li><ul><li>All enemies in the target encounter that are not targeting a fighter ally are forced to target a random fighter ally for a short duration.</li><li>1s cast, 3min recast, 5s duration</li><li>Prevents target encounter from changing targets</li><li>Target encounter is forced to target a random fighter from the caster's group</li></ul></ul>Resistances:<ul><li>Enhance: Dispel Magic</li><ul><li>Adds dispel of beneficial mental effects on target</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Breakdown</li><ul><li>Increases mental, magic, and divine resist reduction by 7%</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Marred Psyche</li><ul><li>Increases spell resistance reductions by an addional 4%</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Domination</li><ul><li>Reduces resistability by 3%</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Tashiana</li><ul><li>Greatly reduces target's mental resistance for a short duration</li><li>1s cast, 1 min recast, duration 10s, resistability 49% harder</li><li>Decreases mitgation of target vs. mental damage by 700</li></ul></ul>Mana:<ul><li>Enhance: Mana Flow</li><ul><li>Hastens reuse speed and duration each by 2s</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Transfer Potential</li><ul><li>Increases power heal amount by 7%</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Gorging Thoughts</li><ul><li>Increases power heal amount by 5%</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Beholder's Eye</li><ul><li>Increases power regeneration by 1</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Ease</li><ul><li>Increases power regeneration by 1</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Mana Cloak</li><ul><li>Increases power heal amount by 5%</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Channel</li><ul><li>Improves reuse speed by 60s</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Manaward</li><ul><li>Your party is partially protected from attempts to drain their power.</li><li>3s cast, 10s recast, duration 1 min</li><li>Wards group members (AE) against 66 points of all damage</li></ul></ul>Coersion:<ul><li>Enhance: Despotic Mind</li><ul><li>Increases health damage by 5%</li><li>Increases duration by 2s</li></ul></ul>Note, these next three require 3 points per rank, and you can only get two ranks<ul><li>Enhance: Auspex</li><ul><li>Increases trigger count by 1</li><li>Increases duration by 5s</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Spell Scourge</li><ul><li>Increases trigger count by 1</li><li>Increases duration by 5s</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Enhance: Mindbend</li><ul><li>Increases trigger count by 1</li><li>Increases duration by 5s</li></ul></ul><ul><li>Coersive Healing</li><ul><li>Enhances the specialty healing abilities of a priest ally. The amount of power consumed is slightly increased. (Blah blah blah)</li><li>Reactives: Increases trigger count by 1</li><li>Regeneration: Increases heal amount by 15%</li><li>Wards: Increases ward amount by 15%</li><li>Increases power cost by 5%</li></ul></ul>Heck, there isn't much here I wouldn't love having.<div></div>

Andu

11-09-2006, 06:25 AM

Wow, the efficiency line has gone from craptastic to tasty. I'm no longer so sure where I'm going to put my points now. Even Tashiana looks slightly appealing. Only manaward now looks pants to me. <div></div>

Korpo

11-09-2006, 06:49 AM

My thoughts exactly. I could do without the dispell beneficial arcane stuff, but all the mages get one of those. Thought Snap isn't that attractive to me either. It forces the mob to aim at a tank, but if the tank doesn't build up enough hate in that 5s, it will just go back to the caster right away. I could see it being used to counter things like Tarinax's memwipe so it doesn't frontal the raid, but with a 1s cast and 3min recast you had better be on the ball when the mob memwipes AND hope it doesn't do it again anytime soon.<div></div>

Alaeth

11-09-2006, 07:34 AM

I'm a bit disappointed that Enhance Confoundment sits under Enhance Hesitation, since I see the former being extremely useful and the latter...not so useful, but it makes sense from a balance standpoint. Still, I'm much more excited about our new AAs now than when I saw the first batch. As primarily a soloer/grouper who very occasionally raids, I'm thinking about something like this, assuming the cross-connections haven't changed:Enhance Deep Focus: 5Enhance Ego Torrent: 5Enhance Sonic Boom: 5Enhance Marred Psyche: 5Enhance Mana Flow: 5Enhance Ease: 5Enhance Despotic Mind: 3Enhance Auspex: 2 (6)Enhance Spell Scourge: 2 (6)Coercive Healing: 1 (5)On the other hand, when I do raid, I'm always in the MT group, so perhaps there are better choices when considered from that perspective (especially Ease, assuming the power regen cap isn't being changed at all). I would consider Enhance Mindbend for solo/group play, but the increased resistability against mobs higher than 72 really makes me wary of it, especially since there are a fair number of high yellow/low orange mobs in this expansion, from what I've heard.

beev

11-09-2006, 07:36 AM

<DIV>Another expansion, another set of AA...and still no concentration reduction for charm spells.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Beyond that...our AA pale in comparison to those of other classes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Verry disapointing.</DIV>

Mordion89

11-09-2006, 04:48 PM

<DIV>the changes are pretty good, but our final abilities in all lines really seems underpowered/useless</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>thought snap: 5seconds duration is just too short for any tanks to get back hate</DIV> <DIV>tashiana : with a 10s duration and only reduce mental resistance, it just doesnt seem that good</DIV> <DIV>manaward : the amount of mana it wards really is too low, mob illusionists can drain like 1k or so power and how often it is put to used</DIV> <DIV>coersive healing : this is a single target buff and only 15% increase? should be either a grp buff or make it +more %</DIV>

Celidya

11-09-2006, 09:26 PM

<DIV>The first line with casting speed AA is nice. It's probably the one where i will put my points first. With the agi line it could make some of our control spells almost instant cast, especially the root :smileyvery-happy:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>A faster casting speed when using sonic boom is nice too, i find that the spell is too long now, even when i proc all the casting speed, usually the proc wears off before the end of the spell, so i have to build again all my casting speed. With a faster cast time it could be used more effectively when trying to dps as much as i can :smileyhappy:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The other abilities don't look very interesting for my playstyle. The charm one is disappointing, although it could help on some mobs, maybe i'll throw some points there. I will consider maybe the mana abilities, the coersion looks pretty useless, i usually spam auspex/spell scourge anyway to proc more, more charge/time would help only on very active mobs, or when i have to save mana.</DIV>Message Edited by Celidya on 11-09-2006 08:29 AM