Feign Death AA

[SageGaspar]

I wasn't sure how late these got changed, but did anyone get a chance to play around with this in beta? I was wondering about reuse, cast time, whether it dropped your buffs like SK FD, that sort of thing.The incredible utility of this 100% FD that avoids AEs has me chomping at the bit to go down the INT line, throwing away about eight AA points in the process on skills I don't care about, so I was wondering if there were drawbacks that I was missing <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><div></div>

[Dresden00]

<div>Right click and examine an AA to see the reuse time, etc.  I believe its 3 minute reuse (which is amazing).</div><div> </div><div>Feign is by far our most useful AA, I am currently rushing down the INT line as fast as possible.</div><div> </div><div>STR is also useful.</div>

[SageGaspar]

<div><span><blockquote><hr>Dresden00 wrote:<div>Right click and examine an AA to see the reuse time, etc.  I believe its 3 minute reuse (which is amazing).</div><div> </div><div>Feign is by far our most useful AA, I am currently rushing down the INT line as fast as possible.</div><div> </div><div>STR is also useful.</div><hr></blockquote>Ah, good point on examine, thanks. Being spoiled from my brawler, I was actually hoping for less of a reuse time, but c'est la vie <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Still going to nab it first.</span></div>

[Keyh]

If you have to feign death more than once ever 3 minutes, you're not somewhere you should be <span>:smileywink:</span><div></div>

[ftsha]

<div>I suppose the timer starts as soon as you get back up and not after you hit the button.  Otherwise you can play dead for 3 min and be able to use it again right away.</div>

[SageGaspar]

<div></div><div><span><blockquote><hr>Keyh wrote:If you have to feign death more than once ever 3 minutes, you're not somewhere you should be <span>:smileywink:</span><div></div><hr></blockquote>Exactamundo <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />I actually logged on my long-defunct bruiser this weekend to poke around in some of the Epic areas of dungeons and such. Problem is that pretty much every mob in KoS casts super high damage DoTs. I think maybe they introduced that to get around this kind of tactic.Actually, the other reason I was disappointed was because of jousting. If you could feign every thirty seconds or so, you could hit it right before an AE because of immunity, it'd make it much easier. Probably would be overpowered, though, seeing as how AR is one of the ancient teachings, hehe.Also, don't see that the waiting on the ground for three minutes thing would be a big problem. If you want to be feigning around and you can only move once every three minutes, more power to ya. That still wouldn't be terribly overpowered.</span></div><p>Message Edited by SageGaspar on <span class="date_text">02-24-2006</span><span class="time_text">08:58 AM</span></p>

[overfloat]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>ftshark wrote:<div>I suppose the timer starts as soon as you get back up and not after you hit the button.  Otherwise you can play dead for 3 min and be able to use it again right away.</div><hr></blockquote>The FD only has a 30s duration, so you can't chain it. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  It should still be incredibly useful, though. I can see it coming in handy on raid wipes when monk group FD won't save you from a random AE from the rampaging mob. <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Dr. Unk]

<div></div>While FD sounds like a great idea, I'm not so sure I'm going to do that path.  In raids we generally a monk or brusier, plus a necro or 2.  They all have FD, I don't know that dumping a whole bunch of points down Int to get FD will be worth it.