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Needagroup
08-10-2007, 10:03 AM
<p>for a long time, I've used both end AA line abilities for potency and for reach.   although I think reach has been nerfed a bit recently, I don't see giving that line up, particularly with the hurricane buff.   But I'm not certain whether potency or style will ultimately be more useful.    </p><p> Any thougths?   I'm attracted to style for the aoe avoider of course.  And the reuse reduction for Inspired Daring....   But I get a heck of a lot of poison damage from the other line.   </p><p> Anyone test these alternatives on parses?</p>

Birn
08-10-2007, 10:32 AM
I have no numbers but I prefer style over potency. I like the reducions of en garde etc etc and the increased trigger chance to avoid censure is kinda useful now since it's much easier to get aggro nowadays.

Kael Grace
08-10-2007, 11:09 AM
<p>I have a few AAs on the avoid censure buff but the rest in potency/reach.    If I switch to style/reach, I'm not sure how to quantify how much poison damage I'll lose.   I think there's a possible 40 second reuse time reduction for inspired daring, but I don't know what the base reuse time is offhand so it's hard to assess how good that is.</p>

Zarafein
08-10-2007, 03:21 PM
I like potency(not only for damage) although it su... that most of the improvements of gu37 don't apply yet, in most cases i wouldn't be able to use the benefits of style to full  potential anyway.