Melee Mystic post Velious

[bowzr4me]

<p>Before Velious hit I created a Mystic and started working diligently to max my AA. At level 16 I have 61 AA and felt pretty potent. Basically I was solo questing and was very happy with my progression. I felt tough as nails taking on whatever mob the given quest called to kill. Then Velious hit and the first blue down arrow mob I took on almost killed me. Can anyone explain what changes were made in Velious that would effect Mystic survivability? My gear/AA/skills/spells are exactly the same and yet now I'm a total wimp.</p>

[NrthnStar5]

<p>I have a 48 Melee Mystic with 73 AA's. I've not noticed getting wimpier at all. I have noticed my pet is a bit more robust. I'm not sure why you would see such a difference.</p>

[Finora]

<p>Very odd.</p><p>The only thing I noted was the disappointing lack of crit chance on velious quested gear (my main is a 90 melee mystic).</p><p>I haven't noticed any difference in ability for my low level mystic alt's survivability either.</p><p>Could be the gear you are wearing was hit particularly hard by the stat changes?</p>

[Eugam]

<p><cite>bowzr4me wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Before Velious hit I created a Mystic and started working diligently to max my AA. At level 16 I have 61 AA and felt pretty potent. Basically I was solo questing and was very happy with my progression. I felt tough as nails taking on whatever mob the given quest called to kill. Then Velious hit and the first blue down arrow mob I took on almost killed me. Can anyone explain what changes were made in Velious that would effect Mystic survivability? My gear/AA/skills/spells are exactly the same and yet now I'm a total wimp.</p></blockquote><p>Your armor @16 most probably lost health and you thought you are tougher then you are. Not a big proplem on healers. You just have to adapt a bit.</p>

[Brigh]

I haven't logged in my T4 yet but will check later.

[Nahlis]

<p>I took my 88 Mystic to Velious and haven't encountered the problems you mention with surviveability at all.  That having been said, DPS is a crime.  I mean I want to play a healer, not a dps class when on my Mystic, but taking 2-3 minutes (literally, think about that... 2-3 min for every single mob for every single quest... ugh) to finish one lousy solo mob is more than a little ridiculous.</p><p>Is this a common problem for other Mystics out there or am I just doing soemthing wrong here?  I have all Expert or Master spells and am using the quested Legendary armor from the first series of Velious quests at this point, so pretty sure it's not just stat changes.</p>

[Jonnytom]

<p>Please do not whine, go play a Templar. You think it takes a mystic time to kill a solo mob, times it by 2 for a Templar.</p>

[Brigh]

<p><cite>Nahlis@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I took my 88 Mystic to Velious and haven't encountered the problems you mention with surviveability at all.  That having been said, DPS is a crime.  I mean I want to play a healer, not a dps class when on my Mystic, but taking 2-3 minutes (literally, think about that... 2-3 min for every single mob for every single quest... ugh) to finish one lousy solo mob is more than a little ridiculous.</p><p>Is this a common problem for other Mystics out there or am I just doing soemthing wrong here?  I have all Expert or Master spells and am using the quested Legendary armor from the first series of Velious quests at this point, so pretty sure it's not just stat changes.</p></blockquote><p>If that was your only experience with Velious, then you need to read the DoV patch notes to understand the expansion.</p>

[Levatino]

<p>lower levels are hit harder then higher ones. All armour lost the +heal and +power and is only based on STA for health and your class primary stat for power</p><p>also lots of looted armour isn't adapted so still has some useless stats on it for your class. so check your armour it maybe wise to change some</p>

[Katz]

<p><cite>Jonnytom wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Please do not whine, go play a Templar. You think it takes a mystic time to kill a solo mob, times it by 2 for a Templar.</p></blockquote><p>Yeah its a common problem and worse for Templars than any other I think.  My warden can survive and kill the mobs but it takes like the poster a few up above this one said, several minutes to kill one mob.  If I'm killing 10 mobs you are looking at a good 20 -30 minutes or more for most types of mobs. </p><p>Which brings me to my point, a friend was dying trying to kill some of the mobs (no heal, better dps type class) so I said well I'm not dying but its taking a long time to kill things...so we grouped for a while.  What a difference, neither of us died and we got through all the mobs quickly enough that it didn't feel tedious at all.</p><p>The side-effect of this (intentional or unintentional) is that it is encouraging grouping.  I even started asking random people to form a short term group if we were killing the same mobs for a quest.</p>

[Celticspiral]

<p><cite>Nahlis@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I took my 88 Mystic to Velious and haven't encountered the problems you mention with surviveability at all.  That having been said, DPS is a crime.  I mean I want to play a healer, not a dps class when on my Mystic, but taking 2-3 minutes (literally, think about that... 2-3 min for every single mob for every single quest... ugh) to finish one lousy solo mob is more than a little ridiculous.</p><p>Is this a common problem for other Mystics out there or am I just doing soemthing wrong here?  I have all Expert or Master spells and am using the quested Legendary armor from the first series of Velious quests at this point, so pretty sure it's not just stat changes.</p></blockquote><p>Nope thats about right (sadly) I say the mobs finally justs die from boredom...</p><p>Rabbie, Butcherblock, The Black Knights</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p>Takes my warden about 30 seconds to kill one mob, 250 AAs no raid gear at all.  My level 39 mystic is not discernably different in any way other than amount of HP/power, soloing is still as easy as ever.</p>

[Yure]

<p><cite>Katz wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Jonnytom wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Please do not whine, go play a Templar. You think it takes a mystic time to kill a solo mob, times it by 2 for a Templar.</p></blockquote><p>Yeah its a common problem and worse for Templars than any other I think.  My warden can survive and kill the mobs but it takes like the poster a few up above this one said, several minutes to kill one mob.  If I'm killing 10 mobs you are looking at a good 20 -30 minutes or more for most types of mobs. </p><p>Which brings me to my point, a friend was dying trying to kill some of the mobs (no heal, better dps type class) so I said well I'm not dying but its taking a long time to kill things...so we grouped for a while.  What a difference, neither of us died and we got through all the mobs quickly enough that it didn't feel tedious at all.</p><p>The side-effect of this (intentional or unintentional) is that it is encouraging grouping.  I even started asking random people to form a short term group if we were killing the same mobs for a quest.</p></blockquote><p>Ya quest with guildies or random people to get those quest down.  Once you build up a selection of DOV rewards to pair up with your SF gear a solo option will appear.     scout can use a bow and stuns.   Mages roots / snares   Priests  root/snares  or  dps up close with heals.    One must adjust there playside to match.</p>