Alexander Dhar
09-04-2005, 01:12 PM
<DIV>I only got into beta recently with my lvl46 SK but I was reasonably happy with what I saw, until just the past few days that is.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Not directly related to our subclass, but annoyed me anyway, was a shield I recently spend a bit of gold on, on live. On live the shield cons orange and I fully expected it to last me another good few levels. On beta it cons white which means I'm looking at spending more gold a lot sooner than expected. Not game breaking, just [expletive ninja'd by Faarbot] annoying.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As for my actually toon, this weekend has seen my ability to survive reduced I would say significantly. Focus has suddenly become very important to all our spells, which is a shame considering its not been important before my toon only has 135 of the 245 (about that) that he should have. This is I think one of the factors that now cause my spells and abilities to be resisted more than they were earlier in the week and interrupted a lot more often. Fighting a group is now a lot more dangerous proposition, Dreadfull Wrath for example is almost impossible to land as it will be interrupted to often. HO's are a bit of a dodgy proposition as our taunts are now resisted, so it can take a couple of tries to actually get them to land and trigger that last step.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I normally group with a necromancer mate of mine (he's lvl41), and I've seen good changes in his class as he can solo level 50 creatures now. I do think it odd though that when grouped with him its actually better for us to allow his pet to act as MT with me buffing it and off-tanking. ( and no I don't want to see him nerfed cause my mate has put up with a lot of crap getting where he is )</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'm hoping that most of my problems will clear up when my Focus gets up to the level it should be, and perhaps I see less interrupts and resists that I will be back to being useful. To go from one day killing a group of three Rujarkian Raiders (lvl45) 2 with two arrows down and 1 with one arrow down, with reasonable ease one day too the next day almost dieing to the same group and having to use my Malefic Touch as a last resort to stop from dieing, does leave a bitter taste in the mouth.</DIV>