New Reaver?

[Mistmoore-Milaga]

- Shadowknight: Reaver: Increased health gain to 2.5% of maximum health per hit. Reaver is now affected by Taunts.From <a href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=tup&message.id=162" target=_blank>http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=tup&message.id=162</a>Hmm? So one 1% per tick, 2.5% gain per spell or taunt cast? Am I reading this right? Looks a lot more useful. I may consider respeccing.<div></div>

[Phalong]

<DIV>I May respec that way if the Agression skill changes all the point Ive put into my Taunt Spec.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Looks about right.  Lots of extra healing.  And I already out heal Parse lazy Furys when in groups</DIV>

[Anca0202]

The way i read the aggretion thing is that being in deffensive we will get a boost to a new skill cald aggretion, it will be just like the increase to defense that we already get.  I don't think it will be some cure all, hold agro like it is nothing type fix.  I think that it will make hate gain more transperent.  I will still hold onto my hate and agro aa options until I see for myself what the changes are.

[Xanoth]

I do believe he was refering to the resist reduction AA's. as the introduction of the aggression skill was due to mobs being very resistant to taunts.personaly tempted to throw my decay points a jump to the left and get reaver again. can't say siphon armorment is that useful tbh, and is often buggy (buff randomly dropping its effect, but still being maintainted, as well as greying out regualr pledge even when siphon armorment is dropped).still doubt reaver is much help for raiding, but its [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] fun for soloing half of lopin plains at once.

[Nocifer Deathblade]

Aye, the change helped to benefit uber SKs more. Before change, uber sk is worse off than casual SK cuz of more hp penalty for same healed. Now, after the change, uber sk is better off than casual SK cuz of more hp healed per cast.  1.5% gap is getting bigger as your hp goes up and up as supposed to.  Good change.. All the sudden, hp adornments are more attractive heh.  Heal crits from INT line now is more attractive to work with 2.5%..<p>Message Edited by Nocifer Deathblade on <span class=date_text>12-13-2006</span> <span class=time_text>11:38 AM</span>

[d3caffed]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Milaga wrote:<BR>- Shadowknight: Reaver: Increased health gain to 2.5% of maximum health per hit. Reaver is now affected by Taunts.<BR><BR>From <A href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=tup&message.id=162" target=_blank>http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=tup&message.id=162</A><BR><BR>Hmm? So one 1% per tick, 2.5% gain per spell or taunt cast? Am I reading this right? Looks a lot more useful. I may consider respeccing.<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>Lol, they gave us an end ability that sounded cool but is  pretty weak. And now they are gonna nerf it ? lol.</P> <P>Im a 68sk and i have 6158 hp (solo). Reaver now give me 172life per proc. And with the new rules it whould give me 150 life roughly.</P> <P> </P>

[Norrsken]

<div><blockquote><hr>d3caffed wrote:<div></div> <blockquote> <hr> Milaga wrote:- Shadowknight: Reaver: Increased health gain to 2.5% of maximum health per hit. Reaver is now affected by Taunts.From <a href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=tup&message.id=162" target="_blank">http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=tup&message.id=162</a>Hmm? So one 1% per tick, 2.5% gain per spell or taunt cast? Am I reading this right? Looks a lot more useful. I may consider respeccing. <div></div> <hr> </blockquote> <p>Lol, they gave us an end ability that sounded cool but is  pretty weak. And now they are gonna nerf it ? lol.</p> <p>Im a 68sk and i have 6158 hp (solo). Reaver now give me 172life per proc. And with the new rules it whould give me 150 life roughly.</p> <hr></blockquote>Its not really a nerf if you are on the high end of health. Its just that, in the middle and low range, 3% would probably have been a better number.</div>

[d3caffed]

<DIV>Anyway, i think we got the crappiest new AP tree of all classes with EOF.</DIV> <DIV>For instance, look at wizards. They get some really buttkicking new end abilities, like manaburn. the old EQ1 spell, where they can burn off all their mana in one single nuke and get 5 points of damage for every point of power they have left. My friend who is a lvl 68 wizard with pretty crappy gear critted 32k damage yesterday with it on a raid mob.</DIV> <DIV>Imagine what a full out fabled wiz can get.</DIV>

[Tyranda]

<DIV>he could get alot more than 32k damage if he spent his mana on his normal nukes.  manaburn doesnt seem so great.. Lifeburn on the other hand... <BR><BR>I think we got pretty good AAs, but paladins got it even better I think. heal, utility, and dps AAs. </DIV><p>Message Edited by Tyranda on <span class=date_text>12-15-2006</span> <span class=time_text>01:31 AM</span>

[dubbs]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Tyranda wrote:<BR> <DIV>he could get alot more than 32k damage if he spent his mana on his normal nukes.  manaburn doesnt seem so great.. Lifeburn on the other hand... <BR><BR>I think we got pretty good AAs, but paladins got it even <STRIKE>better</STRIKE><FONT color=#ffff33> worse</FONT> I think. heal, utility, and dps AAs <FONT color=#ffff33>that are all terrible</FONT>. </DIV> <P>Message Edited by Tyranda on <SPAN class=date_text>12-15-2006</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>01:31 AM</SPAN><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>There ya go, fixed a couple typos for you.  I play both an sk and paladin, and have to say the sk AAs are alot better, and more fun.  The paladin AAs pretty much blow with the exception of shield block.

[AndrewSquared]

<P>[expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] you dubbs, and others like you for taking my name for their character.</P> <P>On a more serious note, I'll agree with you about the paly AA's. When I used to play, I had a paly that I betrayed to SK when the option was made available to high level players (he had been resting in un-use at that point). Now that I'm back (sans old account) I made both a paly and an SK to play and check out the new AA's. After having looked at both of them, the SK options definetley struck me as the far more interesting and enjoyable options, making me even more sad for no longer having my old account. The new paly AA's just seem lackluster in general.</P> <P>Rrinn</P>

[MrDiz]

<blockquote><hr>d3caffed wrote:<DIV>Anyway, i think we got the crappiest new AP tree of all classes with EOF.</DIV><DIV>For instance, look at wizards. They get some really buttkicking new end abilities, like manaburn. the old EQ1 spell, where they can burn off all their mana in one single nuke and get 5 points of damage for every point of power they have left. My friend who is a lvl 68 wizard with pretty crappy gear critted 32k damage yesterday with it on a raid mob.</DIV><DIV>Imagine what a full out fabled wiz can get.</DIV><hr></blockquote>I totally disagree. Of all my classes SK aa lines seem the most useful. Swashy one is next with the aoe immunity being useful and the soon to nerfed inspirations AA. On my illusionist, templar and dirge i have unspent points mostly because I couldnt be bothered placing the points as it didnt look to make much difference.

[Norrsken]

<div><blockquote><hr>d3caffed wrote:<div></div> <div>Anyway, i think we got the crappiest new AP tree of all classes with EOF.</div> <div>For instance, look at wizards. They get some really buttkicking new end abilities, like manaburn. the old EQ1 spell, where they can burn off all their mana in one single nuke and get 5 points of damage for every point of power they have left. My friend who is a lvl 68 wizard with pretty crappy gear critted 32k damage yesterday with it on a raid mob.</div> <div>Imagine what a full out fabled wiz can get.</div><hr></blockquote>I think you really need to check some other EoF aa trees if you think the sk got the worst one.</div>

[AziBam]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> roxer2b wrote:<BR> <DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> d3caffed wrote:<BR> <DIV>Anyway, i think we got the crappiest new AP tree of all classes with EOF.</DIV> <DIV>For instance, look at wizards. They get some really buttkicking new end abilities, like manaburn. the old EQ1 spell, where they can burn off all their mana in one single nuke and get 5 points of damage for every point of power they have left. My friend who is a lvl 68 wizard with pretty crappy gear critted 32k damage yesterday with it on a raid mob.</DIV> <DIV>Imagine what a full out fabled wiz can get.</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>I think you really need to check some other EoF aa trees if you think the sk got the worst one.<BR></DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Couldn't agree more with Roxer.  My 70 toons are the SK, an assassin, and a mystic.  Not even close and by far the SK tree is the best of the three.  I actually have to think about what I want and will get the most benefit from on the SK.  The other ones....well, gotta put em somewhere but... /shrug. 

[JoarAddam]

<DIV>with the holidays and whatnot, we've been a little shortstaffed at SM, and have been 3group +/- 2 people on a lot of raid instances lately.  Since i took reaver they've been putting me in the back of the bus in the group that lacks buffs and heals, and I seem to do ok soaking up some of the damage from a stray aoe, or picking myself back up from orange.  healers help me out when they can, but its nice to be able to do a lot of it for myself.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>solo, reaver is SUPER.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I thought about siphon mit, but they're going to take the ability to cast it on non fighters away anyways, that was always a bug...</DIV>

[Norrsken]

<div><blockquote><hr>JoarAddam wrote:<div> </div> <div>I thought about siphon mit, but they're going to take the ability to cast it on non fighters away anyways, that was always a bug...</div><hr></blockquote>Which IMHO is kind of stupid to do since it removes any use the skill would have ever had. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></div>

[JoarAddam]

197 hp every time I cast...  it saved my life in freethinkers... esp with the TAUNTS! omg, in 1 second you get 390 hp... 

[Xanoth]

symetry bonuses seem to give quite a nice return for reaver, i tap for about 267, really like the changes <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[JoarAddam]

mmm, symmetry...  hadn't thought of it, but yeah... 

[Nocifer Deathblade]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Xanoth wrote:<BR>symetry bonuses seem to give quite a nice return for reaver, i tap for about 267, really like the changes <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>Excuse me, what is symetry? </P> <P>Anyway, cuz of the change..  HP now become valuable item for SK. More HP we get, the better heal we will receive off reaver.  I must buy all +hp adornments I can get my hands on. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Sta now become more useful for SKs with reaver ability..  I wonder if +heal adornments will help reaver as well?  Heal crits from INT line now more useful for us. Gotta give up some KOS aas to get heal crits grr..</P>

[JoarAddam]

<DIV>Symmetry is an effect "improves damage and healing spells by ..."   </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>if reaver is affected by symmetry, it should also be affected by healing pulse...</DIV>

[Pitt Hammerfi]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> roxer2b wrote:<BR> <DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> JoarAddam wrote:<BR> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I thought about siphon mit, but they're going to take the ability to cast it on non fighters away anyways, that was always a bug...</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Which IMHO is kind of stupid to do since it removes any use the skill would have ever had. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><BR></DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>yeah was a shame, cant cast it on my pets anymore <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />