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nofish · 11-08-2012, 09:48 AM

Buffrat@Antonia Bayle wrote:

I'm getting increments of mamba of blades fine. Too bad it's still not worth 1 point, let alone 2.
Troub AAs are pretty terrible now. Entire left line's concept is terrible. Groupwide adrenaline? No thanks. Berserkers can keep that terrible spell, at least it's kind of useful for them for soloing (The dirge one is only good because of Infectious Dissonance, and Infected by the Sound is completely terrible in comparison). Reverberation's damage is OK, I guess, but the proc on it is laughable. I'd say troubs should go double conversion but the start of the left line has been terrible since it was created too.
Energetic Melody/Energetic Reverberation procs just don't work. There's not enough ae encounter content. You have to have 4 adds up over 75% of the encounter time for an ae encounter ability (generally set to be 1/3rd of the damage of an ST ability) for them to even come close to their ST counterparts, and these two abilities aren't going to do any major required add-killing dps to begin with. They won't even make a dent. The only mobs I can think of that accomplished having enough ae encounter content in DoV/Drunder/Sleepers/PoW are...a guild's first few kills on Berik/Tagrin (After that you're lucky if they have 50% uptime). Generals in Tallon's would've been good if you didn't have to tank them across the room from each other. The only mob I've seen in beta that it would be useful on is the Bouncer x2 encounter in Eidolon Jungle.
Mamba of Blades is still laughable at best. Especially since it's a mage group, someone is going to be dying a lot. On harder content, troubs won't be maintaining 25 stacks ever. If anyone dies once after trash in PoW, you can count on not having the buffs for the rest of the zone. Even if you could maintain 25 stacks, 100 haste and 2.5 doublecast is....meh.
This is probably the spec I'd use if it gets pushed to live like this. I wouldn't even spend the last 2 points because I'd rather be able to say I don't have a use for all my prestige points than spending 2 points in a <3-4k dps increase.

I must say you are 100% right here, tbh I am getting sad that I already paid for it, weak mobs and even weaker aa, why even bother anymore.

11-08-2012, 09:48 AM	#13
nofish Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 51	Buffrat@Antonia Bayle wrote: I'm getting increments of mamba of blades fine. Too bad it's still not worth 1 point, let alone 2. Troub AAs are pretty terrible now. Entire left line's concept is terrible. Groupwide adrenaline? No thanks. Berserkers can keep that terrible spell, at least it's kind of useful for them for soloing (The dirge one is only good because of Infectious Dissonance, and Infected by the Sound is completely terrible in comparison). Reverberation's damage is OK, I guess, but the proc on it is laughable. I'd say troubs should go double conversion but the start of the left line has been terrible since it was created too. Energetic Melody/Energetic Reverberation procs just don't work. There's not enough ae encounter content. You have to have 4 adds up over 75% of the encounter time for an ae encounter ability (generally set to be 1/3rd of the damage of an ST ability) for them to even come close to their ST counterparts, and these two abilities aren't going to do any major required add-killing dps to begin with. They won't even make a dent. The only mobs I can think of that accomplished having enough ae encounter content in DoV/Drunder/Sleepers/PoW are...a guild's first few kills on Berik/Tagrin (After that you're lucky if they have 50% uptime). Generals in Tallon's would've been good if you didn't have to tank them across the room from each other. The only mob I've seen in beta that it would be useful on is the Bouncer x2 encounter in Eidolon Jungle. Mamba of Blades is still laughable at best. Especially since it's a mage group, someone is going to be dying a lot. On harder content, troubs won't be maintaining 25 stacks ever. If anyone dies once after trash in PoW, you can count on not having the buffs for the rest of the zone. Even if you could maintain 25 stacks, 100 haste and 2.5 doublecast is....meh. This is probably the spec I'd use if it gets pushed to live like this. I wouldn't even spend the last 2 points because I'd rather be able to say I don't have a use for all my prestige points than spending 2 points in a <3-4k dps increase. I must say you are 100% right here, tbh I am getting sad that I already paid for it, weak mobs and even weaker aa, why even bother anymore.