Soul wrote on Sep 18
th, 2011 at 12:12am:
Sure it's great in select situations, yeah. But how often are you are gonna cut things around for the melees to sing at and make you hate them?
Every time I solo.
Quote:At least with a high DC things die sorta fast. I use bb a lot, don't get me wrong. It's just terrible in party play. Since I group often (like almost always) I usually don't want to piss everyone off. Either way I still think only the first tier of the pre is really worth the AP cost for a wf fvs, imo.
I do think that having a high DC would be nice. I'd prefer to have a high DC. But a high DC just ain't gonna happen on a first life on a FvS. I can invest heavily in DC and still only come away with "not horrible" as the best DC that I can achieve.
I do agree that the second tier of the PrE is a heavy investment for a fairly modest return, but I do think it's worth taking for at least a while because it's a neat toy. Honestly, I like the flashlight power of my laser fairy even more than I like the small boost in DPS. I have trouble seeing the floor on the way to VoD and in other similar places, so I'm a big fan.
I'll drop the second tier of the PrE at some point, but it's actually very handy to me currently because I happen to run a lot of quests where that is useful recently. I don't think it's worth taking long term, though. Mostly, I just wanted to point out that absolutely horrible DC isn't significantly worse than DCs between "pretty bad" and "mediocre" - and even with really good gear, your DCs are still going to be between "pretty bad" and "mediocre" for a most (if not all) of the time you spend on your first life.
I was impressed with the DC that Epoch was able to produce on his "end build" FvS, but that required a bunch of past lives that each contributed to DC.
If this character isn't going to be your primary character that you're going to invest an extraordinary amount of time into, then dumping Wisdom makes a lot of sense to me. I would certainly do it for a first life. It was in a strange place, so I can't find it to link right now, but I don't see any way to get a reasonable DC on a first life at least. I enjoy my FvS enough that I might eventually go for Epoch's build, but that would mean not having a FvS for several lives and I'm not sure that I want to not have a healer available to swap to if a group needs one.