JC wrote on Sep 29^th, 2011 at 10:57am:

Interesting. I like my pure wizard better. Less melée damage I'm sure, but better casting, and I've never found lack of evasion to be a problem, nor worth the loss of spell slots and spell pen.

I spent all day yesterday doing CC runs, I somehow ended up with an uber-skilled CC group and they owned the content repeatedly, and we never had the non-complete problem.

Granted only once did someone DC inside a run, but it did not break anything, it still completed and the workers kept working.

Perhaps we were just exceptionally lucky though.

JDollar wrote on Sep 29^th, 2011 at 12:01pm:

When are melée not useless?

JC wrote on Sep 29^th, 2011 at 12:09pm:

Ok, one situation they're useful

Yeah, it's definitely harder in there but I can't put my finger on why.  I haven't seen kobolds really get stuck unless someone was a doughnut and ran the line through a wall or something but that could just be luck.  I wonder if the kobolds are just taking more time at certain spots or something or if the torch runners are just out of practice.

Now the mobs...definitely more damage now and I hate crippling arrows like kobolds hate me.  On my pale master the damage is usually negligible unless I try to stand in melee range with a battalion of hobgoblins.  I can see how the damage would be nasty for melees though.

You really need a good group now to do well in there but 300's definitely still reachable.

Why drop patch spells when targeted AoEs kill all the things?

I was talking about Air Savant chain lightning.  Anything it doesn't kill the SLA's will clean up on the cheap.

mystafyi wrote on Sep 30^th, 2011 at 12:03am:


I wont lie, I would buy one, maybe two if I could justify it with myself.

Honestly, the more I ran it today, the more I'm convinced that the reason that they didn't roll out the new BtC mechanism for the loot is because they had to roll the old version of the Cove and couldn't fix the problems with whatever they'd changed since last time.  Especially with the epic ward thing still happening and whatnot.  Wasn't that supposed to be fixed, as well?

JDollar wrote on Sep 29^th, 2011 at 3:28pm:



300 is still fairly easy with a group with at least 2 casters, we were doing lvl 25 with a prty that had a lvl 17 and 18 in it and usually had 5 minutes or so left and this was strictly pugville. Only time we came even close(2 minutes) was due to a bad purple placement which meant going all the way down to the bowling alley after doing the waterfalls.
Are the mobs hitting harder on lvl 25, yep they certainly are, but lvl 25 was a joke last time, now its just a little less of a joke.

JDollar wrote on Sep 30^th, 2011 at 2:05pm:

Roll a character on Khyber and I'll let you hang out in my Crystal Cove!  Leave Marines on Argo plz.

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You can order my kolbold to mine your cove for treasure any day!

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To make a baseball analogy:

I'm sure your little undead Wizzy makes a great utility infielder.  Good at shagging grounders and laying down the occasional sacrifice bunt. Heck you might even be a switch hitter  .  But while your riding the pine, My Savant is leading the league in Homers, RBI and Batting avg...so get back in the dugout Mendoza.