Rubbinns wrote on Sep 21^st, 2014 at 10:16am:


All I was trying to say that if he knows the quest and he's gonna time his run in comparison to me, who kept looking at the map for where to go, he's already gonna beat my time there.. even if his toon didn't kill the mobs faster.

Also, I played like shit, kept missing my target, and making dumb mistakes. So, anyone would prolly run the quest faster. Time was not my point at all.

Funny was... I enjoyed that run a lot. I tried to play carefully, make tactical decisions.. which once in a while failed, etc.. but over all the mobs were dying, and I was able to progress. The doppelganger who I expected to be the most difficult for me, turned out to be the easiest boss. He did very little damage at all. The frickin orange hoppy spider that I by mistake aggro'd did more.

Lelouch wrote on Sep 21^st, 2014 at 10:47am:


I know ppl with uber completionist and epic completionist .. all pls' in game that that can't play for shit. I also know that so many ppl become bored with this game because things are just too easy, and too easy to attain.

I fully disagree with u that I'm doing it wrong. I'm doing it how I want to do it, with the solo purpose of proving that a first life cleric can, if the player wants. And not a shiradi. Mine happens to be a caster, I had a friend solo ee's on a melee first lifer.

How the game currently works is that you can buy past lives, make your toon uber without learning how to play for shit, then get bored cause things are too easy, or alternatively cause you can't do the things u want cause u're playing a copied build with bought Pls and u don't know how to run quests.

Again, you keep changing your statement. You said "you need pls to solo ee's", which u changed to "u need pls to solo ee's at or under level" then "HH is an easy ee". And now how my toon is uneffective, and that my playstyle is wrong. Bullcrap man. pls make things easier. In no way needed to solo stuff.

If the OP's main purpose is to solo ee's effectively, then I prolly wouldn't make it a cleric anyway, as clerics are not the most OP class there is. Prolly would make it an fvs or a sorc.

also, my 12/5/3 is not only effective in Shiradi.

I made it pretty plainly clear why in EA it's better than in Shiradi. Especially against red names.

My DC's work fine, my Soundburst has a 68 DC (from EA, SLA) and the damage is absurd. Also, Reborn in Light is actually really fun. makes spell casting almost free and gives me another 100 Light spell power.

Don't worry Overvaan. You might as well bang your head against a brick wall to achieve better results than trying to prove anything to her.

Hmm I have to agree with Micki here.
As much as I can boast about uber Evo on ze Cleric, that DCs has some really serious drawbacks. It's maybe 1 or 3 extra dead mobs every minute. Comet is useful to cc a mob for a melee but otherwise I don't use it, just more mobs to kite.
Maybe when no fail Sunburst get fixed ( and that's useful in Prison and Deathwyrm only ) it will have more merit but now ? Energy drain + 60 Destro - 100 sp for one mob ? Fuck that. I much more often just pws and Light or Eburst+Wrath like every other caster. DDo casting yay.
Buggy Implosion.
70 sp (!) Heightened Soundburst. Well if anything I get shit done much faster and with less frustration with Empyrean and Burst as twists than Evo + Evo twists.
It's stupid how sp ineffective it is, especially boss damage.
No wonder there are like 5 clerics on the server and rest plays some 12/6/2 or 16/2/2 Shiradi.
Turbine imbeciles can't offer anything to casting except idiot proof destiny aoes. Except recycled content, mobs and models of course.

On a red name i add DP, and searing light/Nimbus

I'm not new to casters, or even the FvS/wizard split.  Qualitatively, on my sorc, I find maybe ~80% of the time is spent spamming the basic single target rotation.  Maybe 50-60% of the time if I bother to add in DoTs and other things like ruin. 

In my opinion, it's important for caster DPS builds to have a complete basic single target rotation.  DP still won't fill in all the gaps, and nimbus or searing light is quite possibly a DPS loss, depending on how the cooldown overlap works out.

Or hellball*

Ruin and hellball are also 35% cheaper for me

SayWhatAgain wrote on Sep 19^th, 2014 at 6:14am:


What's the CD of sun bolt sla from capstone?

5 Foot Step wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2014 at 2:07am:

No, there's literally no downtime for MM/scorching ray.  You can't cast any other spells before one or the other is off cooldown. 

Even if there was a little gap, I don't think it's worth losing energy burst or possibly some other tier 4 twist.

5 Foot Step wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2014 at 2:37am:


That would be excellent if they did.

Limpgimp wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2014 at 5:25am:


9 seconds sir.