stam line - Page 3

*Hardain* · 11-19-2008, 04:59 AM

Welcome to last month :P They removed shield restrictions from Sta line completely, you will now get all bonuses from that tree no matter what you wield.

Gisallo · 11-20-2008, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Steev

So you're saying without an illus in heroic instances, I might be hurting without the STA endline? hm

Thats what I was thinking so I was probably going to use the mirror. Have one with the Sta end line for heroic stuff when I am short a mana feed and 1 with the 2 points in Str 4 for when I have the manafeed.

Steev · 11-20-2008, 03:56 AM

Well.. I have had 0 troubles with aggro, unless its a control effect, in my general groups but I have had some power issues, so I think I'll keep my sta endline.

Abstract · 11-23-2008, 08:42 AM

Sooo... What's the stance on Reversal-- It should show up as Gladiator's strike on my ACT, but it only was on one fight I looked at, for 1% DMG...and I had 8 in it...or is it just the suck?

*Hardain* · 11-23-2008, 11:44 AM

It still requires shield to work.

Gisallo · 11-23-2008, 04:52 PM

Okay redid a bunch of stuff yesterday. looks like this. Please note I only have 133 AA points. I have been bounced between my zerker and my ranger due to guild needs so neither is maxed

Str 4483
Sta 44881
Int 44681
Bulking to berserk
Perseverence to Unyielding will

Shadows tree
Health and power 5
Fighter enhance rescue 5 battle hardening 5 Sneering assault 1
Warrior Saving grace 2 Rallying cry 5

Now with that we went into the Crucible last night. Group was Zerker, Warlock, Fury, Dirge, Ranger, Conjie. I only had aggro messes twice. Once when the warlock crited on a spell he had maxed through his AA trees (he did over 5000 or somemess BEFORE the crit hit and it was an AOE so I lost one of the three I had on me) and once to the swashie because he has a habit of not assisting through the tank.

This run only laster to the three named casters on the 2nd floor. We either needed a second healer, a mezzer or were missing something about the glowing platforms in the room for that fight (we were the first group in the guild in there so we are still working it out).

What makes this all interesting is that this was in defensive stance. Since we only had one healer being played by someone who doesn't use the toon (hubby was playing the wife's character for most of the fight). Did I occassionally have to pop a taunt or too to get adds back on me because of this? Yeah, but they never strayed long enough to do any serious damage, and thats what makes insolence rock anyway

. So for some instances at least (and Cruicible is the hardest of the Miragul instances) defensive stance is now a viable option it looks like.

Xalmat · 11-23-2008, 06:28 PM

I was able to tank all of Crucible in Offense stance, but aggro on the final named is a pain with all the control effects. I'm still not sold on Defense stance aggro without a stacked group though.

Abstract · 11-23-2008, 07:05 PM

No...I am using a MC towershield ATM-- ut still...I see NOOO damage from this supposed 'Gladiator's Strike'...\
Is is bugged?
Or do I misunderstand...thet only once every 30 seconds can it deal any damage?

Doc

Gisallo · 11-23-2008, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Xalmat

I was able to tank all of Crucible in Offense stance, but aggro on the final named is a pain with all the control effects. I'm still not sold on Defense stance aggro without a stacked group though.

Oh believe me, I would have preferred to use Offensive because I think I wouldn't have had to test those new snap aggro tools. With only one healer though (played by a non-healer for half the zone)and me still kitted out in middle of the road Legendary gear from RoK I needed the extra survivability since Valk was just taken out of mothballs a short time ago. Luckily the gamble worked.

As for completing it, is there a trick to handling the three nameds I mentioned on the 2nd floor?