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I didn't make a post like this in RoK because I didn't feel there were any Dirge issues; or any worthwhile that would require attention. With the new expansion and the introduction of another AA tree, obviously some issues pop up that I feel are now significant enough to warrant such a thread.
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Questions:
Where is enhance Bump in the Bard Tree so Grim Strike lines up with it?
Why do Assassin's get a 40+% increase to their best CA, Death Mark, and neither of our best 2 abilities (Scream of Blood and Banshee) are even on the AA list. As a matter of fact, they have yet to appear on any of our AA trees.
Why is Dissonant Requiem's casting time still 2.5s for only ~1K AE damage?
Why does Sacrificial Oration cost 5 points to remove the stifle when Assassin's Killing Blow costs 1 point for the FULL Deathblow proc?
Why is Battle Cry still not self castable? There is clearly no benefit to cast it on yourself when raiding or grouping, so this only comes down to a hindrance in solo play.
Why does Intoxicating Notes not proc on ANY attack?
Why does Disease Mastery affect less than 50% of our total disease damage?
How come Lanet's Scream doesn't benefit from Disease Mastery?
Why, for the third expansion in a row, are our best AAs passive buffs instead of active abilities?
What the AAs should have been:
-Replace Deathly Howl with Banshee.
-Replace Vile Blade with Scream of Blood.
-Disease mastery should have 25% more critical damage and 10% reuse. The drastic increase in critical damage would encourage Dirges to get spell crit instead of being 100% melee focused.
-Improve Dissonant Requiem's casting speed some way whether it's from AAs or adjusting the spell manually. The 25% from Disease Mastery isn't nearly enough.
-Nerf Battle Cry by 5% DA but make the flurry component affect both the Dirge and the recipient.
-Bard tree needs Bump in it or the AA needs to be adjusted to 20s recast.
-Rework the 2 +skills buffs in the Bard tree and come up with something else.
What the Dirge Tree Shadow Tree should have looked like:
Bard Tree
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Add Enhance Bump - increase base damage and accuracy by 10%, improves reuse by 2s per rank. (This would allow Bump and Grim Strike/Night Strike to have the same reuse.)
Drop Defensive Ballad - Completely useless for Troubs. It's also redundant as we can already enhance it via KoS STR line AAs.
Dirge Tree
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Add Enhance Dissonant Requiem - Increase casting speed by 10%, increase base damage by 10% per rank. (This spell really needs this much help for it to be useful. It currently has an absurd cast time to damage ratio and is rarely used.)
Add Enhance Banshee - Shortens duration by 10%, increase base damage by 5%, improves casting speed by 5% per rank.
Add Enhance Scream of Blood - Shortens duration by 10%, adds 20% splurt increase to each DoT, improves reuse by 2s per rank
Add Enhance Gravitas - Adds enhance 2% hostile spell damage per rank.
Drop Deathly Howl - Disease Mastery already affects it + it's in the EoF tree
Drop Vile Blade - It's just not that good
Drop Defensive Curse - This AA sucks
Raid Set Gear:
Why is our legendary set better than our raid set?
Where is the haste on the gloves?
Where is the CoB increase on the chest? +slash, pierce?
Why did the removal of Percussion of Stone's concentration slot get moved to our chest which is the best piece of gear outside of set gear?
The
new 2 set chest focus: Enhance Speech of Sacrifice is 100% crap.
Both end game raiders and casual raiders will be shackeled to the VP 2 set forever now.
Where is the CoB recast reduction? Why isn't this a focus effect on our legs?
What the Raid Set should have been:
Gloves - Add 40 haste, make effect on all spells and CAs
Helm - Add 4 DA, make effect on all spells and CAs. Change focus to +slash
Forearms - Add +slash and +pierce
Legs - Add 5 melee crit, Drop Riana's Focus, Add Rhythmic War Chant proc, Add Focus Banshee or Focus Scream of Blood (Increase Base Damage by 30%)
Chest - Drop Rhythmic War Chant proc, drop Focus Percussion and add Focus Speech of Sacrifice, this piece is supposed to suck so we can use Avatar/Contested
Shoulders - Drop +focus, add +slash
Boots - Drop +CA/spell. Add the Trooper Scale Boots type proc seen on the Legendary Scout Chest Sets (12 melee DA, 6 ranged DA for 10-15s)
2 set - Focus Percussion of Stone - Removes conc slot. Adds +5 group crit mit to Percussion.
4 set - Reduce recast of Blades by 30s. Focus Chimes of Blades - Adds 35% item trigger chance.
5 set - Rhythmic War Chant proc - 5% base spell/heal/CA damage for group.
6 set - Enhance Boon - 10% melee accuracy.
TSO Dirge Problems
