Avirodar

So Meph... Elysium gives you better groups than NPU did? :p

Mephiston

haha ill chat to u about that one in game.

but when i was dumped in the amges i funnily enough thought of ya mate, but then i got agitate and lol'd a lil to my self.

now if fear will just spawn and drop his unique......

arturos

i have been having a pretty decent spread of numbers with the twisted mahogany staff that drops off treah. my best hit thus far has been 4.5k auto attack during that time i was running at about 593 str. No doubt that the old blackscale maul is still a solid performer but i been trying to pin down why i miss more with it then my staff.. im not talking about CA misses im talking about straight auto attack... well anyway my timing seems to be better with the staff then the maul as well so i can take advantage of basic buffs that are available to me.
Oh and to make avi happy, i to have been in the mage group /sigh /sad panda but i still did almost 1k /thumbs up!!! casting damage mind u LOL like meph when i got stuck in that whelp group i laughed like crazy my wife was looking at me like a dog looks at u after u fart and they hear it... then she went back to buffing her MT group.. damn wardens.. on a side note i do find it way easier to reach soft cap with a mage group on wis/int then reaching soft cap with wis/str in my standard group.

Catseyes

what about the tokar battlehammer ? solid DR , nice str boost, and 2,5 sec ,that's not so long but not so fast too ? i m curious about how much it adds in dps. BSM lack of str and crushing bonus i find.

I m still amazed how SoE screwed their DR system : BSM with 80 ish DR is higher dps than Staff of flappy wings that is 110 DR atm. Where is the logic in that ?

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Mephiston

hmm you would have done better sticking to CA's, if im reading u right u started "nuking". if you had a wiz,troub,fury plus what ever mages in there youve still got sum decent buffs to do good melee damage, its why dropping a rogue in a mage group often yields excellent results soaking up all the buffs ppl for get about.

i hate the staff, its garbage imo yeah it hits like a truck, but it just doesnt give the results other weapons can give. theres a list on here somewhere of the top weapons for us, and its dead on so far, all i need now is the star forged bo and ill own the whole list....damn u fear!

also with regards to the caps, why would you want the int cap? and your gears good cant imagen ur far off 520 as it is. maxing out str and wis is a challenge but possible with certain combos of gear of course, but then your guild pally will hate you for stealing his gear. also remember focus is key. healing + dps will result in relatively bad numbers.

i really must turn on ACT and show my parses /makes note /loses note

DR is completely useless to us when sizing up a weapon, DR is like an overall rating for everyone, and we have sum funky shit that means we actually get shit tons out of weapons with relatively low ratings. also at 2.5 seconds its a little bit quick for us, when dpsing with the gear you should be trying to get your haste with fanata will make that wepaon too fast to get CAs between, it also wont hit too hard and overall your dps will sink the longer the better as our uber haste will get more from it.

the BSM is an odd one yes, lack of str and crushing, "slow" and a poor min damage make it a weapon most classes look at and go "wtf?!"

for us its gold, easy to obtain, no one wants it and it, relatively, owns. parses of 2k are possible with it in a normal raid enviroment. the long delay and big damage spread make the most of our crits and give you enough time to get CAs inbetween swings.

simply put if it aint broke dont fix it.

becuase in most ppls hands the bsm is shit, and the staff is much better. and is the reason DR is useless to us a way to judge weapons, we dont need a general opinion we need specifics.

hearth

New Inq, Used to play sin main and warden alt.

Here is a few questions for top raiding inq?

1.) Do you guys gear up big on melee proc gear, and if someone can provide a list that will be great.

2.) I am doing 12-1500 in EH with Dirge Zerker when not healing. I heard that Inq can do 2k, I am wondering what I am doing wrong. Given that I was using a BSM, I got the Knoty Pine Crudgel last night should I be using that or stick with 2 hander. I want to hear some special things that top inqs are doing to parse 2k+

3.) What is the best 2 hander in game atm, beside Varasakin club. We took KoS off our raid.

3.) Lastly, while I have no problem keeping my group up on named fight and not letting them die when they noobed up on aggro, my zone wide healing is shameful. I use to so 13-5% ZW healing on my Warden. Now I am doing like 6-8% on inquistor. Wondering if that's acceptable.

Thanks

hearth

By the way, Specced Agi 44781, Sta 4488 Full battle clearic Eof Line with 5 in pious and 3 in AoF. Rolling with 500+ Str.

Mephiston

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1.) Do you guys gear up big on melee proc gear, and if someone can provide a list that will be great.
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i personally load up on str and dps items, dps > str but its harder to find of course. any item with high str will do, and theres plenty of plate or jewelery that will fill the job nicely, that also easy to get. GET ACRYLIA RINGS, str and agi, these items are amazingly powerfull for us.

are you timing your swings, the number one biggest mistake is button mashing as an inquis, u need to find your swing speed and not be casting when your due to auto attack. and for the best results stick with 2handers, vraks club is godlike if you can get it, beaten only by the avatar of fears unique weapon. how ever hammer of the dragon born from venekor in HoS is excellent too and buyable. the 2k parse is possible but not easy to get, if you pause or break concentration even for a second you cna trash your parse. aim for 1500+ and be pleased with higher, but dont expect it, it takes alot of time and practise to master high parses as an inquis.

you really REALLY need to convince them to go back :p or kill avatar of fear and get the star forged bo, aside from that .....eh most of the good ones are form kos. the stupid staff off treah is not as good as the BSM so without kos raids your looking at keeping BSM till u kill fear.


ill draw fire here im sure but fuck it.

fuck zone wides. if any class switches between 2 comepletely different roles liek we can in a raid zone their ZW will suck. EH for example. you spend all the trash basically dpsing and on sum of the named too, but on the "harder" named you heal. your zone wides are going to blow in comparrison to other dedicated classes. but who cares? youve added to the raid and enabled dps classes to do better as well. yeah we can own the heal parse with the old snipe healing technique, but if youve ever encountered a snipe healer its fucking annoying. look not to the zone wide. if your group is alive you have achieved in my book. sure you may lose to a warden in heals, but then look at their dps parse. sure they are focused healers, we are balanced. your both doing your job. occasionally youll run in to cunta shamens or templars who think they have one fucking clue about what the fuck they are talking about and who will try and put you down for your healing parses, should you go the way of the battle cleric. dont stand for that shit. your playing your part they are playing theirs.

IF your group dies easy and its cus u dps over heals thats an issue, if they live and u parse...everyones a winner.

hope i helped.

arturos

amen on the zone wide focus... like meph im gonna catch hell for this..

mt defiler
mt temp/warden
OT shammy
everyone else dont matter as long as their groups dont die... I saw this somewhere i cant remember where but it very very accurate..
If someone is busting your balls about parsing low on the heals and ur group is not dieing??? tell em to fuck off ur doing the hump... it makes zero sense to spam heals on a green raid force... if you are casting reactives on the MT your fucking wrong unless the MT cleric called u for it.. never fails to fucking amaze me when u get micro manager raid leaders... OMGZORS U parsed .345% lower on HPS this fight then the last time we were in here... WTF you need to respec... oh tell em to piss off..
on trash at the most i will group reactive and single target my agro whore... if he gets it then i got time to keep him going...
there will be times with agro goes sideways and ur groupmembers will go hulkamania on u and try to tank it solo... all u can do is shut down dps quickly and heal em up as best as u can...

Leorra

Not casting convict on incoming is shooting yourself in the foot for personal dps, and completely failing your raid by ignoring the main reason you're in said raid.