New AA and void gear

Demyn80 · 12-08-2008, 11:38 AM

So I respecced out of wisdom to put points in the new tree, and my question is for optimum dps in a raid spec would you start putting points back into the wisdom tree as you gain new points, or would you put points into the increasing your buffs and maybe dimensional storage for survivability. Of course I have the pet crits, increased base damage, rotting line, int line for mage, str with max crits, but I don't have 170 AA yet to put into the final necro line so where do they go in the mean time?

Also for the void shard gear I have the pants already cause power flux 3 adds so much to pet damage (115), but my gear if fairly good and I don't see huge upgrades from any of the other peices besides maybe shoulders (but I do have frostfired mantle which has 90 SD and 48 int). What do ya think?

Skootz · 12-08-2008, 01:59 PM

I am guessing that your not in VP gear. The first thing I would replace is our shoulders. +base damage is amazing when your at or over the spell damage cap along with +base to our pets as well.

Personally I pulled everything out of Wisdom and the and mooched off some other lines as well, transfer life, pet heal, Zombie recast, Sta etc. I have been putting most of my points into the shadow tree until I hit 170 which I will respec again. I am going for what is just best for right now and not really looking at the long term respecs are cheap.

SirAmoel · 12-09-2008, 06:46 AM

I'm wondering, about Dimensional Storage... Is it meant to store a different pet? Or can you have, say, two mage pets, and if it eats an AoE, just "pop" the other one to avoid recast? Maybe it's just meant to "quick swap" from one pet to another, like scout to mage, or whatever... Haven't gotten there, will try on my own, but would still like to hear from you if you've got it and tried it.

Utanlaina · 12-09-2008, 10:57 AM

You can have 2 mage pets. At least the spell version, didn't try the mythic pet.

twisty · 12-09-2008, 05:03 PM

you can have 2 of any pets, including mythical. you can't swap between them since the stored one "overwrites" your current one if there is a current one.'

it's a little buggy about preserving buffs on the stored pet. seems if you have 2 of the same ones stored and 1st one dies, 2nd one comes out with buffs gone.

so far this has very very limited usability. mainly because the storage poofs on your death. since i die way more often than just my pet, it becomes a real waste of time to double-summon for that one occasion where you'd save yourself 10sec of summoning mid-fight.

i'd say only interesting for people using scout pets on raids. it has some value for soloing super-impossible challenges when your tank pet dies and you're somehow not a wet spot within next 2secs and can get deaggro-nuke off, but generally you're a wet spot if you managed to lose your tank pet.

SirAmoel · 12-12-2008, 10:46 AM

You'd need a mixed AA spec for the scout pet to be useful too. The mage pet, with the right spec, does more damage single target than the scout pet with the wrong spec. So it's a waste anyway. IMHO that is.

And (IMHO too) a mixed spec, that respects both pets, is going to limit your damage output on any of the two.

Carthington · 12-12-2008, 02:28 PM

in eq1 this had somewhat of a decent use, but I never died often in eq1 either at least not as much as what I do in eq2... dimensional storage either way is not as important to have as other AAs especially if you raid