Endurance Heal / Regen Style Spell
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by Scowls » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:49 am
regearing for me usually means situations where, say--new supercool shoulders drop with a nifty focus (ext buffs) but i pass on them because old shoulders have my only healing focus. i dont upgrade shoulders for a while until i can get a better healing focus, which usually doesnt show itself until late into new content. Ive always hated warriors that proclaim "they are gear dependant"...welcome to EQ, where we all are, especially in the high end. 9 times out of 10 replacing 1 focus items means i loose a second focus item. SOE seems to have decided after qvic that arm and hand slots are areas that shaman dont need focus effects. making the focus shuffle slightly more difficult for shaman in particular, who wear an abnormally large amount of focus effects
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by Tugela » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:17 pm
Other than haste the other damage effect augs you mentioned have a pretty minor effect on overall damage. Just as melee can buy a haste aug, so can casters buy their basic augs. The boost in caster power is greater because of stackability of different aug effects.
It still doesn't change the fact that melee power is directly related to the availability and quality of weapons. Haste is an innate ability that suplements power just as flowing thought does. I notice that you do not advocate level limits on flowing thought items. You know very well that haste items have been in the game long before focus effects were introduced, and that melee/caster power curves are designed taking that into account. What exactly is it that you want? Because those power curves ARE going to be maintained, if they do as you advocate, caster power will be reigned in some other way, probably through progressively more powerful foci and much weaker spell upgrades. You are STILL going to need to upgrade gear to increase power, the only difference being that those casters who dont raid are going to be screwed much more than they are now.
The bottom line is that the direct analog of melee/caster power increase is weapons versus focus effects, and both of those come from raid level drops whether you like it or not. There is no reason why a casual player with obsolete gear that happens to have the right focus should have the same power as a current raider. That certainly isnt the case with melee.
FYI, level 70 runes drop of regular nameds too, you dont need to raid to get them. The only spells you need to raid for are ancients.
It still doesn't change the fact that melee power is directly related to the availability and quality of weapons. Haste is an innate ability that suplements power just as flowing thought does. I notice that you do not advocate level limits on flowing thought items. You know very well that haste items have been in the game long before focus effects were introduced, and that melee/caster power curves are designed taking that into account. What exactly is it that you want? Because those power curves ARE going to be maintained, if they do as you advocate, caster power will be reigned in some other way, probably through progressively more powerful foci and much weaker spell upgrades. You are STILL going to need to upgrade gear to increase power, the only difference being that those casters who dont raid are going to be screwed much more than they are now.
The bottom line is that the direct analog of melee/caster power increase is weapons versus focus effects, and both of those come from raid level drops whether you like it or not. There is no reason why a casual player with obsolete gear that happens to have the right focus should have the same power as a current raider. That certainly isnt the case with melee.
FYI, level 70 runes drop of regular nameds too, you dont need to raid to get them. The only spells you need to raid for are ancients.
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by Lenil » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:28 am
I'm having trouble understaning what your beliefs are on caster power Tugela. In your last post, next to the last paragraph, you say that casters with new spells and old focii are a marginal increase in power. In the last paragraph, you seem to be saying that casters get their increase in power "out of the box" or by farming mickey mouse.
Which is it? Do casters need to raid a fair bit to get more than a marginal increase from their new spells or do casters just need to raid mickey mouse, get their new spells and new focii mean nothing?
Which is it? Do casters need to raid a fair bit to get more than a marginal increase from their new spells or do casters just need to raid mickey mouse, get their new spells and new focii mean nothing?
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by Bigcat Daddy-o » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:29 pm
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