by Ughbash » Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:13 am
If you want XP soloing you don't use mercs.
If I want to get XP soloing... Hmm well I can't cause I am maxxed... but ignoring that if I want xp I would go to RSS and kill without a merc. Light blues are much faster then me popping a merc and doing Kurns tower. And a merc takes up half your xp.
Now for the sake of argument I can not solo a non animal mob in Field of scale (Without a merc). To get the same xp as you when using a merc I would have to kill twice as fast. Now for the sake of argument lets say that I have 2x the dps of an equivalently geared Paladin. Call me 2500 and them 1250. That would be parity on soloing. However you also have the option of going to undead their in which case you will increase your DPS.
Yes you used to be among the best of the soloers for xp, and STILL do some amazing Old Boss mobs. Currently other melee have closed the gap, by using mercs however I do not thing that they surpass you. (I really can not tell you what I would get in a lesson burn in RSS as I don't get AA, but a friend slightly better gear, less AA, SLIGHTLY less DPS gets about 6 aa in Vald pit while it is a hot zone).
Now with that said YES, by all means I AGREE that you need more DPS. I AGREE that it should be DPS that is not tied to aggro so you can actually BURN or at least pretend to. No you should not be topping zerkers in burn parses and am sure most here do not think you should even on undead. You SHOULD have more burn on live, and from what I have read here more burn on undead (I consider your sustained on undead to be fine). Now wether the burn on undead is by spells (which would require an enchanter to maximize) or by Melee (which would require shaman/bard/zerker to maximize) I don't care, but you should get more burn, and that BURN should be calculated assuming you are getting boosts from other classes (just like all the other burn classes are assumed to get). MY personal preference would be to see you get a good FIRE nuke or two (which druid would help) because Fire has a purifying effect on undead but how they do it I really do not care.
Interesting note last night my group for Mindblight had 3 monks, a druid, a wizard and a mage. You can imagine that my burn DPS was less then stellar. But then our Raid Leaders seldom put together what I consider to be DPS groups.