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Flames of Rotation
Parasaurolophus
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While the community only cares about farming a lot of CPs, there are two other terrible things that worry me. I watched a few videos from PTS by Liko and other bloggers and noticed a few things:
1) Rotation of dots only. Now for magic classes, instead of a combination of spam / dots / buff skills and dynamic rotation, just push 12345 swap, repeat. I remember that a similar situation was with the Scalebreaker patch, when the developers changed the damage and cost of direct and AoE dots several times.
2) Duals for mages. I think this is not correct and the duals should only be physical damage. And it's not just aesthetics. For magic, we have a special staff branch with magic passives and abilities. Yes, I would like to have some kind of magic weapon, but this is a topic for another conversation. When instead of a staff they just take plugs with a small increase in spd and without magic skills, then something is wrong with the design of the combat lines.
Edited by Parasaurolophus on March 5, 2021 12:09PM 1) Rotation of dots only. Now for magic classes, instead of a combination of spam / dots / buff skills and dynamic rotation, just push 12345 swap, repeat. I remember that a similar situation was with the Scalebreaker patch, when the developers changed the damage and cost of direct and AoE dots several times.
2) Duals for mages. I think this is not correct and the duals should only be physical damage. And it's not just aesthetics. For magic, we have a special staff branch with magic passives and abilities. Yes, I would like to have some kind of magic weapon, but this is a topic for another conversation. When instead of a staff they just take plugs with a small increase in spd and without magic skills, then something is wrong with the design of the combat lines.
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LeonNoir✭BrownChicken wrote: »Duals for mages. I think this is not correct and the duals should only be physical damage. And it's not just aesthetics. For magic, we have a special staff branch with magic passives and abilities.
duals may have enchantments. enchantments = magicka (poisons = stamina)
so aesthetically everything is fine here
no need to force mages to wear staves
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ealdwin✭✭✭✭✭
✭I don’t know. If more DoT focused rotations are viable again, I don’t see that as an inherently bad thing. After all, it’s either refreshing a cycle of DoTs for continuous damage or keeping a few DoTs up and then hitting a spammable 10 times over. As long as both options are viable, I fail to see the problem with players having more choices regarding rotations.
But that’s just my opinion, and others may disagree.2 -
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✭The more they try to nerf, the more end game steamers will adjust to whatever remains and is effective against the target dummy.3 -
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✭✭I enjoy playing on my DK, so I am fine with a DoT rotation. Juggling DoTs should yield more damage or what is the point of Dots?
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