TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »Wizards is just much more flexible and has a high uptime, I honestly don't see why anyone would trade it out for a few shields that'll get easily bursted when they can potentially have a 100 percent uptime with wizards.
The shield doesn't even prevent you from eating a massive crit and dying, since you can still register a crit and the overflow damage WILL crit the health pool, whereas the ~8-10% real mitigation most builds will see from riposte actually gives you MORE benefit the higher the incoming damage.
CP has a cap on effectiveness and its quite a bit too low to be viable in the same array of situations as riposte. In a very niche situation then CP is worth slotting but its not broad enough to justify losing the "aoe" maim.
Yeah I just feel like the set is too good in a multitude of scenarios and with multiple builds. You can go support, healer or dps with wizards, I for one wouldn't even consider CP as a healer.
You might not consider Combat Physician, but I have, and use it for all content; its much better than many of you believe...
Read the link in my signature; I do dps, support, and heal...and its all done with the Combat Physician gear set.
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »Wizards is just much more flexible and has a high uptime, I honestly don't see why anyone would trade it out for a few shields that'll get easily bursted when they can potentially have a 100 percent uptime with wizards.
The shield doesn't even prevent you from eating a massive crit and dying, since you can still register a crit and the overflow damage WILL crit the health pool, whereas the ~8-10% real mitigation most builds will see from riposte actually gives you MORE benefit the higher the incoming damage.
CP has a cap on effectiveness and its quite a bit too low to be viable in the same array of situations as riposte. In a very niche situation then CP is worth slotting but its not broad enough to justify losing the "aoe" maim.
Yeah I just feel like the set is too good in a multitude of scenarios and with multiple builds. You can go support, healer or dps with wizards, I for one wouldn't even consider CP as a healer.
You might not consider Combat Physician, but I have, and use it for all content; its much better than many of you believe...
Read the link in my signature; I do dps, support, and heal...and its all done with the Combat Physician gear set.
Flowersquisher wrote: »You are definitely hell bent on using CP, and that's great, each to there own.That said, on paper CP looks ok at best, but in reality (yes i have tried it) it is a weak set for a pvp healer. I'm not going to say WR is better, but CP IS a weak healer set. For light armor sets in PVP, transmutation, mending , sanctuary are all going to outperform a randomly place weak damage shield. But if you feel it works for you and your group is happy having you heal them with CP, go for it.
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »Flowersquisher wrote: »You are definitely hell bent on using CP, and that's great, each to there own.That said, on paper CP looks ok at best, but in reality (yes i have tried it) it is a weak set for a pvp healer. I'm not going to say WR is better, but CP IS a weak healer set. For light armor sets in PVP, transmutation, mending , sanctuary are all going to outperform a randomly place weak damage shield. But if you feel it works for you and your group is happy having you heal them with CP, go for it.
Combat Physician is far from weak...
The numbers support my belief as pertains this...
If you have some numbers that say otherwise, I'd love to see them; I've already numerically demonstrated the superiority of Combat Physician over Riposte...
Lets see your numbers that say otherwise...
Flowersquisher wrote: »TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »Flowersquisher wrote: »Keep in mind, your opponent is going to say "focus healer first", so as soon as you are noticed healing your team you are going to get rekt. CP in all but niche situations is not a good set to be relying on, even transmutation would be better.
Well we agree to disagree, and there have been many times I've been focused fired upon and survived btw...
Maybe so, but you didn't survive because of CP, lets be honest here, IF it procs on you while being focused, that shield isn't what is going to save you
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »Wizards is just much more flexible and has a high uptime, I honestly don't see why anyone would trade it out for a few shields that'll get easily bursted when they can potentially have a 100 percent uptime with wizards.
The shield doesn't even prevent you from eating a massive crit and dying, since you can still register a crit and the overflow damage WILL crit the health pool, whereas the ~8-10% real mitigation most builds will see from riposte actually gives you MORE benefit the higher the incoming damage.
CP has a cap on effectiveness and its quite a bit too low to be viable in the same array of situations as riposte. In a very niche situation then CP is worth slotting but its not broad enough to justify losing the "aoe" maim.
Yeah I just feel like the set is too good in a multitude of scenarios and with multiple builds. You can go support, healer or dps with wizards, I for one wouldn't even consider CP as a healer.
You might not consider Combat Physician, but I have, and use it for all content; its much better than many of you believe...
Read the link in my signature; I do dps, support, and heal...and its all done with the Combat Physician gear set.
I easily put out 20k damage every 6 seconds by MYSELF on a target. GG your arguement and goodbye
Flowersquisher wrote: »TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »Flowersquisher wrote: »You are definitely hell bent on using CP, and that's great, each to there own.That said, on paper CP looks ok at best, but in reality (yes i have tried it) it is a weak set for a pvp healer. I'm not going to say WR is better, but CP IS a weak healer set. For light armor sets in PVP, transmutation, mending , sanctuary are all going to outperform a randomly place weak damage shield. But if you feel it works for you and your group is happy having you heal them with CP, go for it.
Combat Physician is far from weak...
The numbers support my belief as pertains this...
If you have some numbers that say otherwise, I'd love to see them; I've already numerically demonstrated the superiority of Combat Physician over Riposte...
Lets see your numbers that say otherwise...
As i said earlier, it looks OK at best on paper, but in actual use you are just hurting you and your team by not slotting a better 5pc set, as if also pointed out above
Anyway, as I have also already said, if you and your team are happy with a weak shield versus almost any other light heal set, then great. Anyway, have fun
Flowersquisher wrote: »TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »Wizards is just much more flexible and has a high uptime, I honestly don't see why anyone would trade it out for a few shields that'll get easily bursted when they can potentially have a 100 percent uptime with wizards.
The shield doesn't even prevent you from eating a massive crit and dying, since you can still register a crit and the overflow damage WILL crit the health pool, whereas the ~8-10% real mitigation most builds will see from riposte actually gives you MORE benefit the higher the incoming damage.
CP has a cap on effectiveness and its quite a bit too low to be viable in the same array of situations as riposte. In a very niche situation then CP is worth slotting but its not broad enough to justify losing the "aoe" maim.
Yeah I just feel like the set is too good in a multitude of scenarios and with multiple builds. You can go support, healer or dps with wizards, I for one wouldn't even consider CP as a healer.
You might not consider Combat Physician, but I have, and use it for all content; its much better than many of you believe...
Read the link in my signature; I do dps, support, and heal...and its all done with the Combat Physician gear set.
All you are REALLY doing is wasting 5 slots
Joy_Division wrote: »This times I need strong gear is when I am getting attacked by multiple enemies and that means for myself and players who feel similarly, Riposte is going to be the more efficient set and by a fair margin
The only spec with any use for combat physician is a magsorc with surge.
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »Joy_Division wrote: »This times I need strong gear is when I am getting attacked by multiple enemies and that means for myself and players who feel similarly, Riposte is going to be the more efficient set and by a fair margin
If you are being Focus Fired upon (as a Healer) by multiple attackers, then Riposte will negate more damage than Combat Physician will; no question...
But thats the basic flaw with the gear set (as pertains it functioning as a support tool); you MUST be the subject of Focus Fire to get the most benefit from it...that is not optional...it is required.
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »
We really need to see your build in action. Can you take video? If you have shadow play/PC, just upload some raw scenes quick.
So you are looking at a situation, where 1.) you have plenty of allies arround to protect you and b) low pressure from enemies, that aren't able to "break" through your ranks. Which occurs mostly when unorganized zergs are poking each other from range, right? Because that's the only situation, where you can just sit in the back and not get hit as a healer. A situation that is compareable to open-world-pve - everything works, just play whatever you want, it doesn't really matter, as long you got the bigger zerg. I'm not trying to be offensive here, that's just how cyrodiil works most of the time and it is ok, as long people are having fun.
But when people (including myself) are discussing the efficiency of gear, they are usually looking at more demanding situations. Where gear can really make a difference. And in pvp this usually means, playing against organized zergs and/or fighting outnumbered. And in both cases enemies will push trough your ranks and you have to push them. Not getting hit isn't an option. You said, "the group is doomed", if that happens, but a good group is not. Good healers can keep their team and themself alive, even when everyone is under high pressure. And that's where Riposte outperformes CP by a large margin. When it really matters...
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »
And whats your proof of that?
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »
And whats your proof of that?
I've already done some math ...
41k dmg in a minute is absolutely nothing in a big fight with lots of aoe flying arround.
Waffennacht wrote: »TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »
And whats your proof of that?
I've already done some math ...
41k dmg in a minute is absolutely nothing in a big fight with lots of aoe flying arround.
Dude, he's looking at it like this:
I'm not getting hit: therefore Riposte has no use, combat physician works while not being hit therefore physician is superior to Riposte.
Coming from the premise that he isn't getting hit is where you disagree.
Given the premise he set, no matter how often it does or does not happen, he is correct.
Now it's debatable how true the premise actually is
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »Wizards is just much more flexible and has a high uptime, I honestly don't see why anyone would trade it out for a few shields that'll get easily bursted when they can potentially have a 100 percent uptime with wizards.
The shield doesn't even prevent you from eating a massive crit and dying, since you can still register a crit and the overflow damage WILL crit the health pool, whereas the ~8-10% real mitigation most builds will see from riposte actually gives you MORE benefit the higher the incoming damage.
CP has a cap on effectiveness and its quite a bit too low to be viable in the same array of situations as riposte. In a very niche situation then CP is worth slotting but its not broad enough to justify losing the "aoe" maim.
Yeah I just feel like the set is too good in a multitude of scenarios and with multiple builds. You can go support, healer or dps with wizards, I for one wouldn't even consider CP as a healer.
You might not consider Combat Physician, but I have, and use it for all content; its much better than many of you believe...
Read the link in my signature; I do dps, support, and heal...and its all done with the Combat Physician gear set.
I easily put out 20k damage every 6 seconds by MYSELF on a target. GG your arguement and goodbye
If you are putting out 20k damage every 6 seconds, then Combat Physician is negating more damage than Riposte over that time span...
Combat Physician is thus superior when facing you than Riposte would be...
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »
And whats your proof of that?
I've already done some math ...
41k dmg in a minute is absolutely nothing in a big fight with lots of aoe flying arround.
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »CatchMeTrolling wrote: »Wizards is just much more flexible and has a high uptime, I honestly don't see why anyone would trade it out for a few shields that'll get easily bursted when they can potentially have a 100 percent uptime with wizards.
The shield doesn't even prevent you from eating a massive crit and dying, since you can still register a crit and the overflow damage WILL crit the health pool, whereas the ~8-10% real mitigation most builds will see from riposte actually gives you MORE benefit the higher the incoming damage.
CP has a cap on effectiveness and its quite a bit too low to be viable in the same array of situations as riposte. In a very niche situation then CP is worth slotting but its not broad enough to justify losing the "aoe" maim.
Yeah I just feel like the set is too good in a multitude of scenarios and with multiple builds. You can go support, healer or dps with wizards, I for one wouldn't even consider CP as a healer.
You might not consider Combat Physician, but I have, and use it for all content; its much better than many of you believe...
Read the link in my signature; I do dps, support, and heal...and its all done with the Combat Physician gear set.
I easily put out 20k damage every 6 seconds by MYSELF on a target. GG your arguement and goodbye
If you are putting out 20k damage every 6 seconds, then Combat Physician is negating more damage than Riposte over that time span...
Combat Physician is thus superior when facing you than Riposte would be...
I knew you'd say that... so CP is better when you're 1v1 with a support build but as soon as another pugs or 1 damage builds attack you it's not /thread
This is just too painful to read.
TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »With Wizards Riposte, you'd have to sustain 54000 points of damage in that 15 second span just to equal the amount of damage that Combat Physician will negate in the same time span (54000 x .15 = 8100...so its not even truly equal)...