DigiAngel wrote: »

Yea I'd been keeping up with the PTS chatter, so crit getting nerfed wasn't a surprise...the surprise came with the end amount...10% off the top really stung. My survivability even in overland content was Seletrix to stun, and high crit to dispatch quickly. No longer right now. Need to swap out Juliano's with MS to see if that's an improvement..otherwise I'll just go high damage and not care.

Outside of PVP, high damage is almost always the way to go. Often, the best Defense is a good Offense. When I build for overland/questing/farming, these are my priorities.

1. Get to the speed cap. It's too easy not to, and its such a time saver.
2. Can I sustain for about 60 seconds. Nothing takes longer than that in overland (outside of a few WB if you solo), even that is probably overkill. With the new health bonuses, parse food (max resource+max resource regen) is going to be perfectly viable and in some cases, BIS.
3. 1-2 defensive skills (shields, heals, armor buff, etc).
4. DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE (with an emphasis on AOE as most overland stuff comes in groups of 3 or so).

My Favorite overland build currently for mag DPS is as follows:

Front bar: False God (lighting)
Back bar: Burning Spell weave (fire)
Monster set: Grothdar
Rest of Body/ jewelry is 3x FG, and 4x BSW
Mythic Item: ROTWH or ROTPO depending on my needs.

Your back bar blockade will always proc your BSW. You dont need a VMA staff for fights in overland, they area two short for the LAs to matter much. You get the 5 piece sustain, speed and damage from FG, you have room for a Monster (AOE damage is best for overland IMO) and room for a mythic (heals from ROTPO or speed from ROTWH). Just finished making this setup in gold with everything training except my back bar staff, which is infused. Perfect for grinding, questing, random normals, etc. Training just became BIS outside of veteran group content, solo arenas, or PVP.