Rubbinns wrote on Aug 6
th, 2015 at 3:26pm:
Just so you dont think youre competing against me, I went and solo'd ranks today. 2 attempts.
My 1st attempt i died on giants. The red named boulder toss keeps knocking me down. So, i went and got toven cookies. This is without joy. I used tea when the giants wave started. Ignored first gnoll boss. I could shave off 3mins if I proc joy and hotkeyed spell potions, fire shield, displace clickies, and weapon swap(my clickies are staves).
Still at over 15mins Im not breaking any speed records.
http://i.imgur.com/GF6inFR.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/FEPNMD2.png all of the accommodations you had to make for your time are exactly why these tests are completely stupid and meaningless.
For one thing, a solo speed record, like a solo red named Cabal record, only says how you perform under very experimental, highly controlled specific circumstances.
Notice how I've NEVER bragged that I can speed solo Breaking the Ranks or the Cabal faster than other people who do those tests?
It's because I don't. I don't run those tests. I don't change my enhancements and twists and ED's and gear and drink all of my special pots just to beat a speed record that has nothing to do with crushing a quest with some friends or pugs as fast as I can when I play DDO for real, not for internet ePeen cred.
I just don't get it. The best test of a build in my mind is in the wild, in groups, under varying circumstances, with an overall judgement of "does playing this person make content easier or harder? Faster or slower? Am I learning how to do things better in this game playing with them?"
These are the true tests of how well a build is built, as far as I am concerned. I literally don't give a shit about your solo speed records. I never built my throwers to beatr or exceed someones elses solo speed record. Since I don't play DDO for solo speed records EVER (it doesn't get me loot, it isn't a better way to level or TR, and isn't particularly fun for me), why the fuck would I concern myself with optimizing a build for it?
For the Red Named cabal test, I could easily change my EWD to Fury, redo my Enhancements to Take Slayer Arrows, and just use Manyshot with Slayer and Sniper Shot and boosts and pots and kill him in 5 Seconds. Why wouldn't I be able to? That's all a Monkcher does.
I'm pretty sure I could beat your time in Ranks, because this build absolutely curb-stomps trash which is most of that quest. Would probably have to juggle some things to increase survivability. Take lvl 12 core in acrobat for knockdown immunity.
So what? I don't play that way, I dont usually take those enhancements and twists, and it's no longer my build, it's my build heavily modified for speed record.
The problem we keep co,ing around to is that you think I'm full of shit because I do not give a rats ass about ePeen or proving my in game experience to you. Instead I offer it up objectively as pretty good damage model (see spreadsheet damage calcs I have previously shared) and relate to you my experiences anecdotally.
You all interpret that as being dishonest or braggy or something.
It's really just that I don't agree with what you think is important in a build, or how to prove that to you. Let that sink in. I think you're wrong to base build judgements on subjective and meaningless speed tests.
Read that again.