The cooldowns feel really good on these spells.

FYI, thunderstrike and iceberg share a cooldown of 3s.

Digimonk wrote on Nov 13^th, 2018 at 12:38pm:


I'm not a fan of this idea, specifically, but I agree with you that spell point pool management is the bigger issue.  Not raw DPS.

DnD wrote on Nov 14^th, 2018 at 1:58pm:


They improved the tree from the junk tree that it had been for almost forever.  That is about the only good thing that can be said I think.  I don't anticipate seeing a pile more EKs in groups.

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And you keep proving why nobody should listen to you.


Rubbinns wrote on Nov 15^th, 2018 at 12:08pm:

Asheras wrote on Nov 15^th, 2018 at 1:35pm:




Digimonk wrote on Sep 17^th, 2018 at 3:41pm:

Can't say I didn't warn you.  Granted, you only made it two months instead of a year but that's not surprising giving how fast you went downhill on the first go around.

More idiots telling you you're right =/= you being right >.> especially given that this site is largely anti-turbine/ssg so it's not in the least surprising that someone else would agree with you that they did something wrong? But no keep being wrong.

Wipe wrote on Nov 19^th, 2018 at 5:33am:


I mean which would be fine if they at least made it clear that's what it should be.  But 95% of enhancement trees for casters are based around doing more dps.

If we had a half-assed decent LFM system so that you could play support roles (tank/healer/control) and level them up, that'd be nice too.

Man you just double down immediately when someone points out your bad? What, did you go to the Tilomere school of being bad and unable to cope? Because your ideas of trying to make all the classes play exactly the same reeks of soundburst on everything.

Also, where do I find the smart people on this site? I haven't seen any around, maybe they are hiding?

Bigjunk wrote on Nov 19^th, 2018 at 4:04pm:


You got me, i'm a flav sock

Yeah but if you're in r10 trying to nuke trash when you're a caster that can easily spec for instakills and cc you're doing it wrong. It's basically to me just a bonus to those casters being absolutely useless as fuck in boss fights, now they get a little leg up for slotting some spell power in their gear.

If you toss in some sort of infinite spell pool you're probably just better off going with a thrower build or something that already exists because that's all you'd be doing at that point is trading off a class feature for sustained ranged dps.

I get it, DPS is king in ddo, and in r10 questing nothing beats out 4 dps and an instakills or two for speed completions. But that's the mess that the "Well what about moar sustained dps" and "well i'd rather just play alone but i want to play the toughest difficulty too" crowd got us. Just some DPS test where casters are more efficient making everything a training dummy or dead. Shoehorned into a no win scenario where either they give nuke casters an indefinite supply of spell points to compensate and change their nuke spells into sustained damage spells so they can be in line with all other forms of ranged dps and kill any uniqueness of the class, or you get "moar damage dice!"

The more the devs listen to you little munchkining fucks that need more sparkly damage numbers  so that LD is practically the only dps tree, and gearing synergy that gives us stupid shit like prowess because nobody can stand to trade off dps for survivability  and whine melee sucks, the more sucked into developing only for the meta the devs get and the worse the game becomes because nobody can just sit there and say "well this is a rational change, it's not over the top so it's not impressive and that's ok" It's always this bullshit from the player base "well Symbiont just soloed r20 with his barbarian druid favored soul build so anything you guys do has to fall in line with that".

I mean take a look at the bitch and moan from eldritch knight's pass. It sounds like a really fun idea, but nobody can get past the idea that it won't be meta, so it's garbage. The first person who says that starts a tidal wave of "he's totally right it's not meta so garbage". They have to sift through thousands of Digimonk retard posts saying that it's not gonna be uber so it's not worthwhile like the only thing they are allowed to design for is the meta, which is poor design.

/rantover TL:DR The meta is killing the game and blames the devs, player feeback is subjectively shit, and that's all i've got for this thread.

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As opposed to the great ideas you've offered up?  Thus far, the only solution you've proposed amounts to "don't play an evo caster in high skull". 

Yeah, that's a great fix that obviously increases the variety of builds that are viable in high skull content.  Ironically, you actually suggested that as a solution after trying (and failing) to show that my idea, which would actually let evo casters play like evo casters, by suggesting something that evo casters don't play like evo casters.  /facepalm

Assuming this is a thread full of not-smart people, all you're doing is lowering the bar and proving you don't have a clue about the main problem Evo casters have in mid to high skull content. 

Sadly, I don't think you're even trolling with that dumbass suggestion.  You seem serious and apparently you're really just that clueless, aren't you?

Yep, Digi you've officially been drinking that Tilo koolaid. "My bad ideas are at least ideas" Go chone.

Making evo casters sustained dps types is fuckin retarded.

which abilities do those things? except for the stats, that comes mainly from weapons.

Rubbinns wrote on Nov 19^th, 2018 at 9:32pm:


Same reason why you don't give THF the same single target dps as TWF. I mean if you want to keep pushing to where we have cookie cutter builds like every other MMO because they just shrug their shoulders and make it so that each class does the same dps and has the same utility and has the same survivability go ahead. I'm in the camp that they just need to increase the burst damage of nuking spells so they ya know, nuke. If you just want to make a shuricannon that tosses fire/ice/lightning/acid instead of shuris then yeah totally go with giving them an infinitely refilling spell point pool, because nobody will ever abuse that for something else ever.

And if you're gonna be a silly fuck and go all in on nuking and don't explore the full potential of the class with it's crowd control spells ect. then yeah you're gonna suck just as much as someone that goes all into dps and forgets to gear for survivability for melee that keep whining that melee sucks in reaper.