Edrein wrote on Sep 17^th, 2020 at 2:48pm:

That is my plan.


Edrein wrote on Sep 17^th, 2020 at 2:48pm:

I don't know about Visage being better. My EiN DC is 140. I couldn't get anywhere near that with Visage.

I'll take a look at concentrating in the Ravager and Occult Slayer trees, though. Thanks.

Technomage wrote on Sep 17^th, 2020 at 5:32pm:


If you're using handwraps it's a bit of an interesting debate.

Blood Strength isn't effected by reaper penalties, so it's always decent healing.

The +2 threat range is huge for handwraps given their shitty 19-20 base range. However, you won't be getting any crit multiplier bonuses outside of the Shift.

Depending on how the AP costs are recalculated for the tree; I'd still argue T5 occult and Visage capstone if you can swing the AP costs.

Right now you're getting an extra +3 con from Shifter and that's +1.5DC to Visage. There's a ton of 'wonkiness' with the Visage DC that I wouldn't want to go into. But that being said I've been able to reliably land Visage in R5+ content even in Sharn. Assuming mobs don't get crazy stat increases with Feywild, you'll still be good to go.

On the flip side; T5 Occult Slayer does net you the best of both worlds. You get +1 threat range and technically +2 crit multiplier. Granted one of those is on 19-20, but remember you've got a shit crit profile anyway. So bumping yourself to a 18-20/x4 and 19-20/x6 is pretty nice. You've also got a solid big boy self heal; that while reduced by reaper is still more reliable than the smaller healing from blood strength.

Additionally you've got several attacks that don't break attack chain currently which is huge. All of the 'cleave' style attacks have a borked animation currently, so until we see if they fix that, expect cleaves to be a DPS loss.

No matter which side of the Enhancements you drop on. Taking Crazy Attack to T4 for the +2W buff is pretty damn useful. But again, that's more AP expenditures you've got to swing. And for a T5 Occult and Rav capstone, you aint swinging that damage buff.

Edrein wrote on Sep 17^th, 2020 at 8:11pm:

Yeah, and I like that extra +10% hit points, too.

Thanks.

Asheras wrote on Sep 18^th, 2020 at 10:36am:

...but pretty devastating.

Technomage wrote on Sep 18^th, 2020 at 10:18am:


10% HP, metallic Bypass, and they finally fixed vampiric bond so an easy 60 temp HP for those being lazy about melee power (I was while testing).

Edrein wrote on Sep 17^th, 2020 at 5:49am:


This is a buff to Sense Weakness. The extra dice were nice when EDs debuted, but dps has inflated like crazy since then, And I assure you +3 damage that scales with MP and crits, etc is going to do more damage than 3 unscaling dice that don't even apply full time.

As to performance issues, I think they mentioned once that there is a max to the number of additional effects that you can have scrolling by on the screen. Or maybe they were concerned about the base number being pushed off the left side of the screen on smaller monitors?

Also it looks like the +3 will apply to ranged dps, where the extra dice did not.

Rubbinns wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 12:59am:


The value of Duality is intrinsically tied to being a monk though.

Sure the bumped 'die' is there, but post nerfage it's not enough to really say "Yeah, shifters should use this wrap."

My money is on most shifters will farm out Scraps of Enlightenment or Tatterchains.

Fetters is solid if you want to put in the effort depending on your server/your runes.

I'd imagine most will be using the Handwraps of the Hound, which unfortunately blows donkey dick at the moment beyond the nat 20 proc.

Rubbinns wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2020 at 6:48am:


Outside of monk mains who already have duality, I doubt anyone else is going to jump headlong into creating Strahd pugs for everyone else lol.