#31
|
||||
|
Quote:
| |||
#32
|
|||
|
If said video is recorded and does indeed show a player playing badly. Does it not mean that said player did indeed play badly and is a bad player?
I'm trying to understand this and make said player look better but video evidence is strong. Pretty much all we have to show if we are not there to witness. You also say he refuses to post the videos so what are you complaining about? Your confused ramblings are tough to follow. No wonder you constantly edit your posts. Take a breath. Relax and type your responses into a text editor (I use Jota) first. Edit it to your hearts content. Proof read it. Copy/paste contents into p99 forums. You go girl. | ||
#33
|
||||||
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
Shamwowi Wipesalot (60 SHM) | Bazgek Bonebreaker (60 SK) | Sznake Pliszken (52 MNK) | Laanfear (30 ENC)
Do you have questions about Shaman races? Read my guide: https://wiki.project1999.com/Shamwow...man_Race_Guide Want to see Shaman videos? Check out my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFU...zEFJVBIH3-jUog | |||||
#34
|
||||
|
Quote:
As you can see the relative benefit of being an iksar is very small indeed once you have gear and factor in lifedrain effects like soulwell in play (and we havenÂ’t even accounted for the others). Even if youÂ’re not fighting you can also drain an eye of zomm for HP, assuming you have beads anyway. | |||
#35
|
||||
|
Quote:
__________________
| |||
#36
|
|||
|
inb4 a 3000 word multi-quoted break down of how every statement is "factually" incorrect along with video links unrelated to a thread about necro race choices.
__________________
< Knights Who Say Ni >
Qeynos questing and leveling (all quests nerfed) | Off the beaten path 24-40. | ||
#37
|
||||
|
Quote:
__________________
Shamwowi Wipesalot (60 SHM) | Bazgek Bonebreaker (60 SK) | Sznake Pliszken (52 MNK) | Laanfear (30 ENC)
Do you have questions about Shaman races? Read my guide: https://wiki.project1999.com/Shamwow...man_Race_Guide Want to see Shaman videos? Check out my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFU...zEFJVBIH3-jUog | |||
#38
|
||||
|
Quote:
__________________
Gorgen (Blue) - Agnostic Troll Warrior of the XXXI Dung | |||
#39
|
|||
|
Let's get back on topic before it morphs into another DSM thread.
Necromancer is such a versatile and self sufficient class that any character race will be fine. As always you should play what makes you happy and what you prefer to look at. Lich eats your health to give you mana. Mana can be used, to varying degrees of efficiency, to recover your lost hp. Straight up lifetaps are less efficient. The best way of healing self outside of free VP click (vexing mordinia lifetap dot) clocks in at 2.22 hp returned per mana spent before factoring in specialization. If alteration spec, increase those returns by 12%. It's really not bad at all when you factor in the massive continuous mana regen from lich along with the fact that it deals as much damage as it heals you (dmg does get a bonus extra tick that doesn't give you a heal recourse). Because of the nature of necro play when soloing (charming or otherwise) balancing the losses from lich is straightforward solo and while you are in combat. If you don't have a strong preference (visual or roleplay), however, iksar vs any other race has a really wide gap. It is there and it is noticeable while solo in combat but it really shines brighter at other times. A) Between combat and recovery: This one really is self-evident. Recovery is simply faster. Lich constantly rolls. If your hp is dropping below your comfort level, click off lich and your hp climbs much quicker while still getting meditate ticks. The iksar necro will be able to spend more total time with lich and thus less time having to sit and recover to begin with. At 60 when I need to afk recover it's so nice to know that I can just cast Arch Lich and walk away. Sitting, at -2hp/tick I would end up down only 380 health before the spell expired. If I wanted to FD afk with this spell ... I could walk away, get side tracked ... forget I was logged on ... and still not die buffless assuming I was close to 100% health. As a non-iksar ... self buffed only (or buffless) you'd die before the "efficient" lich (below) wore off at 19 min duration ... standing, sitting or FD. https://wiki.project1999.com/Arch_Lich B) "OH SHIT" ... the FD emergency FD: Bad pull .. not the best circumstances ... whatever ... all other options are out the window and at you have to strategically bail on what you're doing. FD succeeds but now you're flopped in hostile territory and whatever percentage below a safe level of health to get the heck out of there. From 51+ it's gonna take the iksar necro a lot less time to get back to a safe level of health to evacuate, move along, or otherwise get back to business. Click off FD and you're recovering that health 267% faster at 51, 300% faster at 56, and 280% faster at 60 compared to the non-iksar necro who's flopped on the floor. C) In a group doing the full scope of "extra": Necromancers are very potent healers. My health 1:1 = their health, gifted "freely". We aren't shamans who have to canni-dance so I see no reason to compare standing regen to standing regen in the setting of a group. No reason to stand unless you are actively casting a spell. You compare sitting to sitting regen. Starting at level 51 iksar necros have a 7hp/tick sitting boost over non-iksars. At 60 it's an 11hp/tick advantage. As nice as that hp/tick advantage is as it relates to the lich dynamic ... it really does ease the burden of self-healing required when you are constantly giving your hp to someone else while also carrying the burden of lich sucking your life force away. I haven't played a high level non-iksar necro to compare, but it's pretty obvious that you're gonna have to spend a lot more time tapping to get the job done. I imagine it would be most noticeable when doing a small 2-4 man group were you're the only class capable of healing. D) Boring raid duty: Twitches Pretend you don't have a Z-heart or a 10th ring yet. Also pretend you don't have beads (or cant safely use them) to tap back your health. The 60 iksar necro with demi lich rolling simply needs a regrowth (free clicky from any druid) to have net positive health recovery while sitting. The non-iksar is going to lose 10hp/tick. If both toons do have both, the iksar will have a net positive of 16hp/tick which can be translated into some spot heals here and there with the spell (linked below) while still being self-sustaining/recovering/sufficient. Remember, this heal stacks with torpor and cleric HOT and can be cast on people outside your group (think the melees dashing in/out and taking splash aoe dmg). It also costs nothingburger mana so all your mana recovered is still flowing to twitches. The same non-iksar necro with the same items reaches a net positive as well, but less than a 3rd of the net recovery. https://wiki.project1999.com/Shadowbond But for the sake of being realistic let us come back full circle. With extra effort (and annoyance) a non-iksar is fully functional and capable in all of the discussed scenarios ... just with a lower quality of life. Similar to shamans, regen is just such a huge quality of life issue for a class that turns hp into mana (and mana back into hp) that there really isn't anything another race brings to the table other than fashionquest. While I'm not the hugest fan of looking like an Iksar (it's not bad but yeah something else would look better), I also acknowledge that for a lot of my time playing the class I'm gonna look like a skeleton anyways. If we assume the necro has their VP staff (linked below) all of this becomes much less relevant at points in time where you have a target to safely tap (free healing!) https://wiki.project1999.com/Shissar_Deathspeaker_Staff At least with Shaman's there are debatable degrees of wiggle room for logical discussion on racial perks as the regen races do actually give something up with their class choice that would otherwise be available: FSI. **Gonna head this off at the pass with a disclaimer: DSM please know the above is not an admission that I feel FSI is better than regen. I don't. You disagree. That's fine. I have zero interest in debating that topic here so please let us not get side-tracked in this specific thread. If, for whatever reason, you feel compelled to discuss the merits of race choice for the shaman class feel free to quote me in that other thread (you know the one). Do not pollute this one further than you already have.**
__________________
| ||
Last edited by Troxx; 02-16-2024 at 03:14 PM..
Reason: Ugh removed a redundancy
|
#40
|
|||||||
|
Quote:
Quote:
Back to the topic at hand: Quote:
Quote:
__________________
Shamwowi Wipesalot (60 SHM) | Bazgek Bonebreaker (60 SK) | Sznake Pliszken (52 MNK) | Laanfear (30 ENC)
Do you have questions about Shaman races? Read my guide: https://wiki.project1999.com/Shamwow...man_Race_Guide Want to see Shaman videos? Check out my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFU...zEFJVBIH3-jUog | ||||||
Last edited by DeathsSilkyMist; 02-16-2024 at 03:14 PM..
|
|
|