My 3 glyphs are "I get 10% more healing", "Deterrence soaks more damage when it fails to deflect damage" and "auto-hunter's mark when I attack stuff".
Deterrence makes me literally immune to Sha of Fear's big scary fear walls (it spams "Deflected!" over my head over and over during the blast) -- which is chiefly what I was using the ability to defend against. So the damage reduction glyph wasn't actually helping me any.
The only potential DPS loss here from my end is me using a global cooldown to throw a trap when I arrive on the Cackle platform, but if I dodge a single arrow shot that would have feared me that more than makes up for itself. This doesn't even consider the benefit other DPS could/should see from my taking their quadrant over.
One thing Dragon mentioned to me in our conversation last night was that while its great for everyone to help on orbs as we are doing, it can be slightly detrimental to the arcane mages if we help too much and swipe their orbs as they will need to grab them. So while its good you can be everywhere fast, try to keep an eye out so you dont swipe TOO many of the orbs from either Foresight or Dragon.
I wanted to post something while it was still on my mind.
Next time we do Sha of Fear I'd like to get and use a Glyph of Black Ice. Basically what it does is make me move a lot faster so long as I'm walking over my own icy patch on the ground that I produce from traps. On the panda add platform I can throw down a trap on him and get absolutely anywhere on the entire pagoda at a moment's notice by running through the middle. It would also help me react to his spastic "Turn and Fire" shots so that I'd get feared less.
Probably doesn't sound super helpful; but last night there were points where a DPS was dead and it was dragging me in to every single Cackle phase -- which meant disruption to our usual Cackle pairings. My mobility is high so I can cover a lot of ground and this would strengthen that quite a bit. I fee like I could easily hold 50% of the entire pagoda myself -- leaving casters more time to focus the panda. Which translates to safer transitions and more uptime on the Sha and his adds.
I could also drop traps on the Sha adds while moving out to them to get behind their shields (and run back out) faster.
I like that, but do you sacrifice any "important" dps glyphs for that? or is it like my druid where I only have 1 semi useful glyph and the rest are utility
My 3 glyphs are "I get 10%
Aeolyn — Thu, 02/07/2013 - 18:45My 3 glyphs are "I get 10% more healing", "Deterrence soaks more damage when it fails to deflect damage" and "auto-hunter's mark when I attack stuff".
Deterrence makes me literally immune to Sha of Fear's big scary fear walls (it spams "Deflected!" over my head over and over during the blast) -- which is chiefly what I was using the ability to defend against. So the damage reduction glyph wasn't actually helping me any.
The only potential DPS loss here from my end is me using a global cooldown to throw a trap when I arrive on the Cackle platform, but if I dodge a single arrow shot that would have feared me that more than makes up for itself. This doesn't even consider the benefit other DPS could/should see from my taking their quadrant over.
One thing Dragon mentioned to
Mehguy — Thu, 02/07/2013 - 19:23One thing Dragon mentioned to me in our conversation last night was that while its great for everyone to help on orbs as we are doing, it can be slightly detrimental to the arcane mages if we help too much and swipe their orbs as they will need to grab them. So while its good you can be everywhere fast, try to keep an eye out so you dont swipe TOO many of the orbs from either Foresight or Dragon.
Otherwise I think this is a very good idea.
sounds great
Elapsed — Thu, 02/07/2013 - 19:19sounds great
Black Ice Versus Sha of Fear
Aeolyn — Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:42I wanted to post something while it was still on my mind.
Next time we do Sha of Fear I'd like to get and use a Glyph of Black Ice. Basically what it does is make me move a lot faster so long as I'm walking over my own icy patch on the ground that I produce from traps. On the panda add platform I can throw down a trap on him and get absolutely anywhere on the entire pagoda at a moment's notice by running through the middle. It would also help me react to his spastic "Turn and Fire" shots so that I'd get feared less.
Probably doesn't sound super helpful; but last night there were points where a DPS was dead and it was dragging me in to every single Cackle phase -- which meant disruption to our usual Cackle pairings. My mobility is high so I can cover a lot of ground and this would strengthen that quite a bit. I fee like I could easily hold 50% of the entire pagoda myself -- leaving casters more time to focus the panda. Which translates to safer transitions and more uptime on the Sha and his adds.
I could also drop traps on the Sha adds while moving out to them to get behind their shields (and run back out) faster.
I like that, but do you
Elapsed — Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:56I like that, but do you sacrifice any "important" dps glyphs for that? or is it like my druid where I only have 1 semi useful glyph and the rest are utility
That's the same thing I'm
Mehguy — Thu, 02/07/2013 - 11:12That's the same thing I'm wondering.