Rouean_Onrielas
Dalayan Beginner
I'm posting with the suggestion of either removing Burning Rhythms from this drum altogether or simply removing the snare portion of this effect.
The mod on this drum is 3.1 percussion
Burning Rhythms:
85% snare
+250 attack
+30 Fire resist
This drum is from elaborate chests in ToT which are extremely rare spawns that require rare keys.
The next highest drum mod (please correct me if I'm wrong) is the Concubines tambourine which is a 2.6 mod drum from Yellow con trash in PoA.
(There may be one drum in between in PoT or PoN but it escapes me at this time so if anyone knows of it feel free to post.)
Basically what you see here is a .5 increase to the percussion mod. This may be all well and good but the War Drum is nearly useless. You cannot kite with this drum due to the snare. Even with selo's you will not be able to outrun normal mob pursuit speed. Going from PoA to ToT is a huge jump in content and tier difficulty. I don't think it's unfair to ask that a bard should be able to use this drum to solo due to the fact that this drum is necessary for only 1 encounter that you would still be doing by the time you acquire this drum.
This drum is also not an equivalent to melee for a bard.
These are my dot numbers for the relic and disease dots with 8% deity spec and 3.65% from Tome exp
Conc. Tamb: 2.6
Relic: 752/tick
Disease: 300/tick
War Drum: 3.1
Relic: 869/tick
Disease: 347/tick
Thaz Pants: 2.1
Relic: 634/tick
Disease: 253/tick
So a Bard using thaz pants will do a roudabout of 147.8 dps with 2 dots (resists and crits aside)
The bard using the War drum would do 202.7 dps with 2 dots (resists and crits aside)
The drum bard does 54.9 more dps which sounds good on paper but lets not forget these bard's other means of dps.
Lets say they both use Brusco's so we can nullify that dps since there would be no difference between the two.
The thaz pants bard will be dual wielding weapons and have 4-6 procs at their disposal.
The drum bard will have throwing daggers and possibly 1 proc. (Burning rhythms adds 250 attack but since it's worn only 150 takes effect anyway)
The 4-6 procs alone will cover much of the the throwing dps and the 1 proc alone not to mention the dps this bard does with his/her melee making the bard using thaz pants and melee do far more dps.
I am asking that the War Drum have the snare removed so that we can use this drum to solo like we have used the poa one for ages. It only affects us while kiting and is utterly useless in the raid game so I don't see why this should be a problem seeing as the War drum is a huge amount of tiers above the Conc Tambourine.
The mod on this drum is 3.1 percussion
Burning Rhythms:
85% snare
+250 attack
+30 Fire resist
This drum is from elaborate chests in ToT which are extremely rare spawns that require rare keys.
The next highest drum mod (please correct me if I'm wrong) is the Concubines tambourine which is a 2.6 mod drum from Yellow con trash in PoA.
(There may be one drum in between in PoT or PoN but it escapes me at this time so if anyone knows of it feel free to post.)
Basically what you see here is a .5 increase to the percussion mod. This may be all well and good but the War Drum is nearly useless. You cannot kite with this drum due to the snare. Even with selo's you will not be able to outrun normal mob pursuit speed. Going from PoA to ToT is a huge jump in content and tier difficulty. I don't think it's unfair to ask that a bard should be able to use this drum to solo due to the fact that this drum is necessary for only 1 encounter that you would still be doing by the time you acquire this drum.
This drum is also not an equivalent to melee for a bard.
These are my dot numbers for the relic and disease dots with 8% deity spec and 3.65% from Tome exp
Conc. Tamb: 2.6
Relic: 752/tick
Disease: 300/tick
War Drum: 3.1
Relic: 869/tick
Disease: 347/tick
Thaz Pants: 2.1
Relic: 634/tick
Disease: 253/tick
So a Bard using thaz pants will do a roudabout of 147.8 dps with 2 dots (resists and crits aside)
The bard using the War drum would do 202.7 dps with 2 dots (resists and crits aside)
The drum bard does 54.9 more dps which sounds good on paper but lets not forget these bard's other means of dps.
Lets say they both use Brusco's so we can nullify that dps since there would be no difference between the two.
The thaz pants bard will be dual wielding weapons and have 4-6 procs at their disposal.
The drum bard will have throwing daggers and possibly 1 proc. (Burning rhythms adds 250 attack but since it's worn only 150 takes effect anyway)
The 4-6 procs alone will cover much of the the throwing dps and the 1 proc alone not to mention the dps this bard does with his/her melee making the bard using thaz pants and melee do far more dps.
I am asking that the War Drum have the snare removed so that we can use this drum to solo like we have used the poa one for ages. It only affects us while kiting and is utterly useless in the raid game so I don't see why this should be a problem seeing as the War drum is a huge amount of tiers above the Conc Tambourine.