So you never use st dd, monster summon,mod rods, elemental barriage, etc?
You may not have been aware that the mage benefit from additional CSI was pretty minimal.
Sorry if I was giving you information you already knew.
So you never use st dd, monster summon,mod rods, elemental barriage, etc?
- The 4.3 sword is garbage.
- Saitha's shoulders are pro.
- I'm happy with my "robe".
- Don't use "casters" when you mean "mage".
- Play with the hand you are dealt and stop whining about focuses. all of you.
For instance, a Necromancer needs Affliction Enhancement, Damage Increment, Range Increment, Mana Conservation, Casting Speed Increment, Reagent Conservation, Companion Strength, Companion Health, Control Enhancement, Bane Enhancement, Magic Focus, Cold Focus, Fire Focus, Disease Focus, Poison Focus.
That is 15 different focus effects, that a necro really should have all the time (maybe not bane, but you get the idea), from 20 pieces of gear. I hear all the time from people about how they cant wear xyz new cool item, because they cant replace the focus effect they currently have in that slot.
I don't think everyone should be able to always wear all the new cool items. Having to strategically pick your gear and swap things around is part of the game, and probably a good thing.
The thing I like most about this thread is how on topic it is. No epeening or thinly veiled personal attacks.
Anyhow,
This is pretty bogus. Kedrin's suggestion, in one of the half dozen other threads about more or less the same thing, of combining Companion Strength/Toughness into a single effect for pet classes is a really good idea. Helps with Itemization and stops punishing pet classes that are balanced around having a pet already.
Someone else suggested Poison/Disease focus be combined. That seems like a capital idea. I would go so far to as say Fire/Cold being combined also makes sense since it is all heat manipulation... but that might be overly literal thinking.
+1 FT and +6AC are clearly better than 55hp and 65 mana.
And that is without considering the Pet Strength on it.
Is that clear enough?
Just FYI no amount of stacking AC is going to save an int caster from anything that hits remotely hard near your tier and for pet conversion purposes, 6AC is a whole 1.5AC to your pet who will never be a passable tank for anything near-tier raid related except maybe the Ancient Guardians in Spires. A pet can tank one of those with enough heals (my pet did this and I don't stack AC).
So since you are way over FT cap, the Saitha shoulders are clearly better. Especially considering the options you have available to you for companion strength because your guild regularly does content that drops the two rings that have strength 8 on them, and you now seem to actually have one of those items. You're right though that for DPS purposes, the cauldron shoulder beats everything currently available even if it's a hit point and mana downgrade.
I think your real complaint here is that "best in slot items exist" which is unavoidable when you compare the numbers on some items to numbers on other items and do some math on what that means for your character, but this doesn't have a whole lot to do with what the OP of this thread is about. Which is that getting focus effects for a lot of classes is ultra-shitty and that the availability of some focus effects is near non-existent.
Good thread friends. GOod thread.
yeah I definitely agree with that. not sure if it's possible to make it more like the "ratings" thing they did in wow. ie. 1 channeling could be .1% crit. not sure if the cap is hard locked at +25 though.