Post#25 » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:27 am
Hello,
First of all, let's concentrate on Cloth casters + Pet classes. Make a separate post for healers if you want some class balance (which has been discussed previously when PoAir spells were introduced then modified "cleric" against "shamly/druid" healing efficiency)
Concerning cloth caster, I will only be able to provide feedback for wizards.
We made a lot of testing/adjustments with Tyler when back in the days, we worked hard on how to improve this nuker class.
Wizards T3/T4 were Up once Tyler implemented few things:
1st: Jaled flame optimizer Focus on 2.0
1 : Effect type : Decrease Spell Mana Cost by 45%
2 : Effect type : Limit: Spell(Ether Flame)
2nd: to solve mana gathering issue
Silver Chains (15K) then Cloth Elemental boots (20K) saw their recast adjusted to 5min.
3rd: Ether Flame spell have been upgraded more than once in terms of dmg/manacost and is now a really good nuke spell.
4th: Brillande of might II (+% critic spells) & Mana Flare I II & III LDON (adding a dd proc "caster panther")
Those 2 effects could have been a huge plus for Wiz if it would stack together with Ro's flamming familiar (+10% DD regular nuke). As it is not the case, I do not use them as I prefer to keep a regular +10% DD.
5th: AA's not working Frenzied Devastation (GoD) & Prolonged Destruction (OoW) which would definitly change Wizard's Raid dps.
That said, let's see what it gives in raid content.
I always play my Wizard with my bard Alt 2.0 equipped (Spirit of Vesagran: Increase Spell Damage by 60%), singing "Ancient: Call of Power" which is a Increase Spell Damage by 35%.
Adding this a True fire focus item (+80% DD fire modifier) & all AA's I reach:
Ether flame Casting time: 4.2 with true devotion.
Regular Ether Flame = 20K
Critic Ether flame = 45K
Few resists even with a small modifier : Fire (adjust: -75)
Last thing to add: Between 2 Ether casts, I run a writ of dragonkind clicky (caster seconday/range ST item) which is perfect to recover from previous Ether casting and then chain 1 ether / 1 clicky / 1 ether and so on...
I agree that unbuffed parses against Vlad cannot reflect Raid situation so next time we raid ST or PoF (if we find something up to kill:) ) I will parse and post exact DPS because numbers are very important to understand the huge difference between a monk or ranger Dps with Wizard dps.
By the way, even if critic numbers are huge, we are still far from melee DPS till my 4th & 5th points aren't solved.
So considering Wizards are on top of cloth casters DPs, I totally understand how bad feel the other cloth class, espescially the dot one's.
Last thing to handle is mana recovery which is very important and does not allow to use max Dps on trash just before a named.
That's what I can add to the debate with wizard feedback. I also got a little bit disappointed with casters situation that I created a monk and a shamy to add to my crew instead of Druid & chanty...