Coming FotMs in all realms

[Belomar]

Right, we've seen it all, including zerkers, mana cabbies, enchanters, infils, ice wizzies, shadowzerkers, and so on... However, with 1.62 coming up and new classes being buffed and others nerfed, the question that is on everyone's(?) mind is what the next FotMs for each realm will be?

My own humble predictions is the following:

All realms: Archers will probably pop up everywhere, what with the archer love coming up... And us casters get screwed once again.

Albion: Ice wizzies remain strong FotMs due to the now primary way of exping in Albion. Mercenaries might become popular with the coming love. Spirit cabalists, who can debuff their own damage type, are the "thinking man's FotM" in Albion-- not nearly a 3-button class, you still see a lot of them being levelled at the moment.

Hibernia: Blademasters are now going to be zerker-immune, so I guess a lot of BMs will be or are being rolled. Manachanters will remain FotMs forever, I think, at least until they are inevitably nerfed.

Midgard: Savages are the prime FotMs of Midgard even in the coming patch, practically every bandwagon zerker is probably rolling one. However, I have much more respect for H2H savages, which do seem to be a "thinking man's tank" with a lot of positionals, etc, than 2H savages, which seem to be another 1-button class. As for other classes, is it self-debuffing RMs (darkcarvers?) who are popular also?

Anyway, opinions, comments, etc?

 

[Cloak_]

The main reason Mana Chanters are popular in Hib is the exact same reason Ice Wiz are popular in alb ( due to the way we XP ), ppl just want lvl 50 fast nowadays.

All Archer classes def.
Savages,
Paladins (due to block rates chaging)

And yea BM + Merc prolly

 

[Jergiot]

i would say all tank will be popular.

or as sorusi said it, or was it zzang? "dark age of tank alot"

 

[Driwen]

Archers wont be a real fotm, as they wont do more damage on shooting and they will still be a pain in the ass to level. Ok there will be a sudden increase of archers, but that will prolly be mostly people who stopped them, because of see hidden and just always missing (block/bt/etc). Now both of them have been adressed. See hidden has been downscaled from 3k to 900 (if you have 50 stealth) and archers now can shoot through bt and still hurt people (unless the bt is from the person himself). But the self bt should protect you for the first shot and 2 or 3 other shots are still needed to kill a mage if he has around 800 hitpoints.
off course archers will be a fotm, but I actually do think that after a while their numbers will decrease. As people will see that they arent that uber.

 

[Pandemic]

well savage is an obvious one but lots of people have also rolled warriors and with the possible massive warrior love patch coming that trend can only continue

 

[Gahldir]

Originally posted by Cloak_
The main reason Mana Chanters are popular in Hib is the exact same reason Ice Wiz are popular in alb ( due to the way we XP ), ppl just want lvl 50 fast nowadays.

All Archer classes def.
Savages,
Paladins (due to block rates chaging)

And yea BM + Merc prolly

add to the first thing is that a manachanter can provide a great tank, his pet with high-dps dmgshield.

I fink warriors will be a lill FotM in mid aswell. other then that i agree with what has been said

 

[StormriderX]

Originally posted by Belomar
Hibernia: Blademasters are now going to be zerker-immune, so I guess a lot of BMs will be or are being rolled. Manachanters will remain FotMs forever, I think, at least until they are inevitably nerfed.

Midgard: Savages are the prime FotMs of Midgard even in the coming patch, practically every bandwagon zerker is probably rolling one. However, I have much more respect for H2H savages, which do seem to be a "thinking man's tank" with a lot of positionals, etc, than 2H savages, which seem to be another 1-button class. As for other classes, is it self-debuffing RMs (darkcarvers?) who are popular also?

Anyway, opinions, comments, etc?

Bm's get to avoid the crits of vendo but will still get hit fairly hard by zerks. The damage add is something that other realms get but we get it on a 7minute timer instead of having a team mate refresh it. Only thing it does is serve to make up for the deficiency in decent damage adds in hibernia. However, Bm's are a fairly strong tank in this patch already imo and the next patch's increased damage will make them even more attractive

Savages - I don't particularly understand why h2h is more skillfull than 2h tbh. With 2h and h2h either way you will spam positionals if you aren't a newbie, stupid tank. Positionals >>> anytimes damage wise - all tanks use them as their primary styles with anytime as back ups whenever possible. This isn't the exclusive domain on h2h savages

Imo the fotm's will be runies/mana elds/archers of all realms/savages/bm + mercs

(Getting quite a few spec questions for bm's lately )

 

[Driwen]

I dont think runnies will be fotm. They will have off course been given a lvl 50 base spell, but most runnies interested for doing real damage are dark runnies and they didnt need this spell and supp runnies had their snare nuke which is the same dd. So it only benefits someone who doesnt go for full dark or full supp , which most people (as far as i know) do tend to go.

And thing is with h2h you need to pull of your positionals as otherwise you dont any styled damage. Which isnt the case for 2h .

 

[-Wedge-]

I'm gonna laugh my arse off when groups with 2 Spirit cabalists start to appear...

The healers of other realms are SO gonna curse a lot...

Added a line of pet-only runspeed enhancement buffs to the Vivification list.

Level 45, Pursuer Enhancement, 160% speed

Your gonna say, so what? Well, add this to the formula :

The new pet run-speed buffs will no longer break in combat, as originally intended (this should also effect the Whip of Encouragement RA). This is a Pendragon-only bug fix

So basicly, you got a cabalist pet, buffed to the bone with around level 50-uber buffs... Running at 160% speed... That doesnt break in combat... Its not like tanks will be able to kill that pet fast...

 

[Driwen]

Originally posted by -Wedge-
So basicly, you got a cabalist pet, buffed to the bone with around level 50-uber buffs... Running at 160% speed... That doesnt break in combat... Its not like tanks will be able to kill that pet fast...

uhm slam or mezz or even root? that should keep it away from the healer.

 

[Glottis_Xanadu]

Sounds like fun Wedge
I have already seen more scouts being rolled, even inside HB.
Doubt archers will be uber after 1.62
You might be annoyed by them more after 1.62 cause more are playing them, but that is where it ends, those increased numbers will die down fast.
Regards, Glottis

 

[-Wedge-]

Its funny driwen, because atm, cabalist pets are just ignored... Next patch you actually need to mez/root/stun them

Trust me, it'll be fun...

 

[Amadon]

Re: Re: Coming FotMs in all realms

Originally posted by StormriderX
Imo the fotm's will be runies/mana elds/archers of all realms/savages/bm + mercs

pfffft
dont see how u can include mana elds in that list tbh

maybe when mythic fix resists

 

[Rollie_David]

so how many zerks/sb's ditching there class for a savage?? any honest people about?

 

[xplo]

must..... get...... sidi...... bow...... before...... FotM's........ AAAAAAAARGHL

 

[old.Nol]

massive amount of bards being rolled...everywhere I look I see them, hundreds and thousands of little grey bards...all running around and mezzing things, practically every mob in hib has little blue disco lights around it's head

 

[ardamels]

Darkcarvers are not very common, this is because then you have to give up PBT which many consider to be quite important. However, it's rather common that runecarving RMs grp with darkness specced RMs (atleast in FoM) and then of course we debuff cold for the darkness specced RM

 

[froler-mid]

merc's....ooooh....DIRTY TRIXXYYYY = savage /zerk or wtver pretty much useless


QUAD FUMBLES anyone?

 

[old.LandShark]

Had my merc for ages, does it still count as FOTM cos it's only now that I'm unretiring it?
For the love of god, all hib/mid tanks get prevent flight, just so the FOTM savages cry more about not being able to get it, please. :>

 

[old.Mitsu]

Darkcarvers will be pretty naste with a level 50 nuke.

 

[Tilda]

Half Ogre Armsman or Merc ( new zerker imo)

 

[m4rk]

Mana Cabbie? xD

 

[Sol-]

ice wiz might be fotm xp char but not really in rvr... tanks > wizzies now with their "low utility"

 

[Trinilim]

This sucks, every class I roll becomes a fotm in the future :|

First it was a zerker... FOTM 1 patch later!
Then it was an infil... FOTM not longer after that!
Then it was an ice wiz... FOTM 1-2 months later!
Then it was a friar... FOTM 1-2 months later!
Then it was a BM... now it's becomming a fotm after patch!


This is not cool :|

 

[Kirtaa]

poor trinilim ;(

 

[Forau]

aren't minstrel pretty fotm?

 

[boni_ofdavoid]

Void elds for hib

a). GTAoE owns galla, its the perfect dmg supplement for a manachanter in high level focus grp for this and any other werid bosses that pop up.

b). Bolts are 2.5sec cast time and the baseline DD speed is in line with light which will make voiders insane soloers.

c). The combat fixes and damage tweaks to bolts, not to mention cast time decreases may make void more viable in rvr.

 

[Aussie-]

cool albs are gonna get spirit cabs, scouts and ice wizzies..... so usefull!

 

[old.logun]

wtf is a fotm? lol

 

[kirennia]

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