Earth or Air Thurg...?

[Arwen]

Hello, can you tell me what are the advantages of both... i realise air is the popular choice but i would like to hear how much mana 6 sec pbt uses etc. from real earth thurgs plz.. not just people who are retelling what i have already heard from people who have never rolled a thurg in their lifes. I am not interested in PvP for my thurg i would like to make as much money as possible really and maybe help lower levels, level up. I am not interested in the leveling, im at 32 and ill make it eventually i just want opinions please!

 

[Puppetmistress]

Originally posted by arwen
Hello, can you tell me what are the advantages of both... i realise air is the popular choice but i would like to hear how much mana 6 sec pbt uses etc. from real earth thurgs plz.. not just people who are retelling what i have already heard from people who have never rolled a thurg in their lifes. I am not interested in PvP for my thurg i would like to make as much money as possible really and maybe help lower levels, level up. I am not interested in the leveling, im at 32 and ill make it eventually i just want opinions please!

Basically in the end it comes down if you have 6 sec PBT and do EB/haste on your groupmembers you simply lack the power to do any serious dmg-dealing (with the baseline cold-nuke) without running out of power. Ofcourse you can compensate this with Serenity 3 and MCL but you will be a pure support class with no real abilities to kill something with your (sucky) baseline nuke.

If you want to help lower levels up you need to be the killer because they cannot do that. You can't kill with your baseline nuke properly, so expect to drain power and major downtime.

A 6 sec PBT theurgist is simply a walking talking buffbot. EB+haste, run PBT, root something every now and then and help sometimes with nukes (not too often!) and that's it.

 

[Arwen]

ty alot, i believe you said everything i needed to hear.

 

[Generic Poster]

Puppetmistress


Woah, I like that name

 

[-Nxs-]

And as for mana usage - 6sec PBT is a drain !!!! a major drain !!

Basicaly cast it and you can just about stay standing with it pulsing.. but that leaves no mana for anything else.

Theurgs take loger to regen 0-50% pow than 51-100% so if you're mana is under 50% and you have 6sec PBT running you're in the shite.

 

[Puppetmistress]

Originally posted by -Nxs-
And as for mana usage - 6sec PBT is a drain !!!! a major drain !!

Basicaly cast it and you can just about stay standing with it pulsing.. but that leaves no mana for anything else.

Theurgs take loger to regen 0-50% pow than 51-100% so if you're mana is under 50% and you have 6sec PBT running you're in the shite.

I think it won't come up, possible go down even.

When I am OOP and leave PBT running (the 10 sec one) I think it takes me 3 minutes to regain halfpower. 6 sec PBT is gonna be even worse on that.

 

[Aule Valar]

i find serenity 2 effectivly cancels out the 10 sec pbt when standing, allowing me to cast quite a lot

note this is with a dual focus staff, which makes a HUGE difference to the cost of pbt
without focus its 120% of normal cost
with focus its 90% of normal

also with earth focus, sereneity 2 and powersong 5 i can chaincast the 10 sec pbt almost indefinitly if i don't have a dex buff, very useful vs mobs