Decided to post my recent experience as to what happened.
5 days ago i spent 3 hours in DL searching for a group and guess what i found one, went on one run, group got wiped half of the group logged.
Someone asked my to try WoW so i been there for the past 5 days.
During my stay in WoW, Mov tricked me into logging into Daoc for a few Emain runs but this time instead of logging my Champ he gave me someones acc and asked me to log an Eldritch. Was my first time playing an Eld (any mage for that matter, been playing for a long time but hate casters).
Well i half heartedly ran to emain with Fitzg (Bard), Lanai (BM), Pelocha (Eldritch, played by me). The whole time complaining that im a noob caster and we gonna die, i suck etc etc etc.
We got to emain and there he was a Highlander Mincer, Lanai Charged in, i DD (Light specced) and pounded the Mincer for 7xx +3xx. For the next 2 hours the damage was constant, 7xx, 8xx, Not counting crits. Casting speed was sick. Tanks would charge on me, 2 Brittle Guards, 1 BT…. Finally they would hit me for 4xx.
Basically what I have found (and im sure peeps will flame me etc) With BodyGuard, BrittleGuards, BT, BoF, a tanks life is a miserable one.
You charge in, go for the sorc so he doesn’t spam mez and interrupt casters in my group. Moving around, strafing, doing all times of annoying shit just to get in an Annihilation that hits a fooking brittle, by the time all brittles are dead u have a pain in the ass Paly standing next to the mofo. U change target and guess what, the fooking Paly is stuck on u hitting u for a pathetic 1xx damage but chasing u to ur next target for the next Bodyguard. Finally u decide that this is too annoying so u cast Snaring Tendrils….. Guess what, casters don’t like Snaring Tendrils….. They look at u with very unhappy faces and BOOM ur dead in 3 secs cause the Tendrils ran out on them but ur still stunned and they have just cast 3000+ damage in 3 secs.
If u run in Tank group u always have the same thing in mind, If ur MA ur thinking “I hope this guy assists me, I really hope he does” U charge into battle , perhaps get lucky on the jump bring a mofo down to 15% hitpoints ….. Instaheal….. Assister shows up bring him down to 15%…… Bodyguard….. Rinse and repeat.
Im not sure if I have expressed what I learned from my experience playing caster and yes this post is very long.
The final summary is as follows:
Caster wipes his ass with Bodyguard.
Caster wipes his ass with Brittleguards.
Caster wipes his ass with BT.
Caster doesn’t need to be assisted.
Caster doesn’t need positional styles.
Playing a caster for the short time I played, I thought I was actually playing Counterstrike, Aim and fire.
Tank is a fooking headache, lets see what happens in NF.
5 days ago i spent 3 hours in DL searching for a group and guess what i found one, went on one run, group got wiped half of the group logged.
Someone asked my to try WoW so i been there for the past 5 days.
During my stay in WoW, Mov tricked me into logging into Daoc for a few Emain runs but this time instead of logging my Champ he gave me someones acc and asked me to log an Eldritch. Was my first time playing an Eld (any mage for that matter, been playing for a long time but hate casters).
Well i half heartedly ran to emain with Fitzg (Bard), Lanai (BM), Pelocha (Eldritch, played by me). The whole time complaining that im a noob caster and we gonna die, i suck etc etc etc.
We got to emain and there he was a Highlander Mincer, Lanai Charged in, i DD (Light specced) and pounded the Mincer for 7xx +3xx. For the next 2 hours the damage was constant, 7xx, 8xx, Not counting crits. Casting speed was sick. Tanks would charge on me, 2 Brittle Guards, 1 BT…. Finally they would hit me for 4xx.
Basically what I have found (and im sure peeps will flame me etc) With BodyGuard, BrittleGuards, BT, BoF, a tanks life is a miserable one.
You charge in, go for the sorc so he doesn’t spam mez and interrupt casters in my group. Moving around, strafing, doing all times of annoying shit just to get in an Annihilation that hits a fooking brittle, by the time all brittles are dead u have a pain in the ass Paly standing next to the mofo. U change target and guess what, the fooking Paly is stuck on u hitting u for a pathetic 1xx damage but chasing u to ur next target for the next Bodyguard. Finally u decide that this is too annoying so u cast Snaring Tendrils….. Guess what, casters don’t like Snaring Tendrils….. They look at u with very unhappy faces and BOOM ur dead in 3 secs cause the Tendrils ran out on them but ur still stunned and they have just cast 3000+ damage in 3 secs.
If u run in Tank group u always have the same thing in mind, If ur MA ur thinking “I hope this guy assists me, I really hope he does” U charge into battle , perhaps get lucky on the jump bring a mofo down to 15% hitpoints ….. Instaheal….. Assister shows up bring him down to 15%…… Bodyguard….. Rinse and repeat.
Im not sure if I have expressed what I learned from my experience playing caster and yes this post is very long.
The final summary is as follows:
Caster wipes his ass with Bodyguard.
Caster wipes his ass with Brittleguards.
Caster wipes his ass with BT.
Caster doesn’t need to be assisted.
Caster doesn’t need positional styles.
Playing a caster for the short time I played, I thought I was actually playing Counterstrike, Aim and fire.
Tank is a fooking headache, lets see what happens in NF.
