Improving Afflictions

[gcaldani]

affys are not team oriented skill. they waste of time.

i'm teamed all the time.... with my alt . both near masters (if already not) in melee/nuke/heal/whatnot. i'm at least lvl 200 in both affy.

before, i could fear that multiple aggro in any zone and get out to safe / rez alt. now i dont even try because (this is the best part mob (kinchers mostly) usually runs in circles in 50m radius when feared and because you need link, mob is attacking you in the second link breaks.

affys also need one dedicated affy caster per mob, who could be swaped to nuker because it's safer that way.

devs either need to remove the link entirely and make each old link spell last a while (based on skill vs target) or make link break _only_ when mob reists it (allow multiple links and running and range more than 50m).

to see if affys are useless or 'just fine', you cant 'test' them solo or in lab conditions. real situations is which shows if affy is useful or useless. like tank is breaking, cast fear to buy some time... bummer, it hit, but did not link. you both dead, should of continued healing/nuking

I use afflictions a lot, it's very long time i mastered DA. Well, i already expressed my opinion in many other threads, don't need to start another time.

You can think whatever you want, I don't care.

[moyaku]

Affliction could use some rethinking so I'll give it a shot:

Why not link the Afflictions with the DoT's? As far as i know it is currently not possible to make a double missile combining a DoT with an affi why not just change that?

+1 on this

[liseke]

yeah, Poison DoT combined with stun, and if one of the links breaks, both break, so it's not too overpowered.

[zarozina]

To solo Afflys do the following:
1. Create an elemental enchant of LOWER level than the affly you are soloing
2. Enchant amps with it
3. land 1 affliction on mob
4. kill mob with enchant

Using this method you can gain around 10lvls an hour. And get around 3k XP per kill
The enchant MUST be of lower level than the affliction skill otherwise your XP will be nerfed.

Using the method i describe it is neither frustrating nor hard to level Afflys. Sap xtals are boring to make, but that is the price you pay for soloing a skill.

Thank you for the lesson oh affy guru I have learned so much. I didn't say it couldn't be done, nor did I ask you to enlighten me. Read again thesectin of my post you quoted prior to the above response. I said it was "Easy? If by easy you mean frustrating, time-consuming and slow, then sure, it's a piece of cake."

Not anymore they aren't.

Again, read the post properly before replying: "Affies are not a get-out of jail free card whether against players or mobs.."

We must do this again sometime. Sit down and have an entire conversation wherein you contradict all the things I didn't say. Next time you can demonstrate to me how black = white and prove it by getting yourself killed on a zebra crossing. It's been fun.

[grapes]

Thank you for the lesson oh affy guru I have learned so much. I didn't say it couldn't be done, nor did I ask you to enlighten me. Read again thesectin of my post you quoted prior to the above response. I said it was "Easy? If by easy you mean frustrating, time-consuming and slow, then sure, it's a piece of cake."





Again, read the post properly before replying: "Affies are not a get-out of jail free card whether against players or mobs.."

We must do this again sometime. Sit down and have an entire conversation wherein you contradict all the things I didn't say. Next time you can demonstrate to me how black = white and prove it by getting yourself killed on a zebra crossing. It's been fun.

No reason to get nasty. I did not mean to offend, i am simply trying to have an honest discussion about this since so many people have complained.