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Originally Posted by Byrjun
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Uh, top guilds on the server are still wiping to shit mobs like Trakanon. Things go to shit several times a week, it's not rare in Kunark at all. There's no such thing as a smooth Hoshkar or Nexona unless you're bringing 70+ people and even then...
SoulFires are much less useful in Velious. If you're wiping to an encounter, you're just gonna wipe to the encounter. No amount of SoulFires can unfuck the vast majority of Velious raid fights - they have to go 100% smoothly or you've lost. It's not even humanly possible to react to the damage output of mobs like AoW and Vyemm, which is why CH rotations became so critical. There will be plenty of wiping in Velious, don't worry.
I think people who aren't in Class C guilds have this vision of literally everyone clicking SoulFires in a rotation to kill every raid mob. This is pretty far from the truth.
Only a handful of people ever have SoulFires on hand, and even less actually use them. Like I said, there's only a couple people I know of in my guild that are adamant about always having charges on them, and they're classes that are less useful (shaman, enchanter). SoulFire is a good way for a solo-oriented class to have a role on raids besides buff botting.
SoulFire is not as big of a concern as most people think it is. 99% of the time I'm only blowing my charges on Hoshkar or Nexona fights, and I can only think of one Nexona fight where I think my SoulFire made a substantial difference. Who knows about the other fights; I have no knowledge of the exact moments that CHs are landing on tanks.
And yes, any good player/guild utilized recharging on live. It's not even entirely classic here, since the GMs have essentially blocked certain items like the rez stick from being recharged. On live, we had a few monks that always had charged rez sticks, but that's just not possible on P99. I think the devs are attempting to strike a happy balance between classicness and fairness and are mostly succeeding.
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^^ Don't know where to begin.
If your wiping in Kunark and you're a top guild... maybe ditch the soulfires and learn to play without them, skip the PL'ing and learn to play your class (instead of the tens of alts you don't know how to play).
We raided on live during Kunark and we rarely wiped after gearing up because we knew how to play our classes and we had a tightknit team.
If you're incapable of understanding how to incorporate instant charges of CH into a raid and incapable of understanding how every class being capable of 5 x Lay On Hands without delay at range is overpowered then fuck, what can I say to get it through to you.
The time between when people could get Soulfires, to the time they realised they were I Win buttons if most people in the guild had one, to the time they were nerfed was 2 years.
Pretending there 'aren't that many on the server' is horseshit. Brother Hayles shouting himself hoarse and its not paladins doing the turn in.
I think you're just a little afraid that IF they were nerfed to the proper timeline (2 years after release) you'd be investing in a shitton of jade coffins learning how to raid with the abilities of your classes rather than exploiting the abiities of other classes on OP items.
Amirite... yes I am.