Fellow bonelievers!! I have come to give a progress report on the power of the bone knights.... now that I have traveled to the distant lands and battled many a battle.
I'm only of 53 now, but I am coming to understand the role of the bone knight even more!
First off, is while I can stills tanks, it is the same as it were before... I gotta duck in and out of battle when alone. Sometimes letting mine pet take over for part of the fight while I med or wait for healing.
So, not much changins there. A duo with a druid / shaman / cleric lets us do much much better (a shaman especially! I was duoing with one and we were very very mighty. He never had to heal me, and would just slow...and I would feed him some mana while we battled).
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Now ! Onto whats is new!! Which is mana-usage and roles at higher levels in groups.
You see, i ventured into the sebilis crypt recently... a place pretty difficult when I was 52. Our team was mighty, but we had no enchanter.
Of course I was meleeing and doing amazin DPS with mine pet and my bone staff.
So found twitching them clerics helped a bunch to make up for the lack of mana regenerations.
But, then later that night, the group shifted a bit and we ended up with an enchanter and everyones mana was fine... so I moved into DPS mode, using envenomed breath (an 8 tick dot of high damage).
I was able to keep doing both of these things each pull without trouble while also meleeing and lifetap dotting now and then to heal myself.
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Then again later I found myself in a trio group. And it were a shaman + warrior + me.
There it was best to just keep healing the shaman and warrior to take off the healing pressure. While of course meleeing with mine pet.
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But how is my DPS? With a bone staff, about 15-25 DPS. With pet doing about 40-50 DPS. For a total of 55 - 75 DPS
Top rogues I've been parsing have been around 50-55 dps
Top warriors 40 - 45 DPS
Less top warriors 20-30 DPS
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Some other development, which I should make another threat for because people might be curious.... but I've also gotten the rod of annihilation!!!
Where I find my DPS to be 15-25 (but not dependent on fighting undead, and seems to be more even sort of DPS, instead of the bursty type the staff can be sometimes).
I think against undead, the staff is probably better (or at least equal). But the rod is definitely good addition when doing things against living things. Just I wouldn't really count on getting a rod as a bone knight, since it's extra extra extra rare (in velious there are a range of weapons that come pretty close though, and a lot easier to get).
Overall, bone knight in kunark isn't disappointing! I can't main tank for a group (unless it's a duo or trio or something and just expins.... but not really really hard stuff)... but I also find being the top DPS of a group pretty fancy.
Bone knights is the true path of great power for studiers of the bone magics! Anyone saying otherwise don't know nuffin!
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