Best 4 person all caster/priest group

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by Duik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If these battles are lasting 40 - 50 secs then a necros dots are of little use or at best very inefficient. Necro dd are also very inefficient. A necro healing itself is both healing and damaging a mob (with a nice -200 mod).

This is incorrect. Let me give you a simple example:

Necromancer Lifetaps are less efficient than Necromancer DD's/Dot's.

Touch of Night (Lifetap) does 720 damage for 405 mana. This is 1.777 Damage Per Mana.

Conglaciation of Bone (DD) does 540 damage for 210 mana. This is 2.571 Damage Per Mana.

Envenomed bolt (DoT) does 1278 damage over 48 seconds for 320 mana. This is basically 4 Damage per Mana. Even if you lose two ticks, Envenomed Bolt is still doing 3 Damage Per Mana.

If the Shaman is Torporing the Necromancer, the Necromancer is able to use their more efficient damage spells instead of lifetaps to maintain their health pool. Demi-Lich damages you for 48 HP per tick. That means the Shaman only needs to Torpor the Necromancer every 3 minutes or so. In this scenario, the Shaman is only spending 6 seconds and 180 mana every 3 minutes to potentially double the Necromancers Damage Per Mana. More if Envenomed Bolt gets all of it's ticks in.

Originally Posted by Gloomlord [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

He thinks you should dump all starting points into STA as Rogue, and INT as Shadowknight. Why? Because end game Velious gear is super attainable to most players.

As usual, you twist my words because you are a troll. I never claimed BiS gear is easily attainable. I urge you to find a quote of me saying that. I said that if you want to Min/Max, your eventual goal is getting to level 60 with BiS gear. This is because that is what Min/Maxing implies in the context of P99.

Min/Maxing a character you don't plan on leveling past 40 doesn't really make sense. You basically lose any definition of what Min/Maxing means if you can assign any arbitrary goal to the idea of Min/Maxing. You could "Min/Max" a character for vendor prices, in which case you would put starting points into CHA. But most people wouldn't understand what you mean by "Min/Maxing" if that is your arbitrary goal. You would need to explain to people that your idea of "Min/Maxing" is getting the best vendor prices. People won't assume you mean you want to maximize vendor prices when you simply say you are "Min/Maxing". That isn't the default definition of Min/Maxing in the context of P99.