why do we still have soul fires being broadcasted?

[Byrjun]

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

You'll have regular raid, with usual clerics (gotta have them for buffs anyway) but when things do go to shit which should be rarely in Kunark, you have lots of instant get of jail free (horrible corpserun) cards.

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...

What this means is good guild leaders / raid leaders would be silly not to stock up on soulfires prior to the release of Velious (Not classic) (depending on the mob being hit, a soulfire is as good as half to a whole cleric) it also means all the hard work and effort going into Velious is going to be trivialized by armies of soulfire wielding players (not classic) and that wiping on the new Velious content should be rare (not classic).

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.