Rune of Death
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this spell isnt that much of an upgrade from Augmentation of Death. the emote when you cast it is pretty neat.. other than that, it isnt that great. it is however affected by the focus effect on the 8th coldain shawl, Zephyr of Brell, so this will last longer than usual just like your lower level pet buffs.
Well, yes.. and no. 1) It is manaless and that is always a good thing. 2) while not that much of an upgrade, and upgrade is an upgrade. I would however liked to have seen it more on the line of the mages pet augment where it is an 85% haste etc.. but I know that will never happen.
I don't really care to hear that mages need it anymore than necros do at this stage of the game. Fear not longer works > 55 mobs and our snare / root / fear is easily duplicated with items that are all all such as chrystalline silk nets and bioluminescent orbs. Plus the earth pet comes with an almost unresistable mob root.
Then it boils to nukes vs dots. I dont have any nukes or dots that alone = mage firebolt line nukes. I don't care.. I have mana regen that will give me more dots than they can nuke. I just would like to upgrade the pet more inline with mages. I am not asking to be equal.. just a nudge upward closer. Like maybe a 75% haste and a tad more hps. I solo allot with my pet now and would like to have him a bit more capable of handling the dmg than he is.
Edited, Tue Oct 28 10:45:03 2003
I don't really care to hear that mages need it anymore than necros do at this stage of the game. Fear not longer works > 55 mobs and our snare / root / fear is easily duplicated with items that are all all such as chrystalline silk nets and bioluminescent orbs. Plus the earth pet comes with an almost unresistable mob root.
Then it boils to nukes vs dots. I dont have any nukes or dots that alone = mage firebolt line nukes. I don't care.. I have mana regen that will give me more dots than they can nuke. I just would like to upgrade the pet more inline with mages. I am not asking to be equal.. just a nudge upward closer. Like maybe a 75% haste and a tad more hps. I solo allot with my pet now and would like to have him a bit more capable of handling the dmg than he is.
Edited, Tue Oct 28 10:45:03 2003
The spell is not manaless, it costs 350. That's 100 more mana than Augmentation of Death for 5% more haste, 10 more str, and 3 more AC. I guess it's worth it, but it's ~30% more spell cost for 5% more haste. the 10 str and 3 ac is scarecly worth counting at all.
Aye, the effect on vorshar's pants is manaless. But so is the ffect on all of the velious sets of necro pants. (Augment Death). That doesn't make Augment death an upgrade to augmentation because it's free.
This spell should have been better, or added something like maybe a rune componant or a 5 point damage shield.
Aye, the effect on vorshar's pants is manaless. But so is the ffect on all of the velious sets of necro pants. (Augment Death). That doesn't make Augment death an upgrade to augmentation because it's free.
This spell should have been better, or added something like maybe a rune componant or a 5 point damage shield.
I think Necro's are quite far enough as far as balance between mage and necro. I have both a Necro and a Mage (lvl 65) and while the mage has good nukes, burnout, and awesome pet tanking ability, the necro also has Snare, DoTs, Feign Death, Root, ghetto Mez, Group Lifetap and Mana Taps, and a pet slightly under that of mages. Honestly, I think mages are more shafted than necro's. if a necro had a even closer to equvilant pet to mages, it'd be going out of balance to the Necro's favor.
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Oh, and our pet is not "slightly" under that of mage, maybe BST has pet "slightly" under mage, but necro pets get pwned with the quickness. Aside from getting the 1k pet heal, which took way to long to finally get and Pet LOH AA we even had no way of keeping them alive either. Now I don't really complain because we usually don't need to pet tank, so it is a moot issue. Pet dmg is more important for necros than hps.
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Btw, our ghetto mez doesn't affect mobs over lvl 55.
Shryn, My previous post was deleted cause of some auto purge Alakahzam must have on the boards, otherwise you would have known I was talking about MY pants. And yes.. they are manaless.
I agree it should have been closer to burnout V like the mages got, but something is better than nothing.
I agree it should have been closer to burnout V like the mages got, but something is better than nothing.
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