An Urgent Message for Blues, ZC in Particular

[Vilost]

There once was a hunter named Whiney
Who thought that he kicked lots of hiney
Thought red line was wower
'Till he ran out of Power
And his opponent removed his spiney

Lol nice!

/me claps

[VincentVanPort]

The change of SS to a focus generator is very nice, doesn't make me all doom and gloom as much anymore

Still it involves an induction and a cast that is longer than IQS. For one focus this might prove useless.

[Forgotten_Legend]

That all said, RoI may be the most ambitious expansion we've ever built from a systems perspective. The changes to itemization and stats are going to have ripple effects throughout the whole game. Things I'm keeping an eye on moving forward:
Make the difference between Huntsman and Bowmaster more extreme.
Legacy pass.
AOE damage capabilities.

please please please make our bow legacies more interesting. please combine the crits into one, the power reductions into one, and the threat downs into one, (instead of focus/inductions split) and give us a few more +damage and -(minus)cooldowns to bow skills, maybe even +durations to CC or buff effects.

[moduz]

Still it involves an induction and a cast that is longer than IQS. For one focus this might prove useless.

It being useless was my impression from beta. If you want to AoE you should simpy spam RoA, inserting an IQS here and there whenever you need focus. When traited with Arrow Storm, Hail of Arrows, and Deadly Precision, and when there are 4+ mobs, RoA nearly always crits, and the focus generated from these crits and from stance passives is enough to sustain a rotation of RoA-RoA-RoA-etc until the number of mobs drops to less than 3-4. So far my record was 6 RoAs in a row, without any ability in between (unfortunately all the mobs were dead all dead by then, otherwise I could have made it higher).

To be honest, the only time when I could see justifying the use of split shot is during RoA's cooldown, when and if RoA fails to crit (though, with three or more mobs the chance of RoA criting is extremely high). Although, if for some reason you weren't traited with arrow storm, then you could realistically use this ability once every RoA cooldown.

[Fin.]

Well we have to see what ZC has to say about it. Though half of weekend is gone and the answers are only stockpiling.

[Forgotten_Legend]

Well we have to see what ZC has to say about it. Though half of weekend is gone and the answers are only stockpiling.

a reminder... this is labor day weekend... so Turbine will probably re-open on tuesday, not monday

[Fin.]

a reminder... this is labor day weekend... so Turbine will probably re-open on tuesday, not monday

Oh did not know that. Was it announced somewhere that customer service will be limited during this event?

[Kryptik13]

a reminder... this is labor day weekend... so Turbine will probably re-open on tuesday, not monday

This is from ZC:

"I'll be on and off over the weekend, chatting when I can."

[bfub467]

The change of SS to a focus generator is very nice, doesn't make me all doom and gloom as much anymore

wait what? howmuch focus?

[Eldrandir]

wait what? howmuch focus?

1 focus with an induction equal to barb's.


[QUOTE=moduz;5657289(unfortunat ely all the mobs were dead all dead by then, otherwise I could have made it higher).
[/QUOTE]

Need to get some friendly R0 defilers or WLs with no crit defense to nicely let you spam RoA for a decent amount of time for parses and just the heck of it.