After 3 hours of horrible LoL games while in queue, I got on and had a pretty epic time doing the Fae in a sleep deprived state! This must be how it feels to be on drugs...I was sooooo tired that I would have to get up and pump my legs a few times to get the blood flowing!
First and foremost, I have to give Kit (Bachra sp?) and Jason (Corinth) a lot of credit! We went in there with 2 lvl 18's 2 lvl 17's and a lvl 13 Healer and OWNED that place!!!
That was some great healing and tanking you guys!
I had some observations and questions.
Kit, did you feel like you were struggling to absorb damage because of your level/gear or the class dynamics and skills? How viable do you think you would be in harder instances or maybe endgame? Were you tank spec or more of a hybrid dps/tank spec?
Jason, I saw you didnt have problems with mana really...the main difficult you had (rarely) was when we had 3 mobs on 3 different people (whether it be because of adds or split dps). I think the aoe healing nature of my Bard helped quite a bit with that but when you switched targets that might have been when Kit got lowest. I heard Kit shout when his shields were up...was that your cue to heal others or do some mana regen ability? Good job either way! Grats on the TWO levels you got in the instance!
Cherub! You had sap at lvl 17 or is that something that you got at 18 when you leveled in the instance? I only saw it used once...we could make the pulls a lot easier if you did that consistently and pulled a mob that wasn't the sapped one! I think that pull was our most dangerous, no? lol
Mirakle!!!!! I would like to run a couple more Fae's with the parser working so I could measure my usefulness as a Bard in a small group setting...In a raid I am sure the buffs and debuffs (5% more physical damage taken by the mobs, Flat Attack and Spell Power, AOE Healing x3, etc...) will be game changing but in a smaller group my being a damage dealer might be more efficient.
So, I would like to see how much damage I was doing, taking 5% of the damage all the physical damage dealers do and where I am on the healing meters and kinda make a formula of efficiency for Support/Hybrid characters. Maybe compare it to benchmarks other Bards are creating (http://www.riftbards.com/).
Overall, great fun! I felt the instance got really EPIC when the snow portion started...I couldn't see anything! Btw, I woke up today at 10am when a co-worker called me asking me where I was! Ack! It was my new phone alarm's fault...I set it up and the volume of the alarm was off...Oh well...I was working until 8pm today ANYHOW...seems only fair I would get in late...lol...also working Sunday...so not as much Rift as I would like this weekend :/
See you all in game tonight at 8:30pm or so!
First and foremost, I have to give Kit (Bachra sp?) and Jason (Corinth) a lot of credit! We went in there with 2 lvl 18's 2 lvl 17's and a lvl 13 Healer and OWNED that place!!!
That was some great healing and tanking you guys!
I had some observations and questions.
Kit, did you feel like you were struggling to absorb damage because of your level/gear or the class dynamics and skills? How viable do you think you would be in harder instances or maybe endgame? Were you tank spec or more of a hybrid dps/tank spec?
Jason, I saw you didnt have problems with mana really...the main difficult you had (rarely) was when we had 3 mobs on 3 different people (whether it be because of adds or split dps). I think the aoe healing nature of my Bard helped quite a bit with that but when you switched targets that might have been when Kit got lowest. I heard Kit shout when his shields were up...was that your cue to heal others or do some mana regen ability? Good job either way! Grats on the TWO levels you got in the instance!
Cherub! You had sap at lvl 17 or is that something that you got at 18 when you leveled in the instance? I only saw it used once...we could make the pulls a lot easier if you did that consistently and pulled a mob that wasn't the sapped one! I think that pull was our most dangerous, no? lol
Mirakle!!!!! I would like to run a couple more Fae's with the parser working so I could measure my usefulness as a Bard in a small group setting...In a raid I am sure the buffs and debuffs (5% more physical damage taken by the mobs, Flat Attack and Spell Power, AOE Healing x3, etc...) will be game changing but in a smaller group my being a damage dealer might be more efficient.
So, I would like to see how much damage I was doing, taking 5% of the damage all the physical damage dealers do and where I am on the healing meters and kinda make a formula of efficiency for Support/Hybrid characters. Maybe compare it to benchmarks other Bards are creating (http://www.riftbards.com/).
Overall, great fun! I felt the instance got really EPIC when the snow portion started...I couldn't see anything! Btw, I woke up today at 10am when a co-worker called me asking me where I was! Ack! It was my new phone alarm's fault...I set it up and the volume of the alarm was off...Oh well...I was working until 8pm today ANYHOW...seems only fair I would get in late...lol...also working Sunday...so not as much Rift as I would like this weekend :/
See you all in game tonight at 8:30pm or so!
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