When you get into groups where your normal routine will draw enough aggro that you should consider doing *less* damage, you'll discover the use of scorch. Scorch is a mana efficient, quick cast, low damage spell. You can spam it almost endlessly in instances without having to worry too much.
I can never get most things to use my full bandwidth - have 10mbit downstream
Anyway, you need to open & forward the proper ports if behind a router/fw. In addition to the usual BT ports of 6881+, you need 3724 and 6112, iirc.meh, my class got nerfed but it got a bone.
I wont have to go through brd 15 times or farm 62 elites to get spells now.
I wont have to go through brd 15 times or farm 62 elites to get spells now.
It took me less than 10 minutes with the patcher, I left downloader active a while so I uploaded over 50 Megs and downloaded the 32 for the patch.
I bet the downloader has more issues once the maintenance window is done though. Downloading mid-maintenance seems to be the way to go. Good for me, because that's right when I'm getting up/showering in the morning.
The real key with the downloader is to limit your upload bandwidth with traffic shaping software. This frees up LOTS of extra download bandwidth, as confirmation packets are choked from the uploading using 100%. But my download time was even without using traffic shaping.
The only time my maximum DPS draws aggro away from the tank is if I'm 2-3 levels higher than the tank. Otherwise, I can blast all I want without worrying about mobs switching on me. Of course, you also have to give the tank 5-10 seconds to build aggro before you start attacking the mob.
The only true use of scorch I can think off, is when you're very low on mana and you're trying to finish off an almost dead mob.
Aggro control has always been a part of MMORPGs, a skilled dps class player can finesse the line between doing his job and overdoing it and adapt to how well a particular tank is able to hold aggro.
Well, you don't want to pull the aggro from the tank onto you for one. A sustained DPS is much more important than a high rate of damage, followed by a pause while you are avoiding being hit by the mob. Some mobs later in the game his REALLY hard - if you manage to pull Onxyia onto you as a mage and off the tank, you're pretty much dead.
My previous statement about paladins being able to use their sheild to get to that chest was incorrect - they can't open chests while shielded. Not that it matters anyway - apparently the loot from the chest isn't all that great.
A dead mage does 0 DPS.
Key is to contribute what you can without pulling aggro. There is such a thing as too much DPS.
A mage that pulls aggro is at the very least a HUGE mana suck on the healers, and at worst, the start of a party wipe. Mages have like 10% damage mitigation, and warriors in defensive stance have like 60%. So a mage will take more than twice as much mana to heal than a warrior, which lowers overall chances of success of the party as a whole.
Yes, which is why I said WHEN you get into groups where it's a problem. At high 30's and low 40's it doesn't happen as much. The mage doesn't start to distance himself from the rest of the field as far as total damage output until later in levels. Around the mid 40's, a paladin does not do as much relatively damage as before. Nor does a warrior.
I totally agree with you on that. Your initial comment was that mutliple-scorch would be useful in these scenarios. Playing a mage (albeit I haven't reached higher levels yet), I can usually do a lot better than flooding scorches without pulling aggro. By removing DoT from scorch it now causes as much damage as my wand.
Except your wand is slower when you factor in the global cooldown, can't be interrupted once you click it, and doesn't benefit from various talents and item effects beyond wand specialization.
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Looks like Blizz finally got their patch schedule under control. Nice to see. Hows the server stability lately? Loot lag? I might have to pick it up. Beta left a bad taste in my mouth stability/patch wise, if they've got that fixed should be golden. I have less and less time these days, schools taken a toll on my gaming. Makes EQ difficult to play when I can't do the things I used to because of time.
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