chaneled strike vs renewing surge

Take out DwG, put in OoS. Nighty, you need some spelling lessons.
Assassin's Promise isn't abbreviated by the combo OoS.







On-topic:
I am not a fan of Rift. Takes ages to hit.
Also if you plan on being dashing while dashing around doing ele-damage - I'd seriously consider throwing Weaken Armor in there. Either you take it - or stuff it onto your heroes.

Nighty, you need some spelling lessons.
Assassin's Promise isn't abbreviated by the combo OoS.




Yes, yes, yes Upier. lol

But you see.... OoS was my first love long before i found how OP Assassin's Promise was. Kinda hard to ditch the idea energy on demand.

AIs can interrupt 1/4th casts anyway so, I'm not seeing why the cast time is relevant there.

Strike has these going for it:

A) Compresses damage better when followed up with caretaker's. But that's generally for PvP where spikes matter.

B) Doesn't recharge forever if you have to cast it without a pot. (Seems rarely relevant in PvE.)

C) Better time compression. Surge may only take 1s to cast, but it as 3/4ths aftercast. So it really takes 3.5 seconds to do the same damage you can do in 2.75 seconds with strike. Now if you're say a flagger with nothing better to do with your energy, spam spam isn't a bad idea. But if splinter or caretakers is going off every 4-5s, then the time compression is useful. Ah yes, I see your point about casting time irrelevant now since you reminded me how AI having godly interrupt skills. And I really wasn't comparing it to renewing since I already stated it's worse than flare spam but the other things you mentioned (the compression and recharge time) do make it look more appealing now than it did before. I'll have to give it a whirl on a vanquish sometime later.

Thanks for the insight.

I could never really make DwG work in any bar, it looks real nice on paper but in reality you sacrifice too much survivablity to run it. 10% is almost nothing buff it to 25% to be in line with air magic and now were talking.

Looks really pretty when you drop it though It's pretty good in NM when you stack on damage buffs (ural hammer + Ebon stendard of honour + cracked armor) it really makes ancestor's rage a killer machine allowing you to hit in the high 100- 200, apart from that it kinda sucks. I'm currently running the buffed then renerfed lingering curses with air of superiority and mark of pain works well in bogroot (HM) if you got a scythe anton to spam splinter weapon on. The wounding strike + lingering combo is nice and helps taking down the healers pretty fast.