Fire Islands and Cynn

Maybe you should have killed the towers first, coventina won't heal them, then you can kill her at your leasure.



As for Aiden, he uses preps so Practiced Stance is a good elite for him, makes them last longer which saves his energy for other things. Poison Arrow is useless against Jades, as is the bleeding that Melandrus causes and if you get a condition or a hex on a mob many of the bosses have a special ability called "Natural Resistance" (FF #62), which reduces by 1/2 the duration of hexes and conditions.

Personally, I think practiced stance is a good skill for Aiden, I just wish you could cap the skills from the henchmen when they die 1. Coventina does appear to heal the tower. I watched her. Unless it has a "while being damaged regen" that other towers don't seem to have. If it wasn't being healed I would have killed it first. But that whole idea is pointless. The point is that I had pulled Coventina out of the towers range and the firestorm chased her back into it. Even if there wasn't a tower there the warriors would have been chasing her around.

2. Everyone has there opinion about what skills make up a good ranger. I see very few practiced stance builds for PvE that people use. Yes I know there are some, but there are MANY better builds. I was capping on my monk but I have played through all the way on my ranger. There is no way I would waste an elite slot on Practiced Stance in the fire islands.
-- Kindle is a 5E skill that lasts 24 seconds. There is no need for Practice Stance as an elite for that prep. In fact he should have no energy management problems what-so-ever. If his expertise level is even 8 or 9 he's getting enough of a energy reduction that nothing he is casting should matter.
-- I'm not sure what FF#62 means, and even with a shortened duration doesn't mean you don't use conditions and hexes. Conditions and interupts work really good on the Mursaat.
-- The few jade warriors/bow there are the only mops that aren't susceptible to conditions. The rest are affected and their number far outweigh the few jades. Jades aren't that tough and aren't a problem. I would rather face a group of 2 jade bow and 2 jade warriors than a group of 4 lava imps any day. In fact the Coventinas and the towers Jade guards went down pretty quick. So it would be much better to bring poison arrow for damage + degen or melandrus which would hit enchantment users (like coventina and the mursaats) harder and have a degen.

But that is neither here nor there. I still find Aiden fairly useless, but not worthless. As it stands Cynn is more of a hindrance than she is a help. I know that henchies skill set sometimes changes with their level evolution, but it should also change for the area. And in general the henchie elementalist should be switched from fire fairly early on. I think it would be nice to see Orion's and Cynn's builds have some water, air, or earth skills too. Or even if they stick with fire they should bring the fire ward at that point in the game.

Bottom line, the henchie builds need a little looking into.

And if anything changed about capping I would like to be able to cap a skill while a mops alive as well as dead. Maybe that would be too easy, but I don't think so.

And if anything changed about capping I would like to be able to cap a skill while a mops alive as well as dead. Maybe that would be too easy, but I don't think so. Thats how it used to be, but people complained. Apparently people are complaining again. Who needs an elite in pve anyway?

I agree though, I've wanted some of the builds of the henchmen changed since day 1.

Why have a henchman with charge? Is it ever useful?
Why have a fire ele in a fire zone?

It might be awesome if you could like customize your own henchmen to a certain extent, but I doubt that would happen. So more variety of better henchmen is the best solution.

I haven't used Cynn or Orion since the update, I immediately just switched to Dunham.