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Originally Posted by Stormhawk
...Desoltaion is useful as a life saver because it can never kill you.  |
...Can never kill you on its own. But the fatally long charge time (compared to wither) can kill you. I seriously doubt it does more damage per second. But if you have to take a bathroom break, it is good to let desolation charge up...or go out for pizza...or catch a movie...
Another problem with desolation skill, is that one hit puts your max voodoo below 50%...casting again immediately is not possible without tonic. But even then, you can't manage to do three strikes in one minute. The second strike (with tonic) will happen within 20 seconds, but the third strike will be a while. With wither, I can fire 18 rank 5 shots in a minute, without resorting to tonic. The officers on the Black Pearl only rarely, will last for 7 blasts.
The only situation I might think that desolation might be needed, is when you are alone on the colossus, with level 37 officers and all 6 charge you. But desolation won't kill any of them on that first shot. Therefore, you are dead anyhow. But you'd be dead long before desolation finished its charge-up.
Desolation is only good for astronomically stupid stunts. Like trying to foil a rep-stealer on Kingshead. Or showing off on a busy server.
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Originally Posted by Maximvs
Once again, I must warn everyone that the current prices for reassignment might be easy to allow for testers to try the options - as many of us just don't have the cash like we do with our Live 40 pirates... thesee prices may change as it gets closer to live - and I'd hate to see anyone get 'shocked' when they do finally come out  |
I hope they are at least ten times more expensive on open! Playing around with builds on test is fine - maybe they can keep low prices there?