Hi All,

     The latest patch has apparently gone live today, and along with some additional nerfs [expletive deleted], they did add one really useful item:

Reduced 'Per Hit' endurance cost on Whirlwind, Repel and Repulsion Field. 

     One of the big nerfs in I-5 was to Burn.  Essentially the recharge time was increased, the damages reduced, and the enemy AI was improved so they would run out of burn patches.  While the first two could be overcome the latter made burn essentially useless since the enemy never stayed in the patch long enough to get hurt.  I played around with respecs but could never find a build that worked.

     With the last round of changes though, I have found that the endurance cost of whirlwind is now very manageable.  I tried a test respec, and basically made sure to add whirlwind, hasten, stamina, and burn.  I can then run into a mob, fire of whirlwind to throw them up in the air, lay a burn patch so that when they land and try to get up they are standing in a burn patch, then repeat.  while not as uber-killing as the original burn, it is a heck of a lot of fun, and does breath some life back into burn.

  While this tactic is not foolproof (some bosses, AV's, etc are immune to the whirlwind effect), it does provide some amusment for the Fire/Fire tanker, and adds an additional element of mob control to the tanker .

     Just some food for thought, let me know if you have any other suggestions.

I don't play a fire tanker (well ok I played one to lvl 11) so Ihaven't used burn, so I have a question: Does having a defender orcontroller lock down mobs inside a burn patch just not work? or are thefire tanks annoyed because the changes cut down on their soloability?I'im guessing since they can't keep the baddies in the patch with justtaunt anymore?)

Has anyone tried having the fire tank draw them all into a corner, havea fire troller lay down a bonfire patch to keep them in the corner, andthen use burn, or do I just not know what I'm talking about?

Taunt was nerfed. Taunt will only work on 5 foes at a time and I thinkthe duration time may have been shortened and the recharge lengthened,though dont' quote me on those last two since I'm saying this off thetop of my head. I don't bother to use it anymore unless there's anextreme situation; invinc works better for me.

ohhhh ok. *nod* that seems to go along with a couple things they'redoing. The first being a general balancing act so that one of anythingdoesn't completely take care of everything like it used to. So a secondtank isn't superfluous (and yes, they kinda were. so to some extent wasa second 'troller, but anyway)

Gotcha. So they probably did the same thing to the White Dwarf provokethen yes? when I was trying to herd those fir bolg to try and getjack/eochi to spawn I didn't think I was hitting all of them every timeand I wasnt seeing a lot of "miss". or maybe I just stink at taunting^_^;

EN: I wanna see this burn toss. it sounds hilarious