what should a reaper use as their left click ability? Amarasta’s Blade Burst that only has 1 point in it or the maxed out Bone Harvest?
Thing is since you can’t cast other spells while holding left click in why bother having both? Well you kinda can cast other spells while holding left click in I guess, but 3/4 times you press the button they don’t go off.
It sucks when you’re trying to use a heal or defensive spell to live long enough to kill the enemies and you die from your heal not going off when you hit the spell. But if you had taken your finger off left click to guarantee the heal going off the fight lasts longer cause you stopped attacking and you die from not dpsing hard enough instead of not healing haha
using ABB as left click on my 2H reaper, SS as right click, pburst, bone harvest, ring of steel (or rather - ring of frost) and blade barrier on keyboard buttons.
ABB has the shortest cooldown of all those skills, so having it as my “default” attack means less klicking. it’s also the weakest of the skills, has the lowest cooldown, lethal assault also triggers when you use ti to smash loot containers.
and it has circular AoE, so positioning doesn’t matter much. i had bone harvest as right click at first, but it kinda sucks when curent target moves and you’re facing the wrong way and the wave shoots away from the rest of the pack, so i’d rather have that on a separate button to actually aim the direction independent of the auto atttack.
1pt ABB on left click is most likely a net dps loss (especially for DW melee), you don’t want to cast it every 1.8sec, just every 3.5-4 sec or so to refresh lethal assault.
If your maxing shadow strike then it’s best to put that on left click since you better off casting it right off the cooldown for maximized dps.
Idk why but when I Shadow Strike it doesn’t seem to do damage or move me if i’m in melee range (yet it does go on cooldown) but it does if i’m away from the enemy. So I was always worried putting it on left click would be pointless
i put 5 or so points into ABB to get the weapon damage to > 100%, so it doesn’t feel like a pontential dps loss. not using DW with the reaper, seems kinda pointless when all 3 necro melee skills use only mainhand. may respec to DW eventually if i can get my hands on the endgame set, but other than that, it’s 2H all the way.
abilities seem to trigger just fine when i press them. don’t know why it works fine for me tbh. i usually upen the fight with shadow strike to some mob on the outside of a pack and then immediately throw a bone harvest. sometimes that’s already enough to kill everything. if not, i throw out a ring of steel or ABB (whichever happens first) andif something is still alive after that barrage, i simply keep whacking away with the left click and throw in SS, BH and RoS as they come off cooldown.
On my warder I have LMB down almost continuously and it rarely interferes with either my RMB (stronger attack but with CD) or my healing equivalents (Wendigo Totem and Overguard, plus occasional heal potions). More often than not what causes them not to fire is stun, which I only realised after I maxxed my stun recovery % and noticed that suddenly my RMB and keyboard seemed to work a lot better. I had assumed it was the kb+mouse when it was actually my character being briefly stunned that kept things from working when I activated them. You can prove this by watching the button in your hotbar when you hit a key. If the CD begins it worked, if the button goes down (as it should) then pops back up and the CD does not start, you got stunned/interrupted. If it didn’t even go down, then there’s something actually not working properly.