Result: The WB WL tears through everything with incredible safety. It boasts a peak naked clear time of 7min 25s.
In its current state, the WB WL surpasses most buffed/bannered builds in the crucible.
So I’d like to pose a genuine question to the forum: Would you consider this balanced?
WB Sentinel
Unfortunately, I couldn’t be bothered recording any videos for it - suffice to say that it cannot hope to compete with the WL.
The constant interruption from casting CoF + pox alone is a huge DPS gimp.
The one real advantage it offers is BoD.
You could get manticore in your devotion pathing, but this only serves to further hamper your struggling defence.
I’ve tried hard to make it work, and it just isn’t worth it.
In other words, the WB WL will actually have MORE RR than the WB sentinel.
Flat damage from Solael’s witch blade is also meh at best as only 56% of that will be applied to EoR. This makes the %phys damage offered by the soldier class more or less equivalent in terms of DPS.
I don’t think it’s the skill itself, or all builds would be great with it, which they obviously are not. It’s mostly the set I think, and a little bit the fact that soldier builds have no problem with casting debuffs and such, just hold down that button and they’re fine.
…not quite a 10% drop in phys damage. First off, pierce mods on weapons are local so any mainhand hits and all your soulfire damage will be completely unaffected. Also, while I have no hard proof, I really doubt the pierce ratio would work on already converted damage.
Good point about that still not helping explain why the sentinel falls down though.
For maximum spin efficiency, you need to be spinning as much as possible, this is easy for a warlord because your resist reduction is almost all passive, put assassin’s mark on guardians, nothing to do there. All you need is the occasional warcry and that’s it. Soldier has most of its power in passives and auras, very efficient. Other classes have self buffs, debuffs and whatnot to cast, which lowers the time available to spin, which is bad.
Physical damage is the easiest type to debuff, since there are very few moving parts. Only one devotion proc as mentioned, which can be put on a pet, and war cry, which has a long cooldown. After you cast it you have up to seven seconds of uninterrupted spinning time. No need for CoF, wind devils or anything like that. Efficient.
The best EoR set just happens to be both physical and tailored to warlord, reinforcing the previous two points.
WB Sentinel
Unfortunately, I couldn’t be bothered recording any videos for it - suffice to say that it cannot hope to compete with the WL.
Mate, i’m sorry to say but I don’t quite understand this.
Besides not testing it fully cause CoF (War cry? ) and saying straight up it cannot compete, EoR is not cadence so it will benefit less from the aggressive flat dmg WB sentinel provides for a Witch blade warborn. It’s just nice synergy for defense in this particular case with ok offense. All builds have one combo that is better than others. Why does EoR WB need to be better or equal to WL?
I mean if you advocate for nerfs, again, I guess something will happen no worries. Personally I find EoR kinda slow and the main attraction is the ‘‘drive by’’ nature of it
Also same WL vs WB cadence. The fact that so many people think WL is better still boggles my mind. I guess time needs to pass to get through with it
Like i said above. WL EoR might very well be better than Sentinel cues EoR has low %WD. But if you go back, there was talk on the forum that Cdence WB WL is better than Witchblade too which is so not true hurts. I’m not even a fan of phys Cadence Witchblades (phys RF sentinel maybe:p ) or the Warborn set. I’m just saying…
So it’s ok if WL is better in one case over another. It’s the same with so many other builds. You made a good build here P:) you don’t need to compare it to others
You want the energy sustain gone? So many builds had mana issues during testing with Pov Line maxed reserving so much of your energy. It has the same reserve as Mog Pact. That is why some regen was added to it. Don’t take it for granted :P. I was one of the people that whined about energy btw, and it wasn’t even EoR. It was a phys RF Sentinel
DpS is good yes, i never questioned that. I don’t know what to say about this. I was comparing two different cases.
That belgo is tuned to be fun in particular circumstances. No buffs would turn it into a caricature at which point you might was well go phys BM(or sentinel) Warborn as JoV did for no buff no banner.
Each type of build claims it’s own prize. Consistency vs raw DpS
