Return of Reckoning

Assuming all numbers versus medium armour targets, no guard.

Comparing A. 5 Main Sov / 4 Tri versus B. 6 Tri / 3 WL (Both with 2x Topaz Annulus) gives the following differences, A to B assuming identical tactics / renown / talis (FS2, Crit 3, WS 5, BS 1, with 8x WS Talis and Range Power Epic Tali ...

Current BiS Engineer sets have an issue of failing to adequately cater to the respective playstyles, which I will broadly classify into 3 sensible possibilities:

1. Rifleman Single Target Physical Damage Build
2. Grenadier AOE Corporeal Damage Warband Build (Either with Napalm or Magnet)
3. Solo ...

I think there are two things that play into this a lot:

1) There's very little randomness in 24v24 at the top level. Pugs love to talk about **** like, 'let's flank them' or 'distract them while we go on their healers'. Sorry, at a certain point with voice comms everyone knows where everyone else ...

Because dying to guard damage would never happen if this change was made? Wounds is more important than mitigation.

The RP / WP synergy is that combo has the best healing output. And 1sec groups heals at +25% makes up for the lower base healing on it. AM cant compete in that regard.

IB needs some love. It's essentially a ST parry and crit buff. The rest are far less impactful. Converting the magic shield to all ...

1. Somehow make IB wb viable.
Probably isn't possible given the skills it has and what SM can bring to the table

2. Make Engie (and/or Magus) more attractive for cities?
Magus is already fine because spirit debuff and it actually does good aoe damage because all magical. Change Engi aoe debuff to ...

It would be nice to see the transition timers brought down some. 5 minutes between stages is excessive, I think 2 or 3 would be fine. Would speed up the experience slightly - especially since you can't respec etc, so there's not really anything to do in that time.

For keeps that's okay. I'd probably swap Fiery Reserves (I'd rather juggle my CDs manually) for Crown of Fire for the better proc, but it's fine.

Is the damage not comparable to this?
RoR.builders - Sorcerer

Are we talking about keep sieges or 24v24 here? Different build required depending on ...

1. RoF/detonate 50% radius increase (BW) vs surging pain/infernal wave 33% radius/range increase (Sorc)
Infernal Wave is instant cast damage that you can move, and which stacks. RoF can't be cast on top of each other and forces you to stand still. This is not a good tactic. And RoF actually doesn ...

Simply put, it's not about "how fast you can get your end game gear", it's that "if you do not play at the proper times, or 24/7, or discord/sor citywatch, you do not progress".

This.