Re: [Magus] Useless in end game content?
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:26 pm
Magus needs the same thing its needed since they took it away 13 years ago: a healing debuff.
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Magus is a great class. All three mastery lines or foci are viable. My magus is rr 86. I've never had any issues with getting WB, or instance spots, or being able to accomplish whatever the desired goal was: getting kills or otherwise. The negativity is from the ignorant.
Yeah that's pretty much what I expected. Like I said he is doing pretty well for himself and is great. Does a nice deal of damage to boot as well. I never had any issues grouping up with him. I have a Magus myself and I do just fine in Scenarios and such. It's fun to play.Orontes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:26 pmMagus is a great class. All three mastery lines or foci are viable. My magus is rr 86. I've never had any issues with getting WB, or instance spots, or being able to accomplish whatever the desired goal was: getting kills or otherwise. The negativity is from the ignorant.
madmatics wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 2:57 pm Running a 70+ magus myself and really enjoying both the AoE and ST playing-styles in oRvR and casual SC‘s.
Just fishing for some thoughts now. When it comes to ranked SC, what would the ‘meta‘ build be looking like? ST for the dmg spikes or rather a def spec around utility and survivability?
Tks
That is a really disheartening and discouraging to hear as my main is a Magus. I've been having lots of fun with him but if it's going to be like that later on, I may want to look elsewhere.martholomew wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:26 pm I'm going to disagree that all three masteries are 'viable' for Magus. Your guild/group wants you to be Rift spec (which is the most boring trash DPS rotation and throws you into harms way as a squishy caster) or they don't want you at all, from my personal experience. And, sadly, the theme seems like it isn't going to get any attention or adjustment or change, so I changed to another class.
I attempted to try out rift spec in some ranked SCs and it just doesn't work, all i managed to do was piss off the people i got paired with. You can make yourself fairly tanky as a magus with a guard and heals but the damage you do needs to be enough to pull your weight as a dps. It is like going into ranked as a monstro mara and expect to get kills. I think aoe/rift magus could work in ranked if it was not all random players not on coms. Rift/aoe spec just breaks or screws up CC in ranked and right timed CC is what gets kills.madmatics wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 2:57 pm Running a 70+ magus myself and really enjoying both the AoE and ST playing-styles in oRvR and casual SC‘s.
Just fishing for some thoughts now. When it comes to ranked SC, what would the ‘meta‘ build be looking like? ST for the dmg spikes or rather a def spec around utility and survivability?
Tks
This^ 100%.Ekundu01 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:14 pmI attempted to try out rift spec in some ranked SCs and it just doesn't work, all i managed to do was piss off the people i got paired with. You can make yourself fairly tanky as a magus with a guard and heals but the damage you do needs to be enough to pull your weight as a dps. It is like going into ranked as a monstro mara and expect to get kills. I think aoe/rift magus could work in ranked if it was not all random players not on coms. Rift/aoe spec just breaks or screws up CC in ranked and right timed CC is what gets kills.madmatics wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 2:57 pm Running a 70+ magus myself and really enjoying both the AoE and ST playing-styles in oRvR and casual SC‘s.
Just fishing for some thoughts now. When it comes to ranked SC, what would the ‘meta‘ build be looking like? ST for the dmg spikes or rather a def spec around utility and survivability?
Tks
If you are going to do ranked i would probably run single target spec. We are still at a disadvantage with turret mechanics though since the turret is very squishy. I recently changed over to some single target fun over the weekend and I am securing way more kills vs just being an aoe junky that half my stuff gets cleansed off.