There’s a wide spread belief that WL is an absolute beast of a class, but my experience is a little bit different and I’m trying to figure out why I’m still the bottom feeder of hell.
Believe it or not, I got to rank 81, halfway to 82 and I’m losing 90-95% of the solo encounters I have. In small roam things are slightly better, but still most classes just delete me from life, like my defences doesn’t exist. In a blob, depending on tanks and healers, things are different and I can see what people say about the class excelling.
I’m currently running a 5x Offensive Sov + 3 Triu, almost done with Replica Ring, Sent instead. 2x Gen jewels. I know Offensive Sov is bad for solo, even to and extent for small roam as well. After the Replica I’ll go for Defensive Sov. Talismans are mostly weapon skill, only in the weapon I have strenght.
Depending on the build tactics change. But I have Brut Force in all of them. For AoE build I use also Pack Synergy for 50% crit, minus AP/+ Arm Pen for Whirling and Slashing, DoT on Slashing. For solo/small roam I use 50% lion speed, 50% crit smg and 10% defence overcome. I’ve experimented with defensive tactics like 25% dmg reduction for spells and range on melee hit, also Biting Strikes buff of armor and disrupt, not much changed, maybe I will feel it with Def Sov.
My biggest concern is the skill rotations, what I have on my bars. For solo/small roam I usually start withe melee slow, followed by forced opportunity to lower armor, leonine frenzy and silence on the same global cd, followed by Hack to boost pet’s crit. Then usually Coordinated Strike and Fey-something. If i have time I use the basic attack that lowers armor on side/behind hits.
Another thing that worries me is gow unreliable the pet is. It feels so easy to defend its abilities. Silence and knockback feel useless against most melee, being easily parried and blocked, like the 10% def overcome doesn’t apply. Also sometimes it feels like I’m hitting enemies with wet boodle, damages are extremely low. In the same time dual wielding classes like Mara, DoK and eapecially WE, hit me like a truck with their autoattacks. Often I see damage logs, where on every hit I make, or my pet, there are 5-6 hits the enemy sneaks on me. And it’s not like I don’t use my skills, they are on CD, just feels like those hits are going to Narnia. There is something I’ve been doing fundamentally wrong in the past 2 months. I feel like the Renown piniata/donor of the server
Any help or suggestions would be highly appreciated.
