Vaelil wrote:Has anyone used the Acute Focus of Arcanium? How does it compare to the old FoA, duration recast resists.. Thanks for sharing in advance.

IIRC it's now 35% less chance to resist instead of 25%. Resists are definitely up in UF, so it helps.

The way companions blessing seems to work from what I've observed is it changes from companions blessing I to companions blessing II to companions blessing III throughout its duration. I'm curious: if you were to CB your pet and then DA it, could the DA block the transition of one level of CB to th...

It functions like NPC DA. The pet continues attacking and maintains agro and you can't cast on it. However, you lose DS DPS (it isn't getting hit) and it stops the pet from casting. Right now, it is very good for raids and pet-tanking named when they enrage. Keep in mind that they *may* at some poin...

Wow, so we're down to one marginally useful spell now? Has anything changed with the others to make them worth using (the DS or the heal recourse)? I noticed everytime I cast Chaotic Boon it was dispelled whenever Mana Reiterate Aura ticked over, making it unusable with a chanter in the group. /shr...

Anyone one of the alleviation procs is strictly superior to any mana aug. The lowest alleviation effect I've seen is 100 mana (225 at 6?) and with an observed procrate of at least 2.7/minute (more on some weapons), it's not hard to do the math, and you'll almost never be oom in less than the time it...

Yes, the #1 cause of death in EQ is running out of HP. In "EQ", yes. But for soloing/grouping situations as a Mage with zero outs other than CoN, I mostly find myself dying because I do not have enough mana to continue operations. After a reasonable amount of HP (25k?) I would trade almos...

along those lines, make sure you save 2 clicks of it for when you hit the twincast spell....the clicky nukes WILL twincast, and you can pop 2 of them off in the 20ish seconds twincast lasts. A lot of clickies will give you the twincast message , similar to RS; but I'm pretty sure that none of them ...

Multibinding is very different from macroing. With a multibind all you have to do is make an audio trigger for each toon that gets a GoM proc, then you'd simply wait until RS refreshes on that toon. If you're using macros, then you have something pressing multiple hotkeys in sequence for you. You'd ...

Ok, quick question about this AA. Does this also make our swarm pets a valid target for group buffs? For example on a raid, could you time it so all mages (and anything else with swarm style pets and pet affinity) cast their pets at the same time and have a chanter MGB haste? Yes, it works on regul...

People are vastly overstating the difficulty of the group content. As a Mage, it will be more or less the same as SoD, at least it was not hard from what I tested after the mob difficulty revamp. And that was in all tower gear, which will be the new group gear. As long as you actually do the progres...