Raedwulf
06 Mar 2009, 14:46
I asked the question in the Virtues Guide, "what is a Tactical effect?" Nobody's ever tried to answer it. Since I've had a sneak peek at Rhy's forthcoming Warden guide, where he nominates Tolerance (strong buff: Tactical Vulnerability) as a must-have, I thought it might as well get its own thread.
From a player point-of-view, I know what a tactical attack is - most of the LMs armoury, for a start. I know that Blinding Flash is a Physical, most of the Minstrels attacks are resisted by Cry (& mitigated by Light), along with the various CPT / GDN / WDN / CHM shouts. But when a mob attacks us... What's a tactical attack? Who do we need Shadow Mitigation against? Those goblin guards in Moria who do the stuns - is that resistable? What improves our defence against them? And so on & so forth.
We have 4 Resistances - poison, wound, fear, disease - & attacks of those nature are nice & obvious with a prettty coloured border on the debuff icon. We have 5 Mitigations on our traits - AV, Melee & Ranged are, again, all obvious enough & there's not much point in posting examples. Tactical & Shadow attacks, though? What attacks from what mobs (the emphasis being on MoM mobs, since that's where most of us are spending most of our time these days) are we on the receiving end of?
My own gut feeling is that, apart from the occasional shade & the Nameless down in the Shadowed Refuge, we're facing very little Shadow damage nowadays (which means Fidelity could be replaced). So please, post queries or information. If you "think, but aren't certain" fine, post that too - it can be discussed.
From a player point-of-view, I know what a tactical attack is - most of the LMs armoury, for a start. I know that Blinding Flash is a Physical, most of the Minstrels attacks are resisted by Cry (& mitigated by Light), along with the various CPT / GDN / WDN / CHM shouts. But when a mob attacks us... What's a tactical attack? Who do we need Shadow Mitigation against? Those goblin guards in Moria who do the stuns - is that resistable? What improves our defence against them? And so on & so forth.
We have 4 Resistances - poison, wound, fear, disease - & attacks of those nature are nice & obvious with a prettty coloured border on the debuff icon. We have 5 Mitigations on our traits - AV, Melee & Ranged are, again, all obvious enough & there's not much point in posting examples. Tactical & Shadow attacks, though? What attacks from what mobs (the emphasis being on MoM mobs, since that's where most of us are spending most of our time these days) are we on the receiving end of?
My own gut feeling is that, apart from the occasional shade & the Nameless down in the Shadowed Refuge, we're facing very little Shadow damage nowadays (which means Fidelity could be replaced). So please, post queries or information. If you "think, but aren't certain" fine, post that too - it can be discussed.