So I’ve completed Upper Reaches Layer 3 last night as enhance with a group after failing miserably while being alone and the raging part is that everything before the last boss was fairly manageable so I figured I’d give some feedback, especially regarding the anima powers.
My biggest problem were the rare and epic ones, too many of them were going completely against the core rotation of enhance and a lot of them are too passive or support, nothing really felt worth picking to improve my dps and I really noticed it once I cleared layer 3 with a group, I was bottom dps but I gave my group heroism every 30 seconds for 15 seconds, my totem would spawn other totems, all of them would heal and give damage reduction.
There’s a few anima powers that improve the damage of stormstrike, lightning bolt and chain lightning but they feel really underwhelming unless you’re lucky and get to stack a lot of them, I don’t mind having a few powers to improve my totems here and there but when my entire build is pigeonholed into this spam totems to heal and improve my dps it feels soooo aggravating, I’m forced to stop to dps constantly or I lose all the benefits from my build.
Side note: The anima power that makes chain lightning or healing instant if you cast one or the other is worthless in solo and why would you pick it in group if you have a healer? Plus your totem will already heal constantly.
I don’t know if they have plans to tune the anima powers but that was my feedback.
kinda have the same feeling even with good powerr like i got one last night who give me ascendant for free while on heroism which is pretty nice as soon as earth elem die it’s barely managable couldn’t kill the upper reache 3 gonna give it a other go today maybe i’ll suceed
Yeah you have to go slow until you get powers to heal with totems, once you do and as long as you interrupt often you survive fairly easily as get healed for up to 5k per second.
Last boss probably requires a decent ilvl to solo, I didn’t get a single hp buff during my run so I had 23k hp and if you take too long to kill him (or is it a hp %?) his casts become impossible to interrupt and you die super fast. Even with the +40% dmg potion for a single fight it wasn’t enough.
Hopefully the powers we currently have are still fun in a group but we need more interesting ones for solo.
Fracture Chambers layer 3 with a group, tons of fun as I got lucky with my powers and got heroism every 15 seconds for 15 seconds and it was also giving me ascendance and heroism itself had its haste gain buffed by 30%, you can imagine the damage meter haha
Mort’Regar in a group was horrible, I got a bunch of dps powers for once but there’s just way too many aoe that one shots, idk if it was because our tank pulled too much or if it’s normal but some fights were a complete mess and I ended up dying constantly for no reason because I simply couldn’t see anything.
Tried again solo and I first tried it, idk if the powers are dependant of the wings but I got way more dps related ones and not a lot of totem stuff.
Not sure if its me but it seems like I barely get any maelstrom whenever I’m in torghast, my guess is that the powers somehow prevent the maelstorm to stack up normally and fks up the stats somehow. Anyone experienced this?
I am not having any issues at all doing layer 3, solo, in 2s or 3s. Our toolkit is perfect for Torghast, We have self heals, good dmg, good AoE, tank pet.
I breezed through 1 layer 3 without a single epic power. The non-class specfic ones are very good so don’t ignore them. The Arcane dmg on crit is really under-rated. Make sure you get all soul remnants. Keep yourself topped, don’t be afraid to blow all your CDs if you pull a big pack or an elite.
Yeah the runs are really dependant of what powers you get it seems, I was expecting our base kit to have the biggest impact even with powers but when you get a bunch of dots and instant damage you’re basically back in 8.3 lol, I checked the dps meter on the last boss of layer 3 and the majority of my dps came from my powers.
There’s also a few specific anima powers that drop only from rares that are really useful, got one yesterday that made it impossible for me to take more than 25% of my health in damage at once, basically bypassing completely the one shot mechanics, the other option was that every 12 sec a mob you target will have a debuff making it take 1%-50% more damage, I kinda regret not trying it now.
Overall Thorghast is quite fun, I cannot wait to see the other wings and I guess my first impression last week was a bit too hasty in hindsight.
That new wing i couldnt solo cause of heal debuff.
I actually hate torghast, for the most of runs you get garbage anima powers like maw rat, phantasma extra and similar, on some runs you get lucky with really good powers, but mostly are garbage.
From my runs from last week’s wings and this week, my general opinion is, if enhance gets good animas, it’s smooth, if you get nada, doable still but you gonna have to kite, stall, stun, use everything, but still doable.