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Grabbit Allworth

Grabbit Allworth

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I've decided to run two accounts; two characters and two mercs.

I'm going to use the Bard as a music box and pull/tank with the SK that I am leveling now. My mercs will be rogue and cleric. Those two types of mercs seem to do a reasonable job. The cleric needs its cast list curated though.

I should be able to do most of what I care about with this group.
 
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Rabkorik

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I went ahead and dropped the 4th and am going with 3 and 3 mercs. Will that be an issue when going for the epic 2.0s? Can you do them at the appropriate level? I think I read that the raids after PoTime don't allow Mercs.
 
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Rabkorik said:
I went ahead and dropped the 4th and am going with 3 and 3 mercs. Will that be an issue when going for the epic 2.0s? Can you do them at the appropriate level? I think I read that the raids after PoTime don't allow Mercs.
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It won't be an issue. Unless they've changed it, you need 6 real people to start the Anguish raid for the final step. You can certainly find someone in general or guild chat to join your group to start it.

The level you need to do it with three depends on your group, skills and gear. It's faceroll easy at live level cap, though the last boss can be annoying if you don't do it properly.
 
Deruvian

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Tuco said:
I've tried basically three types of groups:

1. Plate tank with melee
2. Plate tank with caster DPS
3. Pet group


#1 and #2 are both great, I've been using #1 for the last few expansion (shd/brd/shm/bst/rog/mnk), before that I was shd/brd/shm/mag/mag/mag. Next expansion I but am going to transition to pal/enc/dru/mag/wiz/wiz this year because caster DPS got buffed.

#3 is a bit unwieldy, plate tanks are just too good at holding aggro in tough situations compared to pets that can let a mob through and eat the mage. Plate tanks are also very strong DPS for the last decade, so it's not like replacing them with a DPS class is a huge benefit.

Slow is significant, but not as much as it used to be.

Attack buffs are extremely significant. The entire game is built around buffs and synergy.
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Thanks for this. Was the caster DPS buff you refer to just something at the 120+ level? Or is this retroactive in some way (similar to the dot revamps)?
 
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Thanks for this. Was the caster DPS buff you refer to just something at the 120+ level? Or is this retroactive in some way (similar to the dot revamps)?
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Not sure. But the melee vs caster DPS kinda varies through the different levels, but with a six box group the levels go by so quickly that it's hard to really pay attention to what's powerful as you level.
 
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