Soul Mastery isn't universally considered inferior to Leviathan. In fact, for a SS/WP, Soul would have been my first suggestion, because /WP has Quick Recovery to help with the high cost of running Darkest Night. For SS/WP, Leviathan would have been my last suggestion, since hopping around to get cone positioning can interfere so much with your +Regen from RttC. Opening up with all those cones is just going to invite ranged retaliation when one of your strongest defenses is at its weakest. I really don't know what the people you were talking to were thinking.
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Soul Mastery isn't universally considered inferior to Leviathan. In fact, for a SS/WP, Soul would have been my first suggestion, because /WP has Quick Recovery to help with the high cost of running Darkest Night. For SS/WP, Leviathan would have been my last suggestion, since hopping around to get cone positioning can interfere so much with your +Regen from RttC. Opening up with all those cones is just going to invite ranged retaliation when one of your strongest defenses is at its weakest. I really don't know what the people you were talking to were thinking.
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So my intuition was good...I started Mako missions already, is it possible for me to change my choice or is it too late?
You can choose any patron set once the missions are done, you don't get locked into one patron anymore.
Personally I like Mu. Lightning fences will immobilize them all around you so makes the Regen kick in real good, plus it's an AoE damage. Ball Lightning is another AoE damage. Add that to Footstomp and that's some AoE goodiness right there!
both roots from mu and mace are pbaoe. the mace one has the largest radius, the mu prevents knockback
the other two pools are cones. HOWEVER - going leviathan opens up the option of an acchilles heal -resist being slotted
Hi,
My Brute is SS/WP. I asked in game which patron pool is the best for Brutes and I was told Leviathan for the cones and I saw something liek that too said here so I picked it up but a bit reluctantly because Soul Mastery seemed superior for a brute that wants to be surrounded by mobs and Darkest Night seems like a greater tool to help, especialy with /WP.
So, why is Soul Mastery considered inferior to Leviathan? The cones are only 30 degrees which means you constantly have to move to get more than 1 mob while Darkest Night is 21% damage debuff (and base 10% to hit debuf) and Gloom has the highest ST damage of all the patron pools (the cone is only 25 degree and crap damage per mob).
Thanks