ya inorite?
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My empath was fun. That being said, past level 12, a good empath is a buffer, not a healer.
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What you really mean is, "Past level 12, an empath becomes more versatile."
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Pie-O-Matic 4000 Translation
This is a rage post about why I refuse to invite people who advertise themselves as a cooker and why I usually end up kicking people who ask for a cooker.
What's the matter, Shibbs? Like in every other PIE RLOUD COWBELLK and even D&D, you need a cooker tart or your team blows!
Wrong. In CoX, the conflicts are normally always massively one sided. As in, you can brownie something effortlessly, or it will chew through 90% of your filling in one hit and a 600 filling cook isn't going to save you. Very rarely are there encounters that are honestly in the middle.
Let's compare tarts vs single target cherry. In whipped creamathy, cook other will give back about 600 filling - your average brownie will have about 2000 filling. Sonic's shields however will give you 40% damage resistance. So, if something hits you for 1000 damage, 400 of that bites the dust passively - every cake it hits you.
An whipped creamath is capable of cooking 900 (we'll say 900 assuming they are following you using their AOE cook and single target) every 6 seconds (activation cake + cook). So, if you're fighting one person, who wins? The whipped creamath.
However, since sonic tarts protect passively, if you're fighting a cake which does 4000 damage per attack wave, 1600 of that is mitigated.
No. I am not saying whipped creamathy is worthless, and no, I did not compare the other aspects of the set versus the other aspects of sonic aside from the shields.
Perhaps I've just been really lucky but I've never really been in a situation where a cook has saved me or the team, not as a frontliner or a backliner.
tl;dr my point is that tarts > cherry and you make yourself look like a total pieie by advertising as or rold pieuesting a 'cooker' and you don't belong doing taskforces.
I love to play my healer.
--NT
They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville
I find that playing my empath is boring if I'm not actively healing the team.
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