It's the lack of radius in mud pots and WoC that will bring the build to it's knees.
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i know the radius is small. but earth is a melee based set so i figured that wouldn't mean as much. is that logic too off or no?
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Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
It's the lack of radius in mud pots and WoC that will bring the build to it's knees.
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The hard part might be that Hot Feet is going to cause mobs that aren't immobilized to try to get away from you, and it has a larger radius. The immobilize from Mud Pots looks like it'll help keep mobs that get in there in there, but it's getting them in there that's the problem.
Also, WoC's ticks are 4 seconds apart, which again cuts into it's effectiveness. According to Mids, the average dps from it with 4 procs will be... less than Mud Pots with no damage slotting or procs.
I'm not certain that makes it worthless, but I'm sure it makes it questionable.
From what I've heard, WoC is generally only useful for the "cool" looking aura, if you like the look... I really wanted it to be awesome as well but the small radius, low damage, long duration between ticks & short confuse duration make it generally worthless.
On my fire/stone I wanted to go this route as well, but I respecced out of mudpots before got very far into the 40s because it just doesn't work that well (for me) with Hot Feet - for all the reasons others have mentioned. The radius mainly...if they bumped it up to at least 15" I would probably pick it back up. The end drain is pretty severe (even on a permadom - without Mud Pots mine still runs down the blue), but heavy IO slotting and the Cardiac incarnate will help with that.
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Frankenslotted for maximum effect.
Hot Feet - .542 end/sec, 26.7 damage per tick (2 seconds)
Mud Pots - .407 end/sec, 21.26 damage per tick (2 seconds)
WoC - .163 end/sec, 15.23 damage per tick avg (2 damage procs, and CC proc) (4 seconds)
In 4 seconds you'll average 111.15 damage for an end cost of 4.448 so the damage per endurance is good. Your end drain will be atrocious though. You'll have to resist the temptation to use any powers other than single target attacks and your controls.
Damage mitigation will be a problem. Outside of Domination Flashfire will last 23ish seconds. Unless you have a near permadom build it won't be up every 23 seconds which means things will take shots at you and from melee range. With the above damage output it will take 20 seconds to kill minions that stay in melee range.
If you add in Tough, Weave, and the Epic shield for mitigation (ED capped for end red) you're talking another .5ish end per second.
With 3 slotted Stamina, Miracle + and Numina +/+ your recovery will be about 3 per second which means that your toggle end use (with ED capped end red slotting which is expensive in terms of slots) will be a bit over half of your recovery.
If you do much other than use your controls and stand there melting stuff with your Auras you'll crash your end bar after every spawn.
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-I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
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i'm wondering if anyone has tried this build before. i was pondering about the idea of having hotfeet, mudpots and world of confusion running at the same time. i calculated about 63 damage per tick between the 3, plus procs would be a plus.
i know it will very endurance heavy but i was thinking maybe the Cardiac Alpha slot could help along side of some nice set bonuses and accolades.
is it worth it to run all 3 or is the endurance too much of a headache for the damage?