Curse

Cherno · Mar 14, 2006, 04:24 PM // 16:24

Playing a few times this weekend on my orders I think I am probably going to stop playing it. It just isn't as much fun and you get less benefit when you play orders.

Unless you are doing an active heal on a party memeber or blooding the monk you will gain soul reaping from a distance but not experience.

I am also thinking that it isn't even worth it to bring both orders anymore since the OotV change. Since OotV recharges at approximately the same rate as a recast you should be able to keep that one order up at all times (about a 1 second gap when it runs out while you are recasting with a 20% enchant mod.) OotV gives essentially the same extra "damage" through life stealing as OoP but gains life for the attacker, so that is a clear choice over the other.

It also allows you to not bring Blood renewal, thus cutting down on the time you are spending trying to self heal instead of spamming the order. I have been succcessful just bringing mending to maintain my life or using a quicker heal spell, even heal party recovers you nicely.

I got into a fight this weekend witha monk about my bringing PS. I was with a party mostly made of my guild and friends and we got a monk in. I told them I was bringing it, to which they started to complain. I calmly and nicely explained the benefits outweigh the drawbacks to which they started in with the typical "n00b dumbasses, I am a monk with over 4 million experience, I can blah blah blah blah blah" So we kicked em. Funny thing is that if s/he was such an uber experienced healer, shouldn't they have been able to deal with the 20% drawback without a sweat?

We did have a sudden dropout at the beginning of the second level that run when the monk lost connection. PS and our good orders necro saved our butts and we finished the whole thing with relative ease.

Full disclosure and communication prior to starting will save the group a lot of heartache from the jerks and trouble makers.