I observed an ES in hot springs doing aoe on the 2X mobs there with the aoe water attack of the unicorn. Since then I added a PS sub and have been trying to develop an aoe method with soulless but have done poorly with my setup of the corpse and timing the aoe attacks.
Can anyone comment on whether they've been successful with aoe using soulless? The aoe attack has the same power as the unicorn. What I don't know is if the matk / cast speed of the unicorn and soulless are similar or not. I would hope the soulless would have something good...since it sure does stink having to trigger the blast with a corpse.
When using the soulless it has emp3/acumen3/zerk2. Also, as I wrote this I realized that I forgot to do the testing using pet bsps...so the attacks were done with no shots at all. That may explain everything.
I can see the ES being more of a AoE soloer than a PS. I mean, a PS would have to AoE poison, and then nuke per death of a mob... So you got 4 mobs, you poison, then attack 1. Kill it, nuke.Attack the next, kill it nuke, attack the next... dont sounds to grand to me. I think it might be hard to "aoe" mobs. But more like AoE when needed, and when it would be helpful. But i never played a PS, so you might get better feedback elsewhere.
I can see the ES being more of a AoE soloer than a PS. I mean, a PS would have to AoE poison, and then nuke per death of a mob... So you got 4 mobs, you poison, then attack 1. Kill it, nuke.Attack the next, kill it nuke, attack the next... dont sounds to grand to me. I think it might be hard to "aoe" mobs. But more like AoE when needed, and when it would be helpful. But i never played a PS, so you might get better feedback elsewhere.
Soulless also has corpse burst AoE attack. The problem with it is you have to trigger it from a dead mob.
You'll never be as good at AOE as an ES. The only time I use AOE on my PS is when I am in a pole party or if there are a lot of mobs attacking the tank in a group. The poison casts fast and often lands, but it's DPS. As for the corpse burst, I've never really used.
I can see the ES being more of a AoE soloer than a PS. I mean, a PS would have to AoE poison, and then nuke per death of a mob... So you got 4 mobs, you poison, then attack 1. Kill it, nuke.Attack the next, kill it nuke, attack the next... dont sounds to grand to me. I think it might be hard to "aoe" mobs. But more like AoE when needed, and when it would be helpful. But i never played a PS, so you might get better feedback elsewhere.
Soulless also has corpse burst AoE attack. The problem with it is you have to trigger it from a dead mob.
a PS would have to AoE poison, and then nuke per death of a mob. <--- thanks (that would be the nuke im referring to)
Aw that's too bad. It could have been a lot of fun.
I'm going to try on the 1/2 HP mobs outside Oren. I'll buff the Soulless (emp3, zerk2). The only thing I don't like is the need to kill a mob then do the corpse burst.
Overall, the Soulless seems to be a terrible design. Kai and Merrow look to be so much more effective.