Today I finally logged onto my Warder since Gracia went live and I noticed that Abyssal Blaze, Double Thrust and Penetrating Shot are listed as consuming 5 souls. However, those skills consume up to five souls and the skills were even usable when I didn't have any souls stored. At first, I thought that the attacks would do some base amount of damage and consuming souls would increase the damage, but I'm not really seeing anything like that. (There have been a few instances where Double Thrust consuming two souls did less damage, on the same type of mob, when it consumed one soul. And, yes I know, RNG.)
So, what I want to know is does the consumption of souls have any effect on these skills any more? Is this intentional or a bug?
The problem I've noticed, especially on my new Soulbreaker (<3), is that between the new magic damage variable, and the odd damage ratio the rapiers have.... I can't honestly say I -normally- see any difference in damage.
Yes, I have seen a noticably higher top end spell or skill hit, but as I said, the damage variable tends to drown it out.
So technically, no the souls aren't useless now, but they don't really seem to matter unless you're looking for that extra little bit of damage in the long run.
As previously posted by one of the educated Soulbreakers, our damage is all over the place (less technical term).
Unfortunately trying to calculate to damage boost using the Souls is next to impossible.
Just as a rule of thumb. If you are new to the SB class. Every day fill up 25 bottle of souls or more if you have the time. Carry them on you all the time, they weigh nothing. I run around with at least 150 minimum.
You can spam the bottles of souls instantly too.
Just to give you an idea of some of the top end damage I have dished out against equally geared and level toons:
With my nukes: Soul of Pain, Annhilation Circle, Soul Strike, Leopold, Steal Divinity and Soul Vortex:
My top end damage is in the 5000 to 14000 range.
Very very important to note. I have never played a dagger. But I have friends that play daggers and I feel our big damage is kind of like the big damage a Dagger can dish out.
Luck is involved. I do not dish out this damage regularly. But when it happens, I get this in chat:
WTF
OMG
:o
Anyway, I love my soulbreaker. I have so much fun with it in pvp and pve.
My soulbreaker is a male. But, there is not much action going on in the male forum so I decided to check out the Femal Breaker threads.
As I've continued to progress, I've noticed more and more damage being dealt when you have a full 5 souls for the skills, whereas early on the skill damage barely matched crit damage even with souls, now at 52+ that is no longer the case.
I have also started to keep a variable boatload of bottles around, and every time I log in I use Soul gathering and fill a bunch.
So in essence, in the 40-52 grind, souls are nice, but just focus on the grind, 52+ and farther along for pvp, keep those bottles stocked, you'll be glad you did.
all that was to say was sayd ....so ...I'm too a male soul breaker ...... but I always take my time to apreciate the female side of our race :)
/perv on
they are the perfect balance of ear length and breats
/perv off
LOL.. you should check out one in Improved Apella Light... It's prob the best armor texture avail for female kamael.
Now as to the souls question, at 73 I dont bother with using soul power in PVE at all. I only use them for PVP. I have crit for over 8k without using souls in PVE on red mobs in imperial tomb. These are dark resist mobs even and using checkmate and +3 DLE/CD. Obviously I did not have dark weapon going as it gimps damage vs demons. So I realy don't see the point in the extra cost involved to use soul bottles for PVE. PVP.. yeah.. every advantage is just that.