Aitrus
04-01-2005, 11:22 AM
I've been keeping this one to myself, but now I figure what's the point.
Some of you may have even figured this out.
Do not use your highest rank root.
I use my rank 3 root (both for nature's grasp and entangling roots).
It costs less mana and holds longer than rank 4, 5, and 6. I did a lot of testing to check this out.
Each new root rank has the potential to last longer, but it also does more damage making it more likely to break itself. I've noticed that root will very rarely hold after a starfire, but usually it'll stick for a few seconds at least after a moonfire. Maybe its just superstition, but I think the rate of root breakage depends on the amount of damage being inflicted.
Root ranks work like this:
Rank 1, 20dmg/12sec. 50mana.
Rank 2, 50dmg/15sec. 65 mana.
Rank 3, 90dmg/18sec. 80 mana.
Rank 4, 140dmg/21sec. 95 mana.
Rank 5, 200dmg/24sec. 110 mana.
rank 6, 270dmg/27sec. 125 mana.
At level 60, Rank 1, 2, and 3 will always hold for their full duration if you do not hit the player with anything. Ranks 4, 5, and 6 are more sporadic and will almost always break themselves before reaching their full duration. Rank 6 can last up to 27 seconds, but will rarely last more than 7 or 8.
I found the optimal to be rank 3. It's a guaranteed 18 second root, no surprises. Rank 4 will sometimes go the full 21 sec, but it may also break at 12-13 sec.
The second benefit of this, in addition to guaranteed holding times, is the reduced mana cost. We don't root for damage, we root to keep something in place - crowd control / stun. Rank 3 root costs just 80 mana... that's 36% less mana than rank 6 root (45 mana to be exact).
If you want you can use rank 1 or 2 to reduce the mana even more, but the duration is also reduced so the payoff isn't as good in my opinion.
In pvp you don't want to root someone, and have the root break itself after 2 seconds, allowing him to interrupt your regrowth. You need to know its going to hold for a while. The high ranks will break sometimes very very early on in the timer. The ranks 1-3 will pretty much never do this.
So if you want to get the most out of your roots, at lvl 60 use rank 3 instead of rank 6 for both entangling root and nature's grasp.
Some of you may have even figured this out.
Do not use your highest rank root.
I use my rank 3 root (both for nature's grasp and entangling roots).
It costs less mana and holds longer than rank 4, 5, and 6. I did a lot of testing to check this out.
Each new root rank has the potential to last longer, but it also does more damage making it more likely to break itself. I've noticed that root will very rarely hold after a starfire, but usually it'll stick for a few seconds at least after a moonfire. Maybe its just superstition, but I think the rate of root breakage depends on the amount of damage being inflicted.
Root ranks work like this:
Rank 1, 20dmg/12sec. 50mana.
Rank 2, 50dmg/15sec. 65 mana.
Rank 3, 90dmg/18sec. 80 mana.
Rank 4, 140dmg/21sec. 95 mana.
Rank 5, 200dmg/24sec. 110 mana.
rank 6, 270dmg/27sec. 125 mana.
At level 60, Rank 1, 2, and 3 will always hold for their full duration if you do not hit the player with anything. Ranks 4, 5, and 6 are more sporadic and will almost always break themselves before reaching their full duration. Rank 6 can last up to 27 seconds, but will rarely last more than 7 or 8.
I found the optimal to be rank 3. It's a guaranteed 18 second root, no surprises. Rank 4 will sometimes go the full 21 sec, but it may also break at 12-13 sec.
The second benefit of this, in addition to guaranteed holding times, is the reduced mana cost. We don't root for damage, we root to keep something in place - crowd control / stun. Rank 3 root costs just 80 mana... that's 36% less mana than rank 6 root (45 mana to be exact).
If you want you can use rank 1 or 2 to reduce the mana even more, but the duration is also reduced so the payoff isn't as good in my opinion.
In pvp you don't want to root someone, and have the root break itself after 2 seconds, allowing him to interrupt your regrowth. You need to know its going to hold for a while. The high ranks will break sometimes very very early on in the timer. The ranks 1-3 will pretty much never do this.
So if you want to get the most out of your roots, at lvl 60 use rank 3 instead of rank 6 for both entangling root and nature's grasp.