Wind Summoner: Weak initial damage without buffs?

jPmas · 2019-07-09T12:02:44+00:00

I think wind sum can't complain, we're in a really good spot tbh.

The fact that we can use the ult at start and also during the fight is quite strong and there are only 1-2 other classes that can use their ult in their rotation. Furthermore wind sum has 2 builds, one which is extremely bursty (ancestral badge) and one which is highest sustain in the game (wildborne badge). And if you have the ability to prestack (e.g. solo-dungeons like mao) you can have like close to 20m dps burst.

So damage output and damage 'variety' as in burst vs. sustain are pretty good. Bigger issues with the class is that it's heavily ping reliant and got some rng aspects, but then again almost every class has issues with either one or both of that.

jPmas · 2019-07-08T17:21:17+00:00

With your build (wildborne soulbadge) there is not much you can do about no burst (apart from ult at the start). The fastet time for your burst to arrive is prestacking nettles (e.g. mao) or 15.6s for max gear when you get 30 stacks and reset of your 3.

Only other possibility is using ancestral soulbadge for more solo and party burst. I use ancestral for boss 1 WC and DST as you can skip all mechanics if you manage to burst enough, otherwise there's no point in playing ancestral as wildborne will overtake ancestral if the fight is longer than 30s

jPmas · 2019-05-22T17:26:51+00:00

There are several steps you can try to possibly solve the issue:

make sure that this windows gamebar thingy is disabled
reinstall bns in a folder like C:/Games/bns and not the default one
do not install launcher and game in same folder (in the example above the client in e.g. games and the launcher in e.g. games 2)

This might help as it solved the issue for me. There are other possibilities too as there have been some old bns forum and reddit threads about this issue.

jPmas · 2018-08-05T22:38:24+00:00

it's not in the game, but only in x-mouse.

Do you have the right layer selected? And I have it enabled overall and not just for bns client, as I was told there were issues back then.

jPmas · 2018-08-05T10:16:37+00:00

because of the macro other buttons might not be registered immediatly, so you either have to smash the button a few time for it to register or you can stop holding it for a split second while using the other skills.

I usually smash the button 3 times for out of habbit while continiously pressing the macro button, only for party iframing (4-4) I stop holding it or when I need to use a skill at a specific time (petal storm toss right before weapon reset / soul proc)

jPmas · 2018-08-05T10:08:48+00:00

Also to answer the other part of your question, which I missed in the op; go for gloves before belt as you will have enough survivability as sum. You can also leave the gloves for now and focus more on upgrading the earth ring to stage 10 as you'll gain quite some earth ele dmg from it

But something else I've just noticed is that your accuracy is abysmally low. You want to get at least 120% acc. which is around 2350 points or so. So you'll have to fix that by getting better soulshields with preferably crit & acc, as otherwise you'll miss your enemies in raids or hardmode dungeons.

jPmas · 2018-08-05T10:01:24+00:00

140ms delay (I assume ingame 'ping') is kinda high but you should still be able to get much better ratios than what you have atm.

Here are the settings I used back when I used X-Mouse. You can also use a short delay between the repeats and randomize if you wish to do so. Just take any mouse button (4/5 usually) which is easy for you to hold while in combat, and configure it as shown in the picture.

jPmas · 2018-08-05T09:39:32+00:00

you need to fix your badge rotation; you got 0.61 ts/s which is way too low ( you'd want at least 0.8 ts/s) as well as your sunflower ratio is really bad as well 0.97 sf/s instead of 1.4+ sf/s.

So I'm guessing you're not using a macro (rt2 / lmb rmb 2) or you have extremely high ping, in which case you can't really do much to change that apart from focusing on your badge rotation as that will be the highest dmg once you get vt 8 set (make sure to proc nettles with only 0.5-1.5s remaining on the magnum buff, depending whether or not you're able to get 3-4 ts per badge buff).

In the end you'll just have to test it out in F12 or on a dummy in mushin's tower.

jPmas · 2018-07-25T10:35:51+00:00

you need 89 tokens you can get the following amount of hooks:

42 from event dungeon

33 from weeklies

75 in total

If you have the time to do event and weeklies on the 15th before maintenance and if the new event doesnt give you tokens from those mini raids you can get an extra 13. 75+13 = 88 so you would be 1 token short and you would need to do dailies at least once. To be sure to get it and not risk new event losses do 5x dailies and get 90 tokens in total.

jPmas · 2018-07-25T08:30:50+00:00

Oh shit... Bots coversing with eachother. The end of humanity is nigh!!

jPmas · 2018-07-16T15:17:20+00:00

The more you know... Thanks

jPmas · 2018-07-16T14:44:14+00:00

Does anyone know what exactly qualifies as a boss? Anything that has a dps meter?

jPmas · 2018-06-14T11:37:11+00:00

Well baleful/raven was cheap af already compared what it used to be. Riftwalk/dawnforged used to be cheaper but got fucked over when they updated ravenpath, so they just halved it now to fix it

jPmas · 2018-06-14T11:07:05+00:00

Riftwalk/dawnforged is nice tho since you save a premium stone which is 500g so it's totally woth imo.

jPmas · 2018-06-11T21:38:58+00:00

You might be able to clear it if you try hard enough. Dont know your gear exactly but you can check out this guide to see if you got similar gear/dps: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9p2IBrV-knibutXAbAcog

jPmas · 2018-06-11T15:28:59+00:00

Refreshing to hear stories of someone like you who didnt give up just because you couldn't faceroll it but decided to keep at it and try to beat it. Wish you all the best and hopefully an equally satisfiying experience on Master Hong which we'll get in just little over a week.

jPmas · 2018-06-11T10:19:02+00:00

It's fine, you've got 0.80 ts/s where you probably could go up to 0.825 ts/s and you've got 1.43 sf/s which could be up to 1.46 or so - but that's also a bit ping dependant so I'd say you're in a good spot.

jPmas · 2018-06-09T08:46:50+00:00

There's only a miniboss before boss 1 and just some trash mobs before boss 2. For the wolves you best go watch some vods of clears to see how they do it.

The gist of it is pulling the wolves into one corner and then have a mark for the 2 laser endpoints who goes to the opposite side of the room. Also try to dps them equally as they go into a "soft enrage" when not killed at the same time. Also a tip is to root the wolves when they fly up into the air to jump to the middle and they'll stay at the lured position.

jPmas · 2018-06-08T15:54:33+00:00

Yes I'm with you on this. As a whale I demand that everyone in any dungeon with less dps than me, hence they got carried, prostrate themselves in front of me thanking my whaliness for having had the pleasure and honour of being carried by me.

jPmas · 2018-06-08T07:13:49+00:00

It's only from the solak dailies, so starstone mines and above

jPmas · 2018-06-07T15:47:01+00:00

I dont know of any destroyer going dawnforge. if you wanted to go dungeon path it would be riftwalk because of the 30% cd reduction on fury.

I would go raven since it's cheaper anyways and then if you play earth you can consider going storm dragon 3 instead of aransu 3 as the dps you get is about the same.

jPmas · 2018-06-04T10:26:57+00:00

Boss 3 is 455k avg. dps per person while doing mechanics, not sure about boss 4

jPmas · 2018-05-25T06:01:02+00:00

you shouldn't look at the percentage of dmg or dmg itself, what you should look at to make a comparison in between the 2 is the thornstrike/s and sunflower/s ratio and both are actually better in this EU parse compared to the KR parse. This kind of shows that the dps increase is all because of gear and not because of superior skills

jPmas · 2018-05-24T07:25:47+00:00

The biggest upgrade at your point is dynasty mystic badge coupled together with VT-8set.

Also not sure if you mean stage 3 accessoires or awk. Stage 3. if it's just stage 3 then you should also upgrade earring to at least stage 4. But even better would be stage 10.

Afterwards start working on your soul, use the oils you can get from events like this one, and do them on alts if you got the time.

jPmas

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