Runes of Magic US / AU

Quoted from "Lolim"

I played a little bit of Wd/d a few months back...
Here is a little of what I gathered/my opinions

I tested WD/d using different gear combinations
- Full mage dps gear
- Full healer gear
- 50/50 mage gear and healer gear
- Full chain gear with staff and with 2-h axe
- Mixing Mage gear/chain dps gear/healing gear
NOTE: I do have a good amount of bag stats on my gears lol

Wd/d PvP healer (using healing staff)
I had a lot of fun playing this combo healer in some siegewars versus PPK

Pros:
- Was almost un-killable in SW as a healer(in full healer gear)
- High pdef and high mdef
- Phys damage reduction/crit resist/immune(heart of the oak)
- Increased self heals from briar shield

Cons:
- Single target healer
- The Charged Chop AoE heal(Natural Spring) was not very reliable

Wd/d dps in mage gear (using mage staff)
If I recall my max hit on something was a 1.8mil Conglomerate Attack on the big Honor Guard in siege

As a DPS I felt that wd/d was too slow... (even with stim + lute)
Conglo Attack seems to hit very high but overall it is much less damage compared
to W/m, especially since W/m white hits - hit twice(flame + thunder attack) to your 1 Conglo

Pros:
- Oak Walker
- Immune(heart of the oak)
- +10% magical damage from Elven Prayer

Cons:
- No big buffs to buff magical attack/magic damage so your m.atk is going to be low and will not compare to W/M
(Power of the Oak and Energy Absorb do not give mdmg so meh)
- I 1 shot myself a few times doing solo tests in Grotto of Horror easymode

Wd/d in Chain gear for DPS/Tanking
My honest opinion from what I noticed testing/experimenting with Wd/d using chain gears/2-h Axe.
-- There is no point for playing this combo as a chain wearer... (Assuming you are level cap and not playing wd/d to
make it easier to level/quest because of offheal)


- Conglomerate Attack does almost no damage w/o magical attack/magical damage

You might as well play Wd/s or Wd/w if you want to be a chain wearing DPS

Wd/d Tanking

From my experiences this combo does not hold aggro very well against real DPS combinations
Even with the Thorn sigil taunt... holding aggro seemed to be too difficult.
There is that phys damage reduction/crit resist but I feel that if you want to tank:
You might as well play Wd/s or Wd/w


Wd/d would be GREAT with a mix of Healing gear and Mage gears for someone who wants to solo stuff.
The hits are rather low compared to W/m and even K/m in both PvP and PvE

The most enjoying aspect of Wd/d for myself... was playing as a VERY tanky PvP healer in siege war that
pretty much only died when you gave up from too many people beating on you at the same time

That was a little bit of what I thought about Wd/d from a few different possibilities with the combo.
I tried to keep it sorta short but I am sure that there are other players that might agree/disagree.

Feel free to shoot me a message and I can try to answer any questions about the combo from my experiences