(06-27-2015, 08:42 AM)Kellach Woods Wrote: (Also, raw intuition is based off of Parry, so by ignoring that part on right-side we're not really helping that skill out but with Second Wind and Equilibrium it might be a fair trade)
The Parry portion of the skill is the less useful of Raw Intuition's uses. Sure, you can mitigate 20% of all incoming frontal attacks for 20s - which, don't get me wrong, works wonders against trash adds! But in my experience, once you start hitting end game, Parry isn't worth its salt. Most attacks can't, or won't get parried.
The amazing part of Raw Intuition is that it makes all incoming damage and heals 100% crit chance if cast from the flank or rear. Awareness nullifies the damage crits, leaving yourself open to receiving 100% crit heals from your healer. This can produce some amazing clutch heals. 5k Adlo crits, 7k Cure IIs, etc. As many crit heals as your healer can put out in 20s. Just gotta do some creative positioning for those situations where a healer can't get to your side or rear. If the boss/trash do a lot of frontal cones, angle yourself so your healer is at your 4 or 8 o'clock and they'll still get the bonus.
As beautiful as the numbers can be, it's a waste to couple this ability with Convalescence. They're already hitting you 100% crits, which means they can heal you from 1 HP to full in like two cures without extra healing potency, so save that Convalescence to use at another time when you're struggling for heals.
As for STR vs VIT, VIT will probably be just as viable in the long run as it was in 2.0. Viable, but not optimal. At lv50 i130 the difference in full VIT vs full STR came out to be 1957 HP. I'll do testing later with VIT gear to see just how great the difference is, but I don't foresee the HP differential being more than 3k between STR and VIT. So, again, the difference will come down to - will content require that additional 3k HP so you don't get one-shot in Alexander? Or (considering the abilities WAR just got) will a focus be put upon WARs needing massive self heals - in which case STR will be far superior. And just like the Parry stat, if you aren't MTing, that VIT is doing you no good. So STR still wins out in my mind for being able to have higher hitting self heals and more damage when in Defiance and Deliverance. VIT just offering a meager HP increase that may or may not prevent a WAR from being one-shot in Alexander.
