Base spell line resists - Phoenix Freeshard

If you do not spec in a spell line, does it make it t very hard to land the spells from the base spell line?

E.g. if you were a full earth spec wizard would you never land the cold base line root (lvl 49) and DD (50)?

Thu 7 Feb 2019 2:57 AM by Numatic

I believe base resist is based on lvl (and possibly number of attackers?) . People use non spec baselines all the time. But using a lvl 49 baseline DD when you have zero spec points into that line will cause a huge variance. Meaning if you were specced in it, you would hit for say 250. But no spec it could be anywhere from 50-250. I use my lvl 1 base DD on my animist for pulling and consistently land it for 5 dmg against lvl 45+ mobs (hes 45).

Thu 7 Feb 2019 5:52 AM by Dimir

Harlequin wrote: ↑
Thu 7 Feb 2019 1:55 AM
If you do not spec in a spell line, does it make it t very hard to land the spells from the base spell line?

E.g. if you were a full earth spec wizard would you never land the cold base line root (lvl 49) and DD (50)?

Spec makes zero difference for resist rate. Resist rate in RvR should be your spell's actual level (modified by MoFocus if you have it) vs your target.

Thu 7 Feb 2019 8:27 AM by Harlequin

Thanks both.

@Dimir is that affected by the +11 to a skill line or only by MoF?

I.e. would a level 39 DD spell be +11 therefore composite 50 or would it only go up by the MoF level e.g. 39 + 3 (MoF1)?

Thanks!

Thu 7 Feb 2019 8:34 AM by Sepplord

Skillevel and spelllevel are two different things

(higher) composite spec reduces your damage variance

(higher) spelllevel reduces resistchance

The +11 on your gear is only spec, and has nothing to do with the resists

MoF is a very underrated RA and basically every caster should get at least lvl1, if not more imo

PS: also Focus on staves is something different too, it reduces mana cost

Thu 7 Feb 2019 8:40 AM by Harlequin

Thanks! So for a caster who specs in two skill lines so (e.g a sorc) will get resisted quite a lot and need to buy MoF to decrease this happening?

At level 50, what’s the lowest you would go in a skill line to have a reliable chance of landing?

Thanks so much for your help sorry for the newbie questions

Thu 7 Feb 2019 10:34 AM by Sepplord

Harlequin wrote: ↑
Thu 7 Feb 2019 8:40 AM
Thanks! So for a caster who specs in two skill lines so (e.g a sorc) will get resisted quite a lot and need to buy MoF to decrease this happening?

At level 50, what’s the lowest you would go in a skill line to have a reliable chance of landing?

Thanks so much for your help sorry for the newbie questions

i believe there is still a misunderstanding....SPEC has nothing to do with it (directly)

A spiritmaster (for example) will get his last bomb at lvl49, that spell will have the same resistrate against enemies no matter if the SM skilled 49 or 50. Now it is debatable if you really need MoF just for the bomb, but it also influences the other spells, so MoF1 is imo a no brainer on every class that wants to cast spells onto enemies in RvR

A PAC healer settling for yellow mezz and more healspecc, will NEED (imo) several levels of MoF to reliably mezz in RvR, but even when going for the last mezz i would recommend to get 1or2levels of MoF just to increase the reliability of his CC

Thu 7 Feb 2019 4:37 PM by Dimir

Harlequin wrote: ↑
Thu 7 Feb 2019 8:40 AM
Thanks! So for a caster who specs in two skill lines so (e.g a sorc) will get resisted quite a lot and need to buy MoF to decrease this happening?

At level 50, what’s the lowest you would go in a skill line to have a reliable chance of landing?

Thanks so much for your help sorry for the newbie questions

Only on their spec line spells which if you were split spec wouldn't be past the high 30s. Any baseline spells you have (example lvl 50 lifetap) are (in this example) level 50 so resist rate is small. If you are split enough and use any of the specline spells I would get enough MoFocus to raise them all to 50.