Bonedancer solo farming spec - Phoenix Freeshard

Hi all! Is it a good spec to have 48 dark 20 supp 14 Bone Army to solo farm mobs in Malmous? And wild minions RA affects also caster pets or only melee ones?
Thank you!

Sun 28 Apr 2019 2:48 AM by Numatic

Valaraukar wrote: ↑
Tue 23 Apr 2019 2:54 PM
Hi all! Is it a good spec to have 48 dark 20 supp 14 Bone Army to solo farm mobs in Malmous? And wild minions RA affects also caster pets or only melee ones?
Thank you!

Wild minion is only melee I believe. Problem with Dark is that you have a huge variance on your heal from BA spec and it will end up costing alot of mana to keep him alive. Even with 1 healer pet you're still going to need to heal him. Dark is great for groups because your pet doesnt need to tank. It does fine solo because you can kill mobs faster but it creates power issues for having to sit down and regen alot. With BA you can pretty much chain pull 2-3 times as many mobs without having to rest.

Sun 28 Apr 2019 5:31 AM by jelzinga_EU

Numatic wrote: ↑
Sun 28 Apr 2019 2:48 AM
Valaraukar wrote: ↑
Tue 23 Apr 2019 2:54 PM
Hi all! Is it a good spec to have 48 dark 20 supp 14 Bone Army to solo farm mobs in Malmous? And wild minions RA affects also caster pets or only melee ones?
Thank you!

Wild minion is only melee I believe. Problem with Dark is that you have a huge variance on your heal from BA spec and it will end up costing alot of mana to keep him alive. Even with 1 healer pet you're still going to need to heal him. Dark is great for groups because your pet doesnt need to tank. It does fine solo because you can kill mobs faster but it creates power issues for having to sit down and regen alot. With BA you can pretty much chain pull 2-3 times as many mobs without having to rest.

Wild Minion affects caster pets too - meaning with Wild Minion your Darkness nuker pets can crit. Personally I went 46 Dark - 18 Supp - 21 Bone Army

46 Dark : insta 50% body debuff, the 48 Darkness-pet isn't a nuker but a diseaser so you won't use it for farming
18 Supp : first heal pet
21 Bone Army : rest of points for buffs on pets.

Lazy farming means I summon a 45 Dark pet (War Mage) and 2x lvl 18 supp healer - great for chaining yellows/oranges and the pets heal enough so you don't need to use yours.

Sun 28 Apr 2019 10:32 AM by Valaraukar

jelzinga_EU wrote: ↑
Sun 28 Apr 2019 5:31 AM
Numatic wrote: ↑
Sun 28 Apr 2019 2:48 AM
Valaraukar wrote: ↑
Tue 23 Apr 2019 2:54 PM
Hi all! Is it a good spec to have 48 dark 20 supp 14 Bone Army to solo farm mobs in Malmous? And wild minions RA affects also caster pets or only melee ones?
Thank you!

Wild minion is only melee I believe. Problem with Dark is that you have a huge variance on your heal from BA spec and it will end up costing alot of mana to keep him alive. Even with 1 healer pet you're still going to need to heal him. Dark is great for groups because your pet doesnt need to tank. It does fine solo because you can kill mobs faster but it creates power issues for having to sit down and regen alot. With BA you can pretty much chain pull 2-3 times as many mobs without having to rest.

Wild Minion affects caster pets too - meaning with Wild Minion your Darkness nuker pets can crit. Personally I went 46 Dark - 18 Supp - 21 Bone Army

46 Dark : insta 50% body debuff, the 48 Darkness-pet isn't a nuker but a diseaser so you won't use it for farming
18 Supp : first heal pet
21 Bone Army : rest of points for buffs on pets.

Lazy farming means I summon a 45 Dark pet (War Mage) and 2x lvl 18 supp healer - great for chaining yellows/oranges and the pets heal enough so you don't need to use yours.

Thank you all!
I think I will try also the BA spec, my only concern is that the melee pets do much less damage than the caster ones.
And eventually I'll probably go with 46dark 18supp 21ba as final spec with a lot of wild minions (now o have it at 1 only and anyway I've seen some good crits by my casters, on a red drakulv 200 base damage +180crit)