Cursna gear?Follow

I think that means that Healing Magic Skill for Cursna is out. MAcc too, probably. So what do you guys go with, max recast reduction and an Apollo's staff in case the light affinity helps?

I used to swap in a bunch of healing skill and Apollo's Staff, and felt like it probably helped, but it got too annoying having two Cursna macros (one with Yagrush, one with Apollo's) so I eventually just went back to the one all-purpose Cursna macro that uses Yagrush and a bunch of haste gear. Haven't noticed a decrease in the ability to remove doom. In fact if there are multiple people doomed, it's not uncommon to successfully remove multiple in one cast. So the removal rate is pretty high even in my Yagrush+Haste build.

It is rather difficult to remove a single 10-tic doom with one person's Cursna alone. Unluckiness is the standard, really. If it's 5-tic, well, that's even worse.

Holy waters can be spammed significantly faster and even then it's not always a given that they'll work.

I've seen no noticeable difference with the NQ cursna ring.

Edited, Apr 17th 2012 4:00pm by Neisan

A friend of mine (Aedrin, formally known as Kellar of Midgard. He was once one of the leads of Valor/Virtus, which back in the day was a pretty famous hnm shell) had a very interesting theory on cursna I'd like to put forward. Mind, I haven't had a chance to test this yet; Need someone to be the "idiot" to get cursed, and haven't had a chance to find a friend to play the "idiot" yet. (Sorry, my feelings on someone getting cursed are colored from people getting cursed from taurs while I was doing CoP missions(they were still capped back then); Baka baka if you didn't turn in time then or backtank, tho I know now a days some can't turn in time. Still the "you stupid idiot" feeling remains, tho I do try to get it off.)

He said that one of the top whms of Valor thought it was due to mind. Due to that and what we know, I think the formula is actually:

mnd + healing magic skill + gear + dumb luck = getting curse off.

So I think a good cursna set would combine the first two (three if that cursna enhance ring helps at all) and some fast cast besides because of the "dumb luck" factor. I mean, if it's dumb luck you kinda have to have the fast cast gear. ^^ He does have a lot of mnd gear in his cursna set, and he manages to get it off more often than a whm who doesn't.



Edited, Apr 23rd 2012 1:32pm by maryadavies