Welcome again, adventurers! Now that a lot of you’ve tangled with the Xaryxian Empire, you’ll be accustomed to their fingers and armaments… However this lockbox, the second one of our twenty seventh module, Spelljammer, nonetheless has some surprises in retailer! The Starlight Armaments Lockbox has the usual lockbox rewards and pacing, and the 2 headlining pieces for this lockbox are the Golden Armored Griffon mount and the Marco’s Mystic Marker artifact. This lockbox can be to be had January 18th!
Mount: Golden Armored Griffon
Griffons are majestic and terrifying in eagle share, and we’d be lion if we stated they may be able to’t make for very good allies. This one particularly is rumored to have hatched from a golden egg, and her strengths are in crowd keep an eye on and harm prevention.
Abstract
Slots: Crescent, Illuminated, Common, Common (Enlightened most well-liked)
Struggle Energy: Focused AoE stun & harm relief on enemies, bolsters caster’s defensive scores.
Equip Energy: +Crit Strike, +Struggle Benefit
Slots
This majestic monster comes with 4 insignia slots. Its static slots are Crescent and Illuminated, and of the 2 Common slots, the overall prefers Enlightened insignias. Because of this, within the strong and at complete potency, the next 4-slot insignia bonuses are to be had:
Mender’s Covenant (Healer centered)
Executioner’s Covenant (DPS centered)
Instructor’s Recovery (Situationally really useful to Tanks and Healers)
At the price of the 20% Most well-liked Slot bonus, you’ll additionally get admission to the next 4-slot insignia bonus:
Survivalist’s Experience (Situationally really useful to all roles, although most commonly fitted to Healers and those that prioritize Uniqueness extremely)
Struggle Energy: Harrowing Screech
Following within the footsteps of the Armored Griffon’s battle energy, Piercing Screech, this energy stuns the objective and enemies round it, whilst considerably lowering their harm dealt and buffing the caster. As a substitute of the Armored Griffon’s Characteristic buffs, alternatively, this will increase the caster’s Uniqueness, Important Avoidance, and Consciousness.
We are hoping this energy can be helpful to tanks and healers in high-end content material, and avid gamers in leveling or open-world content material who can get pleasure from the stun as a reprieve from enemy assaults. We’re additionally mindful that our mount battle powers were lovely tank-heavy during the last few modules; whilst we consider that they’ve all been profitable additions to many avid gamers’ kits, this shall be the remaining closely tank-leaning Mount Struggle Energy for the following couple lockboxes.
Values at 100% Mount Bolster:
Goals’ outgoing harm relief: 15%
Stun length: 3 seconds
Uniqueness, Crit Avoidance, and Consciousness buff: 5% every
Stun length in addition to buff and debuff values range in line with Bolster.
For the quantity crunchers, right here’s some additional knowledge:
Forged time: Immediate lock-in, 0.6 seconds post-cast animation, ~1.5 seconds from button press till results observe
Roots the participant right through solid.
Animation cancellable by way of Come upon powers, Day by day powers, and tactical mechanics (e.g. dodge and block). The facility is in an instant locked in, so the anim cancel won’t save you it from taking impact or happening cooldown.
Vary:
Preliminary solid: 50 foot distance from caster to number one goal.
Debuff / stun impact: 20 foot sphere round number one goal.
Affected goals:
Debuff / stun impact: Any enemies, most 5 goals, with precedence in line with distance from number one goal.
Buff: Impacts casting participant without reference to vary.
Stacking habits: Debuff is refreshed however saved at a unmarried stack if a couple of avid gamers solid this Struggle Energy. Does no longer overwrite nor warfare with different equivalent debuffs. On the other hand, Outgoing Harm relief debuffs have much less of an impact when extra of them stack.
Equip Energy: Predator’s Focal point
This equip energy grants the usual ratios for two-stat powers, break up between Important Strike and Struggle Benefit. At 100% Mount Bolster, this involves:
2700 Blended Score
2250 Important Strike
2250 Struggle Benefit
We’ve aimed for this to be an invaluable stat aggregate essentially for DPS categories.
Artifact: Marco’s Mystic Marker
With the fable area theming of this module, we felt there used to be a a laugh alternative to provide avid gamers a D&D take at the vintage “missile hurricane” aesthetic within the type of a goal marker. Ranging from that time, we fleshed it out right into a single-target barrage, with an Higher Harm Taken debuff to stay it aggressive with different fascinating DPS artifacts.
Abstract
Merchandise stage: 1500
Use energy: Unmarried-target barrage of assaults plus 10-second “10% larger harm taken” debuff
Stats: 33% Crit Severity, 67% Accuracy
Use Energy
Marco’s Mystic Marker casts Marco’s Magic Missile Mayhem, which offers about 120% of an artifact’s harm price range general over six harm ticks. It additionally applies a debuff inflicting the objective to take 10% further harm from all resources for 10 seconds.
For the quantity crunchers, right here’s some additional knowledge:
Forged time: Immediate lock-in, 0.67 seconds post-cast animation
Roots the participant right through solid.
Animation cancellable by way of Come upon powers, Day by day powers, and tactical mechanics (e.g. dodge and block). The facility is in an instant locked in, so the anim cancel won’t save you it from taking impact or happening cooldown.
Debuff is implemented 0.67 seconds after button press.
First harm tick is implemented 1.67 seconds after button press, with next harm ticks making use of each and every 0.1 sec for a complete of 6 hits over 0.5 seconds (beginning at 0.0).
Vary: 80 feet
Stacking habits: Stacks with different distinctive Harm Taken debuff resources. Does no longer stack with different iterations of the similar energy. Debuff identify is Marco’s Mystic Malaise.
Multi-hit issues:
The wear and tear taken debuff does observe to the wear and tear dealt by way of the artifact.
Crit and Deflect are rolled as soon as and observe to all the energy. (If the primary hit crits, all hits will crit.)
We think that DPS avid gamers, along side tanks and healers who can sacrifice defensive choices, will to find excellent makes use of for this artifact for artifact burns in high-end single-target encounters. We additionally hope that different avid gamers will benefit from the a laugh visible results and taste of the artifact, and to find excellent use of it outdoor of artifact burns.
Stats
This stat combo isn’t completely unseen. The values are same old for an Merchandise Stage 1500 artifact, with a 1:2 ratio:
1,125 Important Severity
2,250 Accuracy
1,275 Blended Score
We basically be expecting this stat combo to search out use amongst DPS avid gamers, particularly those that are capped on Important Severity and want to redirect a few of that to different offense stats.
In Remaining
As at all times, we are hoping those new headline rewards seize your passion! Those lockboxes require an Enchanted Key to open, and retain the similar praise construction as earlier than, together with various pieces that can assist you proceed to growth your personality general. As at all times, we’re open to comments that’ll assist us broaden options and choices for avid gamers such as you. As an example, does the flavor-first technique to Marco’s Mystic Marker enchantment to you, or does the execution fall flat in observe? Does the Golden Armored Griffon’s battle energy vary sufficient from Piercing Screech to fill a profitable area of interest? Are there niches you’d like to look us fill? Tell us at the discussion board!
Satisfied unlocking!
Vincent “Terramak” Malley
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