MasterCosmo

It’s been a very long time since my last post, but I have been extremely busy in the mean time. Finally, I wish to talk about armor mods and stats to stack on my Entertainer. It is extremely hard to choose and I was considering stacking them all evenly, but I felt I might as well focus on specific areas and go with it.

Because I have a pet, it was hard to decide if I should go for Offense or Defense, since my pet tends to pull the aggro from me and can be quite the meanie. If it was possible to stack Strikethrough better, I would’ve done so, but the return from it was not enough for me in my testing. I finally decided on my core stats to be:

• Agility
• Strength
• Luck

My Exotics are going to be:

• Evasion Chance
• Evasion Value
• Critical Hit Reduction

The reason I’m sticking with Evasion is because of the heavy AOE damage in PVP, and Heroic Instances. My top enemies in PVP are Commando and Dark Jedi. Those AOEs will destroy me. Having both Evasion and Glancing Blow have a chance to react against this incoming damage will allow me to mitigate Commando AOEs to about 88%, which is 120 damage for every 1000 damage. Now the Dark Jedi bypass armor, but stacking Evasion and Glancing Blow gives me a chance to reduce the damage still by about 60%.

Now as far as my Powerups go, I’m pretty sure that I will be going with Critical Hit Reduction. Critical Chance is very easy to stack to 80% for most professions, so getting Critical Reduction to 40% will really help my Glancing Blow stacking make a difference.

I will more than likely be getting the Hoth Backpack.

With no mods on my armor, and having only an Entertainer Buff, Medic Buffs, and my pet, I’m holding great so far in instances. The more AOE I approach, the more I could use AOE protection.

I really wish they would ad a Combat Entertainer Heroic Jewelry set, it would really make things easier on us.

This is a bit brief from what I have done on other posts, but I hope to be able to add to it in time.

It’s been a little while, but that was because I was having my final touches made on my armor, and I was busy starting school up again. Now that I have most of my gear I feel I can dive into my next section: Expertise. I thought this was going to be pretty cut and dry and I was going to just select everything on the Drama side and get buffed by an artiste Entertainer instead. It started that way for awhile but I wanted to experiment.

My experiment was determining a strong set up for a BM/Entertainer to dominate. When I was a Commando, I used both a Spider and a Cat pet, both have strong qualities about them, but because of the nature of Combat Ent and the spike damage techniques, I chose the Cat over the Spider. Spiders are good, but they rely on DoTs to give them power. I do not have time to wait for those when I’m fighting with no heal. The Cat has better overall DPS in my eyes, and also has a bleed DoT, but I have 3 strong damaging specials a Critical Hit Chance increase debuff on my target.

The grind of a pet is not short and it is really draining. I’ll skip that part of things and jump into the heart of it. I have a lvl 90 Sandpanther (BFF) with 17777 Health and a DPS of 847 when Extatic. Someone new to pets might see that DPS and see it as not worth it. One thing you have to remember is that pets hit on a 1.5 speed, so every hit is approximately 1270. That damage is added to your own damage, and depending on your weapon your style, that is some heavy damage potential. I still have to run the numbers, but against a lvl 90 elite mob, I want to get a total DPS of myself and the pet combined. I know with the pet, I can drop elites extremely fast, and I’m still missing 2 of the 4 special abilities I want.

Now to explain the Expertise choice. BM is extremely costly in points, and if you want to have the best pet you can, you MUST spend 29 points. With only 17 points to spend for yourself, the selection is extremely narrow. This is what I did.

http://www.oekevo.org/expertisecalculator/index.html?e=30681ec9a89-0-b3e914dd4e9b5c-2

Now I may switch up the Unhealth Fixation and spend those 3 points in Sweeping Pirouette, but more than likely not. Here’s why. Generally, I will use Sweeping Pirouette once or twice in combat before it ends. spending 3 points to increase the damage by 30% is nice, but giving me the edge at the start with 8 seconds of 100% Glancing Blow Chance (provided there are no Critical Hits or Strikethroughs) saves me more than anything.

This set up gives me all 4 special abilities for Combat Ent, one debuff, and the best I can do for a pet. This has made PVE so much easier, and PVP, some players don’t even know what hit them! The other night I was PVPing and having the pet with me helped a ton. In massive PVP battles, my pet dies fast, but in time I will learn to better control it and attack only when opportunity is best.

If you are serious about creating a Combat Ent, I strongly advise getting a pet and testing those waters. In my opinion, this is the best route for an entertainer to go. I might have gone with a larger pet to get root and snare abilities to help me with my own damage potential, but I’m very pleased with how this cat turned out.

Thanks for reading everyone!