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POF Warrior = NERFED & FAILURE

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What is your complaint?

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SB as main weapon?

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Of course you can have SB thieves. Spam 4 in not pvp for Condi or Rupt, or spam cluster bomb for a strong power burst.

The chinese client also used to have an SB meta in wvw where thieves would drop Choking Gas all over and the zerg would combo through that.

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Thank you for the FIREBRAND! (+1 request:)

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I think sales arent going that well cause they already had 4 tests regarding the expansion

Why would you make that association?

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Scourge Math

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Well then, that’s not really scaling by vit is it. I think it would be better if it did, unless they’ve planned around some behind the curtain situations.

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Scourge Math

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Why would base health factor into the barrier cap when it scales off vitality, not base health?

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Firebrand: Great Potential

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ToR definitely seems like its the least of the three tomes. I wouldn’t be surprised if its scaling is because of specific testing in multi-Firebrand situations. However, that does make it feel lackluster in solo-FB play.

I think Tome cast time, cooldown, and page interactions should be adjusted. Weaker effects at higher frequency would be my preference to the current state of things. I also wouldn’t mind “paying for the recharge” beforehand in an initiative-like page system that starts at 0 instead of max.

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Would this build work in WvW?

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2.8k armor, 17.7k health, and judge sig. Sufficient defenses for frontline. Brings a variety of cc through hammer, cripple, chill, and signet actives. When your zerg inevitably gives you might, your 800 base condi and vuln stacking will get some decent burn ticks. 5/10 could be effective

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Renegade - poor language

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Don’t forget GW1 had dual professions.

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Renegade - poor language

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As for the rest of what you said, my point stands completely unchallenged.

Fervor is a term commonly associated with religion. Kalla wasn’t just not religious, she had led a rebellion against religious oppression.

Ergo ascribing the attribute of fervor to her is completely insane.

But that’s wrong Socrates

Try reading the ability description.

“Orders from above arrive, renewing your abilities and those of your nearby allies.”

Kalla clearly isn’t issuing those orders and if she were, calling them ‘orders from above’ would be very imperious and also out of character.

What part of that prevents Kalla from being the source? You’ve proven nothing but reasserting your headcanon. But someone agrees with you, so at least you have a friend you can be angry with.

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Your Firebrand Tome Suggestions?

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He wants other players to share his misery which is absolutely not a mature position by any justification.

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The Staff Nerf

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RIP loot stick. You will be missed.

Protip: engis have a 1500 range loot stick. It’s called “grenades”

When was the last time you actually played this game?

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Renegade - poor language

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nah m8.

You made the association, I said it doesn’t have to be there. It makes sense when it isn’t.

Also, we, the players(characters) channel the legends. The Orders from Above are from her. She’s providing us with Alacrity. She is the source of her power.

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Your Firebrand Tome Suggestions?

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I never understood why we complain that skills are too spammy, yet we demand skills for the classes we like to main have faster cast times. We complain about an overabundance of stability yet we demand they add it to our classes so we don’t get interrupted. We complain about too much condi spam yet we say axe doesn’t have enough condi or that mantra of flame needs more stacks.

Maybe if we want a balanced game, we should start by having a little more perspective and actually expecting and wanting our own professions to have exploitable weaknessess.

What? That’s ridiculous. Everyone knows that stronger classes are OP and weaker classes are well balanced. Who doesn’t want all classes to be well balanced?

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Pistol Piercing is back

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heck im still waiting for the boon pylon we were gonna get with the med kit rework

Don’t know if I’d really want to construct too many of those.

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Valkyrie Firebrand

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Good use of free stats. With quickness and shield you have 2.8k+ armor, plus your previously mentioned crit rate hovering around 80-100% with retaliation and Fury. I think you could get away with something similar replacing Firebrand with Zeal, trading defense for damage.

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Your Firebrand Tome Suggestions?

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Everyone has certain expectations from their class. Those expectations are subjective, but whether the class meets them or not is not.

That’s true, if a bit pedantic. That reasoning only applies to the topic as seen by the individual and isn’t helpful in other situations. There’s a notable difference between thinking a class is bad and a class being bad. And then of course commenting on those thoughts and the related bias is a whole ’nother ballgame.

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Renegade - poor language

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You might think that with a insufficient understanding of English.
Fervor isn’t intrinsically associated with religion. And because Charr are militaristic, Orders from Above doesn’t have to symbolize religious thought any more than their standard atheism pandering would warrant. It’s much more likely the orders came from higher ups in the command list.

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Your Firebrand Tome Suggestions?

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I am disappointed, and I’m done being disregarded as a player by ANet so I’m not playing anymore.

There is nothing about your situation that is objective and it would be foolish to think otherwise.

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[PvP/WvW] This spec is useless.

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Ranger trying to be frontline with GS , you get GS maul every 4 seconds and you have to adjust for a big hit. Not realistic, and it has been tried before. Soulbeast will change nothing unto which you will survive or deal more damage in a frontline zerg spec.

Ranger belongs in the back with longbow picking out players like Necro / Thief.

Druid isn’t bad either, but to be honest , blasts in water cover this adequately to even bring a pocket druid and eles cover aoe condi cleanse.

Again, ranger has always been a backline and this will not change , soulbeast will not change that no matter what gimmick build you try to bring.

I ran frontline Ranger before Remorseless existed to great affect, back when their niche was immobilize spam. Soulbeast offers even more to the frontline Ranger with better damage since the early days and with additional survivability from various pets (I like the bears best but there are a lot of options). Druid is okay in zergplay, but I’d rather take a Ventari Rev for that role. Vanilla is alright too, definitely much better in the backline with LB (especially with new Signet of the Hunt). However, as you can see all of these roles are different, and that makes Soulbeast a good addition. Additional options open up additional roles.

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[PvP/WvW] This spec is useless.

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I have no disagreement with you. We are talking about different things.

When all classes are balanced, soulbeast will still be boring.

Have you played any of the other classes? Most of them are a blast!

Now tell me honestly, what part of soul beast was fun?

I’ve played all the new elite specs, and I have 3 of every class at 80 (one each for vanilla, HoT, and PoF).
Iboga is fun, though that’s not entirely soulbeast specific.
Anything I tried Power related worked quite well. Warhorn 4 with Wolf stance, Signet of the Hunt, bleed/might traits, and Mad King runes is hilarious. 200% Stephen King.
Soulbeast skills are quite nice, even if some of them had drastic changes.
Most things condi related fell flat, which is amusing. But hey, people wanted a petless Ranger, so that’s what they got. I don’t want to hear sour grapes from them.

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[PvP/WvW] This spec is useless.

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Marks/Beast/Soul with GS, Black and Brown bears. With proper traits and utilities, you’ve got around 2 large condi removals, 3 stun breaks, 2 sources stab, 5 invulns. Soulbeast is frontline material.

let me say this another way,
You managed to find one mediocre set of traits in one very specific form of gameplay.

I am happy for you.

The rest of the Ranger community in pve and pvp are scratching our heads.

While I hope all the issues are fixed, even if they were, the spec is truly uninspiring.

I think people just need to experiment more.

I was pretty underwhelmed by dagger and the whole condi aspect from Soulbeast (untraited shortbow immediately outperformed), but that makes it a prime target for some improvements if necessary. Pet merging is super-nice in most cases, but it does hurt to lose some traits entirely. Souldbeast will probably make its way into PvP before any meta-relevant PvE.

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Start Mirage over from scratch, PLEASE.

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I play 6/9 of the professions regularly, and 5 out of those 6 have elite specs with solid foundations to work of off.

And did you actually READ animal farm… ?

I have 3 each of the 9 professions. There is no elite spec among them that is in need of drastic reworks at the conceptual level.

And yes, fortunately Animal Farm was required reading at one point in time. Everyone wants to complain that their elite spec is trash and needs to be completely reworked, which if taken to be true (it isn’t), at least keeps them at relatively equal dev attention levels. If you want to take the cynical approach to mmo design, if “everyone” is mad on the forums, you’ve probably balanced the game well.

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Your Firebrand Tome Suggestions?

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Guardian was already a profession with limited mobility, and they dropped a purely melee spec on top of that, without any compensation.

You don’t get compensated for additions. Just… why does that need to be mentioned?

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Tome of Healing :^)

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If all those numbers could be converted into healing per second, that’d be great.

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Start Mirage over from scratch, PLEASE.

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My god every profession subforum has a massive victim complex

Yes, there are a lot of melodramatic responses on every class forum (including this one). The problems experienced by most of the new elite specs stem from bugs or can be addressed with some number adjustments. Its small tweaks and tuning.

The problem with Mirage is at a conceptual level. We’re one month away from release, what we’re seeing is supposed to be what we’re getting… Adjusting some numbers isn’t going to cut it.

“Yes, all professions have problems, but their problems don’t actually matter, just ours.”
Smells like Animal Farm.

Tried it out a bit… it makes me feel stupid. Like I feel like it has to be awesome, and I just can’t figure out how to make it work. Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s Mirage. I dunno….

It’s probably just Maybelline

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Your Firebrand Tome Suggestions?

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Two options:

The first is keeping the 5 pages, skill recharges* (Skill 1 gains a 2s recharge), and all that the same. However, once you leave the tome, the tome cooldown is the sum of all the skills you used while inside the tome. If you want to use Shining River 5 times (Resolve 4), you’re looking at a 50s cooldown. If you use Justice 2(4s), 4(10s), 5(12s), 1(2s), 1(2s); your cooldown is 30s.
Renewed Justice could be changed to reduce recharge by 5s per kill, or reduce by 50% per kill. Courageous Return shouldn’t need to be changed.

The second is a tweak of Rabbit Up’s

Tomes are instant casts.
Cooldown: 15s for all 3 tomes. 0 cooldown doesn’t work because of the traits.
Pages:
You have no pages when not wielding a tome.
When you open a tome, you don’t gain 5 pages, instead you gain 1 page every 3s while wielding the tome (in-combat only)
Skill #1 cost no pages.
Skills #2-5 cost 2-5 pages respectively
You lose all pages when you drop the tome.

Loremaster would reduce the page gain time by 33%, down to 1 per 2 seconds.

In regards to tomes with no cds and associated traits, a small icd (5-15s depending on trait) could be applied to those so that you could still get benefits frequently, but not be totally abused by tomes.

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AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO LOVES FIREBRAND??

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I like the concept a lot. I’ve had a lot of fun with Firebrand so far.
I expect some things to change once bugs are fixed and the future meta starts settling down.

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Firebrand is B A D(PvP only)

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Just missing an “All is vain” in the OP

Actually, scratch that. It gets saltier as you go.

You must be lost, this isn’t a pve thread for firebrand.

Don’t know what you’re talking about
And “All is vain” was a pvp thread

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Rifle Kneeling #4

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12k? I was hitting 20k consistently with the PvP armory

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Renegade critic

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Traited SB auto is a tagging machine though

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[PvP/WvW] This spec is useless.

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Marks/Beast/Soul with GS, Black and Brown bears. With proper traits and utilities, you’ve got around 2 large condi removals, 3 stun breaks, 2 sources stab, 5 invulns. Soulbeast is frontline material.

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Start Mirage over from scratch, PLEASE.

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“Hey, guys. You know those elite specs you’ve been working on for the past 2 years? Yeah, well someone on the forms is complaining that they don’t like it so I’m gonna need you do do the whole thing over m’kay? Also, we ship in a month. Have fun!”

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Firebrand is B A D(PvP only)

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Just missing an “All is vain” in the OP

Actually, scratch that. It gets saltier as you go.

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Developer Diary: Elite Specializations

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None of the wiki skills have proper coefficients. For all we know the damage numbers could be on a condi amulet to show off the other mirage skills.

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Firebrand, what exactly is this?

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Ya, you only need a few pieces of Shaman or Settlers to hit your preferred thresholds. Seraph for the rest.

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[SPvP] Firebrand Condi Mantraburst Build

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I’ve been thinking about Honor for Pure of Heart and Pure of Voice in addition to quickness botting as my defense. If we’re going to be spamming aegis and stab, might as well get some more use out of em.

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Aeromancer's Training

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Bizarre, but its less than a .5% difference.

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Revenants now have access to perma alacrity.

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Chrono has alacrity and quickness. FB and Renegade only have one.

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Firebrand, what exactly is this?

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Wanderer has plenty of vit, but its power-based of course. Not that you couldn’t eschew the condi aspet for pure support…

I know of two stat arrays. Grievers is the obvious one because that was an official reveal. The other is Power+, Healing+, Precision, Condi which I found on Elonian weapons during the demo.

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What's wrong with kneel/sniper's cover.

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Death’s Judgement is 1500 base damage with whatever unknown power number from the wiki. With proper damage modifiers and 7 Malice, DJ is doing closer to 9k. Add in an auto-crit from a dodge and DD runes, and you’re looking at 25k damage every 6 seconds. Rifle Deadeye is a countdown timer. You have at least 10s before those 7 malice stacks are built up and you need to have a plan because some serious pain is coming soon.

That’s a perfect sniper-like interaction for both parties.

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Easy OPEN world Power Build ?

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Honestly I had one of my Mesmers go through HoT as a Sc/Sw power shatter. Didn’t really have problems with survival.

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Developer Diary: Elite Specializations

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Oh hey, old Sword 4 returns. Sword’s ambush is perfect for Dom/Duel/Mirage ’rupt/shatter. GS gives some useful aoe.

I’m upset with the state of underwater combat in general so no complaints there, though Trident looks good for condi ’rupt.

And its nothing new, but elite specs don’t affect all builds equally. Mirage can certainly work with power weapons, but its not ridiculous to think that wasn’t the intention.

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Aeromancer's Training

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180 has been a constant throughout the game. Never has there been an attribute gain of 190 at max level. Banners are closer at 170, but still a far cry from 190.

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Developer Diary: Elite Specializations

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It makes it so that mirage cloak is nothing but beneficial. You keep all the options from a regular dodge plus more. That sounds plenty good.

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mistrust gutted

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Nah, Mesmer dps is still pretty low considering the role they have to fill, and last time I saw it was low even without boon mongering.

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Developer Diary: Elite Specializations

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It does defend you. It just does other stuff.

Seriously, Mirage Cloak is Distortion that we can get without shattering plus it enables Ambush attacks. It’s literally all upside when compared to a normal dodge.

You also get superspeed from the minor so if you wanted to move I bet you could run further than 300u in those 2 seconds.

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Firebrand!?!?

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1. Or just keep it the same and add a healing component to the attack
2. Worse than it is now
3. let this meme die
4. w/e
5. ya

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[Weaver] Condi or Power and probs best weapon

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I’m thinking it’ll likely be a power-leaning hybrid, perfect for the Grieving stats. Viper is a condi-leaning hybrid set with the condition duration, but since burning is relatively easy to 100%, we can make use of the extra ferocity from grieving.

I don’t think you can really get away with full power or full condi unless you’re going FA (power obvs), and I feel FA support is more geared for pvp and wvw arenas.

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I need a "wife" build.

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If you end up getting the expansion for your wife, Thief is also getting a Rifle which is rather stationary. It would actually work pretty similar to Killshot warrior. It should take ~10s to build up full malice stacks, at which point shee could kneel and #4 for over 100% extra damage. Runes of the Daredevil or Critical Strikes line would grant auto crits. If she keeps the Thief along with her Warrior, that would be a great place to transition to a new class.

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Mirage's master minor: Nomad's Endurance

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and firebrand gains 750 total stats no matter how you compare those two traits , one must be off .even those traits that increase your stat for xxx second after stunbreak

Rousing Resilience. 2k heal and 1000 Toughness on stunbreak, 8s duration. 80% uptime with Outrage, which is still min 1.6k health and 800 Toughness.

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