DCUO: Source Shard In-Depth Look

[@ObsidianChill]

Sorc Rotation Testing 3:28 Spreadsheet Comparison 10:44

[@RefundHD]

We need to see the prec side of sorc with this art

[@retireddcuo5783]

Happy B Day

[@papisteph6640]

Does godwave effect the void gazer?

[@ObsidianChill]

@@papisteph6640 it does yes

[@papisteph6640]

@@ObsidianChill thank you

[@mattt8967]

This man really out here testing new arts on his birthday.

[@jiffah]

The investment is way too immense for this to be a viable option for anything but Sorcery.

[@sunofra7488]

Would have liked to see this with the scrap artifact, the supercharger generator, and grand summoning.

[@noxepoch3325]

Yeah, I was thinking about Grand Summoning too, but to be fair, that falls under the last comment about "niche situations" since it's not up all the time and needs supercharge.

[@Shadow497]

Not worth it. Them buffing the pets will give more damage then we have now. No need to spend time getting this to 160 and or paying money to get it to 160. Just a cash grab at this point with the artifacts.

[@brandonlong8638]

Mannnnn you speaking facts bro....

[@rlewis8922]

DCUO Shadow002 right so instead of them just buffing the pets (cost us nothing) let’s come out with some BS pet artifact (money grab). Shit is getting pathetic man

[@pastoryoda2789]

DCUO Shadow002 yup it is just another bs cash grab

[@robertgates3918]

true a money glom. but as long as people will tolerate it they don't care if you are irritated. when people leave the game en masse then they may stop.

[@Shadow497]

@Eric Yoder well this was post over a year ago. And at the time of the art coming out it wasn't a pet meta or needed

[@iboprofaxe1920]

Happy Birthday OC stay as Healthy!

[@notificationsturnedoff2126]

Does the source shard work with the void gazer and quislet?

[@ObsidianChill]

it does yes

[@Treyortj]

When are you going to resume your in-depth series for celestial?

[@fottergan_MQ]

The game needs many diverse artifacts as well [...]

[@dacariice19]

I been testing this as well. I don’t have it maxed out so I see that this works on one random henchmen and or the motherbox. It’s different and fun to play around with. If I was playing serious I wouldn’t use it but in lighter touches I would run this

[@BoshinTV]

Had gotten excited when I heard an artifact arguably aimed to sorc and earth, my bad

[@ObsidianChill]

There may be other ways but then you are pretty much needing Dead King Scepter and Source Shard and run like 3 boos etc or always have Grim-Robotbot Sidekick and Gadgets turret.

[@fwlilzay]

Theoretically can’t you stack mercy art with source shard for prec dps like my main is a water heal and alt a rage tank and I wouldn’t mind stacking both on the prec loadouts

[@flipeled]

It bothers me that Crystal does a lot less damage than Fury, they were supposed to have the same damage.

[@ObsidianChill]

Flipeled it’s down to crystal having martial arts, outside of the fortify golem full power attacks crystal has weak taps compared to the handblasters of Fury

[@flipeled]

@@ObsidianChill that explains it. Still, they should just bump up her weak attacks a little.

[@dependentmany8359]

Looking at Sorcery dps I’m just wondering why the best dps powers have to be so insanely strong while some other dps powers are well yeah...shit, how hard can it fkn be for the devs to just look at what a power is lacking and make small improvements so they can be strong too. I’m not saying they should make every power broken but it just ain’t fair that top powers are extremely strong while some other powers are just pure shit. This is coming from a world of Warcraft player of 5 years where there were top dps powers sure, but all the other dps powers had the potential to be very strong.

[@kare880]

I personally think mental and gadgets need to be buffed. Back in AM days they were top dps but after it was removed they are trash now. The only mentals and gadgets you see are precision and don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with precision, I use it on my gadgets HOWEVER I think it should be OPTIONAL, not required to be efficient...I love mental abilities but they are so power hungry you can barely do 2 or 3 rotations

[@allocentric9018]

Besides nature, there really isn’t a tremendous gap between powers in terms of dps. Top powers aren’t that far ahead of mid tier ones

[@allocentric9018]

Chaosstorm5273 mental isn’t that bad, and gadgets is one of the best powers in the game

[@kare880]

@@allocentric9018 best powers as precision** you missed my point, I said precision should be a choice not a requirement. You should be able to efficiently use your power without iconics and mm tree.

[@kare880]

@@allocentric9018 there is a huge gap in power efficiency between powers. For example atomic dps base damage does more than Water base damage yet water is stronger because they get to use more powers over a period of time while atomic is already drained from one or 2 rotations

[@drushe760]

Any idea how this works with gadgets?

[@adleonisx3149]

As Electric you could use Arc/Voltaic/Telsa Blast/Tesla Ball/Robot Sidekick right?

[@ObsidianChill]

I personally wouldn't unless you are doing alerts or older content as electrogensis is a powerful DOT that doesn't split on the 1st 2 targets and will spread automatically to additional targets.

[@mids100]

I got confused i thought i could have 3 father boxes up if i had this art lvld. Im so bummed. So i have a father box, robot side kick and since i dont have enoff to lvl both grim and quislet i wanted to ask which would be the better choice for now?? Im running this on my celestial toon i was thinking the pi from grim would be a +...?

[@BoshinTV]

So as sorcery is it even worth running fury? or robot sidekick?

[@ObsidianChill]

can't use robot it will desummon fury/crystal. Sorc I can see being worth it for the artifact just because how strong fury is+offering every 6s and it can reset godwave without too much trouble

[@Jakkojin]

Does it work on battle drone?

[@sheenpierre1843]

I’m new to the game is there a way to buy money in need a couple mill? I look at the market and there’s nothing, also what do you think of light power? I was using lighting than I switch to lantern.

[@sheenpierre1843]

Abraham Sandy what way is that?

[@ObsidianChill]

Sheen Pierre buying from 3rd party websites is against tos. If you have replay badges or load a 10 psn and get replays you can sell a raid reset to another player to make some millions there or you’d have to buy time capsules and open them to trade the contents for money as well

[@sheenpierre1843]

ObsidianChillDCUO raid reset how? I have 1087 replay badges

[@sheenpierre1843]

Abraham Sandy oh nice thanks. I play on Xbox and barely anyone doing anything. People just hanging around doing nothing.

[@mr.nbdyknwss5829]

Ik this old but would this art be good for gadgets pvp/pve ?

[@Zaheeer-]

please updated rage in depth guide :(

[@TheRayA247]

When do you think you’ll be dropping the next power guide?

[@ObsidianChill]

plan is before the new DLC drops, I have to get all the test server content posted

[@MauriceM_R]

Does this artifact buff robot sidekick and quislet?

[@ObsidianChill]

correct. Source shard will increase any pet damage and multiple pets closest to you depending on the rank you have it at

[@azureblack5044]

Does Godwave Strength buff HENCHMEN as well???

[@pastoryoda2789]

Yes

[@pqtuning]

is shard without grim sensible ? And with boo ?

[@ZEROELITEDCUO]

Question, why weren't you using Godwave Strength as soon as the cool down on it was refreshed? I am referring to kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2PcZHppedF6f5I

[@ObsidianChill]

if you use godwave when fury/crystal are out of power they do very low damage so you always want to make sure to use offering/fortify golem before so you get the maximum damage you can during that 5 seconds

[@ZEROELITEDCUO]

@@ObsidianChill Makes sense, thank you sir. What are your thoughts on spamming Vengeance for single target dps?

[@YoYo-xr9ss]

Hey, thx for aII ur video! I have a question, i am pIaying with nature might dps, can u teII me witch artifact u wouId advise me pIs? ty

[@pastoryoda2789]

Yo Yo Grim, Scrap & Philosopher stone

[@timebender2662]

Does this artifact do anything worth mentioning for the Android Batdrone?

[@pastoryoda2789]

Time Bender No!

[@christiano5653]

Could u do a updated fire and light loadout?

[@ObsidianChill]

I do plan to do an updated Fire soon, my Light guide is the most updated rotations

[@christiano5653]

@@ObsidianChill TYSM

[@harleyfreitas1551]

Ya light is up to date. I switched out neo venom for god wave strength (I have grim and robot sidekick) and it works great

[@kare880]

Are the changes live yet? I been gone for 2 weeks

[@ObsidianChill]

April 16th

[@andreseminov6718]

First use godwave then give pets power

[@carlosjaviercalderonmora1272]

What Artefacts use in water healer ?

[@ObsidianChill]

Orb of Arion - Eye of Gemini - Scrap of the Soul Cloak

[@carlosjaviercalderonmora1272]

@@ObsidianChill thanks

[@legendary9078]

Is it ok to use trinkets pets like father box 📦

[@ObsidianChill]

it is, there will be stronger trinket pets than father box but you can certainly use it

[@Melihaltnok]

Can sorc race to nature or sorc is a good dps ?

[@ObsidianChill]

sorc is already a good dps without needing offering+fury but it's not higher dmg than nature if that is your question

[@icedcuo1229]

I was waiting for this. What do you think about Source Shard as an Ice Prec dps who uses Snow Devil, RSK, and Glimorium? Also, does it affect Snow Devil with both pets or just one? Edit: Happy Birthday man!

[@ObsidianChill]

Ice DCUO it will be all pet dmg for 5 seconds so basically all orange dmg from 3 pets. I’ll double check but 2x snow devil should count as 1 pet cause it’s the same pet and you don’t get a 2nd health bar in the top left for the 2nd. Prec dps will be tough, it’s more passive dmg but you are now missing the passive dmg from strategist or venom wrist boost, so really tough to judge if it’ll be better, I’m airing on the side of no for prec

[@icedcuo1229]

Ok so its safe to assume that if I decide to stay Precision, I can get rid of Glimorium?

[@allocentric9018]

Ice DCUO with prec, it’s safe to sacrifice grim or strat, especially on ST

[@LucasParris]

why not trade out solar for trans?

[@samtuckr3455]

I’m regretting becoming sorcery damn

[@pastoryoda2789]

sam tuckr just go electric bro

[@kreeg7051]

Way too much button mashing. Gonna have dps drop when you have to move around.

[@dcuoffendinghabits7949]

So this is devs attempt to bandaid sorcerys crappy might damage lol

[@Imjussaiyanbro]

Sorcery has been extremely overpowered in the past , they just choose not to buff its powers. Excellent choice of powers from the dots, to the pet, offering, burst damage ect. Especially the dots in raids with a lot of adds but most years it has been pretty mediocre. It really just depends what the devs really want to do. I think they intentionally keep it underpowered in my opinion because I’ve definitely seen it very strong before but it’s been a long time since it was obvious to everyone.

[@brandonlong8638]

Try it with guardian :)

[@ObsidianChill]

Brandon Long they lowered guardian’s damage with offering, it would be much lower than crystal and fury. If you weren’t using offering at all guardian is better but then you’d miss the majority of the damage from the full power attacks

[@brandonlong8638]

@@ObsidianChill daaaaaang man thanks for the heads up I see that makes sense. Thanks for the testing and research bro