Malaise, first impressions.

[Sterva]

So, I got the new malaise yesterday, and I have to say, I think it solves my init debuff complaints rather nicely. It's a relatively quick cast, it lands fairly reliably, and it makes it much more realistic to slow down agent/adv/etc heals and such.

Combined with the RT debuffs, I think it goes a long ways towards giving bureaucrats a way to beat several difficult opponents.

[crattey]

I never had any real issues landing the previous one, especially not versus advies. Might be nice versus nr2 agents I suppose. Hell, another -300 inits never hurts though.

[Malaxia]

Good to hear

[Sterva]

I never had any real issues landing the previous one, especially not versus advies. Might be nice versus nr2 agents I suppose. Hell, another -300 inits never hurts though.

For me, having a 15% better land rate makes a noticeable difference, since I do not have much more PM and SI than is required to cast the nano. I suspect that all non-nano geared crats will see a noticeably better land rate in pvp, but even that the nano geared bureaucrats will see better land rates against high NR professions like enforcers.

The landing rate is nice, the faster cast and (especially) recharge is nice, and the increased inits is nice. All in all it's a pretty good deal imo. Just malaise and the -400RT is enough to slow a lot of people down, but combined altogether, we can debuff a pretty substantial amount of inits now. Testing with an agent yesterday, the effect is substantial.

He didn't really resist me at all on full D (non NR agent, but still, no resists is nice), and both full D and full Off, his CH was plenty slow enough for pets to interrupt.

Now to just collect the last few items to complete my dead man walking speech.

(ps were the devs listening to TI when they named the nano? lol, cause that's what it reminds me of, despite the more high brow literary allusions)

[Metaldeath]

Had this nano for a week or so guess I'm a little slow at noticing, but I just noticed that this malaise and UBT replace each other, or have same stacking order in other words, which can have its uses =P

[lazarus]

Had this nano for a week or so guess I'm a little slow at noticing, but I just noticed that this malaise and UBT replace each other, or have same stacking order in other words, which can have its uses =P

exploit!!!! This need to be fixet

[Sterva]

I've not had the opportunity to really try it out versus a wide variety of professions, since there have been nothing but agents and NTs on BS every time I have a chance to play... but versus most agents, it rapes. Does nothing at all to NTs.

[Metaldeath]

Tbh I haven't tested it much either, maybe because I don't pvp much, but I noticed that when UBT is running in Alb the other night that I could still use this Malaise. However, I have no idea if this malaise stacks with the top MP debuff or if it says better nano running. Really haven't had time to check =P

[Koizumi]

Tbh I haven't tested it much either, maybe because I don't pvp much, but I noticed that when UBT is running in Alb the other night that I could still use this Malaise. However, I have no idea if this malaise stacks with the top MP debuff or if it says better nano running. Really haven't had time to check =P

Checked on apf, it doesnt stack with top MP debuffs, as in MP debuff overwrites this.

[Malaxia]

This nano has the same stacking order as UBT so you can spam it even if docs are around.

[Anisherl]

Awesome nano .

[Malaxia]

I went for the aura for my first nano, because it is a bigger improvement over existing nanos than new malaise. But i'm close to the 2nd box

[Sterva]

I went for the aura for my first nano, because it is a bigger improvement over existing nanos than new malaise. But i'm close to the 2nd box

Yeah I thought about it that way at first too, but then I realized that even though it's less of an improvement by the numbers, the new malaise is actually far more useful versus everything that ever gives me trouble in pvp.

Five items left to finish deadman walking, and I haven't had any time at all to wait around on pickup teams lately.

[Malaxia]

I started all my raids picking up people on lft, i had no problem with wipes so far
Best i had was 4 crats for sector 35, awesome DD and xp

[Hacre]

I've not had the opportunity to really try it out versus a wide variety of professions, since there have been nothing but agents and NTs on BS every time I have a chance to play... but versus most agents, it rapes. Does nothing at all to NTs.

Half right. It won't affect the capped cast for double/triple noobs, however it'll screw over NTs that make use of the AI DoT and IU for PvP. Against decent crats, IU is a must.

[crattey]

Half right. It won't affect the capped cast for double/triple noobs, however it'll screw over NTs that make use of the AI DoT and IU for PvP. Against decent crats, IU is a must.

I'll call bull**** on that one IU is not a -must-. It's good, yes, if you both start out casting at the same time. IU -> tripple will kill a crat most of the time. If you're init debuffed however, double -> tripple does the job just fine, too. The odds of a crat proccing a stun are 9.75% over those first 11 seconds.. more than enough time for any NT to kill him.

Versus NTs, I usually mezz and run. You have about 4 seconds to get out of sight or casting range

[Josephina]

...The odds of a crat proccing a stun are 9.75% over those first 11 seconds.. more than enough time for any NT to kill him...

How did you get to 9.75%?

In 11 seconds you will have atleast 5 normal shots; with 2 procs with each a chance to proc of 5%, the chance of not proccing any is 0.95^10=60% => chance to proc atleast once during those first 11s is 40%.

[crattey]

I'm assuming you're using an AS weapon

[Hacre]

I'll call bull**** on that one IU is not a -must-. It's good, yes, if you both start out casting at the same time. IU -> tripple will kill a crat most of the time. If you're init debuffed however, double -> tripple does the job just fine, too. The odds of a crat proccing a stun are 9.75% over those first 11 seconds.. more than enough time for any NT to kill him.

Versus NTs, I usually mezz and run. You have about 4 seconds to get out of sight or casting range

However against a crat that does more than just debuff and run, recharge isn't a nice thing to be stuck in, especially if you're trying to control pets as well.

So init debuffing the NT so that IU isn't an option, is a very good idea.

[Josephina]

I'm assuming you're using an AS weapon

Ah, very convenient in your argument, but kinda deceiving since not all crats do