Played both demon and sage mystic for quite a reasonable time now and my personal preference is to use sage over demon. Sage: Has higher base p,def with the verdant buff as well as having a higher base damage. The 25% chance to purify on the basic heal (which is used very often) is extremely nice too.Demon: Demon grants more chi by summoning pets as well as having higher channel off skills such as rapid growth. Verdant shell provides a 15% tidal which is nothing and will not save you in PvP compared to the extra p.def.My recommendation would be to go demon until you have a high enough base channel, once your rapid growth puts you over 100% channel with attack weapon I would then switch to sage. With 6% channel on every rank 8 piece the extra channel from a demon mystic is useless and actually slows you down.
what extra channel? o.o
The extra channel from demon rapid growth which grants you a 30% channel buff instead of the sage and basic 20% increase. Once you reach 100% channel or over it starts to lower you channel significantly. Rapid growth is used for a channel buff as well as a major temporary damage increase meaning that going over 99% channel with demon is pointless.
Not talking about the channel of rapid growth lol. I'm talking about the channel buff that the rapid growth buff gives you...For example my mystic has 6% channel on each rank 8 piece giving him a total of 93% base channel in r8 with the dragon Glaive equip. Using (sage) rapid growth with the Glaive is pointless because it makes your channel slower. Using (sage) rapid growth with my attack level rank 8 weapon puts me to 97% channel with the bonus of the rank 8 weapon. With a good geared mystic the demon rapid growth will put your channel over 100% with both the Glaive and the rank 8 attack weapon making it usless for an endgame cultivation.
that is what the demon version of rapid growth does, it reduces the channel time of rapid growth by 10% check here https://ecatomb.epicpw.com/skills-class.html- Normal and sage rapid growth = 0.6s- Demon rapid growth = 0.54sNow idk if it also increases channeling speed by 10% too
You still didn't understand, did you?This was not about channeling of rapid growth itself.When you cast Rapid (and it is DONE), it gives you channel buff for NEXT sprells.THOSE spells (cast AFTER Rapid) get slowed down.~~~~~I have one Mystic, it is Sage, and it is lvl 146. I don't play it.Have several Sins, all 150, all sage, all fun to play.What do you think I would recommend to you, from my point of view?Archer.kekeke
Yes it reduces the channel of further skills by 30%.. i'm not sure what you're talking about by its own channel being reduces by 10%, rapid growth is an extremely fast skill to channel and that 10% makes no difference in pvp lol
-10 ct makes no difference in pvp?extra pdef that's already suffering from severe diminishing returns makes more of a difference than that?no. wrong. way wrong.ct means everything for a mystic.. a tiny little amount of diminishing returns pdef means shit in comparisonChaos had a better point, albeit a rather vague oneif that 10 ct gain meant nothing then ea's wouldn't use ct blessing, and mystics and other players playing classes relying on ct wouldn't be using dragon wep so much
No He just didnt explain it right Cast time reduced by 10% Channeling by 30% Sage : 0.6 cast time with 25% channeling time boost Demon : 0.5 cast time(?) with 30% channeling time boost Sage has a better skillset coz : better dmg , better heal(purifies) , more phy def (approx 1k if i remember right) and easy to lock with chihyu Demon has that extra ct on rapid growth which on epw is useless (u r -97% with sage one) U r less tanky and u gain less chi Which again, useless Chi is already easy to gain via heals pets and hits u do (-93% spam) which makes demon useless Only sht id see demon good for is the ape puri in fsp at toad : ))))) Go as u wish, my preference is sage coz tankier and more dmg, demon has critic and chi , thats all imo
