I came back from a 3 year hiatus, and found my PoM is somewhat... underwhelming. Of course, all my gear was hacked and I had to get some compensation from Funcom (props to their account recovery team for going out of their way to help me - it wasn't a perfect recovery, but they did what they could!).
Now I am finding that my specs are much weaker. Repulse changed from 15s to 30s CD (right? Pretty sure it was 15s originally), making all the talents and AA I used to treasure mostly "fluff". All my CCs having cast times - no more instant CC to keep me mobile (AoM, Condemn really need cast times!?) My condemnation seems to hit for 300-400 less per tick than previously, and Holy Storm procs seem to be faaaaar more infrequent since I usually don't see a Holy Storm proc more than once every ~30 seconds?
Not seeing many PoMs these days either. Is the class back to being a "cooldown" based killer? Do you have to go MoM / IW now to have any reasonable burst (and pray my target stays in MSE range for 3 seconds)? I know before I left my PoM was a "proc" killer (LtP and Holy Storm with good crit damage), but procs dont seem to cut it these days unless the target is a clothie rank 3 or lower.
Are there people out there experiencing good killing power with reasonable staying power using any different builds?
I heard there was some kind of "general tree revamp" - it looks pretty similar / the same to me - what improvements make the general tree worth taking at all?
Is PvE gear the route to go now? My PoM is rank 8 w/ a mix of T2/3 PvP gear and some Khitai faction (SC) equipment (and T3 raid weapons). What kind of gear do I need to compete? I'm not doing horrible at the moment, but I usually only see 2-3 kills simply because I can't pump out damage faster than anything except ToS/HoX generally. Going 1v1 against anything with melee seems next to impossible due to the loss of mobility from changes and CCs that seem to be broken instantly every time they're used.
Tips appreciated in regard to my favorite AoC class. I'm not much into re-rolling, and all my other Alts are under-geared unfortunately since Funcom's recovery team was only able to help me restore one of my characters back to reasonable gear levels (and my time restrictions prevent me from really doing a lot of PvE / grinding).