Where are the patch notes for skill balance?
Does anyone actually have a link?
It's really annoying to get into a tourney with yesterdays build and find out that your build has been nerfed.
I will give as example the recent Guardian nerf on tome of courage and sanctuary.
Spoiler
First, no more stability, just protection from the elite tome. This renders the elite useless:
- skill 5 in elite tome is 4-5 sec cast, you can be feared, knocked out, dazed, stunned easily
- skill 4 now has 2 second daze instead of 3
So basically after using the elite tome, you need to have 3 second of "calm" in order to use skill 5 (considering you dazed using skill 4 before). And since any decent player knows whats going on, you having a bigass book in your hand, they will just stun, daze, feadr, etc you whenever using skill 5.
On the other hand skill 1 in the tome is a AoE heal, whuch does not heal you.
So you go down fast because you can;t heal or cure conditions on yourself with any of the other skills.
One alternative is using Stand Your Ground for 6 seconds of stability.
Another could be using sanctuary before the elite, getting 6 second where enemies can;t touch you, or CC using projectiles. Still fear, etc will work.
This might be enough if you are quick with the 1.5 sec (?) tome cast and 5 seconds cast on the replacement skill 5.
Basically it's pretty much nerfed to oblivion in tPvP. You need at least 1 more utility skill just to profit from your elite, which is not really what elites should be.
Yes yes, I know Tome Of Courage was OP with the stability. But this nerf makes it actually useless.
Another nice nerf if on sanctuary. I used it on the Battle of Khylo tourney map, generally to cap clock tower when there is lots of treb action.
It used to reflect treb hits, making it possible to stay on point.
Now treb hits go right through, making it effective only as a CC in clocktower for blocking people in coming up and knocking them back. Well it still blocks projectiles from player skills and has some decent use
Now even if these skills were considered OP or broken, I have no real problem with it.
I just would like to know it has been nerfed prior to going into batlle and having my ass handed to me because of the nerf.
Just give us patch notes, with full patch listing on skills and their working.
Edited by dustbunny, 11 September 2012 - 02:15 AM.
0
