Oglaf.1074 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 When I read that they at least did something to Backbreaker, I had hoped changes to this trait was going to follow suit - but alas.It is still a terrible Grandmaster.1) Confusion on a Power weapon.2) The conditional extra damage is kinda moot when you can get a much better/easier universal damage buff through Berserker's Power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedShark.9548 Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 @Oglaf.1074 said:When I read that they at least did something to Backbreaker, I had hoped changes to this trait was going to follow suit - but alas.It is still a terrible Grandmaster.1) Confusion on a Power weapon.2) The conditional extra damage is kinda moot when you can get a much better/easier universal damage buff through Berserker's Power.agreed, the only good thing is cd reduction, but thats not worth a grandmaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oglaf.1074 Posted July 11, 2018 Author Share Posted July 11, 2018 @RedShark.9548 said:@Oglaf.1074 said:When I read that they at least did something to Backbreaker, I had hoped changes to this trait was going to follow suit - but alas.It is still a terrible Grandmaster.1) Confusion on a Power weapon.2) The conditional extra damage is kinda moot when you can get a much better/easier universal damage buff through Berserker's Power.agreed, the only good thing is cd reduction, but thats not worth a grandmasterEspecially when both Might Makes Right and Berserker’s Power exists alongside M.Hammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aigleborgne.2981 Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 I agree, even if you love hammer, it is hard to pick that trait, because it will be only for cd reduction.Now, there are many traits that should be changed. It would take years or decades to have a complete balance. And by that time, many changes would already be outdated. TLDR: game can't be balance with current schedule. Unless they switch to monthly patchs at least. Along with test servers and no secret for upcoming changes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Haired Savage.5430 Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 That and when I'm usually rocking hammer I don't have room to take the strength trait to even take merciless hammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sartharina.3542 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 ... It should probably deal more stacks of confusion to compensate for the stat conflict, since this game really doesn't handle Hybrid damage sources as well as it should. I can see what the idea for the trait is - Use it with Body Blow and Peak Performance (Which, IMO, should also increase condition damage in addition to Power damage, if it doesn't already) for a build that brutalizes enemies through punishing CC and debilitating conditions. Distracting Strikes was merged with Merciless Hammer about a year ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonecap.4105 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Might Makes Right is also pretty bad since they gutted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oglaf.1074 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 @"Sartharina.3542" said:... It should probably deal more stacks of confusion to compensate for the stat conflict, since this game really doesn't handle Hybrid damage sources as well as it should. I can see what the idea for the trait is - Use it with Body Blow and Peak Performance (Which, IMO, should also increase condition damage in addition to Power damage, if it doesn't already) for a build that brutalizes enemies through punishing CC and debilitating conditions. Distracting Strikes was merged with Merciless Hammer about a year ago.I don't think it should deal Confusion at all. As you say, hybrid rarely works and the Hammer is a Power/CC weapon.I also agree that I too get the "theme" of the trait: you knock someone about the head with a giant hammer, they get lil' cartoony birds circling their head and whatnot.It just isn't practical nor effective in actual gameplay.What if they instead made it so that all CC effects are X% stronger (i.e longer lasting) when wielding a Hammer instead of the Confusion? Then it it also synchs better with the secondary effect (more damage to CC'd targets). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aigleborgne.2981 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 I like your suggestion about longer lasting cc.It reminds me that warrior rune in GW1 that increase knockdown by 1s. It would be great and brillant to have this for a grand master hammer trait.Confusion makes no sense at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedShark.9548 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 dont rly like to just increase the cc duration, when someone gets cced they are screwed already, the problem is hitting skills, but they dont cc because of stab, id rather rip like 2 stacks of stab with one knock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aigleborgne.2981 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 They can consider stunbreak, but might not worth it for short cc. Now with longer cc, we would add more stress to opponents because any cc would last at least 2s, and also more breakbar damage.As for stab rip, it's spellbreaker's job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedShark.9548 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 @Aigleborgne.2981 said:They can consider stunbreak, but might not worth it for short cc. Now with longer cc, we would add more stress to opponents because any cc would last at least 2s, and also more breakbar damage.As for stab rip, it's spellbreaker's job. ...there are so many stunbreaks that it doesnt matter how long you stun, would apply more pressure if you could cc more often so that they dont have a stunbreak to get out of that 3sec backbreaker...yea, because only sb is allowed to rip something now...you know that rev has a trait that doubles the stab thats ripped by cc aswell? hes not even warrior how dare he to rip some staband it only rips stab, not all boons, would just improve hammer from 1 stack taken to 2 ...not that much of a gamechanger, but an improvement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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