Avatar.3568 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 For every soulbeast out there, I bet soulbeast will be one of the strongest, if not the strongest dps after the patch. You don't need a gazelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobber.6348 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Tbh, it won't even hurt Soulbeast to not be able to swap. Smokescale is all they need.It has Smokefield, Evade pressure, and a Knockdown tied into it. I guess we will really see which Soulbeasts are the ones which have strong mechanical finesse over those who fallback on Gazelle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatar.3568 Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share Posted February 4, 2020 @Yasai.3549 said:Tbh, it won't even hurt Soulbeast to not be able to swap. Smokescale is all they need.It has Smokefield, Evade pressure, and a Knockdown tied into it. I guess we will really see which Soulbeasts are the ones which have strong mechanical finesse over those who fallback on Gazelle. Exactly smokescale is the pet to go, you don't need more, especially when merge and de merge gives the swap buff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowpass.4236 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 They completely overlooked the fact that the on-swap traits are on longer cooldowns than the actual pet swaps. In other words, soulbeast is going to be pretty clunky after the patch as we can no longer choose when to merge for beastmode skills vs. needing the on-swap traits. And that they'd activate every 2 merges (merge -> unmerge -> merge) which is just going to feel super awkward and 100x less responsive.They should just make the f4 activate pet swap traits (without actually swapping pets, cause we only have one now) and leave the option to merge separate and unrelated. Would make more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Boyer.6524 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 @"Avatar.3568" said:For every soulbeast out there, I bet soulbeast will be one of the strongest, if not the strongest dps after the patch. You don't need a gazelle eeeeeeeeehQuickness application/uptime is dropping through the floor this next patch, which means landing Mauls & WIs "which were also nerfed in damage mind you" will now have to be done primarily without quickness.It's not going to be the consistent damage dealer that you are imagining.Lack of quickness doesn't effect the viable application of naturally fast to mid speed attacks, it just slows the amount that land. But naturally slow animation attacks like Maul, WI, Earthshaker, Mighty Blow, ect ect, that kind of stuff becomes pretty impractical to land without leading in with a 2s or more hard CC first. Especially after this recent meta now that everyone's reflexes have been acclimated to high quickness uptime, people gonna be dodging Maul/Wi left & right man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Fear.1624 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Dagger soulbeast will rise up lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowpass.4236 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Ranger Greatsword had the cooldowns for Maul increased from 4s to 6s, Swoop increased from 12s to 15s, and Counterattack from 15s to 25s.In other words, instead of being able to Maul 15x per minute, Swoop 5x per minute, and Counterattack 4x per minute... it's now 10 Mauls, 4 Swoops, and 2 Counterattacks.Traited, it went from 18 Mauls, 6 Swoops, and 5 Counterattacks to 12 Mauls, 5 Swoops, and 3 Counterattacks.So, we've lost 3-9 skills per minute on Greatsword alone. And we don't have the quickness uptime to make our longer cooldown Mauls easier to land.Anyways, it'll still be usable maybe but the timers not matching up is just going to feel like garbage. Core ranger will be better than soulbeast imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anduriell.6280 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 @Avatar.3568 said:@Yasai.3549 said:Tbh, it won't even hurt Soulbeast to not be able to swap. Smokescale is all they need.It has Smokefield, Evade pressure, and a Knockdown tied into it. I guess we will really see which Soulbeasts are the ones which have strong mechanical finesse over those who fallback on Gazelle. Exactly smokescale is the pet to go, you don't need more, especially when merge and de merge gives the swap buffUsing smokescale makes the soulbeast static as a post. I don't think smoke will be used that much although sure people will try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahkeus.8243 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 I don't see any reason why Soulbeasts would be any better after this patch. They're getting the same steady stream of damage and boon nerfs that everyone else is getting in addition to the massive nerf to their mobility.The nerf to mobility alone is huge. Soulbeasts lose swoop and their greatsword leap is nerfed. Warriors will have the same damage and CC nerfs, but their greatsword mobility is untouched. Mobility of most other specs as well is either lightly impacted or not really impacted at all.The Clarion/Zephyr's buff will be fine for lower level PvP, but Soulbeasts lost too many mobility and defense tools to handle being targeted like they used to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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