Increase 'Assaulter' range by 50% (Chief Bandit Skill)

Personally, I think the range is fine. Though I wouldn't oppose it increasing.

I don't think assaulter putting you on the opposite side of a mob all the time is necessary per se, but it'd definitely make people's lives easier. In most cases you can just run at a mob, jump and boomerang step in the air towards them and assaulter right after when bstep ends. This usually puts you on the opposite side of the mob without getting hit if you time it right, since you start assaultering inside the mob.

I can't think of a situation where assaulter being cast-able on NPCs would be useful, but I also can't think of a situation where that wouldn't be hilarious.

I think it'd be really fun if we reduced the end lag on assaulter instead. So if you see a field of densely packed mobs, you can just zoom through.

 

I just learned assaulter and don't have boomerang step. When I use assaulter it just seems to slam me into the monster and instantly knock me back which isn't really helpful at all. Am I doing it wrong?

 

Assaulters range is pretty short so there's some mobs that are too big to pass through with getting ''hit''. It's DPS isn't great either so it's generally used as a means to move around quicker, if you're climbing up a rope or ladder ad there's a mob on top then you can jump off and assaulter up to save some time, things like that.

 

They actually already reduced the delay on this skill. It used to be absurdly slow and basically worthless if you wanted horizontal mobility as haste was still faster. I personally think the delay on assaulter is fine as it is.

Idk how feasible 1 and 3 are, doesn't really sound like something the staff can change. If Assaulter distance is dependent on the size of the mob (its hurt-box since the intention is to not get knocked back), then every single mob size would have a unique distance, which just sounds like a massive hassle to change. And how would this effect the use of assaulter when its for repositioning, mainly in bossing situations? Would is just place you right next to the boss, away from the hurt-box, or is the distance set because you're using it on a specific mob/boss? The former makes the distance even more complicated as now it is dependent on both size of the mob and position of the character. The latter just sounds kinda busted, but not very useful for finer movements when repositioning.

I never really saw assaulter as a good mobility skill to begin with, making shads mobility worse than warriors, mages, and NLs. Do I think that this should be the case? No, not really. But I never really came across a situation where its such a hindrance that it would warrant a major buff. Assaulter is very useful for specific mobility situations, and is actually great for farming during events. Maybe giving it a better range to cast and increasing the distance by a bit would make it more usable, but I still think it would be limited to either getting on a platform from a rope, or spamming through a bunch of mobs, at which make doesn't make that much of a difference anyways.

 

It's pretty hard to avoid this on larger mobs unless you're perfect with your distancing. There's not much you can do about it as a cb since none of your skills help with avoiding the knockback. Reaching 4th job makes assaulter way more usable as you can chain it with bstep and you'll get shadow shifter + high avoid so most mobs will miss anyways.

 

While we’re on this topic, can we increase the range of Assassinate too? I have a hard attacking HT’s left head, left arm and It can’t reach the right arm with assassinate. Please increase the attacking range

 

Assaulter has iframes?

 

assaulter's delay being reduced has been an amazing QoL so far. I do agree that it would be great if the range was extended so if anything, atleast it can be slightly comparable to rush and whatnot.

 

Assaulter is a good skill. A 50% range buff would be a HUGE mobility bonus to shads (could finally perform the legendary HT midhead jump? POG)
A buff like this might actually put shad movement on par with mages. But still far from FJ speed except maybe in vertical maps.

+1 for entirely objective and unselfish reasons.

 

Come back when you can do the left head jump *laughs in corkscrew*

 

Why nobody cares about shadow web/meso though...

 

Maybe in terms of mobility it isn't a major buff, but assaulter is also used in various bossing situations for positioning (most notably in non-mobile bosses). In this case the distance of one dummy is pretty significant and can put you just out of range to use nate on a boss you got knocked into. Maybe in other situations like the platforms on ht, it can just be a matter of being slightly farther away before using the skill. I'm not completely rejecting your idea, but I'm just thinking if the increase in mobility is worth potential complications for other applications of assaulter. If it results in more difficulty or impossibility to chain assaulter (to reposition) and nate during bossing, I don't think the extra mobility becomes worth it. Like you said, Shads needs to have their skills flow nicely with each other, but I can't think of particular examples where this isn't the case. I've seen people do some interesting movements with assaulter chained with other skills and movement. You just can't spam it like fj since it requires more precision and requirements in order for the skill to activate.

 

I think you do reach the arms if you are the very end of the platform (unlike an untransformed bucc, give us buffs)

 

My thoughts on the buffs you suggest:
-I kinda like ensuring you will be on the other side of the mob altho is not that big of a problem, getting hit is a thing that happens less often then more levels you gain as shadower.
-Not sure what you mean about the minimum cast range but if it helps then why not?
-I don't know what NPC u hate so much that u want to cut it (is ok I hate some npcs too like that stupid cornian at the HT cave). Sound impossible to apply tho, I don't remember any npc on a crucial spot that u can use to move along thom perhaps that adobis on the zakum map?
-Also I don't know how much range would do to this skill, is already super good, I mean I use Corkscrew Blow and I have to be so damn precise to climb up platforms with it (and it has less range than rush and assaulter).

 

poggers buff op class +1 i agree, no bias