Information Halloween 2020 Balance Changes [Explained]

All the flavours and a bucc and pally is still salty.

If nothing was changed, you'd be complaining here either way. If more buffs were given, you'd still be complaining here either way.

Damn...

 

wdym, all i see is one complaining pally, the rest seem pretty happy

 

Well realistically, I doubt that buccs will ever be "good" at damage given the reluctance to give us more damage. That's just not our role for in the first place apparently as a support (even though I DO want better damage for us).

And if that is the case I don't see why having consistency is a bad thing in itself, though I do agree other areas need more attention. It's more a question of how do we begin to reward better skill.
Will having better "skill" make a really significant change in dpm? If not, why not make the job easier for us to do consistent damage? Even if the bubble does makes us have "permanent" stance, I don't see why not honestly when the warriors do have stance of their own. The attack bonus really isn't much if you use a cider... which you should be using. I think overall, maybe having charge needs to be more rewarding in itself other than stance say maybe a stackable 5wa or something when proc'd.

Some part of me feels like SI is more a burden than anything and should be made a self buff. It's just not a universally appreciated buff like SE. It doesn't help that NT 1H now creates less of a reliance on SI. Other than that, only Drks, Marksmen and Corsairs would appreciate it with mages out of the picture and well... two of the classes are comparatively rarer when looking at the general population of players as a whole (though I know people who main those classes will come at us with pitchforks). To say we're a support class outside of TL is weird as well, because we'd much prefer an archer who does "support" better or rather supplementing damage.

Nevertheless I do appreciate the 5% mastery, that was an interesting change. I just don't see how having more uptime on the bubble is worse either. When it comes to cleaving at CWK, we still gotta somersault kick albeit for short period of time so I guess 50% on bosses is nice if it works on them? Will have to wait to see on the full effect of these bubble changes though to know how much it affects the uptime.

Just my thoughts.

 

Woulda preferred 90 seconds of smoke every 10 mins instead of 45 secs every 5, that'd make it easier to go pee mid-HT body.

 

I love the Bucc buffs, and I appreciate what we got a lot. I wanted to suggest one small thing, a small adjustment to the charge rate on bosses. What if instead of x1.5 we got x2? I made a table with how it would be:

The table shows how many of each combo or skill you need to use in order to get fully charged, and the number at the end shows how many targets you are hitting.
Now for more context, I'll tell you the speed of your attacks in casts per minute:
Barrage+Dragon combo: 20 combos + 1 barrage
Snatch spam: 75 times
Demolition spam: 30 times

And now I will show the number of mobs that you will be hitting in bosses:
4 Targets:
HT only when the wings are up (all barrages go to the wings and the arm tends to go lower and avoiding your dragon strikes at times)
Zakum arms on the bottom on a specific spot (You hit more often 3 arms rather than 3)
Snatch is only viable if you at times hit 4 parts in HT in other bosses seems useless.
3 Targets:
CWKPQ when all the bosses are up
Zakum arms on the top left and on the spot I said before
2 Targets:
HT when the wings are down you just try to hit the left head and the middle head with Dragon Strike, but if the left head goes down you miss it, and when the middle head is canceled you are just at 1vs1 (if both scenarios are true half of ur combo is useless)

And the last thing:
Seems that x2 is a lot if you are hitting a lot of targets but when you are trying to proc charge is mostly in HT where whenever you get hit you fall all the way down and you need to climb back up without falling in the process so this small change could help us on that scenario a lot more. And well most of the time hitting multiple targets is hard even if you have the tools to do so. And one small thing you do not have I.Frames while spaming Snatch or when you use Dragon Strike (A skill with a long animation) so is pretty easy to get knocked down, This getting knock down even harm us on the left head on top of how the heads move making em a bit hard to hit at times (Specially on cancels).

Thanks for listening and keep in mind this a suggestion that I wanted to make when I saw the changes, this does not mean that I'm not happy with the changes or that I don't appreciate the work that went into them (The mastery change for more DPM was brilliant), keep up the good work.

 

The best Halloween balance change isn't even listed on here. 5-6 fixed aka MAGES BUFFED.

 

I'm getting the feeling that this energy charge buff is just going to encourage wingslaying behaviors even more

 

Is the only way that Buccaneer has to hit multiple targets and do a bit more damage in HT. If anything we can just still focus the left head and with the better charge rate perhaps do better at that, thats why Im always saying to buff Bucc single target more than anything to perhaps be closer to BM dpm.

 

Great changes! keep it going ^_^

 

I think it'd be interesting if one could incorporate stun mastery on bosses somehow. Skill-locking bosses is too OP so I would treat stunning a boss as just a marker that still allows the boss to freely attack but is now susceptible to crit damage. I think it would add more depth to bucc play during both non-ST and ST states and make the playing experience richer. However, it sounds like a lot of custom rework for devs on a class that not many ppl care about lol. But if a flat dpm increase is desired, I think this is a more interesting option. Afterall stunning, which is core bucc tech when mobbing, becomes totally irrelevant during bossing.

Also regular stun mastery fix 60% --> 160% damage when?

 

Can any GMs clarify this?

It determines whether blind 10 or blind 30 is needed for bossing. Blind 10 already reduces enemies accuracy by 10%, so if blind were to be enabled for bosses, theres no incentive to go beyond blind 10 as blind 30 will be limited to only 10% anyways instead of the full 30% on regular monsters.

 

It should be something like 1% every 3 levels, though I'm not quite sure on that. I know it goes up in stages.

 

I'm gonna note here that Blind isn't a numerical reduction of the target's accuracy stat, it flat out gives them a 30% (10%) chance to fumble attacks (like a reverse shifter). Warriors and Mages on my HT run have noted that they have started dodging attacks, when they don't have the avoid stat to do so even with a -10% accuracy reduction.