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Power Set Review Request, Fighting Claws.
lacudra
Posts: 3 Arc User
Dear cryptic,
Please do a power set review on fighting claws. This is already your second pass on telepathy which honestly isn't fair in the regards of balance as far as game mechanics are concerned. When fighting claws was first in beta it was amazing. The lethality of the original design made it on par with any of the other power sets. Fighting claws at essence was originally conceived to be a power that could do decent levels of damage to multiple targets at the same time through the focus and use of poisons. This however was lost in the shuffle do to the aggressive concerns of a now faded player base. The last pass you did was on the martial arts tree as a whole and didn't allow ideal time nor consistent focus, each power set in the martial arts tree in reality and actuality are almost a whole different tree in themselves in essence. They are vastly different each one with a focus of their own. The only power set however I feel lacking would be of course Fighting claws. The animations are so unbalanced leaving a person over whelmed and confused at best. There are multiple charge powers. And a general lack of aoe all together. The Poison debuff you use to get for free now costs talents points and is completely useless unless you want to give someone a really mild cause of indigestion. Fighting claws will work well as a subsidiary power set and is a great dps filler set. But nothing more, it has no mechanics to stand on its own as a whole and will always be used as a filler set without further focus. Please do a pass to where people can play fighting claw inspired hero's i.e. wolverine or even a ninja assassin that uses bladed gauntlets to fight. Thank you for your time.
The British Bear.
Please do a power set review on fighting claws. This is already your second pass on telepathy which honestly isn't fair in the regards of balance as far as game mechanics are concerned. When fighting claws was first in beta it was amazing. The lethality of the original design made it on par with any of the other power sets. Fighting claws at essence was originally conceived to be a power that could do decent levels of damage to multiple targets at the same time through the focus and use of poisons. This however was lost in the shuffle do to the aggressive concerns of a now faded player base. The last pass you did was on the martial arts tree as a whole and didn't allow ideal time nor consistent focus, each power set in the martial arts tree in reality and actuality are almost a whole different tree in themselves in essence. They are vastly different each one with a focus of their own. The only power set however I feel lacking would be of course Fighting claws. The animations are so unbalanced leaving a person over whelmed and confused at best. There are multiple charge powers. And a general lack of aoe all together. The Poison debuff you use to get for free now costs talents points and is completely useless unless you want to give someone a really mild cause of indigestion. Fighting claws will work well as a subsidiary power set and is a great dps filler set. But nothing more, it has no mechanics to stand on its own as a whole and will always be used as a filler set without further focus. Please do a pass to where people can play fighting claw inspired hero's i.e. wolverine or even a ninja assassin that uses bladed gauntlets to fight. Thank you for your time.
The British Bear.
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I agree FC needs a pass, but FC also needs an identity, and I don't think it's poisoning (without advantage points.) FC shouldn't also necessarily be savage rip-and-tear action. FC should be based on Debuffs + Bleeds, rather than Poisons + Bleeds to represent the finesse and martial status of such a weapon.
I'm just not sure that FC needs a pass before they address other flaws and figure out exactly what FC is going / intended to be.
Now, that being said, a couple of changes ought to be made. The adv and the proc method for Form of the Tiger are a bit silly, and I usually just take Form of the Tempest cause I crit a lot. I also agree that the Spitting Cobra adv is silly as well, due to VF being used 3 times to apply Shredded and then moving on to spike powers. Perhaps make the adv a 50% or more chance to stack poison, or better yet a 50% chance to apply a second Shredded at the end of the 3 hit combo.
The overall identity of the set, however, is clear... At least to me. It is the MA set with the highest single target damage potential and that is the theme. Dual Blades is AoE, Single Blade is bleeds and rupture, and Unarmed is all about hitting with both crushing and dimensional damage due to chi energy. Fighting Claws, though, is the MA boss killer and it is very good at it. One claw based AoE would not be unwelcome either.