Does the Paladin class feel clunky/buggy to anyone else?

beastlytoast

I just came back after a long break and saw Paladin was released.
So I decided to give it a shot and wow. I love it! So fun.

However...everything felt off.
Attacks felt sluggish, attacks would randomly not connect, my character would move sporadically while attacking, the sanctuary thing was spotty.

IDK I like the class but I can't play it the way it feels.

quspiv

maybe you had some lags? Sanctuary is currently broken, sometimes it does the GF block animation without any effect.

championshewolf

Class feels fine to me. You might be lagging or something. Attacks feel on par with other classes, just don't expect the damage of a CW.

burkaanc

it is clunky, tab shouldnt have any animation locking, but it is really slow to use and often casts fail
templars could be much more fluid since its main defensive ability
radiant also is clunky, though its kind of same with threatening
smite should be faster and more fluid

but a lot of animations in this game are badly made, clunky and feel cheap

championshewolf

That's a design choice, because they wanted combat to feel weighty, not because of cheap animations.

burkaanc

it doesnt feel weighty, it feels clunky, and they added animation lock to some skills that shouldnt have any

stuff like IBS, or Frontline feels weighty, but for paladin most stuff just feels clunky, especially tab with its random activation time, when you are doing smth it sometimes takes close to a second to activate, but sometimes it activates instantly(and its not lag, i checked)

championshewolf

Uh, Tab doesn't have a random activation time and works just fine for me. Honestly, sounds like you are having other issues if you feel that.

burkaanc

championshewolf wrote: »

Uh, Tab doesn't have a random activation time and works just fine for me. Honestly, sounds like you are having other issues if you feel that.

it does have varying activation time since it waits for previous skill to completely finish animation, even parts that are usually canceled by movement, other skills etc. and by the time it comes to activation that activation is often cancelled by next skill, or casts 2x since you got bored waiting til it activates and started spamming the button. tab shouldnt be affected by anything, instant cast ignoring everything else

for nice weighty animations u should check tera, now there you can feel the skills casting

quspiv

burkaanc wrote: »

championshewolf wrote: »

Uh, Tab doesn't have a random activation time and works just fine for me. Honestly, sounds like you are having other issues if you feel that.

it does have varying activation time since it waits for previous skill to completely finish animation, even parts that are usually canceled by movement, other skills etc. and by the time it comes to activation that activation is often cancelled by next skill, or casts 2x since you got bored waiting til it activates and started spamming the button. tab shouldnt be affected by anything, instant cast ignoring everything else

for nice weighty animations u should check tera, now there you can feel the skills casting

100% agree. The TAB is often laggy. It either activate with few sec delay or twice in a row.

alkemist80

The class overall feels ok as devotion. The only clunkiness I feel is the shift (sanctuary), which can't be relied on and how slow paladins move, even with justice feats (I understand with platemail and all but the turtle feeling isn't fantastic).

Tab is so so, as devotion, I haven't been in positions where I find it as an "oh <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>" button even in T2's but I have seen the varying delays of casting it. Hasn't been enough to really annoy me though.