@mimicking#6533 :
You mentioned that you're not sure Cryptic got the HR right with the last balance pass. It would be very useful for the community here to understand what you mean and why and provide feedback. Would be great if you could take a few minutes to answer.
Le-Shan: HR level 80 (main)
Born of Black Wind: SW Level 80
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I doubt we will have much back from any Developer ever again
Alts :
Storm (SW70), Edge (TR70), AD Farm (CW70), Grunt (GF70), Rosa (DC70), AD AD AD (GWF70), Your Mum (OP70)
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I doubt the general qq will stop, but it definitely has a shaker base for its cries of 'nerf' now than it had initially.
The most important thing in life is to be yourself. Unless you can be Batman. Always be Batman.
im having fun with my current stormwarden combat tho
Some classes can mitigate or even negate the piercing damage.
Some of us mostly use PG to root the targets, which you can dodge, unless proned by boar charge and even then a skillful PVPr will survive the burst if he/she has built a solid toon.
There are classes i merely tickle with my combat build and some i can even kill if they are not careful.
In a full dps team combat is not so efficient, but paired with a good CC toon we can make kills pretty efficiently. Like every other dps toon in PVP to my knowledge
Trapper is still the more solid goto tree in PVP, imo. But i like the combat after being trapper for so long.
Well, we'll see what changes they make in the future.
Alts :
Storm (SW70), Edge (TR70), AD Farm (CW70), Grunt (GF70), Rosa (DC70), AD AD AD (GWF70), Your Mum (OP70)
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More trappers in the 3k-4k IL mark, and seen some veteran trappers trying out combat after mod 10 came out, but already some have switched back to trapper.
No major uprise of HR combats or oodles of PVPrs changing their class to HR for combat tree for ez kills like some people claim.
You read it right, there is suppose to be a high rise in people changing their CLASS to HRs for the combat tree, this really made me LOL.
I can imagine some already running a HR would try or even stay combat, make an alt even, but that the PVP community has started to PREFER combat HRs OVER other classes or trapper tree in PVP is utter bs.
It has a new attraction to it, so many of us were Trappers for so long, no wonder the numbers seem to have increased, but it mainly concerns PVE, imo. We got back a wider spectrum of tools as a class and people noticed that.
Some rise to roll a HR alt or main for PVE is there after the balances and fixes to broken sht, but thats normal and good, creates a more wider spectrum to class/tree usage.
YT videos on PVE builds regarding combat and trapper mightve kickstarted more love towards HRs too.
And the playerbase of HRs is getting more information? and people are generally more keen on the class? as THE WILDS has a decent and knowledgeable HR base.
Combat is a newly found force to be reckoned with, but were not gods or OP hunter killers
For a better view on things maybe some dev could throw some info how many people actually roll/respec a combat nowadays or how many new active HR combats are in PVP/PVE when compared to the trappers.
If you say have a HR alt you've not played much since mod6 or 7, when the rot really started to set in, then that HR probably doesn't have twisted weapons, and the maze, demo, storm king, and revamped levelling boons, which adds up to probably more time than people are willing to spend for the fotm class. Add onto that the time to grind prestige, when they might still have elemental, swap out and re-jewel the lolset for another, armor kit prestige, and swap out artifacts, acquire and insignia mounts.... a huge outlay of AD.
These days there's a lot more to it than just swapping enchants over.