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Please Stop the DC nerfs going live
mittensofdoom
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Nerfing Hammer of Fate is the worst thing you can do to us poor lowly Clerics. The ONLY thing worth going to pvp for as a DC was for the possible chance to 1-shot a too squishy CW or TR. The Hammer is easily avoidable/mitigated and you get maybe 3-5 CHANCES of it going off due to how long it takes to build in pvp. In the meantime you have CW's running around with Ice Knife and TR's with their 1-shot ability.
Why do you hate us so much Cryptic? Honestly is all you want us to do is pve casting circles and sunbursts endlessly? Pvp is where I go to break away from the monotony of being a good little healbot for everybody else. The place I go where I can do some damage to other people, show that clerics are good at something else, feel good knowing that I have the ability to do something other than trail around after people keeping them alive.
Please don't take this away from me.
Why do you hate us so much Cryptic? Honestly is all you want us to do is pve casting circles and sunbursts endlessly? Pvp is where I go to break away from the monotony of being a good little healbot for everybody else. The place I go where I can do some damage to other people, show that clerics are good at something else, feel good knowing that I have the ability to do something other than trail around after people keeping them alive.
Please don't take this away from me.
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ya evidently, we aren't supposed to be casting sunburst either, nor are we to be using divinity as much
Hammer of Fate: This power dealt far too much damage overall, so it's gained a new feature and had its damage reduced.
If the power deals a killing blow, the player will now regain 15% of maximum AP (at max rank). However, the power's overall damage has been reduced by 40%.
How exactly can you justify this? Nobody ever complained about the damage of this. It was one of the only things that made PvP for clerics potentially fun, the chance to one-shot a too squishy CW/TR/DC. Due to how slow it takes to build in PvP we only got maybe 3-5 opportunities to use this per match and it was easily dodged/mitigated.
Sun Burst: When hitting both enemies and other allies at the same time, the player now gains 25% more Action Points from this power.
However, this power no longer incorrectly multiplies the intended Action Point gain per cast by the number of enemy targets affected.
Sun Burst was fine as it was, a great daily builder, these changes will in fact slow down AP gain and nerf the ability to lay down Hallowed Ground and Divine Armor
I can only conclude from these nerfs that Cryptic does not want us to be able to do viable damage at all in PvP and wants us to stick to being healbots in PvE, which we won't even be able to do as well anymore.
If anything Clerics needed a slight buff. The buff to soothing light is a good step but I would suggest a slight defence buff as well. And please for the love of all that is good, revert these nerfs!
Anyone who got this idea never ever played a DC in pvp. You can only damage a lot if you put 2 armor breaker on the enemy (Prophecy of Doom, Divine Glow) + other players defense reduction. You cant damage a lot without them! I have 6k power total (13k gs), and can damage only 40% of the enemy hp from full healt. (So what do you think what can a 9k gs cleric damage?) That is too much?
Or did they even saw what can a 16K gs GF do? It can stunlock you till death without daily, but its due to their gear. With 16k gs anyone can oneshot, anyone! The problem is that pvp is not rated! You can get in with 8-9k gs against a 13k team! And the weakest team crying in the forums!
Stop the nerfs!
Just stop the nerfs, period!
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It isn't in the patch notes but that is how it is on Preview.
I suspect they are trying to stop the cast Sunburst switch to CD to proc Linked Spirit. Rather than cancelling would be good if they just stopped it proccing if you weren't in CD when casting.
Swapping into/out of CD is tricky enough in a busy battle, have it cancelling spells u cast is a big problem.
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stop the nerfs
The Hammer nerf kinda comes out of left field. Its the most "wut?" change on the list. It was not on anyone's radar for abuse, being overpowered, or over used. Had it done massive single hits, perhaps, but not as it stood. At the very least, keep the damage, but perhaps reduce the CC immunity its casting granted. If they fear it is to much of a utility power, reduce the utility and not the power.
Simple. When Cleric is no longer fun to play, dungeons are nerfed a healer and queues are buffed 10 fold. Cleric has sat around waiting for it's fun factor to begin but it only grows the sense of boring. The role isn't about how you wish to play it but more so how they want you to. Cleric is a Companion with great AI. (sometimes not so great AI ha)
I've created a game. You stand in one spot and drop a blue circle on the ground. Want to play it?
without the CC immunity it would get interrupted in PvP at the first sign of casting, that CC immunity is kind of needed since you cannot do anything else while casting it or lose all your AP. As I said this is the one change I have a real issue with.
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I have no problems with bug-fixing obvious broken things like semi-divine sunburst that generates half of the AP pool. However, the cleric in fact is currently only viable by abusing these mechanics.
If these bugs a fixed, the cleric needs a major buff. And major means like changing the complete mechanic of several spells.
Some T2 dungeons will be impossible without the constant overlay of astral shield and hallowed ground.
The total score of healing + damage of a cleric is much less then compared to a equal skilled and equipped CW, GF, GWF or TR.
Why not just remove all damaging encounters and dailies clerics have? Because it doesn't feel like clerics are allowed to do anything else than heal (others, of course). God forbid if you want to switch out of your healer's role for a match of PVP or for foundry, because the devs are having none of that.
HoF will become (even more) useless, Flame Strike seems to no longer crit on the Preview Server, and Sunburst generates very little ap. Occasionally using Flame Strike in dungeons was the most fun I ever had, but if our attack dailies barely do any damage and gaining ap takes longer, I might as well start using Hallowed Ground all the time. Healbots, assemble!
Have they even fixed/rebalanced Dungeons and bosses with endless hordes of mob now that they're nerfing AP regen for CWs and Clerics.
Are they now gonna give clerics POINTS for healing in PVP since they're nerfing our damage, also will they now give us a skill that will help us survive in pvp since we our chance to kill has been lessened........
Dont call this balance patch........ if youre gonna take away something give something significant back. I am still waiting on the AP regen on HoTs thing.... still not happening.