Sage Barrage needs to be adjusted

Hecklar - Sanctuary
Hecklar - Sanctuary Posts: 162 Arc User
edited October 2009 in Suggestion Box
I was looking up a bit with the Skills that I'm soon going to get, and now I'm a little discouraged About a certain Skillbook that I've aquired, I'm talking about sage barrage of Course, and It's 33% damage resist addon.. Apparently, this addon to the original Barrage, doesn't stack with a clerics blue ball.. Shouldn't the SAGE version be better then the normal version? People are telling me not to bother using it, because it doesn't stack with Bb.. And in delta rebirths and Zhen squads, Guess what, you need to barrage, infact, most places where you need to barrage you have a BBing cleric with you. My point is the skill should stack with Bb, otherwise it's useless, whoopie, you now have worse deffence then you normally would with a Blueball, what fun. Barrage is the Highest, most powerful skill of the Archer, and the Sage barrage should be as good as it gets, please allow it to live up to it's potential, allow it to stack with BB. b:beg
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  • darksnipersalt
    darksnipersalt Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    That's why you go demon
  • TigerLily - Lost City
    TigerLily - Lost City Posts: 1,209 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Hecklar - Sanctuary wrote: »
    I was looking up a bit with the Skills that I'm soon going to get, and now I'm a little discouraged About a certain Skillbook that I've aquired, I'm talking about sage barrage of Course, and It's 33% damage resist addon.. Apparently, this addon to the original Barrage, doesn't stack with a clerics blue ball.. Shouldn't the SAGE version be better then the normal version? People are telling me not to bother using it, because it doesn't stack with Bb.. And in delta rebirths and Zhen squads, Guess what, you need to barrage, infact, most places where you need to barrage you have a BBing cleric with you. My point is the skill should stack with Bb, otherwise it's useless, whoopie, you now have worse deffence then you normally would with a Blueball, what fun. Barrage is the Highest, most powerful skill of the Archer, and the Sage barrage should be as good as it gets, please allow it to live up to it's potential, allow it to stack with BB. b:beg


    Its pretty terrible cuz it overwrites BB - so instead of 50% dmg reduction you get 30% in BB <.<

    You can pretty much kill yourself in rebirth as sage archer when you open zhen since you loose dmg reduction.

    They really should do something about it, its a dumb bug.
  • Lairian - Sanctuary
    Lairian - Sanctuary Posts: 8,209 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    It seems like there aren't many buffs that stack, are there? Stacking buffs can be very helpful in many scenarios, and I think that this kind of change should be applied to other kinds of buffs as well. It would make more sense IMO.
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  • Hecklar - Sanctuary
    Hecklar - Sanctuary Posts: 162 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    darksnipersalt wrote: »
    That's why you go demon

    <.< ... That is all
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  • Hecklar - Sanctuary
    Hecklar - Sanctuary Posts: 162 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    TigerLily - Lost City wrote: »
    Its pretty terrible cuz it overwrites BB - so instead of 50% dmg reduction you get 30% in BB <.<

    You can pretty much kill yourself in rebirth as sage archer when you open zhen since you loose dmg reduction.

    They really should do something about it, its a dumb bug.

    I think... at the Very least.. They should increase the damage resist to 50% so even if it does overwrite, it's not worse... But Really, It SHOULD stack with the Bb. Otherwise it's practically useless, and ruins your barrage in any zhenning Scenario in which you are required to take damage.
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  • IceJazmin - Heavens Tear
    IceJazmin - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,206 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Hecklar - Sanctuary wrote: »
    I think... at the Very least.. They should increase the damage resist to 50% so even if it does overwrite, it's not worse... But Really, It SHOULD stack with the Bb. Otherwise it's practically useless, and ruins your barrage in any zhenning Scenario in which you are required to take damage.

    No, it would make no sense to stack. Those two skills are from two different classes so it is, in no way, gimping your barrage.

    Here is a zhenning scenario where it is good.

    Your cleric dcs or you cannot find a cleric. Now you have a free 30% reduction while using barrage. Sure you cannot tank 100 mobs, but, unless you are afk zhenning, which, is illegal anyway, you will be able to pop a pot or two until the mobs are dead anyway.
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  • Hecklar - Sanctuary
    Hecklar - Sanctuary Posts: 162 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Well.. I think the easiest way to Fix the Barrage skill (the reason it doesn't stack in the first place) is because of the blessed icon that comes up, it's exactly the same thing that comes from tripple spark (celestial) and Blue ball.. What they need to change to make this work.. Is do the same thing that The Barb Form does. A barbs tiger Form skill provides him with protection yes? This is stacked with Blueball when both are used together. Change the Sage barrage skill so that It gives the bonus protection it's supposed to, but with a different icon showing it's effectiveness, so it doesn't overrite the Blue balls damage reduction effect. Ie use the Blue wing icon from wings of grace/Elven aclarity, that way it will stack with the blue ball skill of a cleric, and not get the sage archer killed whenever they use their barrage.
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