No more cancelling channel: a poll & an opinion

Quilue - Sanctuary wrote: »

Below are the DPS calculations and the builds I used:

http://pwcalc.com/0a5d3adff526071a

[(15265 + 20669)/2 + ( (2457 + 3534)/2 + 75*2 )*0.5] * 0.87 * 1.37 * 1.98

=

46113.1

Note: Blazing does not take into account rings because Blazing doesn't add damage from rings.

http://pwcalc.com/2dad105e5eff5376

(8681 + 9586)/2*1.21*2.86*1.48

=

46778.9

Azzazin - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Hello fellow gamers.

This afternoon when I logged for another enjoyable session of gaming, I had a rather rude surprise: no longer was I able to cancel power dash to get extra crit rate. This was not mentioned anywhere in the patch notes, nor in the notes provided by the GM on the server maintenance thread.

I'm not sure about other assassins out there, but this was an incredibly huge blow to me. This technique required good timing and skill. With my expert use of this glitching, I have on occasion won the weekly Tiger Event with a mere +10 weapon, a feat some have wondered at: glitching was part of the answer. Without power dash glitch, my aoe damage has plummeted, needless to say. Thanks developers, you just made assassins even less useful in TW.

But then when I was feeling all morose and down in the dumps, I got to thinking about other classes. In particular, blademasters seem to be getting royally screwed over. Without being able to glitch the 2 spark fire skill, a bms damage has taken a huge plunge. Without being able to cancel cyclone heel, bms usefulness in 1 on 1 pk just took a huge hit as well.

I've weathered a lot of changes to this game. Packs. Rep. R9 gear. But this change is a step in the other direction. To those assassins and blademasters who have never utilized glitching before, you are the lucky ones---you don't know what you will be missing. But for those of us who have been glitching for months or years now, this is a huge blow that makes our characters significantly less powerful.

I could almost see this as being a nurf against assassins, but its not: it hurts BMs much worse than it does assassins.

This change is senseless. Something was fixed that didn't need fixing, and things were made far worse than the original 'problem'. (Speaking of which... the cleric skill magic shell is still not working. Now there's something that actual IS a problem... has anything been done about this? Heaven forbid.)

I've been a long time customer of PWI, but this might just be the final straw that will stop me from playing this game, and from paying, for yes indeed I have payed. I can guarantee that a lot of assassins and blademasters right now are feeling just as dissatisfied as I am. Will this change make them think twice about playing this game anymore? At the very least, I want a GM to chip in with a response. I'm a man of logic, give me something that sounds halfway reasonable and I might just buy it. As it stands now, this change was utterly useless in every single way, and I hate it.

I know there's an almost non-existant chance that this will result in anything useful, but I just can't let this go without trying. In the poll there are 4 options. Answer either option A or B if you are an assassin or a bm. If you are any other class, answer in either options C or D. If this poll gets a strong enough response, maybe somebody upstairs will take notice.

Regards,

Azzazin


Edit:

Clearly people are not posting on the proper areas of the poll, or they are just brain dead. I'm not happy with the change, but there's a chance I can adapt. But all of you haughty arcanes who have never tried playing an endgame BM just sicken me. Without glitching pole ulti, or cyclone heel, or DBB for fire damage, BMs now have almost no chance against equally skilled & well geared people, in particular psychics or barbs/other bms. Or assassins for that matter; without glitching I'll be very surprised if fist users can keep me stun locked ever again. For three years the developers did nothing, and now they take it away without a word?

Major f'in BS. Irresponsible negligence. If it wasn't supposed to be there, they should never have let users have it. But now that its gone, its a loss, and in the case of BMs, a f'in major loss.

If they are into fixing glitches, why did they never take away the 'glitch' of a veno pet's bleed damage? Thats because the glitch was needed to keep venos competitive. I think it is the same thing for BMs. Fist damage against heavy armor? Pray tell how exactly a bm is supposed to use a 2 spark skill for fire damage AND keep a heavy armor opponent stun locked... just ain't gonna happen!

And if you are an assassin, damage plummeted in pk ofc. Using power dash for a buff that lasts a mere 8 seconds with a cast time of almost a second (effectively 7 seconds) is just not really worth it in most cases, when you need chi for a TWO spark stun. Ever think about that? Sins gain lot of chi with skill but thats because our ordinary skills used in stun lock require a lot of chi. Consider bms two main stuns, aoe stun & drake's bash, require 35 chi and 1 spark respectively; for assassin, headhunt & tele stun require 2 sparks and 1 spark, respectively. Anyways different argument. I'll be hard pressed to kill heavy armor without sparking anymore, just like BMs.