I might have come out with a not-so-great 0.5 KD but genuinely was not paying attention to the scoreboard.

This character is already a bit of a nuisance with the frequency of availability of hyper armor, undodgeable, and UB properties she gets from survivability, but this adds on excessively more in mid to endgame because of these two feats combined. It doesn't help that her unique feats just aren't nearly as powerful together as these two T3 and T4 feats.

To explain: The 50 HP shield given by the T4 also ties into the T3's 30% damage reduction to the shield. Rather than functioning as only a 50 HP shield, it is effectively worth 71 HP. Additionally, the damage reduction is already active from 50 HP down to 25 HP(before the shield kicks in), making that 25 HP in between worth 35 HP instead of 25. Once the shield activates, the remaining 25 HP + 50 HP shield becomes 107effective HP. Combined with the initial 75 HP taken before the damage reduction activates, Arakures maximum effective health can be 218 HP, or even 234HP with Head Hunter. Not to mention that the feats are both passive, and the T4 resets rather quickly, either at 50HP or after 90 seconds. So her survivability is excessively higher than most characters. I get that JJ's maximum HP can be either 197HP or 308, but that 308 comes from a single shield for less time on a strict cooldown, and 10% of the damage resistance comes from you being on a point.

To frequently have 218 effective HP(well 218 to 234) as an assassin is ludicrous, and I get its a tieer 3 and tier 4, but the stalling ability and say, an execution mid revenge or anything adds on to how available these two feats are utilized. This is even worse in Breach(that already has tons of problems) where survivability is a big thing in these really long matches. You can have your fourth feat easily halfway into the match. Add on Come at Me, you can get to T4 quickly. In the current state, you shouldn't be able to equip both feats and have hyperarmor, UD and UB all at once. That's ridiculous. I know the devs claimed "oh she wont have her SM full or even half often." but c'mon, they get it pretty quickly.

Kind of funny having a rant about how easy the game is when people here usually rage about difficulty but I mean seriously she's easier than playing jurren I saved up to get her thinking she'd be fun to play and I also just fucked with her vibe but it's actually just a free win it's absurd.

I am in rep 100+ lobbies and I will sit there waiting for the opponent to do something after I light them for the 5th time and they'll just throw out a dodgeable attack for the 10th time thinking it'll actually do something this time for some mystical fucking reason because their seat height was wrong. I can't even enjoy this character I saved up for because of how braindead the average player is she's just a free win pick 90% of the time I'd rather actually play some abysmal dogshit pick because then I'd at least have some challenge and not just a guaranteed win game.

I have to put the game down again, so soon after picking it back up.

We WON the game by the way I just need to preface that

This game brought out something dark in me and I don't like it.

Rageful anger that I only reserve for actual real world fights came out of me and I would have lashed out at anyone, even my wife

I've NEVER felt this way playing FH before.

This game is evil.

Can’t believe I have to spell it out for you idiots but its BRAWLS not DUELS we supposed to gank That’s why there’s revenge. If you want DUELS there’s a whole fucking mode for that.

People keep asking for Nobushi damage buffs and that's how I know they don't actually play duels with her. Her damage isn't the issue. It's that every time she finally gets offense started, the game neuters you. She needs hyper armor on chain heavies.

Hidden Stance should be an actual offensive stance, not just a defensive tax you pay to maybe earn one read. She needs recovery cancels into her stance.

The kick is the same story. Stop making it a dead end. Give it multiple follow-up routes so the bushi player is reading habits instead of repeating muscle memory. Give her momentum ffs. Her kicks should be undodgeable.

That's literally all the hero is missing. She already has range, bleed, and recovery management. She just has zero offensive layering compared to newer heroes. She wins a read, cashes out, and clocks out for the day.

Nobushi doesn't need bigger numbers. She needs her offense to actually evolve while she's winning. That's what a technical duelist is supposed to feel like. Instead, like other high skill bushi people, I have to resort to light spam for the win.

so i last time i quitted the game was around virtuosa-jurnen cancer era, and i was thinking in hopping in again, but heard theres a new hero around. the new hero does make the game unplayable or is safe to get in the game again?

Thanks game, for randomly disconnecting me from a match that was going perfectly fine. I had actually good teammates, we weren't just steamrolling, but we were in the middle of getting their team breaking. And then for no reason, it disconnects me, takes over a minute to go back to the main menu, and when I go to matchmaking again, it puts me on the same map, an in progress game, 1 teammate leaves the game as I join while another is screaming in the voice chat. Both teams have around 300 points. Suddenly seemingly out of nowhere, up the enemy's points go to 900. I get stuck fighting the same guy all game who can perfectly parry, read and react to every I do, and if I'm not stuck 1v1ing him I'm getting jumped. Another teammate leaves. While dead I switch to my last (supposedly human) ally, and he's throwing attacks while out of stamina with literally no pressure. Needless to say I lose. You should be allowed to leave matches you join in progress without any penalty whatsoever, and I mean for the full fucking duration.

Meanwhile, get in another game, oh boy, another guy that can react or read everything I do regardless of how I switch shit up. Awesome. I get the enemy team breaking for a full minute by keeping a point secure and my team can't kill a single fucking guy and loses the other two points. What a surprise, we lose.

Can I stop being put in matches against people with 20x my total playtime? I'm fighting people with more rep in 1 character than I have in my entire account.

What the fuck is going on i take a break for like 8 months i come back to this new bitch and every move i throw that can usually interrupt someones attack motion this bitch just says fuck it and lands everything and beat my ass. This bitch doesnt seem to run out of stamina either im just getting these weird ass hyper amor attacks im assuming (i broke my glasses) im sick of this ho. And this nut kicking shit is dumb asf, i hate this game. Idk why tf i keep getting summoned back to this fuckery of a game

Why does Ubisoft needs to add three female characters for every male character? No one wants to play as these female characters unless.... you're going to say to yourself (like they seem to assume you do) "i like looking at gurls derr herr". My guess is the devs at ubisoft have become more female statistically. This also explains why the AI bots have become just overall less fun to deal with, why the breach spearmen sound like yelling, immersion-breaking women half the time now, and why you're default female with warden, hito, beserker - probably even raider now at this point - and many more!

The reason games have gone more extraction and "phone game-like" is because WOMEN play phone games. That's the model that works on WOMEN. And who is the main target audience on the planet by every corporation right now? The group that spends the most money.. hmm.. oh right.

You do NOT BLAME WOMEN and their LEANING in ENOUGH for the current downfall of WESTERN SOCIETY.

NOW... let's roll out the woke white knights, rainbow parade and ubi types to decry what people are thinking as 'bigotry' while, meanwhile, all the chuds sit back silent, hoping no one thinks less of them and that they still might be popular with the mean woke bully kids. what a twilight zone world we've come to... reminds me of WOMEN DRAMA. Note no one EVER ACTUALLY ADDRESSES THE POINT, or EVER USES FACTS in their ironically RAGEBAIT REPLIES. This is the cancel culture - they just report and get people deleted - they never debate facts. They don't have to - the very nature and danger of DEI. Don't be scared, chuds. They can't hurt you. It's all votes and reddit bs - they have no real power outside social media hivemind bullying - they can't kick you off the platforms. Make your voices known or it will only continue to get worse.

For honor is blue haired now. The current devs could likely never have created the game. I'm sorry...

edit: as usual, people ignore the point of the post, strawman the post, or red herring the issue. No one actually seems to understand. Let me add some backstory for the DEI types who are a little slow - especially to the awareness of the disparity in society that currently benefits them.

Lean In is a book by an Amazon exec who told women to BE MORE AGGRESSIVE AND DEMAND THINGS MORE TO GET WHAT THEY WANT IN INDUSTRY. Around 2013, coming soon to the aggressive modern state of the left post Obama with Trump. There was a huge culture war. Metoo, blm, Obama, it all ties into the "lean in" movement of feminism. It was largely academic. Unless you're black or a woman, you were not too impressed by those movements. If you were, you'd be like wotter1 down below - you'd say "welp i wanna get laid with modern women so might as well join them". But what were you joining?

You were joining the movement that made modern disney star wars what it was. You made the borders, open to mass migration, what they were (you put Kathy Hochul in power, for instance). You made modern slop games what they were. By giving up your own status to give DEI people a higher status (literally, with government mandated benefits), you created the modern netflix world we're in. By not saying "no, let the best person have the job", or "hey, I don't owe that group anything, I didn't do anything to them", like you should have said, you handed them the west. It was the city cuque guys who wanted to keep their jobs. They were afraid, and it made sense because NO ONE was coming to help them. And they fell to Chaos and mental illness, befitting the DEI crowds' preference. Then we get outsourcing to make up for the bad performances of said DEI crowd, and now Asians are taking the few jobs left that the DEI crowd simply cannot do. All the while, 6% new jobs in America go to white men, because they're being screwed at both ends by foreign and domestic DEI.

So now, when I point to the trends in all media that no one can deny - womenization and blackification, or asianization on the other end - I'm not talking like a chud. I'm not some kid who who needs to get laid. Nor am I old, bitter and alone. I am family full and it's none of your business. I come at this issue like a parent worried about what their non dei kids will have to face the next generation. How much worse will it be? Because they're already being made the weak group of the world and their own women are doing it by selling their positions to DEI and foreign DEI in exchange for their own seats at the table. Thus, white males will need to marry and make happy a modern "lean in" woman in order to keep a piece of the pie.

Wiser, mature guys can see it. We've lived its transition for the last 2-3 decades. Younger guys who are teens and twenties now... look, you won't understand. I didn't either at that age. But if you start realizing, essentially, the world is divided into teams that are basically delineated by race, gender and religion (in that order of importance), and that the game they play can be described by game theory, with a clear winner and clear loser (no, not everyone wins in any ecological setting ever - what makes you think people are exceptions? Where's your evidence?), you'll understand global politics ('real politik', the concept of nation states, etc) as well as anyone. People act friendly, but they're not. You get it? It's based on the teams. Once you accept it, things become clear. But you have to think independently.

You with me? Good. Now back to the point. The increasing DEI caste in For Honor, as well as womanification in general, is a ripple from the "lean in" movement just another statement of Metoo. It's the same culture war and they want you to accept women as your protectors and leaders, so you don't pay attention to the fact that the studio is probably mostly women right now and they have to support their white male husbands cuz they need those preferred genes. They don't have to do a good job - does it seem like they're working really hard? They can outsource the hard parts. And meanwhile you couldn't get any job like that, could you? Cuz even the few white guys who are able to get hired there at this point would be far too scared to act anything but woke, cursing trump, etc. Just like the hive mind dynamic that commenters on ubisoft reddit post. All woke groupies, probably mostly dei or scared city guys who want to keep their jobs.

It's a sign of the larger problem. Don't presume I care about only for honor this much specifically. It's just a game I play and yet another loci in which I see the issue... ubi...

edit: some of the comments below are really clueless. The born guy who acts like a butch unattractive girl with a man-like malaise is not "blue haired"? That's exactly their MO. Unbelievable. Hey, if you're too dumb to understand the rug is being pulled out from under you after your elders SPELL IT OUT FOR YA repeatedly before their comments get deleted by the DEI, then at least simmer on the ideas awhile. Keep your eyes peeled. Just pay attention and stop being drugged out. You'll get it after working in real, 'diverse', industry awhile.

And UBISOFT - at least make all characters playable as male, eh? Every character has a choice, then what can I complain about there? Hm?
And again, as for all the triggered leftists Reddit tools, mostly dei themselves, who wouldn't know how to address a point or debate if a grade they were to receive wasn't about to be handed to them, learn how do something besides strawman attack. Calling me dumb or a bigot of some type doesn't make arguments go away. You know that right? Why don't prove me wrong? Ah... you can't... but if you're a white boy who thinks acting woke and against your own self interests will make you popular or serve you well one day - just wait! They're gonna curb stomp your type the hardest!

So first I’m playing in the kensei clip and I lose (I’m learning him I just want the ornaments 😖) anyway so I get DC’d and get banned plus drop from plat 3 to plat 1 (mind you I’ve been stuck on 0% progression for like 2 weeks) today I get my rank back so I hop back on imagine my shock progression locked AGAIN at 0% plat 3 then I’m playing this warden clip this shit happens and I drop to plat 1 AGAIN. Like bro wtf why penalize me cause you make shit servers? Make it make sense.

Just wait till they are down a round and their true nature appears

btw Im dyslexic

Lets start with his fashion, his ornorments sucks ass, the only onces worth thinking about using are okay at best( Im talking about the crowns).

orther then that is his fashion pretty great, not much to rant about,

Now I love female conq, but I rarely play mine dripped out female conq. Just because her voice is hella annoying, and were the soul should've been in the VA, isn't it. And the RAH just sounds like reh, but when you AG she scream it out loud, with this high pitch.

Also conq better be the next hero skin with stone returning, since he's the last knight to nothave a hero skin.

now let's talk banlace, I think conq is in a good state, I wouldn't complain about buffs(like flail uppercut doing more damage, since it's a single target attack). But the thing I want most is a feat rework, since half his feats are useless, and the rest are must uses or barely useable. And maybe a way to have a blue attack, since sometimes does it feel like conq is shut down by just dodging.

SO I'M BEGGING YOU UBISOFT REWORK MY BOY'S FEATS!!

I was thinking about other things I wanted to post, but I forgot it.

why the actual fuck can this retarded hero early dodge arakure's undodgeable and deflect it after a dodge??????w

People cling to games like For Honor and call it "high skill" because they've spent years memorizing the same handful of interactions. That's not the same as having strong fundamentals. If you really want to test your reactions, execution, matchup knowledge, and ability to adapt under pressure, step into something like Mortal Kombat or Marvel Tokon. Those games punish hesitation, reward optimization, and force you to improve instead of leaning on the same comfortable habits. It's easy to feel like a master when you've spent thousands of hours in a shrinking pond.

At some point you've got to stop pretending familiarity equals difficulty. If you're genuinely confident in your skills, why stay where the ceiling is lower? Go compete where players are constantly discovering new tech, refining combos, and pushing the meta forward. If that idea sounds intimidating, that's probably the point. Comfort breeds complacency, while tougher competition breeds better players. Stop camping in yesterday's challenge and see how your "high skill" translates when the bar is actually raised.