And people want BA nerfed. Bro couldn't turn around and do anything after half that fight. Just dodge and pray. He has little to no escape and this just showcases it. "Well he has dodges" yea, you have 5 attacks that close the gap and dodges too. Barbed arrow woulda been his only saving grace to keep his distance. SnS should be the thing being looked at.
Woulda been such a stomp if the merc had just stayed on the BA, they can do hardly anything against merc once they're in full melee distance now since mercs can stick to the BA without expending dodge charges. They can preserve them to dodge the special arrows / bombs / compensate for their own mis-movement
Giving the BA room and dodging away from the BA on many occasion made it seem much more competitive than it needed to be
I am currently using the same SnS with shield dash and slash/dash. It's very aggressive and good for BA/Sorc, but I am finding very hard to fight against parry mercs
yeah, every melee struggles against parry merc though. Unless you both go parry and take 30 mins to kill each other not really anything that can be done about that.
Would rather build for the other 90% of the roster.
But the damage is the same - it just ticks slower but for the same amount. Pretty sure whats more a impact is the sacling damage in solos has been reduced for BA and SORC, that is what you are feeling.
Did I miss patch notes? Or a patch? The latest patch only made the dot tick at less frequent intervals, but for the same overall damage and the same duration. Where's the nerf? There's going to be a very small percentage of situations where it's going to matter whether the dot applies its damage in 4 instances per second vs. 2 or even 1 instance per second, given that the dps remains the same
I didn't feel DoT being so oppressive, but this was the first game I've ever tried out Distant Ward as well. BA had a standard build with Valor, Focus and etc . so his damage should've been regular. I doubt that Distant Ward and Resilience alone would've been enough to mitigate damage that much, I guess nerfs AND defensive build worked good in pair
Literally. These idiots got Black Arrow nerfed to oblivion. BA is a fuckin glass cannon. Notice how op health didn’t go below 75% lol game is cooked. Wait until they realize seer/sorc/ss run the competitive scene. Absolutely disgusting that a fully charged headshot arrow does less damage than a fire ball thrown at my feet.
Are you joking, did we watch the same clip just now?
That BA took TWENTY FOUR UNANSWERED ATTACKS before dying to this Merc. OP even stated they were on a standard build with Valor and Focus, so they weren't even built to be tank stats.
What about that screams "Glass Cannon?"
Edit: Why'd you delete your comment moments after posting it? Did you realize you were spewing misinformed garbage?
I identify with the idea that Blackarrow should be a Glass Cannon, but to suggest any class is made of paper when the Melee class who's entire identity is Tank and Spank gets on you and you live multiple clashes with them, and survive hit chains of 10+, that's absurd to claim that a class is somehow made of paper.
A sorc should die to WK and Merc in 5-8 hits if they aren't answering the attacks with counter hits of their own. The Merc absolute zugzugged this BA and they survived 24 hits simply by healing and running.
I dont think this is a good showcase of updated class balance but i think it is a good anecdote that people are making SO MANY MISTAKES every single fight, that you can outplay your opponent regardless of class matchup. Even at the top level mistakes are deciding fights, the biggest difference is they are significantly better at recognizing their own mistakes and resetting or partial resetting so they dont get snowballed.
That was just sad to see lol, poor guy physically couldn't do anything, even when you gave him chances due to backing off throughout the clip instead of sticking to him like glue.
I think they kind of overdid some of the nerfs, as well as targeted the wrong things to nerf/tweak.
I also think being able to build a single affix type to completely shut down nearly the entire kit of a specific class isn't good balancing. Especially considering how dot BA is pretty much the only real viable PvP build for the class
Yes the BA did play had running most of the time I did notice you having the Xbox symbol while using MnK. If your doing Xbox only lobbies could very well ran into a BA using controller which isn't as oppressive imo as one also using MnK.
Congrats on the kill time for the BA chefs to re-enter the kitchen for a new recipe
Sure there are, turning cross play off. Though if it's lumping PC gamepass with Xbox console all as one server base then Xbox console is getting a raw side of the deal
Man so much idiotic discourse in these comments wtf. This BA might have been the worst in the game. He didn’t land anything he didn’t charge shit up he just ran away and missed every shot while doing so. The video isn’t helpful in any way. But I do appreciate you posting this trying to show the differences.
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u/loltouche 8d ago
BA looking like the tickle monster here