I hate the 250 con perk. It is beyond bad/niche/low value or whatever you want to call it.
What does it do? Well every minute you get a nice stopwatch icon over your health bar. It counts down to zero then goes away.
Supposedly there is some damage reduction in there, but because it has no duration and a long cooldown, it would have only applied to one tick of damage anyway and is therefore useless.
Please replace this with grit, or move the 300 con perk down and replace 300 con with grit.
There needs to be an option for non str users to get grit, and providing it in exchange for damage allows str users to keep their status as the highest damage, aoe grit users with grit on their abilities while giving other weapons (greatsword, sns, spear, hatchet) another option for actually completing their animations in war.
Keep 300 str and just add grit in the con line again. If it is 250 or 300, it will not even matter that is is a double perk because you cant get both at once anyway.
The issue with that - you die in less than half of a CC duration usually. That would also be a dead perk.
Edit: I mean that in the sense of a melee getting blown up. Why is the best way to protect against that ONLY a strength capstone? There should be an additional way to get it.
And no - there are no weapon perks that provide the same level of grit. They all only provide it at the end of the attack instead of during the charge as well.
Yup! I want dex to be able to sacrifice damage for grit. Its crazy that tanking weapons scale off dex and yet are expected to go full str for grit if they want to come into contact with another melee user.
Still no gritted abilities that werent already gritted (perf is an example of a skill that probably shouldnt have full grit) and str will have:
50 more points of damage due to str investment.
Way bigger aoe
Much better aoe CC
Grit shouldnt be locked to str - it makes the game way too rigid in terms of how you can build your character and even what weapons have a chance at being viable.
Also- bruisers are not tanks nor are they supposed to be. They are some of the best damage dealers in a standard army and are responsible for a ton of kills.