Nerf bb or every melee will leave

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The new BiS is going to be Elemental Aversion and Flame Conditioning. After everyone gets BiS’d out in those two perks, it MIGHT be manageable.

I think Slash Res on any melee stays because LMB’s on GA are still going to be good and add in Ele Aversion + Flame Conditioning to handle the BB Fire Damage and the FS nukes. I don’t like the TTK going sky high but we gotta wait til, “BiS,” meta hits to fully understand.

Ele Aversion/Flame Conditioning/Resilient

is the new…

Shirking Fort/Freedom/Resil

Flame conditioning is ABS and it will give you 20% ABS + 20% fire res on gems for almost capped ABS with innate forms of Fortify boost you to around 80% mitigation in heavy meanwhile retaining Slash Protection on ammy and 20% overall allows you to get annihilated by GA LMB’s due to not being able to get 75% mitigation as easy.

Instead of, “outplaying,” other bruisers you’re gonna have to survive the onslaught with a brain-dead playstyle and hope the FS nukes don’t hit at the exact right time.

I think the new meta will just kill any, “skill,” that comes with being a bruiser and I don’t even know if I’m interested in it whatsoever.

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300 con, 200 strength LMB GA’s calling out Grav well, Shockwave, Maelstrom combo’s so that 2 FS’s can coordinate and blow Firestorm and Fireball + Pillar of Flame on the Grav Well along with possibly a spear as the 2nd melee depending on how many 300 con people are in clumps. That or a 300 con Voidblade.

Grav Well, Shockwave → Obliviion, Scream, Orb from a 300 con Voidblade constantly proccing call of the Void ->Maelstrom → 2 FS’s blow after the sweep/scream with Fireball, Pillar of Flame and Firestorm.

I could be dead wrong but this is how I see the new meta being performed at a high level.

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Buff spear and IG

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So tomorrow everybody decides to run warhammer, we logically use gems against it to mitigate most damage possible. Does It turn Warhammer OP? No.

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If everyone decided to run WH’s tomorrow, the one company that doesn’t will laugh as it’ll own WW/EF/BS and everyone else seeing that they don’t run WH’s for damage will abandon WH’s and nobody would ever be forced to run strike res because it’s not a broken weapon.

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Dont let your mind fly from china to cancun, im asking to you directly about an specific issue, the fact that ppl slotting specific gems does not make “x” weapon OP.

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It’s very circumstantial. If anything it’s, “telemetry,” as the AGS devs call it that shows hints but not definitively, no. Definitely is a pointer and should be taken into consideration though.

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If they stuck through bows, muskets, and unkillable healers with rapier and stoneform I doubt the Blunderbuss is going to do it.

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Let’s see if I get this right:

Then you say this:

And finish up with this

So it’s ok for weapons to be good vs clumps, as long as those weapons are the ones you are using…yea, I smell BS

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Felt like he was describing GA. lmao. GA is an AoE menace, always has been. Only apes die to it in 1v1’s.

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Bows and range will continue to be spammed as long as premades force solos into being mobile and off point.

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The BB rotation is 1 auto, shrapnell, 1 auto. If u dodge after the first auto u iframe the shrapnell and the 2nd auto…

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Why are all these people still playing on the servers and enjoying themselves?

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If it’s dead then what game are they playing?

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I will not leave

Bb is annoying but not ruining my day

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The odd thing?
They say the game is dead. We are not here. They are arguing with themselves?

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Don’t worry, it will be nerfed before patch. AGS do test their game you know :thinking:

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kind of like all those ‘ban muskets’ threads…

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Just drastically lower the stamina damage it does and I’ll be fine with it.

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True but this wasnt nearly as much of an issue whem the game launched. The nob stop nerfs to bruisers made it so that solo queue front lone bruiser is dog water and only players in pre-made groups will queue up with it.

And the changes to OPR scoring that heavily focus on damage output oush everyone into ranged/mage builds.