Please make sure freedom will work as intended

[Alobar]

Since the perk has been added there has been issue after issue. The percentage of freedom has never been the actual amount of 7.6% it’s around 4% for each one after the first. If you are making freedom 10.6% please have it actually be 10.6%. Many of us do not like how many stuns, etc. are in the game and really the only thing we have is freedom to make it tolerable.

The diminishing returns only helps in certain situations. It would be better if it didn’t only kick in with consecutive cc’s of the same type, and instead let it work for any consecutive cc, not just the same type.

TLDR; please change freedom to be actually 10.6%.

[George90]

Just remove cc from the game together with melee weapons and heavy armor. There, everyone is happy…

[Alobar]

you may be being sarcastic but I agree. It’s a cheap way of setting up pvp combat. Anyway they are talking about / making heavy armor better and making blocking more important so I think it’s fair us very annoyed about getting stunlocked all the time don’t like it much.

[zerginfestor]

Hmmm…No.

I’ll explain.

The main issue people are having with CC is the staggerlocking+alternating forms of CC.

For Wars, staggerlocking is a legit thing with people constantly using some form of a spell that causes a person to have a staggered animation (leaping strike, Shockwave) and with enough folks doing it, you can be locked in place, Freedom or not. Freedom doesn’t help in this regard, because it only works on the stun duration, not the actual staggering animation, which is what folks rely on to get setups made.

For smaller interactions, The main issue is their DR appears to only work on specific forms of CC (if you get stunned, the next stun is shorter, but not roots), and people are already attacking as fast as they can, meaning Freedom barely helps save for one combo, the SnS/Warhammer setup, which is alright, it works fine, but it doesn’t really shine in other regards.

SO the best setup would be a DR Resolve system much like SWTOR had, where if you had too many hard CC spells or soft CC spells placed on you and the bar above you hit max, you were immune to all CC for a limited time, meaning no staggers, no slows, no knockdowns, etc. It was a great design to punish spam happy players.

HOWEVER, if they ever do this, amazing as it would be, stuns would need to be actual stuns. They’re not cheap, and in any game, they’re a vital tool in punishing hyper aggressive players that are abusing their mobility to dance around others that do not have the same benefits as they do. Long story short, it forces you to respect the other player that went into a Stun system, most likely a tank, seeing as blocking would only delay the inevitable, a Stun is incredibly powerful to the point it can change the tide of battle, a great utility vs the tradeoff of damage.

I’m against stunlocking, and a better DR system is needed, but there needs to be an overhaul to create a better balance, because if that was placed in without stuns getting their proper fix, Light would just dominate everything all over again, because it would be a system that handholds them heavily, moreso than what it does already now.

As for the topic, sure, Fix up freedom if that wasn’t intended, It’s either a text issue or a stat issue.