I don’t know what delusional reality the devs are living in but the “balance” changes are anything but that. Ice Gauntlet and the Fire Staff received nerfs to the point of irrelevance. Just to summarize some of the changes.
Ice Gauntlet heavy attack in frosted area root is now on a 5-second cooldown (it’s already so conditional, this is just dumb)
Ice Storm hits for less damage and now every 0.33 seconds instead of 0.25 seconds
Ultimate Chill now only increases the damage by 25% instead of 35%
These are just the changes I picked up right away, there are many more and mostly all of them nerfs. The fire staff also received a hefty amount of nerfs, many damage decreases in nearly all the abilities and fireball seems to no longer be able to crit and as a sidenote, the awful meteor shower is unchanged so is still unusable.
The kicker in all this is that the Great Axe, the most OP broken meta weapon in the game is untouched. So if you get anything from these “balance” changes, it’s that there is no point in using anything except the Great Axe. I’m personally respeccing tonight. Also no buff for the musket, sorry dex players maybe you should consider switching to the Great Axe aswell.
It is in PTS, doesn’t mean it’ll make it live.
The Melee’s were complaining louder than the mages.
Mage’s need to respec and abuse Gravity Well
Regardless a nerf on fire & ice needed to happen, I am just surprised the weapons aren’t be completely fixed first and even more surprised great axe escaped a nerf itself. It’s been meta since launch.
Well I play several weapons including GA. I was planing to re-roll to bow (or mage) because being melee only since patch 1.0.5 is f-in useless. I get shredded by everything even in HA so this is a welcome balance change. I will still re-roll though. Melee has no place in this game righ now.
I mean don’t act as if IG wasn’t broken asf.
Of course the GA/H meta slaves keep their candies. God damn it.
Ice Gauntlet was really only good for keeping yourself safe and the occasional ice storm, but I guess it’s not keeping yourself safe anymore and the ice storm is now only worth it if you clump up atleast 6 targets.
Ice storm with ultimate chill is a global damage buff to everyone on your side of PVP.
It doesnt matter how much damage it deals that you can see, it matters how much more damage the other 49 people are doing on targets hit.
