As someone who uses it as a main hand weapon, due to the nerfs, it needs a damage buff
I think just a simple and straight damage buff to make up for the lack of cooldowns would be good. Rapier already struggles in face to face fights. It doesn’t do enough damage to trade efficiently with other weapons.
This needs to be addressed at some point. The rapier isn’t performing properly (people are using it purely as a defensive option) and this is what brought about nerfs.
But what about those of us who use it offensively? Can we now get some love?
IMO it’s the best single target DPS weapon in PvE. This is using evade spam which is getting nerfed though.
In pvp, I agree. It has high single target potential but struggles to hit moving targets (like all melee weapons). They should have buffed cooldown reduction on attack to compensate for the nerfs to reward people actually using the weapon for damage rather than just as an escape.
I think it’s offensive utility needs a buff rather than damage. Rapier is supposed to be fast and hard hitting. Give it offensive utility a buff to create the skill cap, AKA give evade a large CD Red on next attack. I proposed 80% but I don’t play rapier so that may be too much ontop of other CD Red perks.