Making magic weapon way weaker than they supose to be isnt as much big problem and making mele as low skill required as you can.
With mele tracking, mele slow on hit and other crap its just not funny any more. Ags just cant balance mele vs range. They make range to strong (bow and musket opr meta) or mele to strong like now.
And what they should target at is light armor vs bruiser before last patch. Balance was rlly good except shirking enery to op. It wasnt easy for mage to kill bruiser - lot of time required and lot of skills timed and landed. And wasnt easy for bruiser since he had to manage skills CDs - movment and cc. Was fair fight.
So they had issue with dex, they didnt fix with changes. But they destroyed mage. Bad things happens when balance team do not play all roles in own game.
I dont care… only arenas are playable now only place where you skill matters… rest is just skill spam and detonate inside clump… Detonation rune loading is too fast… mortal empower is too strong, inv punishment gives really strong boost to your skills… cap points fights are awful after BSS patch… and now they have plans to add another rune even stronger than detonation xd Muskets will be even stronger RIP range mages… In my opinion they are going to wrong direction… but who cares people like big numbers…
True. I play only pvp in this game. And when I see good burst melee on mid or heavy armor (for example GS+GA, Hatchet, SnS, BB), anything I can do is just run and troll him untill he is bored of chasing me. I can`t kill him as mage and he can kill me very easy if get me. If melee is on light armor then mage is done, untill there is very big skill difference between players.
mage still can win 1v1 with some builds but most of the time it has to be very good mage player vs bad melee/archer player. In equal fight mage is mostly done.
Im not talking about good mage vs bad mele. In case both are ± same skill and gear lvl mage cant do anything. Game was very close to balance all types of builds in relation to each other and here we are.
Musket is op as it was, bow crazy dmg but mobility nerfed so now they run with crazy dps from range and close cobat (GS). All mele is just sh… on light armor builds by LMB usage. Its a mess like never ever before. Head of balancing departments have no idea how game works. Best prove of that is PTR 2 muekts nerfs where each of them does buff musket build that is used by 90% of players.
because right in the penultimate beta fears some mimimimi who were in the forum crying for FireStaff, and Amazon as a good listener of dead game fanboy and PvP sucker, went there and nerfed FireStaff.
Scalling is small issue. Real issue is they made mele LMB spam to kill mage where you cant counterplay that. Im tired on mele missing all skills on arena and LMB me to death couse i used stamina to aboid all their skills. As long as state of mage is like that im not buying single items from game shop. Big middle finger from me to amazon dev team.
The answer to why it is so bad is because AGS’s data analysis is flawed. They see that mages are always in very good spots on the leaderboard in OPR so they think the class is fine. What they fail to realize is the concept of statpadding which applies heavily to fire mages. Yes, they put out tons of damage over time, which brings you to the top of the leaderboard, but that damage is all meaningless because it gets outhealed by AOE heals anyway. This is also the reason why nobody brings the class to wars. It’s super weak.
Don’t even talk about PvE, same state as musket there.
Any mele with any brain cells alive kills good mage no problem.
And in case of hatchet or ss or GS you just have to LMB spam to kill mage. No brain required at all.
The sad truth in all this is, AGS has no considered solution/change for this planned. If they did they would address one of these posts with a cooler statement to let us know they know. Instead they release detonate tune and GS, see the pop raise again. So you think anything is changing anytime soon?
They dont understand how game works. Dont understand realtion beteween different builds, their position in combat and overall mechanic related to game. What they do - they react with 2months delay to data they see. And they dont know how to read that data So yea, random changes untill game dies or they figure out that balance team need new leader to make calls.
Well guys, i am the creator of the topic and i just want to say that i am done.
by seeing how ppl trade gold and dupe items, by seeing how explorating flaws of the game developers is a normal thing in the competitive cenario, and by playing pvp every day got me tired ( a dude just mitigated a full incinerate but just using a warhammer skill).
i was there playing by the rules wile ppl duped and abused buggs and guess what? notting change that much! there are plenty of bots, there are a LOT of gold sellers (if you know you know, high end players just do that normaly), and i endure becouse i believed in the game, i believed that it can change and become a solid game.
I just realized that i dont want to invest my time in a game like this, it just dont worth at all.
So yea, random changes untill game dies or they figure out that balance team need new leader to make calls.