Second this.
Too many expert noobs around, who are actually giving advice on these forums (shudder)
Then they come on this thread and cry to IMC for a job reset:
@Lenny , Highlander c3 here
Actually im SW 1 > Peltasta 1> Highlander c3 > Doppel 1 heading to Doppel c2 and i have to agree with everyone else on this post.
Highlander lacks damage compared to barbarian. I have not rerolled my class, but only because that was my personal decision, however, i convinced myself that barbarian is better in every way. Especially with incoming buffs:
Reduced cooldown on cleave and will now overheat to 3, reduced cooldown and more stun chance on helm chopper and Seism, and reduced cooldown on frenzy and warcry. Theres no way to compete with that, cleave if used wisely will give you 50 crit rate for 15 secs with a 9 seconds dowtime.
Highlander is more a debuff and pvp class, and even in that scenario barbarian is better, because most if not all of highlander skills are bugged :
Vertical Slash is not properly applying extra damage from debuffs or skull swing, thats wht it hits like a wet noodle.
Moulinet is not cancelable (it is in Ktos) and its extra crit attribute its working on its own (if you take the attribute, you get the fixed amount of crit, so even if you have 80% crit, you will only get 60% for the skill) so if you are heavy on dex you crit more without the attribute.
Cartar Stroke takes like 7.5 seconds to charge if fully specced (15 points) and is bugged because after lvl 3-4 charge, the damage increase its barely noticeable (try it for yourself)
Skyline and CrossCut are rooting you after skill ends
And crown unless you spend a lot of points on it its not worth it (duration starts on 5 secs and rises slowly)
So in general, you mostly depend on Skyliner, which depends on cross cut, which depends on the mob or boss not being bleed inmune… see where things are going?
Theres no way you are going to outdps a C3 barbarian with maxed helm chopper, seism and cleave, its just a lot more of damage and also very decent on demand strike damage (helm chopper) which we dont have (crown does not hits hard, and cartar needs charging)
However if our skills get fixed; Vertical slash is supposed to be a very huge hit, Cartar should have an attribute reducing charge time to half only for c3 Highlander and if skyliner gets back to 0 cooldown, then that would be another story.
I myself wont reroll, because i like more the highlander playstyle vs barbarian one, but thats a personal choice that i made while realizing that my circle was a weaker choice in terms of damage.
still highlander3>barb1>doppel2 (if the kTOS changes get here we will need barb 1, if not, pelt/corsair is fine) is still better than barb 3.
-skull swing increases all your party physical dmg skills on bosses
-no problem with skyliner rooting me in the floor here, try to use it in some monster and see what happens
-all highlander skills scale way better than barbs, so i want u to go lvl 280 and grab a lolopanther 2h sword, and than u come back here and tell me that barbs are better =)
barbarian cleave have reduced cd too afaik
it’s 16s cd now, so 1s downtime LOL!
if they actually buffed barb here, they better give skyliner 0cd back -.-