Wow. Strength now penetrates block.
This further increases the value of STR. You may have a significant amount of block penetration with cataphract now.
But I guess it’s kinda balanced since if you go all in DEX, you won’t penetrate block but you won’t miss. But if you go all in STR, you can penetrate block, but you will miss.
Well I’m still waiting that we get patches that are allready implemented on ktos. Until now we only got some minor buffs but the big ones were not included.
So where are the “big buffs to swordman” that you talked about in the topic name, because I dont see any. STR penetrating block is low buff, nothing special, penetrating armor would be something.
Few aoe increases here and there, nothing special too. There are no direct dmg buffs that swordman need.
Crap changes like always.
Changes literally nothing outside the joke that is pvp.
Come on guys, block penetration increasing with STr instead of SPR is a huge change. If you’ve seen any Earth tower (and many more high lvl mobs with high HP innate block) you’d see how annoying it is to have your big CD skill blocked.
The hitbox increase is also totally useful for PvE it basically means the aoe area is bigger, so it makes even more sense to stack AoE ratio now.
Many swords I know complained about they could get kited very easily since you’d basically need to shove your body on the targets in order to hit them…These are good buffs indeed.
Went on Ktos to test.
Its 1.2 Block Penetration per Strength.
This is more then you get from SPR.
Archers gain 1 block penetration per strength.
SPR of course still increases block pen, Strength does more if you’re a swordsmen however.
This will be hundreds of Block Pen added to most Swordsmen builds.
Block is entirely irrelevant (from mobs) in PvE as a result, and wouldn’t be surprised if its not worth a damn in PvP.
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Thanks for the info. nice to know Swordies get more block pen from STR than Archers do.
Just tested cleric as well
They are also 1 Block Pen per Str.
So its just swordsmen as far as melee goes.
In a way it works against Swordsmen at the same time as
Guard (Rodelero) Guard (Peltasta) and Cross Guard (highlander)
Will all be penetrated more often universally, particularly for Highlander since Cross guard is only 3.5x lvl instead of 5.5x level.
Everyone just got hundreds of extra block pen…
We need this patch now. Literally changes stat benefits.
this is some great buffs but im a bit confused as to how they increased the range of skills? was it the range or was it the AOE ratio? if its the ratio then this is really something as hexen dropper users would really benefit from the buffs block penetration from str is a good buff also for pvp but still not good enough would’ve been really good if concentration and gung ho was tweaked to add some percentage dmg scaling atm most swords dont use this buff once they reach 200 since it gives a little to no effect to their dps when monsters reach 70-100k HP.
@Noobz: They increased the hitbox size, meaning range. AoE ratio is the same. I was also hoping they’d buff Swordsman C1 scaling.
So, it means that the number of targets being hit at the same time continues the same?
Increasing the hitbox means the skill will have a bigger AoE, but not higher AoE ratio. It just means it’s easier now to hit more targets than before.