When the game was not released yet a lot of us came here to theorycraft and to talk about the datamined changes. Most of us accepted them because we’ve yet to have hands on experience and on paper it made sense.
Now that I’ve played the game, I no longer see the changes that iTOS team made to these two abilities. I feel like the least powerful damage dealer in the game is the swordman after clerics and for them to nerf two good abilities like that really makes no sense anymore.
They haven’t even made any clear explanation as to why. Have they even played this game past the first 220 levels? Have they taken a step into ET or the later dungeons?
The kTOS is getting great patches right now. Most of them buffs to the swordmen classes like Cata and Barbarian to name a few. A big boost to slash damage in Cleave along with reduced cooldowns.
These are balance patches. If IMC on iTOS decide to not implement any of these I fear that they have no idea how this game functions and do not play our class at all. If the Barbarian buffs ARE implemented then it would make sense to revert the iTOS explicit changes to Cyclone and Skyliner.
Otherwise don’t implement any kTOS changes and whatever happens in kTOS should then never be brought over. They’ve started to alter the game balance so heavily over here versus the Korean versus that I feel like it’s a bad path to take. It’s a big deal to me personally and something that makes me want to stop playing entirely if I can’t even look forward to playing a game which hamstrings one class entirely and then gives no reasonings behind said changes.
The fact that kTOS has still NOT implemented the Skyliner and Cyclone nerfs says volumes that the Korean developers are closely listening to the community.
It also says volumes that IMC over here isn’t and is going on a powertrip to gimp an entire class just because they can and give no explanation as to why.
Just my 50 cents on the matter.
These few weeks in this game with almost no real patches int he horizon and their focus being on the bot problems I understand if it will take another month until we get to the good stuff, but please IMC at least listen to the playerbase who plays said classes on both sides. Most of the people posting on these forums do not yet know the horror of being a swordman in the late game and trust me, you don’t want to make it worse for them.
Swordsman suks at DPS … Oh yeah, Vertical Slash one of the WORST skills in the game (respeced twice to test it out, piece of crap all around and doesn’t scale well at all like Cross Slash/Skyliner/Cyclone). Uh man … there’s so much I want to complain about right now, but if we’re REALLY on the front line we need to have some serious bunching power. It feels like Doppel’s 2nd circle is the real deal. I don’t know about Dragoon … but I might be wrong.