Yea, this balance pretty much prevent Clerics from being full tank and still have huge damage. Because block pen would be all over the place + Crti resistance removal in con makes them vulnerable to crit attacks. Archers could melt them like butter if they dont have invulnerabilities. Same logic could be said if they hit swordies. So if IMC planned to nerf high con clerics then swordie also took the stray bullet.
Even now people are avoiding block pen because its hard to fit in the build. In the upcoming update it would be easy to acquire and easy to fit and very accessible. Thats why right now in live server high con swordsman wrecks meta high dex archers. They cant crit and easy to block. That wouldnt be the same in future because meta archer could go high dex because damage can be acquire with high trans 10 weapon like we see right now, it would be still the same logic when it comes to getting damage i think, so str damage will be moot.
If they go high str like you said then blocking with shield and con will still be a thing. However archers would experiment high dex high attck speed, specially QS3 and 0 CD skills usage in TBL. Crit attack and attack speed are so juicy for PVP on archers because they could afford high crit chance from their skills and equips.
It would suck if they reduced the efficiency of evasion because all you have to care now is to have high damage and high block pen nothing more. Before, even though we build full dex youll still be missing a lot so accuracy is so needed.
Better if IMC should still include evasion on leather + natural evasion increase when you lvl in order to balance out accuracy. This to promote variety of stats allocation. Full dex archer should be missing a lot, same goes to full con physical clerics. Though archers and swordsman are on the same boat. Magic classes dont have these agony on stat building, which is stupid. If only magic could miss from stat allocation this wont be just a problem of swordsman and archers.
Magics still be using full con without worries of missing or blocking then get the damage from weapon. Retarded stat balancing because magics were exempted.
Still the same in the future for me. No variety. They only balanced the physical but left the magic untouched. Though there are magic def from gloves and shoes now, it doesnt matter, it only made stat allocation bland. Magics still going full con, while using trans 10.
But anyway seems like high con could be viable because accuracy wont be that much of worry. While at the same time evasion build for swordie seems like so hard to accomplish now.
