GLab Awk Drakania’s Discord Feedback:

Explanation: In this feedback I’ll be summarizing the most common feedbacks from the official Drakania Discord according to how many approval it got and how often it was posted, then I might add a few things to the feedbacks based on what I understood and what the community sees as solution and at the end I’ll post a screenshot of all the feedbacks, also showing the emojis of approval (thumbs up) or disapproval (thumbs down). On top of that, this time we reduced our feedback to be only written by the people who actually played Drakania on Live Servers but everybody in the community were still free to vote and give their opinions.

PS: Every thumbs up will be counted as one upvote and thumbs down or anything negative will count as a downvote and next to the title of the theme I’ll be talk about, I’ll be writing (+x number/ if positive and if it’s negative or equal zero, I won’t be writing the feedback). On top of that I start most of the written feedback with a positive and a negative vote, so there’s a possibility the votes have one positive or negative vote missing (my own).

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Class in General

Winged character and falling animation (+259 Upvotes total): A feedback repeated over and over at Drakania Discord channel, but also in streams and youtube videos (as far as my research goes), a common feedback we’ve seen over and over is that a class with wings shouldn’t “fall”. We have Lahn in the game who can glide and kind of fly, but she’s basically running on the air. In the meanwhile Drakania can turn herself into a dragon, have wings. It completely takes the players out of immersion when they have to go through a fall animation, when not even Lahn has it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc7znJo0Fe8 + https://youtu.be/JZuySbTnCY4 

Awk - Pre-awk transition (+107 Upvotes total): Although she has the two instances, playing with pre awakening and awakening, for people who like to mix them both, it's always a lot of fun and there’s so much potential. It’s a nice QoL improvement that could make the gameplay from Awakening Drakania transcend even further into how dynamic and capable her gameplay is and the accessibility from certain Pre-Awakened skills would allow her to still keep in touch with what we see as the chore of her class in general.

Some examples:

• Absolute Azure Onslaught  via quick slot to go from awk to pre awk (+41 Upvotes)

• Tectonic Slam or Fate Beckons when Absolute: Azure Onslaught is in cooldown to go to awk (+41 Upvotes)

• S+Q to switch with a block to awakening and vice-versa (+41 Upvotes)

• Dragonwalk in pre awakening has no Shift+W, so switching to Awakening pressing Shift+W sounds like a good idea. (+18 Upvotes)

• Shift+Space or space and Markthanan’s Wing to use dragonflight from pre awakening to awakening. (+18 Upvotes)

• Using Fate Beckons while in pre awakened Dragon’s Advance to switch to awakening using Fate Beckons (or another key to not have conflict with Eviscerate). (+48 Upvotes)

Skills in the hotbar to switch from Pre Awakening to Awakening (+41 Upvotes):

• Skills that can be used on awakening at quickslot to switch stances also work in pre awakening to switch to awakening at that particular instance.

Skills in the hotbar to switch from Awakening to Pre Awakening (+18 Upvotes):

• Markthanan’s Scale, Markthanan’s Breath, Markthanan’s Dominion. 

Dragonblood (+59 Upvotes total): The connection between the skills and the flows don’t feel smooth enough.

Addons (+56 Upvotes total): Make the addons from awk skills that have a hexe and dragonblood version be shareable between each other, instead of needing to put one addon for each. Although the class has multiple skills, this change would allow better approaches to use awakening and pre awakening together.

Pre-buffs (+44 Upvotes total): Give back the crit buff from pre awakening to any of the awakening skills and easier way to use Markthanan’s Scale without switching back to pre awakening.

Core Skills (+39 Upvotes total): Some skills that have a hexeblood and dragonblood version would benefit of sharing the possibility of becoming a core skill together, for example: Tip of the Scale (Shift+LMB).

Mobility (+33 Upvotes total): We lost a lot of the pre awakening and succession possibility to use certain skills in the middle of Markthanan’s wing, like Onslaught and Markthanan’s Claw. This mechanic in specific added a lot of flexibility and unpredictability when playing pre awakening/succession and was an amazing QoL to have and is being missed on Awakening.

Hexeblood (+18 Upvotes total): Increase in AoE on her Hexeblood skills for PvE only purposes.

Bugs found: 

Zooming the camera out all the way with the mousewheel, then use a wall to force your camera to zoom in, then use flight and you'll break your FOV.

Skill:

Dragon flight (+131 Upvotes total): dragon flight the skill is named flight, but after a while her wing, which is part of her body, simply disappears and she falls after the 450 stamina limit. My suggestion is that in case she's flying away from the floor, she gets a gliding fall animation like Lahn. Plus: make it usable while jumping with shift+Q, she can fly but can't even jump and press space to fly while still jumping , so at the moment feels more like she glides, not even good enough, and doesn’t really “fly”. We don’t even see her wing flapping like flying animals do (+79 Upvotes). Takes the player out of the immersion of playing the class when they see it having wings, transforming herself into a dragon as one of her real forms, etc, when we see her having a fall animation and only a fall resistance of ~2 seconds (+33 Upvots). Shift+space could transition from pre awakening to awakening after using Markthanan’s wing (+18 Upvotes total).

Doombringer (+109 Upvotes total): Doombringer has a fall animation even from very low platforms. This character design surrounds the idea of the dragon and hexeblood part, but one thing that stays is that she has a real wing and she jumps using the wing, my suggestion is for it to not have a fall animation and no fall damage. Doombringer, as awesome as it looks, is lackluster compared to the other AOE nukes in the Awakening kit (+38 Upvotes).

Markthanan’s Wing (Awk (+94 Upvotes total)): Flow: Markthanan's Wing also needs a key to fall as an attack, like Lahn does for when the character goes into fall animation if it is high enough. Remove the fall animation, maybe making her hit with her spear on the floor and while doing this make sure the character does not take fall damage (+59 Upvotes). Maybe my making Flow: Markthanan's Claw be usable on awakening when pressing LMB after Markthanan's wings, and add more skills that can flow from Markthanan's wings on awakening, like Fate Beckons so we can cover a lil more distance or change the dash direction like we are already able to do on pre-awakening with different dash skills (+35 Upvotes).

Markthanan’s Scale (+79 Upvotes total): Available through quickslot. Either being usable in awakening without switching back to pre awakening through a quick slot (+61 Upvotes) or able to be used from awakening, but to switch back to pre awakening (+18 upvotes).

Hexeblood: Tip of the Scale (+59 Upvotes total): Make it just slightly faster (specifically good for PvE with a small pvp improvement).

Hexeblood: Spiteful Soul (+59 Upvotes total): Make it just slightly faster (specifically good for PvE with a small pvp improvement).

Dragonwalk (awakening (+57 Upvotes total)): The distance it covers is very small, so it was suggested to make it slightly longer range (+39 Upvotes). Usable in pre-awakening to switch to Awakening (+18 upvotes).

Markthanan’s Heart (+51 Upvotes total): Markthanan’s heart is the skill that, alongside the Ion mechanic, gives the identity of who Drakania is as a character in succession and pre-awakening. It's not like drakania would lose it in awakening, probably would get even more connected with the idea of a dragon's heart. So give some skills from awakening the ability to interact with Markthanan's heart. The suggestions were the main skills, like: SHIFT+Q (Doombringer), S+F(Dragonblood - Sundering Roar and the flow), SHIFT+F (Aerial Burst). 

Dragonblood: Sundering Roar (+43 Upvotes total): One of the strongest and also most visually appealing skill on drakania awakening is "Sundering Roar" (S+F), on this Labs test it’s noticeable that its cooldown is pretty high (20 seconds) and also got a t3 addon, but it’s suggested that 20 seconds is too long to keep this skill on a loopable PvE skill rotation, which is probably when it’s going to be used the most, since it’s a very easy catch while in pvp, and it needs to be used alternatively on skills rotation, making it harder to keep track of a nice PvE rotation. A solution would be making the cd lower, maybe 13 seconds at the cost of the T3 add-on.

Dragonblood: Tip of the Scale (+39 Upvotes total): This skill could also benefit from the front guard protection from the core version from the Hexblood: Tip of the scale.

Markthanan’s Claw (+34 Upvotes total): The Flow: Markthanan's Claw could also be usable on awakening when pressing LMB after Markthanan's wings.

Markthanan’s Breath (+18 Upvotes total): Available on Quickslot.

Markthanan’s Dominion (+18 Upvotes total): Available on Quickslot.

Personal feedbacks on how it feels to play the class:

Hyannabi: “Awakening is fantastic to play and PvE should not be a problem save for the Flow Markthanans Wings issues already mentioned above. The difficulty curve for mastering Hexeblood/Dragonblood swaps is about right but I still find awkward moments here and there which some CD changes would help make things go more smoothly. 

My biggest issue is one of accuracy. Awakening Drak hits hard enough but the accuracy modifiers feel too low for PvP to me but I'll have to experiment further”

Naru: “The class is exactly what the community expected and this makes me really happy. Even for glab pve standards, her dmg was really nice and for pvp her damage was okay. Doesn't feel like she'll be a good class at Node War and Siege War as much as Succession Drakania, but do feel like she'll be good at everything Succession is not, which is exactly what the community has been asking for.

Although it's global lab and the damages are off, some skills have have unnecessary numbers but indeed gives a feeling that you can pick between one or the other instance to play, in case you don't like the other, so in that case, I would say that it's okay all the debuffs and buffs she has, but the idea behind the class is to mix both, so I would say to separate more her buffs, debuffs and cc's and protections throughout her kit. 

Besides that, her numbers are too big for a class who can engage out of an iframe and grab, which is exactly one of the main reasons why people hated playing against awakening warrior.”

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Screenshots:

guys class isnt even out yet and you already asking for a scrollable bigass page list of buffs?

Imagine it's his second topic in a week or so asking for buffs on a FOTM class kek

dude asks whole main weapon kit acccesable from awakening XD like imagine asking that broken pa to usable in quickslot for awakening XD 

Don't need to worry about that, people who got the chance to play test the class in Global Lab, were also expected to give feedback ^^ Just doing our job ~

Funny thing is that I'm quite sure that some of the players who ask for Drak awak buffs are the same who still want classes like Sage being nerfed more, even in the state that he is now. What will happen when Drakania ends up suffering the same treatment ? (One  could say : Wukong release, I know ...)

Yeah it will be kinda hilarious to watch when these people join the Sage community in their endless lament for buffs in a few months, after they getting nerfed into the oblivion with the next class release :D

To Naru:

I have read the whole post. Althought I haven't tried out awa drakania on Glabs, there are things on the feedback that make sense. At least in my opinion.

Now, as I have mentioned above I havent tried out the drakania awakening, so I can't say for sure how's her PvE performance.

Gotta love it, when the trolls come here to bark-bark without even knowing(Without exception), what's being discussed and resort to attack someone, just because a feedback was needed. Community in a nutshell. Perhaps you should have gone to the g. labs too, before speaking all this garbage.

The dmg nerf when she was mediun tier is unnecesary, but that they removed the flight, that was the best thing she had is a pretty bad move. 

so is mean she cant fly like lahn or slide like shai skateboard ?