OP made many valid points and I also want to add something from my perspective:
While playing with Awa DK for a long time I always had the impressions that there were several skills that appear to do good amount of damage in PvE on paper. But in reality they are weak. I believe the numbers are a lie. I would want to mention for example Cluster of Despair. Frequently this skill disapoints me with pve damage despite the numbers it has. Dark Nebula too.
The most impactful skills to this day are Spirit Legacy III, Shattering Darkness III and the flows of it. Those skills are the only effective damage dealers in PvE. The rest have questionable numbers and/or acc. levels.
Now here comes the question: Wouldn't it be better to keep Forward Guard on Shattering darkness and it's flows instead? Do not worry. I've read the entire post from OP and I am asking out of curiousity.
Cluster suffers from the lower crit rate, which can sometimes lead to the skill doing less damage than you would think. The AoE on it is also not fully reliable imo.
And yes, many of awa dks skills look good on paper, but a mix of small / spotty AoE, low crit, long animation times, backloaded damage, and high CDs make these skills a lot less useful than they seem.
Agreed on the Shatter part though, it needs the frontal guard.
Generally, I dont think OPs suggestions for the awakening part are the best way forward, though I do absolutely agree with the suggested changes for the mainhand kit.
Cluster suffers from the lower crit rate, which can sometimes lead to the skill doing less damage than you would think. The AoE on it is also not fully reliable imo.
And yes, many of awa dks skills look good on paper, but a mix of small / spotty AoE, low crit, long animation times, backloaded damage, and high CDs make these skills a lot less useful than they seem.
Agreed on the Shatter part though, it needs the frontal guard.
Generally, I dont think OPs suggestions for the awakening part are the best way forward, though I do absolutely agree with the suggested changes for the mainhand kit.
Thanks for confirming my theory. :)
maegu should be nerfed tho. but devs are playing dumb.
Nobody is even talking about maegu...
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In this topic nobody cares about maegu and that's why I am among the downvoters.
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your class defenetly does not need anything than nerfs
your class defenetly does not need anything than nerfs
Irony is - awa DK only deal good damage to ranger because of class modifiers, you die to awa DK like DK die to everyone else, but its only cappable to kill ranger that way.
your class defenetly does not need anything than nerfs
Specifically?
Specifically?
he dying 1 shot from seed and salty about it, just like i'm salty that striker can go take a nap come back and kill me with moving skills while i can't over damage fairy heal.