Also please bring back Dragonblood: Flow: Extinction but give it the faster animation that you overwrote Dragonblood: Storm Piercer with.
I made a thread the other day with some criticisms of the Drakania changes, but after getting to spend more time with them I found it to be overall more of an improvement than otherwise, so I deleted my thread.
However, I still feel like it was a mistake to change Dragonblood: Storm Piercer's animation as it was a unique animation to her kit and felt very satisfying to use in combos. Currently it doesn't fit into combos as well anymore, outside of Dragonblood: Sundering Roar, but if you use it to combo with that like how the old Flow: Extinction worked, it leaves you with less combo options for the rest of the time you spend in Dragonblood stance. You've already set a precedent where Hexeblood and Dragonblood share some skills/skill names, so why can't she have a Hexeblood: Extinction and a Dragonblood: Extinction? Please?
I really miss the old Dragonblood: Storm Piercer animation and I miss how the combos using it felt. Please bring it back!!
I don't even know what the original animation looks like, I tried to search on YouTube and found nothing. Do you have a visual comparison?
I don't even know what the original animation looks like, I tried to search on YouTube and found nothing. Do you have a visual comparison?
https://youtu.be/AXdXj_uWipI?t=553This is the "old" animation. To me it looks pretty much the same as the "new" one.
@Velvy could you specify what exactly you think is different here in the animation? I can't really see or feel a difference. Or maybe do you mean a different skill?
To add to your suggestions to change awakening: Add SA to Aerial Burst and remove the stun or change the stun to a different type of CC, either float, knockdown or stiff. For this to be a useful skill, it needs to either be faster at the start of the animation so you can actually use it to catch people (right now there's like 0.2-0.3 sec delay between the animation starting and the aoe dmg starting) or it needs more dmg in pvp. Right now the numbers for this skill are low (1265% x 4 with -53% pvp dmg). So there is literally 0 reason to use this in pvp and even in pve there are better skills to be used.
https://youtu.be/AXdXj_uWipI?t=553This is the "old" animation. To me it looks pretty much the same as the "new" one.
@Velvy could you specify what exactly you think is different here in the animation? I can't really see or feel a difference. Or maybe do you mean a different skill?
It's not the same animation at all. The old one actually had more than one hit to it depending on if you used it like a Flow or not, but also, the new Dragonblood: Storm Piercer is literally just the old Dragonblood: Flow: Extinction that was a follow-up to Dragonblood; Sundering Roar. The old Dragonblood: Storm Piercer literally just doesn't exist anymore. For whatever reason they thought re-purposing Hexeblood: Aerial Burst into a skill for Dragonblood makes up for the fact that they literally just removed the old Storm Piercer from her kit all together. The old Dragonblood: Storm Piercer used to actually be something you could use in combos like Dragonblood: Tectonic Slam > Dragonblood: Savage Decree > Dragonblood: Storm Piercer. The "new" Storm Piercer is slow as hell and does not work well in any combo except when used after Dragonblood: Sundering Roar, just like the old Dragonblood: Extinction, because that's exactly what it is.
The time stamp in the video you posted links to the old Dragonblood: Extinction, which is what they turned Dragonblood: Storm Piercer into. If you watch further into the video, you can see the old Dragonblood: Storm Piercer starting at 10:15. They straight up just took that entire move away from Drakania and I don't like that they did that at all. I liked that skill and it felt satisfying to use in combos.
Love how the devs just straight up remove one of her skills. Instead of improving them.
But they kept a slow, horribly weak unprotected CC that's useless for PVE in.