01-03-2020, 10:32 PM
I've said in the past that Holy is overtuned. I still think it is. Their buff has little downtime and that's a problem.
The AoE's should be nerfed, or the DR from the AoE's halved.
And the duration of the other things-- Guardian and Shield, should indeed be shortened or given a longer CD.
There is cancer ways to pair this tree with other trees that make it frustrating to fight, but I don't think the problem is in the other trees. I think the problem is indeed found in Holy.
The other trees are fine on their own, it's when they're paired with Holy that it becomes disgusting, and Holy without being paired is already close to disgusting and can really just be slapped together with anything for insane effect.
If Occult had as many AP buffs as Holy has DR buffs, it'd be a severe balancing issue. It's just the idea that it's too much, it's like min-maxing. Holy gets you so tanky that you can string almost any brain-dead build together and be fine, because you take no damage. Someone has to put twice the effort and time to kill you as you put into them. And the time it takes to kill you only gets higher the longer the match goes on. It gives you enough power to to kill, and more than enough power to out-last. So you're not trading damage for longevity, you're just adding longevity onto damage.
If every tree has drawbacks, holy feels like there are none, because they trade nothing for their survivability.
Occult in comparison trades nothing for their bonus damage, but it's not as bad as holy because it's not:
1. Min-maxed- as hard as Holy into one particular stat/mechanic
2. Has the potential to miss and lose out on their bonus damage. Even if they can buff their AP to 1000%, if they land nothing, it's a waste. (Not saying that would be balanced, just illustrating difference between AP vs DR buffs)-- whereas Holy only needs to just focus on keeping their CDs up around the time your burst is off CD.
The AoE's should be nerfed, or the DR from the AoE's halved.
And the duration of the other things-- Guardian and Shield, should indeed be shortened or given a longer CD.
There is cancer ways to pair this tree with other trees that make it frustrating to fight, but I don't think the problem is in the other trees. I think the problem is indeed found in Holy.
The other trees are fine on their own, it's when they're paired with Holy that it becomes disgusting, and Holy without being paired is already close to disgusting and can really just be slapped together with anything for insane effect.
If Occult had as many AP buffs as Holy has DR buffs, it'd be a severe balancing issue. It's just the idea that it's too much, it's like min-maxing. Holy gets you so tanky that you can string almost any brain-dead build together and be fine, because you take no damage. Someone has to put twice the effort and time to kill you as you put into them. And the time it takes to kill you only gets higher the longer the match goes on. It gives you enough power to to kill, and more than enough power to out-last. So you're not trading damage for longevity, you're just adding longevity onto damage.
If every tree has drawbacks, holy feels like there are none, because they trade nothing for their survivability.
Occult in comparison trades nothing for their bonus damage, but it's not as bad as holy because it's not:
1. Min-maxed- as hard as Holy into one particular stat/mechanic
2. Has the potential to miss and lose out on their bonus damage. Even if they can buff their AP to 1000%, if they land nothing, it's a waste. (Not saying that would be balanced, just illustrating difference between AP vs DR buffs)-- whereas Holy only needs to just focus on keeping their CDs up around the time your burst is off CD.