02-18-2020, 04:44 PM
If you're a mage having issues with basic armed then it's likely that armed isn't your issue. Mage requires less risk for the reward that Armed gets for diving in most cases.
I can't really compare it more then mage vs swordsmen. Kiting, Controlling the field, and debuffing into burst is the mage M.O. while melee is about damage mitigation/dodging and trading up close. There are cheesy armed builds but that's mainly on the issue of the game's current balance at times then on Armed as a tree. It deals damage, and this couoled with a few other trees makes for some truly monstrous combinations. But then again you have Golden Bolt, and Bang and even Wither to an extent that are unanimous in power, but not exclusive to Armed. Phantom Strikes honestly isn't bad anymore. If you think it's fair to take away a decent damage and one of the few mobilities the tree has when it's main weakness is literally the CC and AOE meta rn then you may as well make the icon a prison jumpsuit.
Hundred Cuts is terrible, Cleave misses alot, dash strike now can misfire, fatal is a skillshot, and Double Strike is a meme. I think the issue is more on demons popping up with so many stacked stats and styles making it seem like they're the average melee when they're on par with some of the strongest regular PCs with way more benefits that have yet to reach their height in complication as they haven't reached 220rpl yet. Trust when they do there's gonna be a "Fuck Demons" thread when they start chainverbing nations.
I can't really compare it more then mage vs swordsmen. Kiting, Controlling the field, and debuffing into burst is the mage M.O. while melee is about damage mitigation/dodging and trading up close. There are cheesy armed builds but that's mainly on the issue of the game's current balance at times then on Armed as a tree. It deals damage, and this couoled with a few other trees makes for some truly monstrous combinations. But then again you have Golden Bolt, and Bang and even Wither to an extent that are unanimous in power, but not exclusive to Armed. Phantom Strikes honestly isn't bad anymore. If you think it's fair to take away a decent damage and one of the few mobilities the tree has when it's main weakness is literally the CC and AOE meta rn then you may as well make the icon a prison jumpsuit.
Hundred Cuts is terrible, Cleave misses alot, dash strike now can misfire, fatal is a skillshot, and Double Strike is a meme. I think the issue is more on demons popping up with so many stacked stats and styles making it seem like they're the average melee when they're on par with some of the strongest regular PCs with way more benefits that have yet to reach their height in complication as they haven't reached 220rpl yet. Trust when they do there's gonna be a "Fuck Demons" thread when they start chainverbing nations.