Nerf Armed

[Prestige]

At the moment a long range homing spell that we all know very well? Bang. 9 range or so, and if you overheat someone first it does even more damage. Slows.
Another homing meme, Eviscerate. Yeah teleports you to the player with high damage, but what else does it do? fucking knocks you back as the player can instantly move away when doing so. awesome for balance right?
another homing meme. illusion flurry. what the actually hel LOL this thing sits you in place, ticks three times and imagine the poor soul getting hit with this in occult aoe. god damn. (occult aoes doing like 2k ticks when standing in them.)
another homing meme. glacier. nuff said.
another homing meme. goddamn cosmic meteor.
i can go on about all the homings in the game really, but let me put it like this.

investment into armed is 65-80, second attunement for either elements or a special tree would be 60-75 and leaves very little wiggle room for anything else. god help the crafters cus the costs will basicly lock them into 2 trees, maybe just a bit into an advancement like ice, sand (actually impossible cus of high costs unless doing just that.) explosion, shadow etc

Let's not nerf melee cus if we do no one will pick up melee anymore. ive seen plenty of viable mage verbers who don't need no melee crutch. melee has caught enough nerfs ill say it again. lets look at other trees to tune up to meet the demand.

Bang has 7 dmg and a cd of 20 seconds. Is it good? Yeah, sure. Is it amazing? No. It isn't. I am not sure why people are convinced it is- but it isn't.
Eviscerate has a cd of 30 and dmg of 11. Teleports you to them and knockbacks, sure. It is a good spell. Great, even. How many points do you spend to reach it? 105.
Illusion flurry, I'll agree, -was- too strong. Then it was nerfed. It deals damage twice (the second tick you can easily block), and roots you. But what else does it do? It roots the user. For longer than the target [there's no reason to be hit by occult aoe + illusion flurry, sorry. if you choose to stand inside an aoe until gcd passes then obv the other person will capitalize on it.]
Glacier is a hidden with, I believe, 12 or 13 spelldamage on a good cd. It's a good spell, no question about it, but it is still a hidden. To one of the worst trees in the game, mind.
Cosmic is all around great but meteor is just... Not what makes it good. It has the most obvious charge up, misses by itself (any person who's used cosmic knows what I am referring to) and is countered by- wait for it- walking to the border of the rpb box. You have enough time to do so during the charge up.

Investment in armed is... 75. For the good spells. Can stop at 50/60 if you want to skip Psmash and go for the other good spells.

No one is suggesting to butcher melee, but numbers should be looked at and tweaked. It's a part of the game. If you aren't ready for your tree to be nerfed one day, then I am afraid I'll have to drop this: you aren't ready to play a combat-focused character on the game.

Balance has been a thing, is a thing, and will continue to be a thing. It's the way it is.