Wild Strike

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

ok, a lot of discussion on how to scale this skill etc, fair play.

i want to talk about something else though, the actual skill and what I think about playing with it.


This is really a game of 2 halves with wild strike, its a really fun, dynamic, explosive, visceral skill that I really enjoy in those regards, it could be an awesome skill, has a CoC vibe, I want to love it. But its also a crap skill I would never make a build for and this is why...


The initial hit, thats the problem with this skill, its the same reason static strike is a crap skill and Frost Blades completely outclasses these skills in endgame. You just have to be too close to the mobs, it makes it so slow and awkward to play with. Theres quite a few melee attacks like this, molten strike at least you can spawn ur balls without actually hitting anything, every other skill where contact is needed and theres no aoe like reave or increased weapon range like blades feels like utter crap, clears like a snah il and as far as my gaming goes the might as well not exist where melee is concerned.

What I think this skill needs is a 90 degree small aoe style cleave swing shape in front of the player. It shouldnt actually BE aoe, shouldnt scale with aoe, should only be pushed out a little further with weapon range, but it needs that to trigger because its just too horrible without it, completely insufferable.


Think about 20, 30, 50 years from now in gaming, lets imagine you try and recreate this game, with unthinkable computing power how are attacks going to be calculated? Surely its going to be properly modeled physics right? youll actually swing the weapon, it will move through the 'air' with weight and speed. The vast majority of attacks will have a cleave like area where the weapon swings through space, only stabby type moves are going to consist of a spike like aoe. Wild Strike, I dunno to me it sounds like a swing not a stab/lunge, most attacks should be swings and they should have a swing type area.

I may be wrong but I have a vague memory that most of the attacks in this game do have a small little aoe thing that theyre hitting in front of you, its not scaled by aoe modifiers but its there. I dunno if thats right or not but this skill needs a far bigger one if they do exist and melee skills in general need to start doing this imo. It should be a very, very niche skill that requires the sort of "literally cuddle the mob and stab it" sort of play this skill has.



Other thoughts, only other down side is the mana cost. not sure why the cost is so high, whats the deal there? Its pretty much a shit skill with such limited clear speed I would never actually play it, how does anything about it justify that mana cost? I dunno, seems odd.


Everything else about the skill is great, its a skill with so many really good factors, really exciting aspects but its completely destroyed by its range, it renders the skill unusably bad and a complete failure for me. Frost Blades has the right idea, you need range like that or you need a small aoe cleave style initial hit, these melee frenzy style poke an enemy toe to toe to make the skill work things need to go, the entire concept is rotten and virtually all those skills suck.