Cleave as a race skill

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cwu wrote:

TL;DR
Don't nerf cleave, buff other things instead.

This! +1 agreed with the whole post.

The problem with reave is how badly it scales for early game, its near impossible to have any decent up time with the aoe stacks with early game unsupported reave (no faster attacks, no multistrike). Reave would be better if stacking up the aoe would have a more reliable uptime. You need to have insane attack speed to benefit from the stacks at all. IMO it needs rework on the stacking mechanic to be viable for early game at all.

I'm not sure why we needed another Cleave topic, but I'm glad for cwu's analysis. Cleave doesn't need a nerf, everything else needs a buff.

What would be cool is to see different types of bows which each had their own item progression. eg: bow vs crossbow, longbows vs shortbows, etc...
That would effectively double the amount of rares available for bow users, and make being a ranged character more interesting as well (instead of just choosing between bow and wand).