Constructive melee feedback (Warrior centric)

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CPTBRUMBL3Z#3146 wrote:

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jojo1225#3785 wrote:

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Mistwalker#5296 wrote:

Personally, i'm not a fan at all of hammer of the gods. One button to do meaningful damage just feels so uninspired compared to the mechanics piano you are doing with your other abilities to make them effective.

If anything, charged slam was better thematically as the big hit.

they nerf supercharge slam before they really played it.

The nerf in the first big patch was the dumbest ever. I can barely get to stage 2 on a heavy stun to a boss and gave it 20% quality. Utterly worthless skill now. HotG can do more damage and is usable mid map while fighting regular monsters and rares for vastly more damage and all you gotta worry about is a cooldown timer. Not that I want HotG to be nerfed, but they are demonstrating some serious confusion in how best to navigate warrior balance.

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edgecrusherO0#4497 wrote:

This very much feels like the first draft version 0.1 for Heavy Stun as a mechanic overall. IT's a good idea and it has some nice interactions built into it, but it's just such garbage.

You want to prime enemies for stun and it's incredibly easy to just heavy stun them.
There's no way to extend stun duration leaving your combos absolutely wasted if you have to do any movement after a heavy stun, leaving you with the "bonus stun reduction" period making priming a boss for a heavy stun again take forever
Knocks enemies back from you so you de-fact end up frequently wasting time unless you just go straight into a sunder

I made the mistake of building around it while leveling and was already transitioning away quite quickly when reaching maps. Heavy stunning most enemies while clearing was just miserable, and nerfing my stun generation too much leaves me whacking away at bosses forever to prime them for a stun.

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CPTBRUMBL3Z#3146 wrote:

I've plenty of stun and most enemies die by time they'd heavy stun from a RS anyway. Leap Slam into a group and Boneshatter is pretty effective, as well, as it always primes enough whites if they don't die outright or there's no aftershock. The knockback is annoying, though, very counterintuitive to make for effective clear. Supercharged Slam, though, utter trash tier skill that barely outpaces just using Rolling Slam after Hammer (which I have exploit armor break from RS's support gem works great). They need to revert that change so bad, or make it so quality reduces charge time, though we also seriously need support gems and persistent buffs built around or to supplement charge skills. Useless skills outside of heavy stun because you just die from attacks (and Sunder isn't much better in regards to survivability, had a rage quit because something hit me 3 times while winding up and killed me, so much about warrior feels good but he has no fucking tools)

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CPTBRUMBL3Z#3146 wrote:

Sunder actually feels fine(ish). The biggest problem with warrior is his lack of tools to make being slow viable in end game because you're simply hit too much and too hard for as difficult as it is to stack sufficient life and armor. Persistent buffs, support gems, even some physical heralds wouldn't hurt, then couple passive tweaks should be all it needs.