Cleave

Youve got less than 48 hours to prevent this skill from dominating yet another race season.

Hurry!

It's decided already expect S4 to be as bad as S3 was with some more players attempting 360 pts.

first chest in unlimited ledge drops a cleave gem..why bother with anything else?

Well its too late to change it now, youd wreck the entire season by making most or all of the current cleave class records unreachable (and i hope you actually realize this and dont just randomly balance cleave halfway through the season).

Anyway, disappointed.

The sad thing is that GS got nerfed much faster than cleave. After ssnodgrass started the ele cleave build in CB he was much faster than other builds and reached western forest cruel in a 3h race there was no change to cleave.


It's not hard do add an elemental damage effectivity malus to fast weapons and cleave and rebalance for example add such an effectivity bonus for 1h weapon+Shield build.

The weapon+shield builds are so underwhelming because the only bonus they get is:"You have a shield!"


I bet even as witch with some dex/str eq cleave you be the strongest build for them too.

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Hilbert wrote:

I bet even as witch with some dex/str eq cleave you be the strongest build for them too.

Youd need some seriously mad gear rng early on for cleave witch to be worth it outside of endless ledge or descent. By the time the nodes for phys cleave or the rolls for elem cleave start kicking in, you could have a similar dps spell setup instead, and also not have suffered a terrible early game due to subpar everything.

On a somewhat related note, im thankful leapslam isnt a lvl 1 skill.

Pre roccat events bump.

Expecting 95%~ cleave usage among the top 1% of finishers from start~brutus, and about 50% from brutus to finish. If theres an exception, its likely to be a witch that gets a B-B +1 cold wand from the starting vendor.

Itd be great to see some change come from this, btw.

A hilarious fix would be switch cleave with cyclone ;D

This thread should be renamed to leap slam since its way more op than cleave..

Leap Slam got the issue that the movement speed is based on the characters movement speed and duelists get those shitty-->"No penalty" nodes

Cleave on the other hand has no drawbacks at all once you have a powerful fast elemental damage weapon you won't have any problems.