Discussion of armor balance with the potential gunner armor changes and the current chaos set.
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Discussion of armor balance
Fri, 11/15/2013 - 22:27
Fri, 11/15/2013 - 22:53
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Out of all the current Gunner armour there is only one piece that counts towards CTR (not counting Chaos as thats hybrid) and thats Perfect Mask of Seerus. My guess is the new set will focus on CTR as both ASI and DMG are already covered nicely. ASI already has Kat Eye, Nameless, Justifier, Deadshot, and Seerus, while DMG is Kat Eye, Shadowsun, and deadshot. As both those bases are covered it has to be CTR, as a pure defensive suit wouldnt be a gunner set and anything with ASI or DMG wouldnt help either. Right now if you want to pull of those max CTR builds you need either trinkets, perks, seerus, or chaos, all not really a set. A CTR med+med set would not be out of line and would help a lot of the charge based guns that need love, Catalyzer mainly.
Now onto Chaos, oh joys. If a CTR based gunner set comes around I see quite a lot of people, myself included, switching from chaos to it. That extra damage chaos give is nice but if I can be protected and pull of a few good Alchemer charges then I would jump at the chance. The things most important to gun in my eyes is ASI and CTR, and DMG takes a second place role. The base damage of a Alchemer charge is already great so the added damage from chaos is just icing on the cake, not needed but its nice to have. I dislike how if I want to have a decent charge rate I need to give up on defence to do it, setting up a good Cata trap is hard enough in a group, losing defence to do it is even worse.
Fri, 11/15/2013 - 22:56
#3
I think the new armors will be potentially difficult to heat and not very worthwhile, regardless of their stats.
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Sat, 11/16/2013 - 00:21
#4
I think the current armor
I think the current armor will be rounded out to match with new armors - or at least I hope so. For example, the Deadshot and Shadowsun armors could be slightly reworked to fit into the same sort of niche as the Justifier and Nameless armors. Nick said there'd be entirely new armor lines, not just more Gunslinger armor, so I'd like it if there were separate lines for ASI, damage, and CTR, or for different damage type resists. As it is, the armor is a bit mixed up - the 3* and 4* lines are all ASI and normal/piercing, then branch off into piercing/stun, elemental/freeze, shadow/poison and shadow/curse, two ASI, one damage and one ASI/dmg vs undead. It's a bit messy IMO.
Nick's statements lead me to believe one of the new gunslinger armours will have shock resistance. That might end up becoming popular in Lockdown.
Do you think there'll be a shadow set? There are already two gunslinger shadow sets.
If gunslingers are getting more armours, where does that leave armour for other classes? Surely this must only be the first of at least three large updates in this vein?