Quote Originally Posted by Zyeriis View Post
Great Swords did get Herculean Slash but, it's just not practical enough (causes paralyze), neither is Shockwave (AoE Sleepga) to be usuable in most situations.

Normal swords get just one enfeebling weapon skill...Flat Blade, which stuns enemies for less than a second most times (if it even hits). Swords are severely lacking in the enfeebling department.

Probably wondering why I brought Polearm up when I was talking about PLD weapons. Paladin can wield Polearms, even if they have an E rating with them. Though, I do not mean PLD specifically when talking about Polearm's lack of enfeebling weapon skills. It's actually in the exact same boat as swords. It has one enfeebling weapon skill, Leg Sweep, which...as you probably already know/guessed, stuns things for about a second.
The duration of a stun from a stun WS was never important. It could last for a split millisecond and still be practiclly just as useful as if it lasted 5 seconds. All they need to do is interrupt dangerous abilities and spells. They are however not a reliable way to interrupt such things anyway, because who wants to be sitting on 300tp forever, just in case that gob decides to throw that bomb? It leads to a severe decrease in dps, but if you absolutely have to stun something in order to not die, these WSes give you a fair chance at doing it.

I still remember when a 80% HP suicide bomb toss one-shot me from full HP when I was a lv65 warrior in wotg gustaberg .

Anyway, shockwave's aoe sleep should probably be a bit stronger. On paper, it sounds like the perfect tool to deal with adds when you are soloing, An AoE that sleeps? Hell yeah, i though, just to be pretty disappointed when I at best would be able to sleep one of my links for about 10 seconds.

Silencing WSes are also pretty useful, considering black mage mobs even 20 levels below you can be dangerous to a melee if they manage to pull that nuke off. I've considered leveling archery just in order to land silence arrows, but it would be much better if they would just implement silence bolts seeing as i already have marksmanship leveled .


Quote Originally Posted by noodles355 View Post
You don't know so I'll spell them out for you. 37.5% defence down is the equivilent of giving every melee attacking the mob +60% Attack. (100/62.5=1.6)
Good point. It shows even better how overpowered it would be. Imagine giving every melee in your entire alliance Berserk every time you used a WS.