[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Byrth]

All I'm saying is, most of these weaponskills are very obviously not useful and look like they've been intentionally made that way. The only "strong" part of most of these WSs is their modifier. I don't know exactly what they're planning for Group 2, or even if the Group 1 header is anything more than laziness, but I'd hesitate to totally write them off for all time.

At the moment, none of these weaponskills are so awesome that I'm going to go merit right after the update so I can use them. XP comes to me anyway and I'm bound to cap my merits out before the next patch, so there's no rush. These weaponskills aren't a waste of merits if you had no other way to spend them, which is the approach I'm taking with it. I'll cap out STR and Exenterator, then HP/MP, and then Upheaval/Ruinator. Then the next patch will hit.

[Sparthos]

All I'm saying is, most of these weaponskills are very obviously not useful and look like they've been intentionally made that way. The only "strong" part of most of these WSs is their modifier. I don't know exactly what they're planning for Group 2, or even if the Group 1 header is anything more than laziness, but I'd hesitate to totally write them off for all time.

At the moment, none of these weaponskills are so awesome that I'm going to go merit right after the update so I can use them. XP comes to me anyway and I'm bound to cap my merits out before the next patch, so there's no rush. These weaponskills aren't a waste of merits if you had no other way to spend them, which is the approach I'm taking with it. I'll cap out STR and Exenterator, then HP/MP, and then Upheaval/Ruinator. Then the next patch will hit.

I'd throw in the "I want to believe.jpg" here but if that was the case Byrth, SE has failed on marketing the product to its end-user and no such announcement supporting your argument has been made. Cat II could be another set of WS for all we know or tweaks to old weaponskill modifiers.

Some of the weaponskills are already viable without further improvement and rival/surpass current weaponskills. Last Stand, Tachi: Shoha, Resolution, Shijin Spiral and Exenterator to exact so I see no reason why they'd hand out nerfs without explaining that a bright future lay in wait for the very same weaponskills.

It seems in yet another fit to 'balance' things, SE has completely destroyed the viability of 3 WS in particular (Ruinator, Realmrazer, Requiescat) and feel that old weaponskills should hold some seniority over the new. Of course, this point of view is the polar opposite of the base but what's new.