Rejoice My Brethren Lancers!

[Rentahamster]

IMO, people were avoiding lancers because they are melee and get aced pretty easily in darkhold by the end guy, not because of damage output. Then again, I could be wrong. =P

Well to be specific, the benefits of lancer in darkhold are:

Force proc elbow drop from the ogre so that it spends all its time doing that instead of hurting the tank. (although any class can do this, not just lancer)

lots of AOE weaponskills that kill skellies fast. Lifesurge also helps survivability.

leg sweep, leg sweep, leg sweep

if you force elbow drop on ogre, you should take minimal damage. On batraal, your main responsibility is killing the skellies, and when not doing that, you chaos thrust the shit out of batty in battle regimens for massive damage. If you stand within batraal's model, then you shouldn't get hit by the ghosts that much. But still, on a speed run, you kill batraal so fast, it doesn't even matter.

So did Keen Flurry actually change or what? It doesn't say in patch notes.

Keen flurry is now the chainspell of weaponskills.