3.55 PVP Balancing.

[ArianneMartellMateus]

Focalization is another skill that needs to be looked at. It's absurdly powerful against summoners but totally useless against machinist. Make it lower the damage of all ranged dps. Or make aetheric burst lower physical damage instead of skill speed. Machinist aren't just best because of report. They are best because they can solo healers consistently.

[TiramisuMacaron]

Focalization is another skill that needs to be looked at. It's absurdly powerful against summoners but totally useless against machinist. Make it lower the damage of all ranged dps. Or make aetheric burst lower physical damage instead of skill speed. Machinist aren't just best because of report. They are best because they can solo healers consistently.

Solo lower skilled healers, I doubt the best mchs can solo the best healers with consistency. I know Primals best mch always complains that he can't do anything against the most skilled healers alone.

I do think aetheric burst should do something useful against physical DPS though. It is nothing compared to focalization. Talking to some people playing our team, they seemed to have much more issues with the utility mch brought then the damage. ("It's like dealing with a second paladin" -lion) That's why I think putting all 4 CCs on the same cooldown might help, or just making them and the knockback longer cooldowns.

Edit: smn could use help with better pvp abilities too, mch has the luck that all of its main pvp abilities are super good

[jonbo]

Buff DRG. It needs a 600 potency skill

[Magic-Mal]

Buff DRG. It needs a 600 potency skill

Bump BRD Raging Strikes to 45% damage boost.

[RedHerb]

Why stop there. Everything ever should just be an automatic kill.

[Geologo]

Buff DRG. It needs an AoE 600 potency skill

I fixed it for you, thank me later

[...] Or make aetheric burst lower physical damage instead of skill speed.

In my opinion they just have to change:
"reduces the skillspeed" -> "increases the weaponskill cast and recast time and the autoattack delay" by x% (obviously not 50%)
So it will debuff physical, annoying both melee/tank and ranged if hitted.

For focalization I thought the same, but if it will harass all the ranged,
the Aetheric burst buff could hit them too much.

Also there are skills like cover and sacred prism that only reduce physical damage, the true problem with Focalization is that it suck your PvP trait points even if you don't need it because the opponent ranged is not a caster.

[TiramisuMacaron]

The problem is that most classes burst with ogcds, so making weapon skills take longer is pretty lackluster compared to focalization which just reduces raw damage.

[snipski]

War does not need nerf, they allready nerfed the healing potency reduction on storms eye. DRK might still need a small buff maybe add silence to carve and spit or something or make the ground aoe slow ppl inside it.
WAR is strongest in solo que imo then paladin last drk.
However in premade 4v4 pala is king because you can sync the stun locks and pretty much get a kill on the focused target

[KusoWat]

I actually like aetheric burst, but one change:

Make it an aoe pacify and it gives the healer 3 stacks of grea-...

Wait.

[SuperZay]

Bump BRD Raging Strikes to 45% damage boost.

Bards already have 45% boost from all buffs:
Raging Strikes 20%
Hawk's Eye 15%
Blood for Blood 10%

That's why I like Fever status (+40% dmg) in Frontlines, with it Barrage can one shot without popping all buffs, especially dangerous like B4B.
In the Feast bard's damage should be increased between bursts because they are completelly harmless between Barrages. Maybe increase Bloodletter potency by 50?