Goodbye marauder.

[Req]

I am personally thinking that ring of thorns looks like its going to be the next big AoE ability, but I honestly dont know. A 3000 tp ws coupled with raging strike and blood for blood on a lancer with a 25% increase in damage with blood for blood active and the keen flurry trait? get 6 or 7 lancers in one spot and that sounds pretty devvastating assuming the attacks do a decent amount of base damage.

[Belial]

It looks like tanking may be of benefit with Overpower being the quick AoE. If we're parrying up a storm, we can continue to Overpower. And because we'll be getting hit, Rampage oughta be a good one with Enduring March to reposition.

The possibilities excite me! I think, because the exclusiveness of the traits, while allowing some cross-classing makes each of the classes (at a glance anyway) feel more distinguished?

That's what I absolutely loved about the abilitiy overhaul, you can feel a true uniqueness to your class now, and I think the traits really helped in that aspect too.

I am not looking forward to spending the first few hours of the patch parsing rings to find out where to pump stats, however. lol

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Ah, the attribute assignments that's right! Don't know if I want to just say, "I know I can't go wrong with Vitality" for at least 23 points since it's still good for HP, maybe some DEF, and possibly this Bonus 1 thingie on Marauder auto-attack?

Hmmm... Ring of Thorns, that sounds like a surrounding area of effect attack rather than a column-based attack like Skewer is. The wrath of the lancers continue!

[Belial]

Ah, the attribute assignments that's right! Don't know if I want to just say, "I know I can't go wrong with Vitality" for at least 23 points since it's still good for HP, maybe some DEF, and possibly this Bonus 1 thingie on Marauder auto-attack?

Hmmm... Ring of Thorns, that sounds like a surrounding area of effect attack rather than a column-based attack like Skewer is. The wrath of the lancers continue!

Yea, gonna be fun to basically re-learn everything we knew. I think that alone is going to freshen the game up a bit, let alone some quest grinding & a new primal fight.

[NoctisUmbra]

I am personally thinking that ring of thorns looks like its going to be the next big AoE ability, but I honestly dont know. A 3000 tp ws coupled with raging strike and blood for blood on a lancer with a 25% increase in damage with blood for blood active and the keen flurry trait? get 6 or 7 lancers in one spot and that sounds pretty devvastating assuming the attacks do a decent amount of base damage.

Raging Strike is Archer exclusive, but yes - Ring of Thorns sounds good. (I expect this to be where the Heavy Trammel animation will go.)

[Req]

Raging Strike is Archer exclusive, but yes - Ring of Thorns sounds good. (I expect this to be where the Heavy Trammel animation will go.)

Wow, I didnt even catch that. Hmm, not using raging strike anymore is going to feel very odd.

[Shneibel]

I don't know where you're getting that I said it was going to be a bad class or something, that's not even remotely what I had said.

Yes, forced into a DD role through GLA being the more efficient tank after the class changes. I see MRD being used in parties, but not like in Ifrit or Spiritbond parties like it has been this past patch. They are supposed to play the role of a "DD Tank", yes, but I don't see that "tank" aspect sticking around after the patch drops.

And, well... yes, losing their ability to AoE spam certainly does make them less effective than they are now for burn parties. Saying it won't make them less effective is just ignorant.

being call ignorant for different point of view make me sad. Trade the AOE spam zerk fest for ability to spam skill on single target worth it in my view

[buritoslicer]

Finally a bit of balance... hopefully my Gla won't be considered a broken class anymore : /

[TheVedis]

quick everyone get on thm so we can aoe nuke everything!

[Shneibel]

quick everyone get on thm so we can aoe nuke everything!

and die like glass