Please fix marauder

[Ulathskullsplitter]

If this is in the context of what I mentioned, I mean more as "ability does A, and C and D are additional things when in stance". Doesn't have to work exactly like steadfast. I've never been good at two-hander design, but something along the lines of:

Pillager's Grip: Offensive oriented stance. Emphasis on STR, granting accuracy and attack speed bonuses.

Seadog's Guile: Defensive oriented stance. Emphasis on VIT, granting defense (mitigation and evasion to make up for MRD's lack of a shield) and Enmity bonuses as well as the passive trait Vengeance (basically Counter, but the MRD would still have to be hit for it to proc, rather than traditional Counter that entirely negates the enemy's attack).

Both stances cancel each other out, and MRD-native abilities have bonuses to damage when in the former, enmity bonuses when in the latter. Very rough ideas, but that's the jist of it.

I would be happy with something like this. I just want my marauder to be an all out DD. But to make your suggestions more balanced the pillagers grip would have to also lower your VIT to make you a little more squishy to off set your newfound power.

And the defensive grip would need to do the opposite and lower your strength, so now you can tank but not do very good damage.

Im hoping marauders job will be warrior with either a stance system like this so i can choose to be DD or just have warrior be an all out DD job and scrap the tanking aspects of marauder.

[Grundy]

What confuses me is if MRD is so bad why does Prickgrine continue to level it?

[Vackashken]

What confuses me is if MRD is so bad why does Prickgrine continue to level it?

What confuse me is why he thinks anyone cares about his opinion.

[Peregrine]

I'm sure both of you spend much of your lives confused.
I play marauder because I like heavy DDs.
Hopefully it unlocks warrior or berserker, and not party ***** corsair.
Marauder also needs players like me. It's sure as hell not going to survive with the first generation fanboys of it pretending it's worth taking anywhere.

[Coglin]

I'm sure both of you spend much of your lives confused.
I play marauder because I like heavy DDs.
Hopefully it unlocks warrior or berserker, and not party ***** corsair.
Marauder also needs players like me. It's sure as hell not going to survive with the first generation fanboys of it pretending it's worth taking anywhere.

They have a solid point, while you go on here to not only help them prove it, but also you contradict not only yourself, but intelligence as a whole.

How does one play a "tank" class by definition ? Then go on to justify the reason one plays it as saying you like playing a heavy DD ?

[Viridiana]

They have a solid point, while you go on here to not only help them prove it, but also you contradict not only yourself, but intelligence as a whole.

How does one play a "tank" class by definition ? Then go on to justify the reason one plays it as saying you like playing a heavy DD ?

Pretty easy when you refuse to recognize it as a tank, actually.

[Holyomen]

Four things I would like to see for MRD

1. Restore Maim back to the way it was.
2. Restore our HP back to the way it was.
3. Give us a Power Up ability that can stack two times like Multishot that gives our next attack a 50% increase in dmg.
4. A weaponskill similar to Maim that reduces the mob's attack power, call it Cripple or something.

[CptGrimlock]

Trunksplitter: Obtainable rank lowered from 2 to 1
Bloodbath, Bloodbath II: Recast time lowered from 60 to 45 seconds
Storm's Path: Restricted to use by marauders,TP cost raised from 1000 to 1500,Potency increased,PC motion changed
Broad Swing: 30 second recast timer implemented
Heavy Swing: 60 second recast timer implemented,Attack power bonus increased
Full Swing: 60 second recast timer implemented,Attack power bonus increased



Im REALLY liking these changes!!!

[DAOWAce]

Broad Swing: 30 second recast timer implemented

Im REALLY liking these changes!!!

I'm liking standing around waiting for 4.5 seconds only to miss, multiple times in a row, especially when everything that gains TP has huge recast timers.

I feel like marauder wasn't rebalanced for auto attack considering their huge delay and lower accuracy; they just shoved the same general changes across ever class and shafted us in the process.

[Viridiana]

I'm liking standing around waiting for 4.5 seconds only to miss, multiple times in a row, especially when everything that gains TP has huge recast timers.

I feel like marauder wasn't rebalanced for auto attack considering their huge delay and lower accuracy; they just shoved the same general changes across ever class and shafted us in the process.

Holy ****, is that really the delay on MRD weapons? That's. . . f'ing absurd.