Please fix marauder

[Dyne]

Seriously, Marauder is embarassingly weak. It takes me 2-3 minutes to kill mobs that I could kill in 5-20 seconds on archer. At 40 mrd, I have to 1 star dunesfolk for dinner if I want to solo it. I'll let that image sink in for a few...

It's suppose to be that Marauder does massive damage to make up for it's slowness, but that is really not the case here. You miss a lot and when you finally hit, it's like 1/2 or 1/3 an archer can do on a per hit without raging strike basis. I am aware that it's got some aoe potential in endgame and tanking potential, but still I do more damage on gladiator.

At the very least, allow marauder to build tp a little faster. And please do not nerf archer in an attempt to balance the game by making it as weak as marauder.

[darkstarpoet1]

you do realize that arc and thm are by far the 2 strongest classes right? there's a reason people have been asking for arc to be nerfed since day 1 and the thm kick started round january when people figured out how to use that.

[Chardrizard]

Do not nerf classes... really, nerfing isnt a solution to everything.

Buff the other classes, BUFF THE GODAMN NMs and add some challenging mechanic so solo isnt possible.

[darkstarpoet1]

Do not nerf classes... really, nerfing isnt a solution to everything.

Buff the other classes, BUFF THE GODAMN NMs and add some challenging mechanic so solo isnt possible.

i completely agree they should not be nerfed, but was just stating that arc is way more powerful than mrd so it's not suprising that it is killing mobs faster. my r49 pug trying to level to r50 i had maybe 5k left after my leve party i ran with a r45 arc and he was one shotting mobs that were not really even easy fights for me.

arc is just by far the most overpowered class in dow and thm is by far the most overpowered in dom. i wasn't stating they needed to be nerfed, but said that is why people were complaining about it.

[Grundy]

If you do more damage on Gladiator than Marauder I honestly think you must be doing something wrong. However, I completely agree that the damage output on Marauder needs some serious steroid action to balance out the awful accuracy, I'd also like to see the Stamina cost for Disorient reduced somewhat.

[PS - this should probably be in the class forums]

[Chardrizard]

Oh, I agree both classes are really overpowered when you compare them with the other existing classes. Especially, ARCs lol, bring 2 ARC to leve groups and they will tear down every single mob.

[NeoEarth]

While nerfing seems to be 'the man getting you down' I do agree that archer is a bit over powered. Badass? Yes. but not balanced. Reminds me of SAM back in the day... they nerfed us... we complained... then we got over it.

As of now... if you don't think there is some balancing needed, try a party w/ 3 archers. As a marauder... I may as well just stand still still and ls chat. Mobs go down before I can even get in range to voke them.

In the end... I'm not sure if we bumped everyone UP that the game would be all that better for it. The ENTIRE game is pretty much a zerg fest as it is.

[Dyne]

If you do more damage on Gladiator than Marauder I honestly think you must be doing something wrong. However, I completely agree that the damage output on Marauder needs some serious steroid action to balance out the awful accuracy, I'd also like to see the Stamina cost for Disorient reduced somewhat.

[PS - this should probably be in the class forums]

I do more damage on Gladiator for the simple fact that I'm tanking and I am using phalanx very often, and also rarely miss with heavy stab. If not for my feint, foresight+fracture and featherfoot+jarring strike combo, the fights would last much longer than 2-3 minutes. I don't even equip maim for the simple fact that it's pretty hard to build 2000 tp and rather just use it on skull sunder. I wish I can say that my gear is all wrong, my stats is all wrong, and I completely do not know what I'm doing is the reason my marauder sucks, but nope. At least pugilist builds 1700 tp with pummel right at start.

[Dyne]

For those that missed the point by 100 miles, this isn't about archer or thaumaturge being overpowered. This is about what a marauder is suppose to be slow but very powerful.

[Grundy]

I do more damage on Gladiator for the simple fact that I'm tanking and I am using phalanx very often, and also rarely miss with heavy stab. If not for my feint, foresight+fracture and featherfoot+jarring strike combo, the fights would last much longer than 2-3 minutes. I don't even equip maim for the simple fact that it's pretty hard to build 2000 tp and rather just use it on skull sunder. I wish I can say that my gear is all wrong, my stats is all wrong, and I completely do not know what I'm doing is the reason my marauder sucks, but nope. At least pugilist builds 1700 tp with pummel right at start.

OK I see what you are saying but I have to say my experience of soloing DFD and your on Marauder seem vastly different. I'll just have to agree to disagree.