Not impressed with the skill changes

[Arixtotle]

I'm a Scholar and I feel they took away most of the power, we lost Miasma again along with many other skills, there's no Bane or Shadow Flare, I hate the condition imposed to the use of Aetherflow, I really feel the dev team just crippled us once again.


I hope they fix it soon because right now it's not fun being Scholar, it became so simple!...

Scholar isn't a DPS. It isn't supposed to have power.

[OhnoozeMyToes]

This is my highest level job and so far the paladin feels so much better imo

[LalafellDown]

I love the skill changes for DRK. It’s so much faster and smoother. The AOE combos are insane. I love it.

[CazzT]

I've only hopped on to check out my PLD so far, but even the skills removed from PLD made me scratch my head in confusion. It sounds like PLD got the hit the lightest with strange changes.

It feels/seems like they're removing the interaction between classes, making each one its own island. WoW did this several years ago and it's been hemorrhaging subs since. This is an Massive Multiplayer Online RPG, but the changes to the classes make it feel more like they're moving to a "Mostly Myself Online" RPG. That is a bad direction to move in. And yes, I know we've been able to solo effectively for ages, but the synergy classes had when grouped up is what made it shine. Seems that synergy is being chopped away.

[Violet_Galaxy]

On subject, but kinda off subject but I'm curious as to why BRDs can no longer shoot straight (Straight Shot) but have to have luck (Procs) in order to do it. Is the constant migraines the WoL get affecting it's aiming ability or am I reading waaay too much into it? Maybe it will make sense once I'm capped but I just wonder about the decision and direction the dev team chose to go in.

[CazzT]

On subject, but kinda off subject but I'm curious as to why BRDs can no longer shoot straight (Straight Shot) but have to have luck (Procs) in order to do it. Is the constant migraines the WoL get affecting it's aiming ability or am I reading waaay too much into it? Maybe it will make sense once I'm capped but I just wonder about the decision and direction the dev team chose to go in.

This would at least explain why we lost so many skills/spells in what feels like a random way.

[ElazulHP]

I'm a Scholar and I feel they took away most of the power, we lost Miasma again along with many other skills, there's no Bane or Shadow Flare, I hate the condition imposed to the use of Aetherflow, I really feel the dev team just crippled us once again.


I hope they fix it soon because right now it's not fun being Scholar, it became so simple!...

Yeah SCH got taken out behind the wood pile with old yeller and homogenized to death.

[Kuurei]

Yeah SCH got taken out behind the wood pile with old yeller and homogenized to death.

Homogenized? No, that would imply that they were made in WHM's image, and you wouldn't have all these SCHs complaining about sucking at both healing output and damage output. They still have some of their support skills, too, something WHM lost most of.

[Crystal_Raven]

You should see how tank gameplay is now.

I can probably teach my dog to be a tank with how laughably easy it is.

[SpiritMuse]

On top of that, the cards became inefficient by not having the draw card also be the play card - we now have a separate skill for that.

I thought this at first, but it does allow the Draw cooldown to immediately start running while our drawn card is still up instead of only after you've played it.