GNB is TERRIBLE now!

[ForsakenRoe]

I strongly disagree that making them run on a 1 min loop is a bad thing, there is no real reason that it would be. When it's a 2 min loop, because of tanks having less complicated rotations than a melee dps they begin to feel slow and stale. Look at DRK, the only one left on a 2 min loop, it's slow until you get there and then it's a frenzy. Evening it out is not a bad thing, in my opinion, and doesn't really change balance too much.

Maybe the problem, then, is the 2min meta forcing everything to burst at a common denominator of 60s? WAR used to burst at 90s back in SB. DRK used to have some 45s CDs in its kit, etc


As for me, I tried new GNB in a Trials Roulette (got Necron). It felt like it pretty much played itself. Lionheart was especially sad-feeling to me, both because it's used twice as often (feels less special) and the potency nerfs. If SE wanted to lower the potency on each of the hits (to reduce how much impact getting vs not getting Crits had), they could have given it a set of Continuation actions of its own, to mirror the Gnashing Fang combo. You know, the system that makes GNB unique from the other Tanks? Changing how often we use it to fall directly in line with... oh right, EVERY other Tank, why? What issue was there that GNB bursting at 2min had, that it bursting at 1min magically solves?

Hell, why don't we just rip the bandaid off now, and make Lionheart combo guaranteed to Crit/DHit? If every Tank is fated to just trend towards elements of WAR's design, why not just go all in now, and make the rotations perfectly identical in potency, different only in VFX? Then we can have WAR, WAR with big sword, WAR with shield, and WAR with sword but it sometimes explodes. Worked well enough for Healers, right?