Happlo
Fledgling Freddie
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2004
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The one unfair problem i can see is that Mythic have created Bodyguard to make it easier to implement caster's into groups, but have totally disragarded the defensive tank spec. What i mean by this is that (using Hibernian tanks as an example here) a full shield hero would have been the best defensive char in hib for a group with access to MoB and large shields. As you know this was better for guarding more people, more reliably (with MoB) but to my mind the focus has now been taken away from who can defend your group members the best, and moved to who has the best "personnal" defence.
So again using Hib as an example here, you can forget the hero now as being the best class for this job, cause a full shield BM with evade 3 + Red Buffs + Dodger 3 + 2ndary raising Dex stat + IP will have the best "personnal" defence in Hib, hitting the 50% evade rate at 360* aswell as blocking almost as much as a hero could. The only difference is he has slightly worse armour (although with the amount of slash user's soon with Battler RF will prob fair better than scale) and doesnt get moose (30 min timer whoopie!! ). BMs also get immunity to all crits every 7 mins with TW!! So imagine a merc specing like this with DT up most fights and chain armour (evade 2 i know, but dodger 4 and you can prolly get 50% cap)
Anyhoo, i will wait and see what bodyguard is like, it will certainly open up caster play in RvR, although i hope not to an overpowered extent, but i just wish Mythic maybe made Battlemaster as a Heavy Tank only ML (hero, warrior, arms) like Spymaster is for assasins only. That would have at least kept it fair as far as those classes being the key defensive ones
P.s - Oh, and as you can see, i am a BM (duel wielder too) so this is just my musings. I would rather have a balanced game than the possability of me being a FotM Shield BM, to the detrement of shield hero's
So again using Hib as an example here, you can forget the hero now as being the best class for this job, cause a full shield BM with evade 3 + Red Buffs + Dodger 3 + 2ndary raising Dex stat + IP will have the best "personnal" defence in Hib, hitting the 50% evade rate at 360* aswell as blocking almost as much as a hero could. The only difference is he has slightly worse armour (although with the amount of slash user's soon with Battler RF will prob fair better than scale) and doesnt get moose (30 min timer whoopie!! ). BMs also get immunity to all crits every 7 mins with TW!! So imagine a merc specing like this with DT up most fights and chain armour (evade 2 i know, but dodger 4 and you can prolly get 50% cap)
Anyhoo, i will wait and see what bodyguard is like, it will certainly open up caster play in RvR, although i hope not to an overpowered extent, but i just wish Mythic maybe made Battlemaster as a Heavy Tank only ML (hero, warrior, arms) like Spymaster is for assasins only. That would have at least kept it fair as far as those classes being the key defensive ones
P.s - Oh, and as you can see, i am a BM (duel wielder too) so this is just my musings. I would rather have a balanced game than the possability of me being a FotM Shield BM, to the detrement of shield hero's