1.3 Class Nerfs/Buffs

Have you by any chance tried playing your tank specced assassin like an actual tank? Use guard, taunts, CC, absorb damage, cap huttball, all that nonsense? You know, like the other tanks in the game have to.

5 50's? Lol what is your legacy at man?

Its a common phenomenon that happens in the exact same manner with Guardian/Juggs as well. However, you don't necessarily have to restrict the gear itself, IMO.

There is a solution, and a very straightforward one.

At the heart of the problem is the fact that defensive stats on gear (shield/defense rating) provide only miniscule effects into self preservation for PvP, and therefore, the actual contribution to self-preservation from such stats are much lower than armour rating(passive, direct mitigation) and endurance(HP buff).

In other words, among the three main components of self-preservation; (1) Defense Rating, (2) Shield Rating, (3) Armour, (1) and (2) are much worthless, and as a result (3) becomes much too important. That means as long as a Guardian/Jugg or Shadow/Sin can wield the basic armor-boosting form/stance/skill etc., it doesn't matter what gear they wear. Hence, investing into defensive stats with defensive gear is considered to be largely ineffective, whereas using a defensive form/stance/skill + offensive gear is largely recommended.


The solution? Very simple.

Increase the impact of (1) Defense Rating and (2) Shield Rating, and decrease the benefits of (3) Armour, so the positive increase in survivability coming from (1)+(2)+(3), greatly exceeds that of the build using (3) + offensive gear... and this discrepancy must be large enough to be clearly noticeable.

Simply put, those who only choose (3) as a means of defense and give up (1) and (2) by going offensive gear, must suffer that much loss of survivability, whereas those who choose (1) + (2) + (3) and basically give up damage and commit oneself to the tanking role, must be rewarded that much survivability for it.


Do this, and both Guardian/Juggs and Shad/Sins are brought in line. Make a clear distinction between low-damage/high survivability, medium-damage/medium survivability, and high-damage/low survivability.

I think the game should have a...

nerf to tank shadows damage, small buffs to other trees survivability
small nerf to sentinel survivability
small nerf to gunslingers either damage or cc
buff to healer sage survivability
significant nerf to scoundrel dps... because you can't have a class balance change without that.

honestly I don't see too huge of problems other than all tank shadow teams on my server.

guard/absorb damage - great! The 90% of all attacks bypass Shield/Defense..
Taunts - great! 6 sec of arguable usefullness on a near 1 min cd basis..
CC - great! Only useable from stealth on TARGETS THAT ARE NOT involved in combat.. Sure there is a lot of such targets in skirmishes.. yes?

Yeah yeah, we know you- weren't able to beat other classes pre-1.2 so you think the patch was fantastic because you suddenly don't suck anymore- naturally means everyone playing other classes are bads and has nothing to do with the buffs/nerfs that happened.

And yes, they were one of the less common classes- were you even playing the same game back then?

PT - Slight nerf to AOE damage
Sins - Slight DPS nerf
Sorc - Survivability buff
Merc - Heals, DPS buffs
Mara - Survivabilty nerf

That's about it, I think the game is pretty balanced.

Lol... Tankassins DPS is A HALF OF any other class DPS..
If you call tankassins DPS a «mad DPS» i cant imagine how bad player you are...