One Week Nemesis Race Infographic

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Appels_Zijn_Gezond wrote:

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Qarl wrote:

There are some balance concerns in the stats which we will look at addressing at the new content and league cycle.

Scions were prevalent in the one week league, and take a lot of the same space as Witches and Shadows, reducing the numbers in these classes. Shadow appears to need attention specifically.

While the keystones used were influenced a little by players following specific examples, clearly Iron Reflexes is too dominant in this short format.

We will also be specifically looking at death rates for specific areas.

I always felt the shadow was underwhelming. But I thought it was because it's playstyle(heavy crit/eva), but seeing this.. might as well add a bit of my own experience to this topic.

I feel the shadow has a too small a marging between offence and defence. Make one mistake in the tree and you will either you deal no damage, or you will survive barely any hits. Especially while going melee. I've been wondering for a while why this is the case, and I believe it's because it's defensive stats are not attractive in the slightest. He has a few 8/8/8 hp nodes scattered around, one of the few that's only 8/8/8, most other classes have two 8s, and a bigger one at the end(either 8/8/8+str, or 8/8/12). By upgrading that last node to feel more rewarding, they will be picked more often, even though it is a small buff from what it is now.
Being far away from the scion circle of life is also something that... well does not help the shadow.

It also feels like a shadow can't stay in his area to get some favorable nodes, he needs to delve into the ranger, even duelist side when going melee/range, witch side for spellcasting. Currently he does not excel at either, while most other dual based classes don't need to travel that far for some basic offensive/defensive needs.

As a character itself the shadow is nice, it has it's own unique feel and suits well within the game(even though he could be even more assassinate-like), same goes for the skills associated and play style given to the shadow. So I think it's really a matter of adjustment, make his tree little less unforgiving :)

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Qarl wrote:

There are some balance concerns in the stats which we will look at addressing at the new content and league cycle.

Scions were prevalent in the one week league, and take a lot of the same space as Witches and Shadows, reducing the numbers in these classes. Shadow appears to need attention specifically.

While the keystones used were influenced a little by players following specific examples, clearly Iron Reflexes is too dominant in this short format.

We will also be specifically looking at death rates for specific areas.

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TDA wrote:

Clearly the core of the issue is evasion is godawful.

Iron Reflexes is just poor design creating a large gap between the two.

Iron Reflexes turns the 3 defensive system (evasion,armour,energy shield) into a two defensive system (armour, armour 2.0 and energy shield).

Also due to armour being better placed in the tree Iron Reflexes is much better. Maruader, Duelists, Rangers , Scions and even Templars have a much better build when they travel to Iron Reflexes rather than the right side of the tree to grab Acrobatics this doubles the effect since not only is Iron Reflexes better than Acrobatics but it is also better located as well.

Iron Reflexes is a lot stronger than Acrobatics but Acrobatics is just that bad that it isn't worth investing into.

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Qarl wrote:

There are some balance concerns in the stats which we will look at addressing at the new content and league cycle.

Scions were prevalent in the one week league, and take a lot of the same space as Witches and Shadows, reducing the numbers in these classes. Shadow appears to need attention specifically.

While the keystones used were influenced a little by players following specific examples, clearly Iron Reflexes is too dominant in this short format.

We will also be specifically looking at death rates for specific areas.

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TylerRand wrote:

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Qarl wrote:

There are some balance concerns in the stats which we will look at addressing at the new content and league cycle.

Scions were prevalent in the one week league, and take a lot of the same space as Witches and Shadows, reducing the numbers in these classes. Shadow appears to need attention specifically.

While the keystones used were influenced a little by players following specific examples, clearly Iron Reflexes is too dominant in this short format.

We will also be specifically looking at death rates for specific areas.

Please, please take a look at evangelists. They are out of this world in terms of balance along with chimereals.

It seems plain wrong that they are able to attack any point on screen from anywhere. The burst damage this can amount to is very high and neigh impossible to evade manually.

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Maniaa wrote:

* I would have hope that **Freeze Mine was disable** for this race. In my opinion, it take a big part of why people could get lvl.90 in One Week (it's the first time we even see that), and the Nemesis Ladder is a joke right now. Overall, Top 10 Nemesis (a 3 months old League) is higher than Hardcore (one year old League). Yes, maps got buffed but I would've really liked to see a temporary race without Freeze Mine. I know this skill is going to get fixed next patch, I just point out the One Week format could've been a great test Tool for this point.