Between switching Dark Protector as necessary and Enraged Beating, which will see a +25% crit chance boost from the combination of Filled With Fury and Crimson Death, I am inclined to disagree with your assertion that BGs would have trouble keeping their Hate topped off. Don't get me wrong, I think that playing a DPS BG properly certainly requires more work than would a Chosen or BO, but I think that the reward is there if you perform well.TenTonHammer wrote:The only time BG's armor debuff is higher than BO's is at max rage but if your spamming out CD, howl, and other sources of hate to get the crit boost then your not going to be at max hate
On another note, anyone that's saying that there is no reason to bring a BG over a BO in a premade has clearly never had to heal against a group with a competent BG, be it S/B or 2h. A single good BG can make healing a nightmare, and any premade that utilizes one well is, in my opinion, better prepared to deal with enemy groups than they would be without it.
This is a good suggestion. Even decisions arrived at here can be rolled back if their effects are onerous.zabis wrote:It should be changed temporarily and we can then see the outcome. If it needs to be tweaked afterward, so be it, but setting Crimson Death to 100% uptime on a "two-week" trial period couldn't hurt too much.
I read the thread up to this point, and I'm still of the same opinion as before. Namely, I still think that the duration of the debuff should be extended to 10 seconds. Even if the debuff itself is not able to be cleansed due to being Damaging as opposed to a Curse, Hex, or Ailment, I think that even this brings a certain level of parity with the Knight's crit chance increasing abilities, both of which have no counterplay. If anything, Crimson Death should also be undefendable, but that change would definitely require its damage output to be adjusted downward.