Earthcake wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:45 am
Rapzel wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:07 am
Is it still good? Yea.
Is IB better than BG in WB play? Yea.
Could you tell us why please ?
Cause to me IB is the worst tank in the game, small scale, wb, sc, whatever (still my favourite character to play cuz i'm as grumpy as him but...).
You don't have time to cast many abilities, and when you do cast them, they are weaker than other's most of the time.
Why?
Small scale because of buffs and debuffs like armour debuff, which only WL has access to otherwise (WL isn't good paired with a slayer), crit buff that "stacks" with KotBS/ASW debuff. 25% parry on target and self, only WS buff in the game which is huge for all of the order melees. All the "innate" debuffs you spam out help cover other curses naturally in your rotation, crit debuff is really strong.
Ofc you can't compare it to kotbs or BG but they're the two best tanks in the game for 6vs6.
BO and SM only brings ungabunga to 6vs6, chosen sure has some nice synergy with certain careers but in no way do they have as strong buffs/debuffs as the IB.
The biggest issue with IB and its very prominent in e.g. solo ranked is that it has zero synergy with SM, which is a tank combo never played in 6vs6.
IB KotBS X2 slayer RP + WP is still the strongest setup you can get.
BG has zero synergy with anything in WB. Only reason you would ever use it is to push fort or to being a 2h for the single target group and have it probably guard a mara or something that can take some damage. As a SnB BG you bring a aoe slow and a lot of block, that's it.
IB had obvious weaknesses and still do in their tank path but the new tactic in brotherhood makes it a great support tank for AP heavy groups, and can buff a DPS to do amazing numbers, adding 25% parry and are + crit to a slayer is also really nice with the benefit of giving him 30 AP each time you use it, then being able to swap around and get the root break and AoE slow isn't bad either.
But ofc its lack-luster it's a balanced career in a game where all other careers are redoncolously OP in their preferred environment.