Post#72 » Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:44 pm
The Witch hunter players got told by staff that they should sit tight. That right now there is more important things to do, before WH gets a look at for buffs and overworking broken stuff. (4 years ago)
Then Witch hunter players got told to hold tight even more, because there would be coming big changes soon. (1 year ago)
Big changes came and the Ability System got a rework.
It was again said that the Witch hunter would be looked at ''SOON''
Now we are back at the start again and it is said Tanks healers.... first again.
The only Build the Wh has that is positively impacting a Warband is the Dragon Gun moral pump. A job that other classes can do more efficient and with less risk.
The selfheal that was too low before, got nerved so now it is even less useful. Witches can go full reggen because they do not need to go full strg/ws to still do dmg while on max deff.
Blessed blade got nerved together with the overall armor penetration rework, like as if no one even thought about what that would mean for a class that already had to use that tactic to even be able to compete with other DPS classes in that field.
The nerf on mid fight change of bullet buffs by adding a shared cooldown on them, got sold as a ‘’buff’’ because they can now be done outside of global cooldown. In reality the change makes it now impossible to change bullets to fit a changed target while in a hasty combat situation, since the shared cooldown is longer than most fights of a witch hunter last (before he gets divided by zero from aoe spam)
And worst part is and will always be, that the iconic and strongest attack the WH has can still just be cleansed away in an instant, since addons like Aura and buffhead alert enemy healers as soon as Bal gets applied.
Right now, the Witch hunter is in a state that can only be described as the unwanted child that got sold to the sweatshop owner.
The class was designed to have all the negative traits like low survivability, lowest base armor of all classes and almost zero aoe ability’s. All that the WH had to endure to make up for the one thing he had. And that was that he was designed to deal the highest possible single target dps of all Damage Dealers.
But already back on live and then on RoR even more, all the former pray of the WH got more and more defense buffed. And all other DDs got their dmg increased, so they now outperform the WH while having way more defense. The WH and the Witch were designed to attack the backline and KILL a single target. Right now, as a WH you can not even kill a non-guarded healer, since his detaunt alone is enough to mitigate the witch hunters dmg and heal up back to 100% while under the effect of both the incoming and the outgoing heal debuff.
If solo play is not wanted by the devs. And if a Warband usability for the WH is also not wanted, since they refused to give him the same AOE rework like all the other DPS back then, then just cut all the bull dung already and give the class the rework it deserves since 10 years.
Either massively buff the single target dmg output or just change its armor class to middle class. Not after the tanks, healers and other dps. Not after another 10 years. NOW.
