Fey wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 8:14 am NSKaneda
I didn't know that.
In that case Shield Sweep with Furious Reprisal, along with Shatter Limbs, gave Order 2 aoe CD increasers versus Destruction's 1 aoe CD increaser in Squig's Bad Gas. I wonder what exactly this was designed to counter. Infernal Wave paired with Chop Fasta comes to mind.
Synergies ran deep in AoR, especially in 1.4.8 - order had access to cooldown increasers as well as aoe build up increase on AM and Engie and aoe interrupts - on the other hand destro had more AP drains (shammie, BG, chosen) and aoe build up increasers on BO and Mara (plus chosen if you count anticaster aura). Morale pumps were paired up with morale drains. AP drains were correlated with AA increase as well as additional dmg on attack, be it skill or aura. Order was more defensive, destro had more raw damage. Then again there were three big balance iterations of AOR which first focused on aoe, then morale bombing and finally on counterplay. All of those were aimed at warband (and, consequently, blob) scale. ROR scales it down to small scale which has it's pluses and minuses but I admit to being biased as I am large scale enjoyer
