SW feedback 2026/7/23 Patch Nite

[Ragnaroek93]

Don't listen to people on the forum. SW has insane output in new melee and altered fester spec. It's aoe spec was nerfed and rightly so. The aoe spec is still playable and will still perform. Just not on the broken level it has performed before.

Well they also doubled down and nerfed fester again I don't think anybody will argue against the AoE nerf being justified, it's that literally everything, including ST damage got nerfed on the ranged builds without much (or any) compensation at all. Would also guess that the vast majority of the people who picked the class isn't interested in playing some meele glasscanon class, at least I have no interested in that (would play a WE or WH if I would), even if it turns out to be very good (which I personally doubt as squishy meele classes don't have a good track record of performing well in MMOs). If the only options will turn out to either be a discount WE/WH (for meele) or discount SH (for ranged) then you'll just end up having a much better time playing a hunter in WoW lol (who actually get a cool rework in 2 weeks which is overwhelmingly well received)...

If you only get your views on a patch from the forums and you meta chase, you're going to have a VERY bad time.

I mean unfortuneately for me there's no proper ranking or check-pvp for this game so it's impossible for me to "filter" opinions or just look up what's op at high ratings so looking into the forums is my best bet without having to spend like 100 hours testing everything by myself. It's not like the devs explain much either, for example why they're so obsessed with turning it into a weird meele glasscanon while SH having defenses and range damage is fine. That forums tend to be biased isn't exactly new but neither are the devs and I don't have the impression that previous "balance" patches have been good.

[Orontes]

Anything with 5 CD is spammable, as long as WW exists. By definition.

WW is on a 30 second cooldown and dependent on another class being in the same group. It is not consistent and it is time laden. WW appeals are not a marker for any real argument.

It's how you balance things. Around all tools avalible.
Why damage in the game is so high? Because its balanced around guard, heals, morales etc.

If the argument is based around all conceivable things that may happen because of a group where class X, Y, and Z may potentially do a, b, and c, etc., then there is no viable discussion.

[Farrul]

Without adequate defences, ASW will stay irrelevant for most part in its niche smalls scale role, you don't do any DPS when dead. An inferior version of WL with a little ''ranged'' utility (which after skirmish tree nerfs is quite weak indeed).

I predict RSW players will quit the class ''en masse'' since who wants to be a ''shadow''( no pun ) of their previous self. Some nerfs pure exaggerations against the class ( such as singletarget skirmish DPS who got gutted alongside the AOE nerfs).