Return of Reckoning

First time playing this game since live, ive read some of the changelogs but feel like some real user input would help. What do i need to know going in about it all, Mara class, the game itself and changes to the RvR in general. Im excited to come back but i also dont want to suck immediately if changes have been that dramatic. Thank you for any reply's!

Most of what you're going to encounter is the exact same as live. The main difference is once you hit level 16, you'll be considered T4 for all Orvr. Scenarios are set differently as well. 1-15 for T1, 16-30 for T2, 31-40 for T4. I could be slightly off with those numbers, but I'm pretty sure that's correct. Other than that, you'll be better off just finding out the changes as you play.

If your coming from live know that quite a few things have been Chanel this include a lot of maras bugs being fixed including piercing bite applying to all attacks and not just the ones tha require mutations

Devs added a lots of new sets to the game

Thunderous blow got nerfed and now requres 13 mastery points

Resolute defense and cleansing winds as well as trivial blows is removed

TenTonHammer wrote:Thunderous blow got nerfed and now requres 13 mastery points

...and 10 sec CD up from 5 sec

Mara change as far as i can say :

Thunderous blow move to 13 point , draining swipe move to 5 point
Draining swipe cd down to 10 s instead of 20 , debuff duration down to 5s instead of 10
Thunderous blow cd up to 10 sec instead of 5 , wounds debuff value cut in half
Hulking brute tactic now increase initiative in addition of toughness. (not reflected in tooltip or character stats , but if you use getstats command you see the initiative gain)

So why all these nerfs to Mara when order keeps getting buffs?

Joshwa70 wrote:So why all these nerfs to Mara when order keeps getting buffs?

Funny how order says the exact same thing about destro.

For example...white lion. If they switched pounce and whirling axe...that would be totally legit right?

Joshwa70 wrote:For example...white lion. If they switched pounce and whirling axe...that would be totally legit right?

Pounce is a 10s CD mobility skill, Thunderous Blow is a 1k armordebuff.
Pounce helps a single mdps get onto/off a target, Thunderous Blow ups the damage the target takes from all pdps around.

Abbd.: Mixed up TB and CC, my bad - see below.

Darosh wrote: Thunderous Blow is a 1k armordebuff.

TB is the wounds debuff

Cutting Claw is the armor debuff