Quote (ferdia @ Nov 7 2013 08:26pm)
The one clear way to nerf bowa's is to reduce their fire res to 80. what this would do is make esfb dominant, as vs bowa is (currently) its hardest match up. I truly believe however that this is not the right decision, as there are in this tournament alone, quite alot of sorc's (11 someone said?), that will do well in the tournament.
There are simply not (m)any good nec players. the rules for nec make only 1 anti-char, blizzard, and I mentioned previously that I will be looking at nec cold res again.
Reducing amazon frw in all matchups from 100 to 90 would i believe go a small way towards ama vs barb matchup (its already close when a strong barb player like harabec is involved). the other option was to ban fury, which i honestly don't feel is appropriate.
keeping gaze banned, and with me pimping out smiters/paladins will potentially naturally reduce amazons from overwhelming tournaments in the KO stage.
Give smiters a better chance vs other classes (read: sorc's) to enable them to win these duels, stay in tournaments longer, and kill the amazon player(s).
We have extensively tried to fix ama vs assa. its extremely difficult. All I can think of is reducing Repl limits even further. I dont see how added frw will help the assassin. Added Repl on the assassin might be a thought.
I'm exploring TG's on sorc's vs VT.
I'm open to suggestions re: fb vs blizz and sorc fire/cold res.
Druids will simply continue to not feature in tournaments as nobody wants to rely on teleport charges and without teleport there is no viable build. Rabies works in TvT but not so much in 1v1. allowing harmony is the only addition I can see thats noteworthy.
Barbs with no teleport...have no teleport, and that makes fire and blizz their anti char's. the only way to manage this is to force onscreen play and aggressive behaviour from the sorc's, i.e. referee'd matches or an honour system.
for caster druids to be viable they need to cover their horrendous breakpoint and mobility issues.
as a former fissure druid player, with multiple gear sets etc Harmony is quite important to be able to manoeuvre and gain ground, especially when the build can afford 19/30fcr BP at its very best. FHR/fcr is a big problem for druids at 49
If you want to see more tornado druids then you need to allow recasting cyclone armour and 5 wolves as standard. without teleport, they have no pressure anyway and being able to use wolves as shields and the ability to recast cyclone is important to force players to play more offensively vs the druid.
Ive toyed with shockwave powershifting to secure nado stomps and recasting wolves on enemy target's head to blocklock with ravens, but its a clunky way of achieving little gain.
javazon / druids of all spec must sit on 150frw, both specs must be granted 90% fire res. Smiters could toy with the option of holy freeze also.. just some ideas.. i want to see more variety instead of the holy trinity that is bow/sorc/ caster pala