LOLOL that's a completely stupid response to this issue.
Weapon drops have always been useless in pvm. If you aren't using imbued weapons you are almost always going to be much much less effective.I wish they would put something in game to remove it OFF weapons.
So often I find a nice weapon then notice it has splintering on it, as I PVM this weapon is now just imbuing regs.
Once again PvP ruins another drop system.
I've never once found a weapon with stats on it that would be good for PvM... EVER... found a few good splintering PVP weapons... but since I'm an archer.... they are of little use to me.
This is one of the most balanced times in that Sampires and Dexxers now completely dominate PvM and PvP. All round balanced coverage.
Dexers dominating pvp? I don't think so. They do alright now, but up until the last publish, dexers were having a lot of problems in pvp due to the large number of parry mages running around. In fact it was quite rare to see a pure melee in pvp. It was mostly archers and parry mages. Now you actually get to see a variety of templates, which is a good sign of balance.
Parry mages were there, because it was the only response they had to overpowered dexxers - they sacrificed stats and mana to add parry which only had one use, defend v dexxers, and they sacrificed 1v1 killing ability.
sacrifice killing ability? lol. Most were running around with 30 SDI and Alchemy or Scribe. They were doing plenty of damage. Not to mention the Shield Bash mastery abilty that many parry mages were using.
When have you ever seen a Dexxer type sit there and let you dump on them?
With the gear that is available today, you can easily reach 80 dex and still have plenty of mana. I got couple chars with parry but they still have 180 mana and 150 hp
I know of Dexxers that run with 180 mana...
Wait, so you are saying that since I play a char with 60 tactics and 120 weapon skill, I shouldn't be allowed to use the same tools you use on a char with 60 tactics and 120 weapon skill?
I think it just need to remove the bleed or the slow, one or the other.
Thats actually a pretty solid take on it. Splinter has felt overpowered since it was introduced on the glass swords. Thats probably as good as you could do to nerf splintering without totally killing the value of items people paid for, and then the mod is still highly desired and not blown into obscurity.
I like the idea of having a weapon to slow down a runner, more so than the bleed effect.
aye the problem with the bleed is when a stickey lethal hits and you goto arch cure the hit spell, disrupts you then the bleed gets you then the tick gets you then a lightning. I have failed up to 9 cures one times and by that time your **** out of luck
Is this Warshak?LOLOL at people who think its complaining. Id still wreck 99% percent of mages if they don't change anything. The fact is that the people im fighting need this splinter DP combo to stay and fight instead of speed-hacking off my screen. Its incredibly sad to see such horrid mage-play after this many years. I find almost zero challenge in pvp these days other then to fight four times the number people. More needs to be done about the 3rd party programs too which cause the mass crashes too. I literally have to reopen my client every 10-15 minutes to avoid a crash in pvp which completely stupid. To those who are actually discussing the issue in this thread, good job. To those who think they can beat me or say im complaining stop trolling, your not good enough without a OP splinter setup, that's why you use it.
I assumed it was because of the time of the post, but his last post just confirmed lol
Yep.
its pretty stupid right now thought.. and for the most part he is right. but those people who run splinter dp will get smashed by archers or dexxers
so you are saying they have a weakness to archers and dexxers? Seems balanced then.
if melee temps are non-existent and weak, then why would you want to nerf them further by nerfing their weapons? Horrible idea.
That's my point. Splintering was added to give melee a chance to compete again. But no one uses it that way cause splintering combined with ranged weapons is more OP and also casting with splintering is more OP. Either way using specials with splintering regardless of the template is just stupid. The player gets the hit spell plus slow plus bleed on top of another special. My original post suggested making it non spell channeling or add like -100 magery to the weapons so it cant be combined with casting schools. Maybe if your running more then 30 real skill in magery, splinter only does slow effect, but in melee does both. Also do the same for ranged classes, if they run more then 30 real archery then they don't get the full splinter affect either. Something has to be done cause pvp is just broken, and its more then just the splintering issues. It just happens to be the most ridiculous right now.
I play a pure melee in pvp. Without splintering weapons, I would just get kited all day long. It actually gives me a chance to catch up to ranged classes and mages. And I don't see a problem combining with specials. It is not like Glenda which was proccing 100% of the time. If melee is so weak as you claim, then why shouldn't they be able to combine specials and splintering?
The only time I see you on Atlantic is in General Chat ranting about how player a sucks, player b sucks, and player c is terrible and sucks too. I once attempted to track you down in a quest to find out how awesome you really were, only to be disappointed by another Usain Bolt wannabe.
That could be a step in the right direction. But personally, I think it is dumb that a wep gives free specials. When you combine it with another special move- you essentially get 3 specials to go off at once- which is where it becomes stupid (bleed, walk, + random special).
