12-04-2004, 10:24 PM
Hey, Nobbie. I've got a suggestion you might consider.
For some reason, I've alwasy like the skill Jab. It's cool.
But, of course, the problem since they took out the part where it ignores weapon speed is that any spear damaging enough to give up a shield for is so painfully slow that it's almost unusable.
Now, when the change happened, I was a bit unhappy. Until I heard the rationalization that it was just a way to make sure the people using the skill didn't just put one point in it, like old school Jabazons sometimes did. Then, I went from being unhappy, to my head hitting the desk repeatedly, because that's dumb.
Problem: Speed. Higher skill level: Does not affect speed.
But I agree that with the new elite items and all, completely ignoring weapon speed is just too much. Maybe Jab could increase attack spead by a certain amount per skill level? It would make people use up all of their skill points in it, as intended, but the end result would be a Jab that's fast enough to bother with outside of major variant territory.
Personally, I have no idea how much the attack speed should increase, but I'm not so crazily obsessive that I can quote how much IAS an amazon would need to attack at a certain pace, down to frames per attack and all that.
For some reason, I've alwasy like the skill Jab. It's cool.
But, of course, the problem since they took out the part where it ignores weapon speed is that any spear damaging enough to give up a shield for is so painfully slow that it's almost unusable.
Now, when the change happened, I was a bit unhappy. Until I heard the rationalization that it was just a way to make sure the people using the skill didn't just put one point in it, like old school Jabazons sometimes did. Then, I went from being unhappy, to my head hitting the desk repeatedly, because that's dumb.
Problem: Speed. Higher skill level: Does not affect speed.
But I agree that with the new elite items and all, completely ignoring weapon speed is just too much. Maybe Jab could increase attack spead by a certain amount per skill level? It would make people use up all of their skill points in it, as intended, but the end result would be a Jab that's fast enough to bother with outside of major variant territory.
Personally, I have no idea how much the attack speed should increase, but I'm not so crazily obsessive that I can quote how much IAS an amazon would need to attack at a certain pace, down to frames per attack and all that.