07-20-2003, 12:06 AM
This is starting to sound strangly like the following: (Assume 1.09)
An assassin joins the game with a Demon Machine. As soon as this Assassin is seen she is spammed with comments like this "OMG NOOB, WINDFORCE IS BETTER!!!!" or "OMG, WHY USE BOW!!"
Im sure people who played variants of some sort has ran into ignorant people like these. So you know what I mean.
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Anyways, my point is this. Perhaps I should of stated it differently. Blade Sentinel is potientially better than Blade Fury in the fact that it is simply ORIGINAL (Assume 1.10 BETA) *wink*, isn't a one-point wonder (Assume Lame, obviously bad balance on Blizzard's part, but this is a BETA, I expect changes), It has a form of crowd control, and the best part is you can use it as a support attack skill. Yes you can use BOTH blade fury and sentinel at once ;).
The casting delay isn't a bad thing. Being how the duration of the trap goes up per level. Yes thats right! You have around 15 second blade sentinel at level 20. Throw two of those bad boys out. And work with Blade fury at the same time for great results.
You really should look at the Pro's before you just go CON CON CON! But speaking of which. The Cons aren't that bad at all. A static 7 per blade mana cost is extremely cheap, at a high levels with even no mana+ gear this shouldn't be much of a problem.
No Crushing Blow? I guess you could call this the biggest flaw... but I don't hear people jumping up and down and bragging about having crushing blow gear ;).
Doesn't Transfer Chance To cast gear: Quite realistic, being how the Blade is it's own man. The only true Chance to cast that would help would probally be AMP damage.
Hit Freezes Target really isn't all that useful in Hell (But then again, no character build is as of 1.10 BETA :P), would also limit your gear choice.
Hit blinds target: I believe assassin's have a skill for this ;) CoS anyone?
Knockback: Not a big loss with Sentinel. Would work good using knockback with blade fury + Sentinel combo.
Open wounds/Cause monster to flee/Slow Target: Open wounds does damage? You don't want monsters running away with sentinel, Slow Target.... they say they fixed the desyncing........................somewhat ;) Not a big loss.
I believe Blade sentinel is a very underestimated skill indeed. It could be used with a martial artist build. Whereas Blade fury wouldn't be all that useful. Would take the point away. I could go on!
An assassin joins the game with a Demon Machine. As soon as this Assassin is seen she is spammed with comments like this "OMG NOOB, WINDFORCE IS BETTER!!!!" or "OMG, WHY USE BOW!!"
Im sure people who played variants of some sort has ran into ignorant people like these. So you know what I mean.
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Anyways, my point is this. Perhaps I should of stated it differently. Blade Sentinel is potientially better than Blade Fury in the fact that it is simply ORIGINAL (Assume 1.10 BETA) *wink*, isn't a one-point wonder (Assume Lame, obviously bad balance on Blizzard's part, but this is a BETA, I expect changes), It has a form of crowd control, and the best part is you can use it as a support attack skill. Yes you can use BOTH blade fury and sentinel at once ;).
The casting delay isn't a bad thing. Being how the duration of the trap goes up per level. Yes thats right! You have around 15 second blade sentinel at level 20. Throw two of those bad boys out. And work with Blade fury at the same time for great results.
You really should look at the Pro's before you just go CON CON CON! But speaking of which. The Cons aren't that bad at all. A static 7 per blade mana cost is extremely cheap, at a high levels with even no mana+ gear this shouldn't be much of a problem.
No Crushing Blow? I guess you could call this the biggest flaw... but I don't hear people jumping up and down and bragging about having crushing blow gear ;).
Doesn't Transfer Chance To cast gear: Quite realistic, being how the Blade is it's own man. The only true Chance to cast that would help would probally be AMP damage.
Hit Freezes Target really isn't all that useful in Hell (But then again, no character build is as of 1.10 BETA :P), would also limit your gear choice.
Hit blinds target: I believe assassin's have a skill for this ;) CoS anyone?
Knockback: Not a big loss with Sentinel. Would work good using knockback with blade fury + Sentinel combo.
Open wounds/Cause monster to flee/Slow Target: Open wounds does damage? You don't want monsters running away with sentinel, Slow Target.... they say they fixed the desyncing........................somewhat ;) Not a big loss.
I believe Blade sentinel is a very underestimated skill indeed. It could be used with a martial artist build. Whereas Blade fury wouldn't be all that useful. Would take the point away. I could go on!