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It's a change that makes sense for Brutes too, as a low-level Fury builder, no matter how Barb Swipe ends up in the final attack chain.
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Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Actually, the more I think about it, the more certain I am that the buff to Barb Swipe is in preparation for Spines to be proliferated to Tankers.
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I remember it. But I also never really found Spines secondary effects to be all that in my own play experience.|
Originally Posted by John_Printemps
You know, I was thinking about it, does anyone remember when Castle was the one running powers and said (loosely) "If [we] look at Spines, it most likely wont come back out of the operating room like it is now."?
I'm not saying I expect the current team to be in the same mind-set, but Spines is more than likely going get Proliferated, and with it they've said "We've changed some things." So far the only thing mentioned has been casually that they've "improved" Barb Swipe and Lunge, but not really said they had or hadn't reviewed the rest of the set as well. For the most part, change in this game trends towards the better; but that still has me curious if they've gone through and cleaned house a little on all the secondary junk that Spines carries (Slows, Toxics, Immoblize, -Rech). |
Maybe it was my slotting which was ACC/DMG over enhancing the secondary effects?
Yes, it has lots of secondary effects, but that ST immobilize I haven't really found to be all that useful. The -fly I have on occaission though!
The slow effects havent seemed to help my survival any more either. I'm sure there's some effect there, but it hasn't been some major "Oh yeah, they're attacking so slow now!" feel to it.
And with the way Synapse (I believe) talks in the live stream videos, I think he's more concerned with keeping to the theme. Not that balance isn't a factor mind you, but he seems willing to take some leeways in both directions to keep the set fun, working and themetic.
I also don't think he worries about how a set will pair with just one other!
Basically, he's not worried about making a set that turns out like SS/FA/Soul Brutes if for the rest of the combos it stays relatively balanced.
I could be wrong. But I hope not. I think people see the one powerset combination of OMG UBER and then start thinking the sets individually are uber (at least that's how it seems ont he forums).
As someone who has a 50 SS/FA/Soul Brute, I have to say I find it one of the most boring combinations to play. Mine's been shelved. And I have no problem playing the OMG UBER combo if I find it fun. So it's not being UBER that's boring to me, it's really just the combo is meh to me in play
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I'm not saying I expect the current team to be in the same mind-set, but Spines is more than likely going get Proliferated, and with it they've said "We've changed some things." So far the only thing mentioned has been casually that they've "improved" Barb Swipe and Lunge, but not really said they had or hadn't reviewed the rest of the set as well. For the most part, change in this game trends towards the better; but that still has me curious if they've gone through and cleaned house a little on all the secondary junk that Spines carries (Slows, Toxics, Immoblize, -Rech).
This also might be great for Doms. I would love to see Impale get a shorter cast time and maybe a shorter cast time for Thorn Burst and Thorny Darts.
Other than that I think Thorny Assault isn't bad....well besides the redraw.