You can drop a dmg engraving for spirit absorption as many do. That would not only make it way easier to play, but also way less seemingly op like ppl say.
Thats the whole point. If you accept to be a trunk of wood barely moving and you can make up with skills you get op dmg.
If you like an easier playstyle you ll still be dealing high dmg but wont be op due to dropping one engraving for versatility.
That said, is the extra dmg rewarded for playing without SA and full back attack a right compensation?
Imho? No, it s too much. As i said enthropy needs to be piped down or other sets need be improved. The difficulty of back attacking isnt remotely near the amount of dmg you gain for doing it. Exp when you combine level 2 sets bracelets AND the beatrice+dwarves set cards along ambush master breaking the multipliers of enthropy.
But alas, sorcs can sit out of any danger and melt stuff with 5x the dps of any other class and 20x less the risks, so i wouldnt even bother asking a nerf for db
Now we are talking about the entropy set which is overpowered atm but the topic was striker being utterly overpowered but he isn’t currently. Definitely one of the steonger classes after a huge investment but that’s it
The point is the one i just made. It s not striker being op, but the set making him op. Period.
Set cards are unique to him and wardancer boosting not just back attack but elemental dmg (2/3 of your dmg spells Said combo, again along with ambush master and entr bonuses from lv2 up, and more when bracelets are out, makes the dmg unreal as lobg as u give up SA for full dps.
If you rly think you will land 100% back attack on every spender then yes. It is strong and for the utter soulcrushing reason that YOU NEED to land backattack to deal any dmg, and if you miss SINGLE spell you are down half or full spender per cycle.
Striker does about the same dmg per cycle as a sorc that cant double dooms day but instead of bursting every 30s, it bursts every 15s so DPS wise it’s significantly higher than igniter Sorc provided the target is a dummy.
Oh come on this is just a toxic topic!
Trixion test is on a stationary dummy… melee back attackers, especially who needs to stay close to the target like striker or scrapper, can deal half or less that damage in a real raid.
Moreover, as melee you lose a lot of time frame for doing damage, like Valtan G2 when you are hiding behind pillars or Vykas G2 during waffles loading, and do not talk about Kakulsaydon G3 where AOE around balls keep you far from the boss. As a main DB striker, I’m happy about it, but it’s clearly not in line with top tier dps like sorceress and deathblade.
Simple. You are attacking a standing still mob from behind. Charging your orbs and hitting all your esoteric skills (which is the only purpose of DB Striker) 100% of the time.
Now go compare your damage against a mobile target. And pray
I really don´t know what you expect asking for nerfs for classes you don´t even understand friend. Trixion is not a good testing for comparing* method.
Also, believe it or not deadeye has some of the greatest dmg potential among all the classes.
There was a tier list made by Jiudau with the help of around 50 biggest KR players (in late october if i reckon).
What they basicly explain is that the 3 S tier classes you cant compete with them. And the C tier classes cant compete with A tier.
(A and B tier classes can compete between each others easyly).
S tier were : n°1 New Artillerist, n° 2 Surge DB, n° 3 New arcana Empress.
C tier class : only deadeye pistoleer remaining since last balance patch.
Stiker stand in beginning of A tier list.
What they conclude is that the current version of the game is one of the most balanced ever as out of 46 (if im correct) specs, only 3 are over the top and only 1 is “bad”.
the main point of the post shouldnt be that striker is broken because in comparison to other classes right now striker doesnt outperform them easily (for example i can compete with my db striker on my sorc, gunslinger, surge blade and the moon reaper if it had lvl 12 spells and relic set)
i havent played deadeye myself but i would agree that conceptually already the class is too hard to play for its return, you need almost permanent back attack uptime while also being melee range despite having one of the lowest survivability stats, i think its more an issue of deadeye being too difficult for its damage but idk what the ceiling is when you have almost full uptime so i could be wrong
From personal experience db is harder to execute and has worse uptime, if you miss 1 skill your rotation is fucked. Meanwhile my deadeye needs 0 preping and no combo attacks, just position and back attack. And having your dps in 6 skills is not that bad because if you miss 1 back attack you lose only ~20% damage meanwhile db striker does 0 damage if he misses his LTS.
However sorc is broken, she just deals more damage than everyone else while being hit master and ranged.
I don’t think Striker is broken, it has been more than year since he got changes to his kit. But I do agree he deals significant DPC like a Shock Scrapper does, both this classes are far easier to play when compared to DE. In my opinion, DE should get buffed instead of nerfing Striker, but this comparison is probably the same as Gunslinger vs Sorc. In a short fight Striker and Sorc do the most damage, while in long fights DE and Gunslinger can do more damage, but that depends on player performance.
One thing I do hope the devs changes on DE is add a back attack bonus in his close shot tripods. DE does not just need to back attack but to stay close as well, it almost a 50% loss of damage if he isn’t close, even if he back attack. Even if SG doesn’t buff DE dps, the best QoL change for him would be speed up Shotgun Rapid Fire animation or decrease the push back this skills has.
Because deadeye has long cool down and only shine once you get lvl9-10 cd gems. On paper it is slightly stronger than DB once everything is maxed but yeah it’s annoying to play and get to that point.
The tile says that striker is utterly broken, it’s no a comparison,
the topic is misleading and completely wrong.
Striker is not even top tier until you get bracelet and he still requires lot of skill and boss knowledge to reposition at its back and unleash your tiger strikes during the right timeframes.
there are other class much more easy to play which are top tier.
