The thing is piano classe need a much higer uptime than burst so we could argue that they are harder
I think the more appropriate terme is more consistant
well its subjective I guess. personally I tried burst and spam builds in zerk, db and soulfist piano is so easy there is no comparison XD. You can turn your brain off and just spam skills no need to check boss hp to turn off identity or surge early before he go or save the zerk gauge and wait because the boss will start mech soon.
DB strong but if you have strong team your db is uselessā¦
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The synergy we bring is amazing the best move speed, attack speed buff in the game 3% damage and head/attack synergy.
Only ESO Striker, FI Wardancer, Aeromancer, Gunlancer have comparable synergy.
A class identity that resets our CDS, gives us move speed, attack speed, surge burst is strong but the ramp up time to our burst is 12-16 seconds, we canāt have access to our burst on demand like other classes.
When you start playing with people who SUPER over gear content feels so smoge playing Surge blade other classes can do their burst in much short window and hit alot harder My deathblow striker can do 400 mil+ damage in 8 seconds, while your surge blade building stacks, boss already phased.
Deathblow Striker, Rage hammer destroyer, Ignite sorc, Empress arcana, Shock scrapper can all deal very good damage in short burst window and phase the boss before I even built stacks.
But upside we donāt have very long downtime on our burst as long as we can hit the boss, 12-20 stacks (Depending on boss health bar, how juiced your group is), straight into building stacks again.
Class has its ups and downs.
Thing with this game they keep releasing new classes and with each one they are getting better and better at, I noticed there is distinct difference between the older classes and classes released after 2019 thats why im glad they are doing class reworks and balance patches, next one is coming with LoAON Winter on 18th december.
Summoner, Artillerist, Arcana, Destroyer all got reworked recently and are very strong classes now if you play the right spec.
Overall I like Surge blade, the aesthetics, dual blades, the class identity but its not my ideal class, when smile-gate release the right class I will drop this class even if they buff or dont nerf it.
I wouldnt mind if RE got buffed but I will still never play it, I always play spec burst classes because of the way this game is designed unless they change it always play surge over re
The thing that matters most in this game is Uptime on boss + Synergy