wargrimnir wrote: ↑Sun Feb 16, 2020 2:49 am
I don't remember why BO got the cooldown ability that used to only be on Choppa. I assume it was related to SM having it, and BO mirror something something stupid.
The change was some like september 17 or thereabout, after some months of debates how to improve BO warband spec. Having lose their AoE snare (maybe as a way to make BG a better alternative snare provider? who knows), they were low on utility, and generally there was somewhat limited purpose of bringing more than 1-2 BORKs into WB to provide the occasional corp debuff. Just stack Chosens, get all auras out, lesser effort.
So the mess starts with back then torque deciding that SM cd reducer WW, will be mirrored to BORK. As result, Choppa, with a 2min cd 20s cd reducer gets shafted, and torque eventually manages to enforce a minimum of 5s cd on Sorc Infernal Wave, removing the old cheese of Choppa+Sorc synergy where you bring a choppa to WB so Sorc can spam IW without cooldown for 20s.
So now with some side buffs to bork boosting AA dmg, then AA haste at some point as well, the result is Bork being closer or equal to Chosen. BG still remains mystery pick despite BO losing their AoE snare for warband purposes, and BORK utility stack makes it a solid pick. But Choppa is then "patched out" from having a real purpose in WB, since their 2min CD on the Chop Fasta does not compare to BORK 20s cd reducer that mirrors SM cooldown reducer. Ironically enough, Slayer also suffers a bit because Destro now can provide better effective cover vs slayer shatter limbs cd increaser. So as a probably unintended side result, Slayer + Choppa losing somewhat relatively, Sorc+BW become ever higher priority picks for warband slots.
Well some patching later, SL+Chop less bad and somewhat okay, apart from the few overperforming things like Rampage and whole Choppa identity being based around GTDC pulling - their whole AoE tree needs rework to have the class make sense at some point.
and yeah, as mentioned elsewhere, all pulls go through barrier, just like on live. Mara requires direct LOS same as WL, so they should not, engi + magus + choppa no target requirement.