Shadow Warrior ideas - for the RDPS revamp

[Sadsong]

I would love to see some form of stationary stealth mechanic for SW. I don't know if it would be balanced, because I'm sure getting festerbombed out of nowhere would be frustrating for many, but man would it be thematic for a guerilla fighter.

Stationary stealth for SW is something I support since this server was released!

Destro used to cry a lot bc WL's pounce, then Devs gave pounce for all destro classes! Order deserve something cool at least! Principally after they kill WL fun!

[AxelF]

Be careful what you wish for - the zealot/RP trees are an absolute mess precisely because they have two distinct 'modes' - DPS and healing - but 3 trees. As a result the abilities are crowbarred into bizzare 'ST', 'AOE' and 'over time' themes with the healing and DPS abilities split over all 3 trees, rather than heal, DPS and something else.

[wildwindblows]

Greatest buff for Assault SW I can think of is making Merciless Soldier tactic apply the 50% crit damage to all melee attacks, both abilities and auto attacks.

Mara's piercing bite tactic was exactly working as you think before 2018 but it was adjusted according to the tooltip (nerfed because it was too OP). Now it is only provides 15% armor pen only for mutation required skills. Any armor pen tactic above 25% sounds too OP. If ppl wanna more armor pen in current meta, they should use tactic+stack ws talisman to reach it. The trade off here is main damage stat so damage will be lower against low armor classes. Therefore, have to find a optimum value between main damage stat and armor pen.

[Farrul]

- Broadhead Arrow is such a staple ability of the class (like Shadow Sting), I'd like to see it accessible in Assault stance, since it's already available in the other two.

Broadhead was already available to ASW, then they nerfed it.

ASW is really a remnant of the past at this point, nerfed offence, nerfed defence, there is no redeeming quality of the spec unless it sees major buffs bringing it back to something like previous standards, even then the spec lacked a clear purpose other than some smaller scale roaming.

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[rorswar]

Greatest buff for Assault SW I can think of is making Merciless Soldier tactic apply the 50% crit damage to all melee attacks, both abilities and auto attacks.

Mara's piercing bite tactic was exactly working as you think before 2018 but it was adjusted according to the tooltip (nerfed because it was too OP). Now it is only provides 15% armor pen only for mutation required skills. Any armor pen tactic above 25% sounds too OP. If ppl wanna more armor pen in current meta, they should use tactic+stack ws talisman to reach it. The trade off here is main damage stat so damage will be lower against low armor classes. Therefore, have to find a optimum value between main damage stat and armor pen.

Somehow that logic doesn't apply to WEs who can bypass armour at will, without having to sacrifice their main stats.