Return of Reckoning

diedrake wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:07 pm hmm interesting changes, the SH change seems right as technically armor is a stance.

Not sure about engy changes but then again i don't play engy. Just to clarify, the engy lost the mine but magus still has it?

i guess the healing on turret/minion is good?

All in all interesting changes

Grunbag wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:16 pm

It’s fair for both sides : it was a strong tactic for core, and not mirrored to magus. Now it require to invest points to get it.
In another hand , engineer doesn’t need to give free immune by using landmine to apply the build up increaser

xanderous wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:32 pm - Shock Grenade is removed and replaced by Field Repair : 3 seconds channelled Heal on your turret

Could you not have just made this ability effect allies within 30ft of the player its cast on to remove multiple staggers as a single stagger removal was very niche and i almost never saw a worthwhile opportunity to use it but i have seen many times multiple people being staggered at once.

Unless the heal is super powerful as in it regains all health in 1s, otherwise will just be useless as only flame turret will have enough wounds to justify using it before it dies from damage, making it channelled means spending 3s healing a pet and i assume not being able to do anything else in that time, which means spending AP on that ability when you could just spend it on spawning another turret and take the stack loss.

-Quick Reloader effect changed from "All Path of the Rifleman abilities now cost 35% fewer action points." to "Snipe and Gun blast now build up one second faster"

Actually not a bad change but means having to sacrifice a tactic slot for something that is already tactic starved in that area, will try it out but i have a feeling it won't be worth sacrificing either tracer rounds, fighting chance, masterful aim, unless you remove well oiled machine but running without that is pretty much an impossibility that this point.

Also why did not magus get this tactic, is it planed for next patch?

Sulorie wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:39 pm

Grunbag wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:16 pm

It’s fair for both sides : it was a strong tactic for core, and not mirrored to magus. Now it require to invest points to get it.
In another hand , engineer doesn’t need to give free immune by using landmine to apply the build up increaser

Originally tactics to reduce cast time had a drawback in increased ap cost. When the description in the patch notes is correct, it sounds like a no-brainer tactic.
On your main targets with low to mid armor, who rarely dodge you anyway, you will deal basically twice the dps.
I see it is added to mirror phys range dps cast time reduction of SW/SH but those had lower tooltip dmg anyway.
We will see how it works out but I guess the keep wall camping midgets will have even less reason to move.

Shouldn't be a problem with tactic slots either, because Masterful Aim is about 10% extra dmg, while this tactic increases dps by a lot more.

Grunbag wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:40 pm

xanderous wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:32 pm

-Quick Reloader effect changed from "All Path of the Rifleman abilities now cost 35% fewer action points." to "Snipe and Gun blast now build up one second faster"

Actually not a bad change but means having to sacrifice a tactic slot for something that is already tactic starved in that area, will try it out but i have a feeling it won't be worth sacrificing either tracer rounds, fighting chance, masterful aim, unless you remove well oiled machine but running without that is pretty much an impossibility that this point.

Also why did not magus get this tactic, is it planed for next patch?

Magus didn’t had the -35% AP stuff and have access easily to crit tactic in this tree , where engi have to spend 11 pts in tinkerer.

xanderous wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:43 pm

Grunbag wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:40 pm

xanderous wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:32 pm

-Quick Reloader effect changed from "All Path of the Rifleman abilities now cost 35% fewer action points." to "Snipe and Gun blast now build up one second faster"

Actually not a bad change but means having to sacrifice a tactic slot for something that is already tactic starved in that area, will try it out but i have a feeling it won't be worth sacrificing either tracer rounds, fighting chance, masterful aim, unless you remove well oiled machine but running without that is pretty much an impossibility that this point.

Also why did not magus get this tactic, is it planed for next patch?

Magus didn’t had the -35% AP stuff and have access easily to crit tactic in this tree , where engi have to spend 11 pts in tinkerer.

I was speaking in regards to the " to "Snipe and Gun blast now build up one second faster" not the AP part of the tactic

Grunbag wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:45 pm

xanderous wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:43 pm

Grunbag wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 3:40 pm

Magus didn’t had the -35% AP stuff and have access easily to crit tactic in this tree , where engi have to spend 11 pts in tinkerer.

I was speaking in regards to the " to "Snipe and Gun blast now build up one second faster" not the AP part of the tactic

I got that . Again , the build up faster tactic replace te trash -35% AP cost tactic , which magus didn’t have (cause they have crit tactic instead) unless you are asking to remove crit tactic from magus havoc and add build up reducer ?