I agree with all of the above. ASW was redone poorly. I think the SW rework Team engaged the class rework based on spreadsheet rather than having actual working knowledge.Farrul wrote: Sat Sep 05, 2026 6:48 pm Why play ASW anyway when the other Elf sibling dps class is a superior melee choice even in this ''niche'', more armor, more wounds, better frontloaded burst, much better gap-closing. better cc, better melee detaunt and the list is long. Sure pet bugs out sometimes but the pros are many.
ASW is begging for some adequate melee defences, it melts under pressure like glass WE/WH.
My concern with the SW class is still how they butchered the defences on the RDPS specs, no armor to fall back on, no disarm either, the AOE detaunt is the ''temu'' version of detaunts and is the same ability used for ranged detaunting ( for comparison, check how they treated WP/DoK during their respective healing patches, they gave them a new specific AoE detaunt, whilst keeping the old ranged one on a separate CD, someone in the balance team obviously do not like SW ).
Meanwhile RDPS SH did not get defences butchered like that, ''Balance''. Still some Armor, kabom, etc.
Their product is its own refutation.
