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The class is in its inception. There will never be as much opportunity for improvement as there is now.
To provide examples:
1) Don't say 'bashing is terrible'. Say it needs change 'x' to be competitive. Increase dps? DR? Battlerage abs?
2) Prone: it would benefit jumps to have an earring counter. We could add it to 'x' ability under 'y' conditions.
3) Eclipse vs wings: I don't agree, since Ensorcell is on even playing field with every other class, but you could argue it could stop all in room, allies included as an equalizer.
Etc.
I do agree that limiting Weaponry puts the class in a box that makes it less appealing to me. No Behead? No bow? Can I deliver Selarnia/haemo/confusion etc to seal? Lowest DR in the game, no armour/shield? Why?
Etc.
Only bashing issue I've felt is a few hard zones stepping outside cut/blunt/mag you get quickly destroyed by damage even with all the healing and damage mitigation tricks stacked in your advantage.
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Also arise is good mobility and doesn't require you to be in a desert. You can make rooms have sand.
I don't know why you think the class doesn't have enough kill paths. It has three and they fork nicely. Its only real weakness is shield (which might be too strong against it atm).
Transpose gives the sealing venoms. No weaponry is mainly to stop weaponry from replacing transpose. I agree either being able to wield a bow only or having a class based ranged attack would be nice though, since every other class can with an artie bow.
Have some Pariah Xoran art, since this is the Pariah Thread....
oh that's weird. Yeah, I'm definitely wielding SoA right now (as a Pariah). can't use it while actually attacking though.
Please don't take it away from me
Disappearing from Achaea for now. See you, space cowboy.
smileyface#8048 if you wanna chat.
Trans avoidance
Clotharmour + 5% cutting paragon (and SoA paragon but it obviously didn't proc here)
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Pariah Shield defence with 19 Int
To be 100% clear, I know Colbey will always hit like a truck, but still seems to be a lot more painful than any other class, including those that have armor but do not have damage mitigation skills, which tells me that 19 Int Pariah shield buff is reducing a lot less damage than a normal scalemail (DW), for example.
As a sidenote, I'm pretty sure this is going to force most Pariah players into a horkval meta. Not sure if that's intended, but I think it's going to be the obvious answer here. You lose 2 Int (down to 17 Int with arties & traits) but as far as I can tell, it doesn't do much anyways, and you get 2 more Con + horkval damage resistances which is incredibly worth.
Seems really odd that one thing was overlooked.
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I think losing SoA would be pretty bad, as I tried bashing without it, and it was absolutely terrible. Not...impossible, just a lot more...stressful I suppose.
- Stupidity procs can completely shutdown momentum. This is because generally you are doing swarm/trace, where swarm is balanceless. If you get a stupidity proc on the trace and resend your command, you will now use your swarm attack a second time. Because swarm attacks take significant equilibrium without weakness, this interrupts your epitaph chain and also means you don't have weakness for your next attack. This might be able to be mitigated somewhat with some checks on attack, but this interaction is likely to be relatively common and only made worse by higher ping, where you can't effectively check weakness in time. As long as this is a problem, stupidity will effectively shut down Pariah offense unless they get extremely lucky or have really good ping.
- There are multiple, class agnostic ways to shut down accursed wave, one of which has 0 counterplay. The latter method is using aqueous sceptre to flood room, which overrides accursed eternity and completely removes the option to use accursed wave. It might be better to have neither of these override the other, but instead have eternity prevent flood and keep the mechanic where flood prevents eternity, therefore letting the person that initially setup the room get the advantage rather than letting any joe blow with a sceptre prevent the class from using one of its only defensive options.
Other than these rather two glaring problems, I love the class. It feels good to play, and feels powerful but in exchange has a rather weak defensive game. The suspense of whether or not you're going to survive for latency to let voyria kill is fun as hell, and wrecking people with bad prios on scourge is just satisfying.
Could look at adding more PvE specific resistance to the defense, similar to what they did for secondskin which had the same issue.
Also, using weakness first is better in many situations, allows you to swarm/trace/higher sorcery ability when you need to seal certain conditions, like swarm/trace/virulence, swarm/virulence etc.
Disappearing from Achaea for now. See you, space cowboy.
smileyface#8048 if you wanna chat.