1. Allow synergy use during cast/channel times.
   • The potion change this patch was a great idea, this always felt clunky and had no purpose of ever being there. Synergies are in the same boat.
2. Lower all 1.0s cast/channel times to 0.8s.
   • Eg. Dark Conversion.
   • Better fits the 1s GCD and has become widely accepted amongst the playerbase as feeling 'just right". You're obviously aware of this because it's present on most previous 1s cast time spammables, but also you just changed Templar's Jesus Beam this year to 3.8s. Same princible.
3. Remove the slow effect and intertuptablilty of ranged heavy attack and cast/channel time abilities:
   • Ranged attacks already have 0.3s minimum travel time in melee range which goes up to 1~1.7s at 28m, these 2 factors cover the balance of range vs melee counterplay. Interuptting/bashing is not exclusive to melee and has been added to ranged attacks defeating the original intended purpose. Melee can also utilize gap closers and movement speed bonuses, in conjunction with the new 7m range, and typically 10% stronger tooltips.
   • The added penalties to make ranged attacks slower, weaker, and easier to counter is hardly justified especially when considering most playstyles aren't strictly range or melee, but often a mixture of the two. Eg. You have an Ability Altering Weapon for Snipe that rewards you for getting closer to your target, but you move like a snail and can be interupted. Who would ever use this?
4. Remove all short duration (0.2s~0.5s) cast/channel times.
   • Eg. Dawnbreaker, Poop Fist, Death Stroke, Abyssal Impact.
   • With how short these are, it serves as a nuisance rather than counterplay because the average human reaction time is 0.25s, this is already close to these short cast times, but even worse when you consider ping, response time of monitors/keyboards/controllers, frame rate, refresh rate, and physically pressing the key you need to. Aka, it's entirely random if these attacks succeed or not, true counterplay comes from predicting your oponents next move which has nothing to do with cast times.
   • If you absolutely must have damage delayed, make the cast instant with delayed hit registration. This happens with the 0.3s minimum travel time on instant ranged projectile attacks, skills like Volley, Contingency, Leashing Burst, and Bound Armaments. Ranged attacks have different travel speeds. There is so many better ways to introduce counterplay without it feeling clunky due to short, slow, interruptable, cast times.

• Animations are still janky, stuttering, and noticably missing key frames for a smooth visual experience. 2H is still the worst, but all weapons have the weapon trail from swinging appear/dissapear randomly, making it look even worse.
• Weaving still feels off with a noticable loss to DPS due to missing light attacks and/or skill casts not registering properly.
• Some Polymorphs still give access to the old animations, gives an immediate way to compare the old vs the new animation with the quick slot wheel. Makes it even more apparent how bad these are in direct comparison.
• I setup my character for 30 minutes, then left it afk for 10 minutes, no issues, the moment I started parsing I crashed within 5 minutes. Still not using a PS controller, no double input, XBox controller.

MashmalloMan wrote: »

Week 4 (usually the last patch that makes it to live):

• Animations are still janky, stuttering, and noticably missing key frames for a smooth visual experience. 2H is still the worst, but all weapons have the weapon trail from swinging appear/dissapear randomly, making it look even worse.
• Weaving still feels off with a noticable loss to DPS due to missing light attacks and/or skill casts not registering properly.
• Some Polymorphs still give access to the old animations, gives an immediate way to compare the old vs the new animation with the quick slot wheel. Makes it even more apparent how bad these are in direct comparison.
• I setup my character for 30 minutes, then left it afk for 10 minutes, no issues, the moment I started parsing I crashed within 5 minutes. Still not using a PS controller, no double input, XBox controller.

It's very concerning that you seem to be going live with these changes, you're going to have an exodus more disastrous than update 35 on your hands.