Stone Giant

BohnT2

Stone giant is bad, it really is.
The bonus effect is useless in any situation.
Having to hit someone 5 times to stun them with the same ability while the stacks disappear every 7 seconds because you will stun an enemy on cooldown is just flawed and bad.
The whole ability is bad in fact, not only for what it does but also what it was intended to do.

First of all it's ranged which means as all ranged abilities it had a minimum travel time even when used at point blank range, for a class that is in no way ment to be used at range this doesn't synergies with anything while just adding a new drawback compared to its competitors.

Then you have the damage which doesn't sets it apart from other skills which are used as spammables like dizzying swing (even with the nerf it's better than stone giant) or powerbash (which does more damage and offers a synergy for DKs who like to block)
Not only being worse on a performance level than those skills no it also fails to give stamdk any identity.

Identity isn't given by just handing out mirror skills.
Identity is strengthend when a class ability synergises with the rest of the class and other abilities in that class.

One example being suprise attack stunning from cloak.
Power lash proccing on rooted or stunned enemies for magdk which has skills like talons and fossilize to complement it.

But stone giant doesn't do anything like that, it doesn't help stamDK in a pressure playstyle neither does it open up new way to play a stamDK.
Go back to the drawing board with the skill but don't throw out changes which are such a disappointment

chrightt

Maybe if they lowered the cost and made it 4 stacks per stun instead of 5 I can play my stamDK as a legit bow DK!

regime211

All people have to do is just NOT! Use it and they will once again go back to the drawing board. They keep trying to bring other non used skills in line and yet have the stupidest idea on how to do them.

BohnT2

chrightt wrote: »

Maybe if they lowered the cost and made it 4 stacks per stun instead of 5 I can play my stamDK as a legit bow DK!

Cost is the only thing that's not an issue with this skill because on casting it you get 990 stamina from helping hands

Urzigurumash

regime211 wrote: »

All people have to do is just NOT! Use it and they will once again go back to the drawing board. They keep trying to bring other non used skills in line and yet have the stupidest idea on how to do them.

They found a great way to make Stone Giant relevant - Fossilize was made more expensive, and this skill procs Seventh Legion, which is probably the single best backbar-able set for a StamDK.

Now it neither stuns nor gives resistances. It's a ranged attack and nothing more.

It's a terrible change, but it pales to what they've done to Dizzying Swing.

BohnT2

The biggest issues still prevail, the skill doesn't do much for class identity, looks like a pile of poo and is ranged on a spec that has not a single synergy with ranged playstyle.

Please give us a poison inhale that heals for less but deals more damage on the explosion.
How about poison talons?
Or give us our poison whip or make it a sweep with our wings or a dragon tail.
But please delete this abomination of a skill and be done with it.

Xvorg

BohnT2 wrote: »

The biggest issues still prevail, the skill doesn't do much for class identity, looks like a pile of poo and is ranged on a spec that has not a single synergy with ranged playstyle.

Please give us a poison inhale that heals for less but deals more damage on the explosion.
How about poison talons?
Or give us our poison whip or make it a sweep with our wings or a dragon tail.
But please delete this abomination of a skill and be done with it.

I don't think stonefist is that bad with the new change, in fact it could be used with whip