Has anyone already tested a sniper build?

Mirona_Thetin

With the upcoming changes I expect that a sniper build is no longer working for PVP! Can anyone confirm that?

The damage of Snipe itself will be reduced by 21%, all people have higher base health and 10% damage mitigation, and the damage you can get out of medium armor is also reduced (even with 7 pieces) ...

Does the reduced casting time for Snipe somehow help with this?

Thanks, Mirona

Dr_Ganknstein

I haven't tested it in pvp but I did put a video together showing the tool tips and ran a speed test side by side with the live version.

Speed test:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMakRaexlH4&t=63s

Tooltip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXOIU_fvVII&t=72s

Ringod123

Mirona_Thetin wrote: »

With the upcoming changes I expect that a sniper build is no longer working for PVP! Can anyone confirm that?

The damage of Snipe itself will be reduced by 21%, all people have higher base health and 10% damage mitigation, and the damage you can get out of medium armor is also reduced (even with 7 pieces) ...

Does the reduced casting time for Snipe somehow help with this?

Thanks, Mirona

Yes the damage will be reduced by 20% but so is the cast time.
All people have higher health but they no longer now have an extra 5k health in the battle spirit buff, so it works out the same in PvP. Battle spirit damage reduction buff has been lowered from 50% to 44%.
Damage you can get out of medium armor is reduced but everyone now has extra weapon/spell damage.

Hard to know exactly what the outcome will be in PvP since there's generally not enough people to test this in the PTS.
It looks as if they're trying to balance things so that its roughly the same as it is now but to me it does seem like tanky people will become even tankier and still do about the same damage they do now.

What they are changing with the change to snipe is trying to limit burst potential while keeping it's DPS the same, which to me makes little sense seeing as bows already deal less damage than melee weapons and fail way more to fire in the lag/latency of PvP than melee weapons.
For me, nerfing bow in any way should also come with a nerf to melee attack range in PvP, seems a bit silly that melee attacks can reach up to 12 meters or whatever it is.

Mirona_Thetin

Many thanks for your input!

I missed the additional 1000 WD and the change to battle spirit! It seems that Poison Injection and Toxic Barrage are actually doing more damage on the PTS!

Yes, I also think that heavy armor is getting stronger after the next update ... and I fear even more people will use heavy armor and proc sets in the future ... hard times for a Sniper!

Dr_Ganknstein

Mirona_Thetin wrote: »

Many thanks for your input!

I missed the additional 1000 WD and the change to battle spirit! It seems that Poison Injection and Toxic Barrage are actually doing more damage on the PTS!

Yes, I also think that heavy armor is getting stronger after the next update ... and I fear even more people will use heavy armor and proc sets in the future ... hard times for a Sniper!

Yeah we will see. We will be able to get snipe combos off faster at least 😁

goldenarcher1

Dr_Ganknstein wrote: »

Mirona_Thetin wrote: »

Many thanks for your input!

I missed the additional 1000 WD and the change to battle spirit! It seems that Poison Injection and Toxic Barrage are actually doing more damage on the PTS!

Yes, I also think that heavy armor is getting stronger after the next update ... and I fear even more people will use heavy armor and proc sets in the future ... hard times for a Sniper!

Yeah we will see. We will be able to get snipe combos off faster at least 😁

Should be able to land snipe-snipe-LA-poison inj. pretty reliably now as opening burst.

Also poison enchants are critting for 13k on pts so all may not be lost!

Daemonai

nvm