Empower makes Medium Weaving optimal - obviously a VERY bad thing

Vylaera

The change to Empower applies to all heavy attacks, not just fully charged heavy attacks, meaning that Medium Weaving is back on the menu. This is terrible if the goal is to close the gap. Medium Weaving is a lot more difficult to master than Light Attack weaving.

Empower needs to be changed to apply only to Fully Charged Heavy Attacks or simply reverted entirely back to a flat bonus to 40% for both LAs and HAs.

Sallymen

I have been watching the forums, looking at Twitter posts, AND testing on the PTS - I have seen parses within today's PTS patch (8/1).

-A restoration heavy attack averaged about 90k, max 175k (Parse in question averaged 85k with a weapon meant for healing)
-A dual wield heavy attack doing up to 102k, averaging 62k

This post is not to flame ANYONE but... where is the vision? I thought the point was to make weaving less important and now it is important now more than ever by doing medium attacks. Weaving in skills with medium attacks is going to make rotations slightly more tedious.

Again this post is NOT meant to flame anyone or any of the Devs, I am not name shaming or calling out players or employees but from what I am seeing here is that there is no passion or love for this game for these changes to make sense. Reducing boss health is not going to change this, there are still mechanics, there are still bugs and issues that are yet to be fixed and dungeons/trials not properly scaled.

Tannus15

Agreed, should be for fully charged hits.
Not sure how this should affect channelled heavy attacks.

PeacefulAnarchy

They could make it scale on hit duration, 10% for LA to 80% on full heavy. So a halfway medium attack would get 45%.

Marto

Or you can just do light attack weaving.

Just because something is optimal doesn't mean you have to chase it constantly, at the cost of ergonomics or fun.

boi_anachronism_

It's about clearing content. For a lot of folks that's what they enjoy. To do hard content you need to be optimized.