You live on different planet if you think Mag Necro is over performing. Class needs serious buffs in damage and utility to become viable.
And yes even stam cro is underperforming outside of bash Goliath. Tell me what you can you do with Stam Cro that you can’t do better with other stamina classes? (In PvP always)
You live on different planet if you think Mag Necro is over performing. Class needs serious buffs in damage and utility to become viable.
And yes even stam cro is underperforming outside of bash Goliath. Tell me what you can you do with Stam Cro that you can’t do better with other stamina classes? (In PvP always)
Just tune down the Goliath Bash slightly (-10% ?)
Just tune down the Goliath Bash slightly (-10% ?)
That won't do much. People hitting you with 5k swipes, 3 times a second will now hit you with 4.5k swipes. The problem is the bash GCD. And you can't change the GCD of bash while in Goliath form, because the bash is also the CC break when stunned and you want that to be fast.
The correct answer is to replace the light attacks with the swipe, as opposed to the bash, and make them cost some stamina. Since light attacks have a 1" GCD there would be no problem. There's no bash glyph cheese then. Oh and also like Overload, it shouldn't work with Elegant set and other crap.
5k aoe swipes (in PvP), once per second, while also having 60-70k hp would still be extremely strong. But certainly more balanced than now.
Just tune down the Goliath Bash slightly (-10% ?)
That won't do much. People hitting you with 5k swipes, 3 times a second will now hit you with 4.5k swipes. The problem is the bash GCD. And you can't change the GCD of bash while in Goliath form, because the bash is also the CC break when stunned and you want that to be fast.
The correct answer is to replace the light attacks with the swipe, as opposed to the bash, and make them cost some stamina. Since light attacks have a 1" GCD there would be no problem. There's no bash glyph cheese then. Oh and also like Overload, it shouldn't work with Elegant set and other crap.
5k aoe swipes (in PvP), once per second, while also having 60-70k hp would still be extremely strong. But certainly more balanced than now.
( disclaimer : i don't play a necro myself and i have only encountered a few high-end players running the golem).
I agree something is definitely off with the output, but i really enjoyed the "get out of the way and kite that ***" experience when facing bash golems.
Moving the swing to light attack could be a good move, but it needs to retain a threatening level of DPS to force opponents to a defensive posture.
My suggestion (?):
- move the aoe swing to light attack but increase the damage per swing (!) so that the DPS stays to about 80% of what it is now (calculation needs to account for 0.4sec bash vs 1sec LA+Skill). No need to add stam cost to LA because a skill weave will be needed to retain current output .
- Attach a self-slow to golem transformation, to give it an unique gameplay aspect of trying to stick up to its targets, and offer a clear counterplay.
In general Necromancer is not really overperforming, it's pretty solid but suffers from really buggy skills. What makes it absolutely overperform however are the Goliath and Colossus ultimates. Goliath is twenty seconds of immortality with pretty strong damage and Colossus just instantly kills everything it hits. I haven't played Necromancer in CP yet, but in no CP BGs one well placed Colossus and eight people are dead, it's completely ridiculous.