Hello folks,
been working on a few weird builds recently and I have been browsing alot of sets for those.
I saw that there are plenty of sets that have trigger conditions "on light attack".
However for a light attack to be actually considered a light attack you only are allowed to press shortly, if it is a lil too long its already medium and doesnt trigger it.
And heavy attacks do not trigger them at all obviously.
I thought: Why is that?
If you look at
Arms of Relequen that one has a very broad trigger condition. It triggers of both light and heavy attacks and everything in-between. Which is probably why it is so good on a variety of builds, including classic dual-bar builds, dual-bar heavy attack builds and even some one-bar builds.
There are other sets now such as
Grisly Gourmet that only trigger on light attacks but grant bonuses for heavy attacks (Empower) which is kind of confusing. A trial set
Whorl of Depths also only triggers exclusively on Light Attacks but could see a wider build variety if that would open up a bit more.
Belharza's Band is a mythic which rewards double-light attacking without a skill between for a mediocre dmg proc. This set could be much better if you could also use heavy attacks since it could then work on lightning-staff heavy attack builds because it double-ticks on each heavy. Also its dmg bonus should expand to heavy attacks too.
Kjalnar's Nightmare is an old monster set that requires absolute precise light-attack weaving to give the dmg proc. It is still outclassed by others such as Zaan and even Stormfist (considering total dmg). Opening on the trigger conditions could help alot to let this set shine a bit more.
What do you think?
It will not hurt the light-attackers at all but it could help for the sets to work on different kind of setups without affecting their original purpose.