Originally Posted by
Verain
Combat is absurdly frustrating to play this tier. I want to make a rant on the official forums about it or something.
First, we have this dumb GCD that I can't nail perfectly ever during AR/Blades. That's frustrating as SHIT not being able to jam a bunch of buttons. Every other high APM spec doesn't have such a tiny window, isn't so reliant on server lag, and doesn't rely on lazy fucking client updates to play properly (I have HOW many CPs?). I'm sure some of you can nail it perfectly, and grats to you, but this game has NEVER rewarded hammering out a 120 BPM rhythm on my 2 and 3 keys until this patch.
Second, we have the blade flurry nerf, which doesn't give us a niche like I though it did (we are just fail versions of melee ele shams if five mobs somehow bunch up). But to make it WAY worse, we have to find a position where our tiny fucking cone hits all the enemies. This was interesting as a 2-hit, and you could try to skill shot a specific target too, but as a 5-hit it's a geometry problem with normally only a couple solutions (aka, most spots won't cleave all the enemies). You then find one of the correct spots, tunnel the proper mob, and a mechanic happens so you have to step away and now your spot is dead. But you can't just swap targets because there's revealing strike, the super tight global, walk to the correct mob with a circle strafe so you don't lose too much flurry-time... I hate it so much. It needs to be a circle if it's going to be this new dumb fucking thing.