Vic wrote on Jun 18
th, 2014 at 9:34pm:
Enchantements: Barbarians and paladins are still openly hanging. GJ on bards. Ok, i do see something there.
sarcasm?
The swashbuckler tree itself might be nice and a good tree, but they didn't fix the core problems of the bard class and are going to use the swashbuckler tree as excuse to destroy most of the long lasting and loved bard builds.
But yeah, most new players don't know how it is to have valuable melee song buffs and at least enough melee dps to get stuff done on your own...
They destroyed that long ago and prefer to introduce a new tree instead of fixing old builds and at the same time they say they try not to break too many characters...
But hey... most bard players currently around don't remember how valueable warchanters once were and that they were still able to be at least decent enough dps to get stuff done alone.
So what did bards get? A new and superior melee tree which is not supporting any of the current warchanter fighting styles.
On top of that bards who tried the swashbuckler tree said it wouldn't feel like playing a bard anymore...
How can an enhancement tree be good if the playing the class now feels more like playing a generel fighter melee than a bard? o.O
And they are going to use the swashbuckler tree to say now that bards have a melee tree they don't need the warchanter melee anymore... And at the same time they try to fool us with senteces like 'we try not to break current character builds'...
There general direction for warchanters is now a buffing and healing nannybot, which is worse in melee than a cleric/fvs. That sounds like a new level of fun playing a warchanter...
So sorry, but I don't see how the swashbuckler tree is anything near a 'Good Job' done for the bard class itself.
Not having very strong melee skills NEVER was the problem of bards, especially not the problem that nearly no warchanters were running around anymore since the enhancement pass... so they fixed something that wasn't broken. Yeah warchanter didn't scale dps wise as much as other classes with the new enhancements and epic destinies, but good bard players never tried to be same dps like a fighter or barb.