Frig they really took the nerf stick to blitz.

I thought the whole point of this update to melee/ranged power was to "bring up the other EDs to the level of master's blitz" according to the devs...

OR, we could just lower blitz down to measly again, and then it'd be no issue.

really a 10% chance that your gonna stack a blitz per hit.

I did a quick test in VON 3 this morning.  when your 1-3 hitting mobs on eH, you are only getting a stack of blitz ONCE every 4-10 mobs...  serious serious nerf.  used to be every kill.

and thats ONLY if you get good dice and make that 10% roll.  as every arcane knows, 10% failure can be a bitch right when you need it.  heh.

during VON 3 this AM I did 2 blitzes, and got neither above 4.   mowed through the quest on eH in something like 13 minutes.  first blitz burned out before I got to the first shrine.   second blitz started at the room with the last shrine, and didnt even make it to the beholder boss.  I was trashing dozens of mobs, making hundreds of swings, and never saw a blitz above 4.


This is now a useless capstone for any serious melee.  from the absolute best to the worst.

funny Pally went the other way

but seriously.   decrease the damage output perhaps, (which they did anyways) reduce the amount of melee power LD can have because blitz is OP (ya they did that too) but then ALSO make it impossible for any toon other than a cleric doing 20 damage per swing on EE be able to get a stack of 10 going.

stupid.

I used to spend 4 minutes prepping a blitz before popping.

Now Im gonna pop a blitz and spend 4 minutes with a scroll in my hand trying to land as many punches as possible WITHOUT killing anything to get my blitz prepped.

this is dumb dumb classic turdbine action.


My vent.

Blitz is phenomenal now on throwers however. Can maintain 10 stacks with little trouble

havent tried it yet on live. last time on lama against kobolds that do not die, i failed a few times to even get a single stack. That was on a swf toon at 45 atk speed, haste boosted, and doublestrike at 30%.

This is the problem when turbine nerfs, they make it useless on 90% of chars.

ya my toon is a SWF swashbuckler with 45% alacrity and 40% doublestrike.   

and still getting 1 or 2 stacks per 20 mobs.  on eH.

Turdbine powercreeps the mobs until only a VERY high end toon can solo even trash stuff.   trash mobs with 10-15k hp and whatnot.

if your doing 100 damage per swing...  thats over 100 swings to take down a mob.   just stupid.

blitz was the one stop ED for melee builds.  but now its looking like its gonna be divine crusader, or just take your spikes with fury or something.

I was just beginning to have fun with a melee toon again with the swashbuckler.  now done get my wrong, there still LOTS to love about it, and the playability was great.  but with blitz it was just gravy.   super fun to play, group with or solo.   annoying that its gone.

I'll try with twf later and see how it goes.

Anyways, it might be better on EE, since the mobs have more hp.

Don't worry guys, it's just a simple bug, Turbine will fix it soon!


_{...in 50 years, I hope.}

On a 16/2/2 monk I could easily keep blitz up in EE and while fighting a boss I could see my 10th charge renewing every 7-9 seconds.

Given I do like to dive into a cluster of mobs and hit whirlwind.

There are no words to describe how absolute BS it is what turbine did to nerf blitz.  Shitty players complain about casters ruining their blitzes instead of just learning to be better players and this is what happens.
Yes it makes boss fights easier.
Yes the loading of a blitz was retarded.
Still you could just learn to be a better player or work with your group and get your blitz up to 10 going into a boss fight and even on EE it still wouldn't be down to 5 by the time the fight was over if you built your toon even half decent. 
Thanks for completely taking the challenge and fun out of one of the most addicting aspects of the game you fucking fucktards.

Angry wrote on Oct 1^st, 2014 at 3:26am:


The awkward moment when I agree with Thaz.   

ThE PhAnTOM GoD wrote on Oct 1^st, 2014 at 9:01am:


If you could keep it going through an entire quest before but cannot stack it now I'd say your dps went down to about 50% of pre u23.. that's quite a bit imo..

I was actually looking forward to the change but it just seem more broken now

Red Sox H8 Yankees wrote on Oct 1^st, 2014 at 9:29am:


Wills and ways lol.

The increase in dps from melee power is definite. On lama, I checked it out, and I seem to recall my build (dunno whether it was Dwarf Swasher or some Pally build) seeming to have a bit higher dps in blitz than (some other destiny, probably DC).

On live, I can now take out most trash mobs pretty easily with just my norm dps, and a pair of cleaves (dwarf swash). Haven't personally tried blitzing on live because working primal for ePL/ECompletionist. But I expect to have a number of frustrating instances of my blitz not building.

For those above who have had it build no problem, that happens. It's 10% chance. You can also have it not build at all. Just because it worked for you each time doesn't mean the many experiences of it not building didn't suck and didn't happen.

Figured out using Tornadoes to build blitz in u22 to compensate for casters. Definitely will be helpful still with these changes.