Grade 3 Arrow Shield Buff / Change (pve)

Simply put, the transition from Grade II to Grade III is a downgrade. It transfers a portion of the spell's damage to a highly situational ability (Arrow Rain) that either rarely hits or doesn't hit at all because you are in an enclosed space.

I feel like Arrow Rain should either be reworked, or Arrow Shield should have a slight increase in duration for its Blindness effect from Grade II to III. It simply doesn't make sense to reduce a spell's damage from 250% to 150% (a big difference) in exchange for an ability that is borderline useless.

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EDIT: If the ability is already getting nerfed as a whole, at least make Grade III seem like an actual upgrade.

 

Its good enough as it is.

 

It's fine plus it's easier to wrek archer with meteor now xD

 

I can't be entirely sure, but from my experiences the spell multiplier on the first hit stays the same.

 

Let me put it this way
Arrow shield is completely over powered as is, and Selvut plans on nerfing it

 

He's talking about arrow shield

 

Woops meant to put shield not storm

Either way shield is what's planned to be nerfed~

 

Oh well I didn't know

 

Nerfed for what reasons in particular?

 

Oh I don't know
Because it's overpowered as fuck at the moment?
You could use it as your sole offensive spell and do just fine

 

Want to give me valid points that explain which parts of the spell need to be nerfed? I didn't get much from your childishly crude remark.

 

1. DEFENSIVE SPELL
2. With some builds can do as much as Bomb Arrow - your OFFENSIVE SPELL
3. Quite simply, does way too much damage in comparison to its intended use, knocking away enemies that manage to get close to you

I don't see what's hard to understand about that unless you've never played the class....

 

Isn't that better? I just can't come to understand people who justify their points with profanity...
A nerf to damage I can understand. That doesn't take away from the fact that from Grade II to Grade III there is no beneficial change.

 

Not when it costs half your mana bar a cast.

 

It deals as much damage at base as your offensive ability, Bomb Arrow, already. It lets you hit for all five elements of damage with solely your spells, which not even Mage, the master of spells can claim. It blinds enemies for a massive amount of time(I've been hit in duels by it, 5 seconds. The page lies, it's way more than 2.) Plus, due to its water, you're encouraged to utilize intelligence to boost it up, and if you do you can spam it and literally juggle enemies above you. Bomb Arrow gets...higher range, essentially, and a mana cost of only two less.

Arrow Shield needs nothing but nerfs.

 

I hope you are not solely considering a nerf on numbers. If it's going to be changed this drastically, it needs a rework as a whole. Like I said above, from Grade II to III is a downgrade -- which makes absolutely no sense -- regardless of how overpowered the spell itself is.

 

Comparing the damage of my Arrow Shield before and after Lv 66 on the testing server, it's the same. The % damage downgrade is a lie, just like the 20% thunder damage on Uppercut.

 

Problem with arrow shield is that it's basically a moving aura of death that people use to ram into bosses with and it does incredibly high amounts of damage.

 

Stahp trying to nerf my 20k super death killaura, that can't be avoided due to 10 block radius and 150 walkspeed

 

This sums it up rather nicely.