Game Mechanics Feedback and Suggestions on the new Acrobat changes

Introduction:
As an (experienced) acrobat player, I honestly think that the changes are quite underwhelming (frankly speaking, underwhelming is an understatement). In this post, I would like to explain why it’s bad and how to improve/change.

Before anything else, I would still want to acknowledge and appreciate the hard work from CT and devs.

Problems of the new changes:
The new changes encourage players to use the new ability “Swan Dive” or “Stomp” to dish out more damage from the normal acrobat cycle while getting damage buffs from “Aerial Ace”, and there are several problems I’ve found with it.

First, it’s the fact that the gameplay requires you to land on the floor. What would this mean? You would either die immediately in etw/etwa build or you would need to use rainbow build to possibly get more survivability. But for acrobat, a DPS class, even using etw build, their dps cannot even catch up to other dps classes like archer/mages (even lightbender) etc. So current state of acrobat build is go for glassy build and try to squeeze out as much damage as possible, but still underperforms compared to other classes, or tickle the enemy with a bit more survivability using rainbow build.

Second, momentum stacking. Before talking about the cons. I would like to say that this change made acrobat much better at fighting multiple enemies, as you can stack momentum much quicker and spam Swan Dive more.

However, when it comes to boss fights. You would notice that getting that 5 momentum is much harder, especially when you use it to fight fast moving mobs such as Morphion, it’s nearly impossible to get 5 stacks. So in cases where you cannot stack momentum quickly enough, you will even miss the Aerial Ace damage buff.

Third, damage of course. (Before anyone ask, my hana have 312% Ele damage) For me, Im able to do like 320k dps in perfect condition or ~200k on Swan Dive. So, expect much less in raids. but in the same class, with similar setup time and much less skill required I can play Oblivion/Animosity Hmelee and do like 1-2mil per powder special.

How I would change
There is no use for me to just rant and not give suggestions, right? So here it is;

1. Make Swan Dive easier to use - When directly hitting an enemy with Swan Dive, bounce back up a little bit (so add pirouette but a bit worse)

2. Tweak Swan Dive damage - Hana change in Major ID is most likely devs wanna make hana the main Swan Dive user. So maybe in Hana Major ID, increase the Swan Dive damage dealt, ideally increasing elemental damage from 90% -> ~120%, or even make the Major ID damage increase being additive to the original damage. But for each enemy hit within the radius, decrease 5% damage, max of 25% decrease.

3. Momentum Stacking - From the day I started playing acrobat, I’ve been thinking why there isn’t an ability node for rewarding players for staying mid-air long enough. So maybe other than damaging enemies/increasing bloom size, staying in the air every second will give you 2 hits for momentum.

4. Aspects - Increase max momentum stacks aspect

5. Increase Aerial Ace buff's multiplier

(Give hana 1 powder slot frfr)


This is basically my suggestions and my feedback on the new acrobat changes. Would also like to provide more info if needed