* there is no special feature, no new special mechanic which gives the Willbender identity. * Off-hand Sword is currently heavily outclassed by Focus. * All of the utilities were designed with PvP in mind. However, I can't help but think that it is a bit dull compared to other specs. Sadly, this didn't happen, and off-hand Sword isn't even good in PvE! We've seen a lot of people on the forums expecting some kind of flip-over skill on Sword 3. I thought we would have a special interaction with the two Swords equipped. The first thing that sprinked to mind was that it was gonna take some features from Thief. I'll be honest, when I saw the specialization preview two years ago, I was fully expecting the double-Sword brawler fantasy to be fulfilled for the Guardian. Might share is the critical feature that needs to be added to this specialization to make it good. Fundamentally, it doesn't need anything more to compete with other Power Alacrity sources, but it also isn't really able to compete with them right now.
In my opinion, this is the bare minimum set of changes that Power Alacrity Willbender is missing. This is a healthy place to put Might share on, because this trait is also competing with Restorative Virtues, which is a major damage trait. This is a good compromise, because it gives a niche to off-hand Sword and gives more flexibility to the support build the player can choose whether or not he wants to share Might or deal more damage. Holy Reckoning: In addition to its previous effects, off-hand Sword abilities now share 5 stacks of Might for 10 seconds. This trait in the Willbender traitline is an excellent Might source, but it is sadly not one that can be shared with allies. The first one could be fixed by a change to Holy Reckoning. The latter is covered by my previous suggestion. The Willbender as it stands is mostly inferior to the Renegade, because it lacks at least decent Might share and unconditionnal Alacrity share. Both have excellent CC, burst, and damage, but only the Renegade has optional party sustain through Soulcleave Summit and excellent Might share with Heroic Command. The specialization that fills the same power Alacrity niche as the Willbender, currently, is the Renegade. This is a dealbreaker for any Alacrity provider, or offensive support in general. The Willbender doesn't have an efficient way of providing consistent Might to the party. This set of changes offloads Restorative Virtues a bit too, which is currently too strong. The tradeoff aspect is kept in a milder form, with reduced healing, to prevent it from being too strong. Battle Presence shares Alacrity, and Flowing Resolve's baseline healing is still shared with allies.īoth Grandmaster traits would still synergize well, as Flowing Resolve has a strong healing capacity, and this would help healing builds tremendously. Restorative Virtues no longer provides Alacrity. Flowing Resolve also applies 3 seconds of Alacrity to allies upon activation. Phoenix Protocol no longer changes Flowing Resolve's base healing feature to Regeneration. Here is a set of changes that would greatly improve the Willbender's support potential: I don't think this tradeoff should be fixed anymore. This is fine, because Virtues is a traitline which synergizes extremely well with the Willbender, for multiple reasons: short baseline cooldowns on virtues, Boon and easy Aegis uptime, Permeating Wrath. While this is an interesting synergy, it forces the Willbender to equip the Virtues traitline to share Alacrity.
They made it so Phoenix Protocol and Battle Presence would synergize: the first one allows the Willbender to get Regeneration and Alacrity when attacking under the effects of Flowing Resolve (F2), and the second one shares them with allies. The Willbender can share Alacrity thanks to the Battle Presence trait in the Virtues traitline.
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I'll also give some suggestions on how to reaffirm the spec's identity. I'm gonna go over the main issues, and give suggestions to fix them. Additionally, Focus got buffed and overshadows off-hand Sword even more, with no compensation to make this weapon more effective. There is a lot of room for improvement in that department. I have no idea how it performs in PvP.įor a spec whose silhouette was believed to be an assassin Thief spec at first, by roughly 25% of the community, double Sword gameplay is a bit of a letdown. Please note that this entire thread only covers PvE Willbender. Here are suggestions to put it back in line with other more popular specializations, like Renegade. Despite the latest Willbender change, which allowed Virtues to be active all at once, this single change, no matter how significant, cannot fix Alacrity Willbender entirely and it still needs further iterations to make it compelling.
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