Report 280

Report #280
Skillset: Pureblade Skill: New
 Org: Ur'Guard Status: Completed Oct 2009
Furies' Decision:
Solution 2
Problem: Pureblades have no critical wound level gut afflictions, thus limiting
the usefulness of attacks against the gut (as heavy wound affs are only of
limited usefulness) which, combined with the inability to completely choose
which area to attack, renders some attacks useless.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Give Pureblade a critical level gut impale attack as
 well as a "rend" style ability that requires full
 balance to perform and causes noticeable damage as
 well as bleeding when performed if the person has not
 writhed free yet.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: Give Pureblade the Disembowel timed insta as a
 strike/swing as a critical gut affliction.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #3: .
Player Comments:
---[Xenthos on 10/10 @ 00:36 writes]:
I'd be fine with a swing to gut having the disembowel option. I'm not sure it
needs to be a strike, though?
---[Ilyarin on 10/10 @ 13:12 writes]:
I don't like the idea of PB having an impale attack for the gut. I'd prefer
solution #2, but echo Xenthos' sentiment that it probably doesn't need to be a
strike.
---[Akui on 10/10 @ 14:06 writes]:
Pureblade needs more love than the other specs, but being one I am loathe to
just say "OH HAY BUFFS" because of the obvious conflict of interest. Instead,
I'll point out that the spec, compared to the others, lacks that sort of core,
powerful, direct wound building ability that the other specs all have in some
way shape or form. (Of course, those are the abilities that people usually
complain about- pinleg, stun, AL doubletap). All that said, either of the above
would give some sort of reason to at least work on gut. Both make thematic
sense as well. I mean, it is a "huge frickin' sword", after all. :P
---[Vathael on 10/12 @ 15:44 writes]:
I suggested critical level wounds to address the fact that Pureblade can hit
high wounds fairly easily. An impale being at critical level wounds will not be
easy to hit as well as the fact that writhing from impale only takes 2s and
therefore you can writhe before they get balance back. I suggest a strike on
suggestion 2 because, let's face it, it's not hard to heal disembowel and chance
to not hit what you want or miss completely on a swing is overly high and the
fact that Pureblade only gets one chance to hit any given wound- I think that
making it a swing would not be beneficial at all for it.
---[Mirami on 10/13 @ 04:14 writes]:
I'd be fine with seeing an impale-style attack from PBs at critical wounds on
chest, or disembowel. Disembowel might make more sense, though, since All of the
greatswords I can think of are slashing weapons (claymore, katana, I'm missing
two).
---[Desitrus on 10/13 @ 18:59 writes]:
Back when I made a list of suggestions for Pureblade, suggestion 1 was on it.
Pureblade has no "critical threat" jab on a non-standard area. I would have
modified suggestion 1 though, in that it function like pinleg insofar as
stopping tumble, it have an extended writhe time (it is a single attack with one
toxin possible, not that huge), and a bigger rend/bleed value. This was my final
change to push PB into the same tier as the other specs. Adding a stronger rend
that functions like most IRE disembowels isn't bad, as long as the writhe is
kept normal in that case.
---[Nienla on 10/13 @ 22:39 writes]:
Pureblade's could use a critical wound on the gut, I'm in favour of Desitrus'
comments.
---[Vathael on 10/14 @ 03:04 writes]:
Desitrus' comment goes along similar to mine and in that sense, I think that my
original Solution 1 suggestion would work well and with the fact that you can
writhe faster than balance returns (making it not overly dangerous) there are
still tactics that could be applied via PB afflictions to make it viable to
accomplish.
---[Ceren on 10/15 @ 15:38 writes]:
I like solution 1. Regular length impale time with a heavy damage rend finisher.
Solution 2 is also good, but I do think it should be strike/swing. A PB gets
only one shot to connect the swing compared to a BM's two, and Burstorgans is a
strike so it's not like it's something new.
---[Akui on 10/15 @ 19:45 writes]:
Agree with Desi/Vath/Ceren.