I think the game needs more ways to live as a mage/gunner, which fighter tanks couldnt just take to become even tankier. Stuff that scales with spirit, energy or magical damage. This would create more “glass” mages which use their abilities to live, instead of just “max physique max resistances max defensive ability” on every single character
examples (change the actual numbers as one sees fit obviously)
Spirit Guard
Create a shield [1x, 1.3x, 1.6x …] your spirit value which absorbs any type of damage
Energy Link
For 6 seconds, [2%, 4%, 6%, …] of damage taken after resistances instead damages your energy
Defense of the [insert thing in lore or something idk]
For 8 seconds, your defensive ability is raised by [2%, 4%, 6% …] of your maximum energy
Contest Spirit
Around a [4m, 5m, 6m …] targeted location, any enemy with a lower spirit value than you has its freeze resistance lowered by 50% and is then frozen for [1s, 1.1s, 1.2s …]. Upon defrosting, targets have a [20%, 22%, 24% …] chance to fumble attacks for 4 seconds.
I would agree with pretty much any idea to change the “all phys or go home” meta.
I remember that before launch we had a phase where melee characters where pretty bad, you had to really go full defensive with the devotion to be able to run ultimate. When Crate did the whole balance check thingy before the game releases everything changed, I feel now that everyone is playing melee, because you have the defense, the sustain and the offense, so why not??
Every once and while you see someone that build a great pure mage character (like the build that was translated from the Korean forums) but its so rare right now. Maybe the expasion will bring changes for the casters.
I remember that before launch we had a phase where melee characters where pretty bad, you had to really go full defensive with the devotion to be able to run ultimate.
eh? I cant remember a single patch when melee was bad. Soldier was Opie right from the start of early acsess, and Warden was the best class to run ultimate upon its release.