darkstorm wrote:AzureGladiator wrote:darkstorm wrote:make brc assassin skill premeditation -_-
Nah... Way of the Raven's the way to go
well, it used to be usefull, but i find premeditation farely more usefull - imagine ssin with almost no spelltimer all skill. broadside with 75% cooldown red... like 2 secs. Singularity able to be spammed. Hades gate like way to move (imagine farming uberlelevs with consta spamming that skill).
Try to think about it like a kind of encourage the player to do brc - way of the raven is not so common, for example electrofield ssin can deal without it. Psychicssin got nn in cold dmg. It was the great skill in old median, when assassin got other builds available. now, when there r more ones able, farely better encouragement is back to premeditation - imagine each ssin with each skill cooldown red by percentage (premeditation allowed to play caster ssin with oskills - avananche, shadow avatar, meteor shower, etc. with almost no cooldown).
way of the raven can be other skill, like 18th lvl one, or so. brc skill would be perfectly featured with premeditation. ssin would became the fastest char in game
for me in ssin most shitty thing r those weird teleports. blink is so op, that it should be 24 lvl (10 secs of stun is truly op), whilst hades gate is so unusefull that ... it should be like 1st lvl skill with more spelltimer modifications.
obliteration is weird, i was quite suprised by the fact it became brc skill... so usefull i found not even one ssin using it
(good job, mod team!) .
it's not same assassin as old median. those times it was op char. now it is so 'balanced' that it is even hard to play with (avoidance it kinda bugged. when i open old median, having about 56 % perf being works, whilst this times i got 67% and i feel like it's like kindda bug or so...). if none would be done to improve assassins flexibility noone would like to play ssin.
in playing ssin the point was that it was complicated. 1st blink, than hit with shadow refuge, than cast some light trap to stun around, than freeze those one in front of, than cast broadside and just move around, after that cast som wychwinds to lure there enemies, than, in those corridor cast singularity and improve it with doom...
much to be done. and that was the point - it was op char just to survive in fight and deal with all the matters.
than, someone in mod team realise that it should be changed coz that much ppl with be frustrated playing ssin and will choose the caster way to play (just to replace sorceress in that way, which became the best melee in game), that's why tiefling form arrived with op fcr.
after that, someone realise that casterssin was too op (could do most ubers naked just staning in one corner of the map and spamming laser limpet around) and - finaly - fixed it - and now, caster ssin is quite boring and not special.
that's why new median xl patch changed - finaly, after so much versions... - shuriken flurry range! and now casterssin switched into kind on stationary tantrum-way-of-playing or even better - kind of numlockssin
(another great job!).
i should suggest the team to make shuriken flury range like old median cascade - so it will be easiest build in median ever - required 1st lvl skill maxed and ssin can naked do all game just standing in the areas entrances...
someone in mod team just hate ssin. dunno, mb there r much gays there... who prefer muscle barbs and treewardens...
i know, ssin isn't pretty, looks ughly, but it's based on ninja. ninja is not the full-amored knight that can deal in crowd of enemies. it's not the ranger who can shot everything standing far away. it's short range char that can have to deal quickly. how can it deal quickly when it's becoming and becoming some sort of sorcerer? it is supposed to move super fast, to acts in one point aim, to deal long period dmg (psn dmg like 1min should be fine - who suggested anyone in mod team making tousands of psn dmg?!?! (in 2 secs >.< and much psn immunes)).
we r talking about traps but there r no strategic traps. why not allow ssin to put somewhere bombs that can stand there 2-3 mins and explode when enemy just step on them? it can be lired into the trap and die. putting trap on can be cooldowned and premeditation as a brc skill would make sense.
it's a spy, chief, close combat character, that should analise each step in advance. how to play like real assassin when most skills r closing it to the kind of funny sorcerer? look on ur decisions - scorpion blade which is usefull only as a high lvl proc when got much psn buffs and use wychwind or other fast attack. why it cannot be one hit throw that can deal psn dmg for 1 min? it would be better than just putting 'additional knives on mpf lvl'. noone uses it, it's rediculous >.<.
anosther skill - stormcrows. great idea - let the houndreads of flying knives just slowly follow one aim, missing all enemies in the way to it. why it cannot replace weird shuriken flury? imagine some king of knife throwing strafe (org diablo 2 ama bow skill that shot multiple times) - that would be much better in farming, uber doing, ... everything. the attack is ready, btw, just base on org diablo 2 strafe.
mpf was long range skill, now it's quite short range - but anyway, it works.
breadside is useless now. to low dmg. long spell timer (reduced by premeditation brc skill would work fine, even if quite op). But nah, sorry, my mistake - i forgot it's holydin skill atm, he can spam it with no cooldown, so it should be stationary given to the palladin.
melee skills i don't get. why don't we use kicks? it could be great to preapir special boots 'assassin character only' to kick enemies. it may sounds funny but there is animation ready, it could be quite uniqe.
what is the point with traps - except laser limpet, all r based on diablo 2 lod. nothing new, nothing better. make something that can work periodically and it will be truly trapssin - end even add new items into game, traps that can add some effect to the trap skills. that would be great job, indeed.
and the last case - why there is no ... invisibility skill for a ssin? even in d2lod she used to got a cloak of shadows, that allows her to move undeectable between enemies. in diablo2lod it was quite rediculous comparing to spelltimer but in median - such a skill would be great. it can be area spell, target spell or passive skill - and could truly replace always bugged vampiric icon skill
(ofc very usefull and very smart one).... >.<
imagine skill that allows u to become invisible to the moment u attack any enemy. u would put on traps everywhere and than attack one enemy and lure him in ur snare ^^
anyway, im dreaming - most prob next ladder ssin will be 'rebalanced', 'rebugged', and much re, re, with another ammount of funny skills that makes her stay one place and spam some shit around, constantly. and ppl will play it and than realise it's ''squishy coz it cannot survive staning one place like barbarians and palladins".
omg, no idea why is that happening, folks - is it possible that avoidance is uncomaparble farely shittier that 5m def, 50% dmg red and 100% dmg absorb within' 100 buffs regenerating whole life in a shorter period than a frapp, unmentioning all the ones that deals the mofos around 1m all type dmg around in 20 screen range, just making coffie and getting bath in the next room while? and is that mean that assassin is simply shitter char than all tanky boring having all pouncessin skills fatasses that arrived in the new, balanced median?yes it does. better remove that char to spare us ur shame, and our time.
cannot awaitening the forthcoming patch, it's so long! ^^ 
But like Premeditation, it's kinda a wasted skill slot (like most passives), but that's debatable. Maybe in the future if the mxl team wants to add a new sin skill, they can combine Way of the Spider and Way of the Phoenix into one skill that raises both (but to a lesser degree of course) to free up a slot.
