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NDB -> RE: Spreadfire (4/21/2019 16:32:11)
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@sippingcider
He nerfed Jugg by drastically buffing the NPCs and changing the multis to scale with Support. Dex as a stat was never nerfed until the last balance change where he added to 100 point diminishing return for Defense scaling.
In order to buff Dex, there need to be a lot more skills that scale with Dex, and not just random ones that won't synergize. Pure tech builds and Focus builds work because every class has at least one extremely powerful and/or fundamentally useful skill that scales with Tech. Even before he changed the multis to Support, there weren't many Dex skills, and now there are even less. Mercenary and Cyber Hunter don't have a single skill that scales with Dex, which is really sad since hunters' whole gimmick is Dex. It would interesting if they added Dex scaling to skills like Venom Strike, Assimilation, or Blood Mage Supercharge. Skills that currently don't scale with anything, like a at least one of the strength skills on the Mercenary skill tree (Double Strike, Maul, Berzerker) and Massacre could have Dex added to them, too, which would also encourage tankier Strength builds like in the old days. Some skills that currently scale with Support could also be changed, like Field Commander or Mercenary Intimidate. Obviously, Dex could also use a gun scaling or Defense scaling buff and/or another secondary effect added to it like Agility or defense reduction that would make it fundamentally much more powerful stat. Not everything here should be implemented, of course, since that would probably make the stat overpowered, but these are just some ideas.
Deadly Aim coming back helped, I guess, for opening up the door for mage Dex builds, but it doesn't even actually scale off the Dex portion of the gun damage.
As for AoEs, I think the percent should reflect how powerful the attack actually is. Multi skills, so it makes sense that they would do 85% (actually, that's arguable since they used to do 90% not too long ago), but robot, aux, and especially gun are relatively weak in comparison. Botanical Borg has 10% defense ignore, so that makes up for it, but Spreadfire for gun and aux ought to be buffed to 90%.
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