I dont know if you are serious but this new horse stuff is just awful, even with full “tank” geared the sader feels super squishy but now you loose the only remaining strenght this toon has which is the real good aoe dps. Every half well geared dh, necro, druid or even barb takes down the horse sader without a sweat, if this should be tank then please watch the druid, this is tanking.
The sader needs real help, conjuration of light is a joke with his long cooldown and must be way lower, i would even sacrifice the party protection for shorter cooldowns, we need essences that gives us like wizzards permanent more movementspeed or immunity to cc (at best both) and are useable with old circle build. We need some sort of healing like the druid has but please stop this horse nonsense or rework this class from the scratch.
There is something weird lately indeed.
I supposed that it is due to the new set that canceled most of current gamage reduction on saders. -35% is a huge burst that requires to disengage whenever the effect is above our head…
I run full tank builds and this is the first time i cannot tank properly a damage burst.
Lowlife barbs are especially deadly, only way to tank their primary attack is spiteful blood.
I was testing the indez horse build today and the swiftwind steed was really working better then the other horse that makes immune to knockbacks but you still cant tank very long with this build. If a strong necro crosses your way you have still no real chance, druids are much better at tanking the idol and survival because the heal which the sader is missing and even the barb has one shoot potential with the new build.
The only thing that changes is that i am now faster and can try to get some towers or return to base and heal up at the new bg while i would have mostly got killed with old circle build. Dps is way lower at horse and you are still only the 3 sec guy who mostly only can react while the shield of conjuration is active.
It is strange, sometimes i am full health and think i could tank a bit but then with one hit suddenly all hp is gone and i must escape, sader just dosent feel tanky like he should (i would even say monks are better tanks atm).
The build is not total unplayable but atm i am not sure if its not better to run old circle build, i think not much of the stronger players will change from toons like druid or necro to play a horse sader.
I play it more defensive with Khalim chest for regular big shield and reworked helm for constant shield. With both i manage DoT pretty well. Regular CoL is difficult to share anyway so i decided to go solo on it, front lane (also regularly solo… as teammate back-off to heal).
I also use the electric shield that block projectile to counter DH, main hand that stun in combination with black rose and fated stray.
Main issue is the new set, very effective against tanks.
I loose some DPS, sure, but can tank long enough to rotate with another tank under idol to heal.
I’m pretty sure that we can find new build with the reworked sweep attack, just need some time and tests.
I gave up on pvp again, was really trying the horse but at tower today was losing 4 matches in a row without any chance against dh or necros, then i was switching to circle build again and realized that i was moving in slow motion. I was even leaving one match out of frustration which i normaly never do, i am close to delete my 5k sader and give up on this game, its only frustrating atm and the devs dosent change it. This horse sader can be played by some 2k streamer and their enemies but as soon you meet high reso dh, druids, necros you get f*ck*ed hard again and again.
new essences on 2/4, hope it’s not another copy/paste trash that we get every release.
My guess would be another round of sacred chain because we was missing this at the last row of essences. A piece of gear that would bring the circle build out of slow motion would be my dream, some toons got essences with perma 40% movespeed and dps on top. Another great thing would be a heal like the druids got. I managed today even to get a message 2 times at cradle that i was defeated by Thorba because the brimstone helmet at horse build was killing me, thats something really only the sader can do at this game.