Its over done. Its burnt. It started out great! The alpha tree looked amazing.
Then they changed it. Brought back ToTS, changed Strike As One to be tied with ToTS, Flamefang Pitch is completely useless, Raptor Swipe is fine but the first node is basically dead once you hit the third node, Sic ‘Em is a completely useless node but is required for Shower of Blood.
Did they see how excited people were for Survival and needed to backtrack?
the original alpha tree was horrendously basic, your gameplay didn’t change from aoe to st at all, and half your criticisms in this post apply directly to the “amazing alpha tree” youre misremembering
It still doesn’t.
It objectively does, you’re using boomstick way more often in AoE, which gives you more WFB in AoE, which gives you more boomstick, etc
You still tip boom on cd, you still tip bomb on cd (well not exactly on cd if you’re sentinel), tip swipe on cd and spend whatever you don’t need on raptor. Just because you get to throw a couple more bombs and a couple more shotguns doesn’t change anything. Rotational priority is still exactly the same. And heck if you take the 2 tips per kill command talent (which looks mandatory to take now) you don’t even need to thin about tipping because you will be swimming in tips anyway
so just because the rotation changes doesn’t mean it changes? okay bud. if only we had a completely pathetic aoe button on live that only existed to give us more wfb, all our problems would be solved
Something must’ve been lost in translation because that’s not what I said.
people want completely dumbed down specs even if those same people complain about button pruning. they crave to do huge dps while doing minimal effort
Survival is already pretty dumbed down as it is right now, so thats not saying much.
I want it to be fun. Shocking, fun, I know thats a foreign concept some people. ToTS? Not fun. Flamefang Pitch barely covering the ground? Not fun.
Flamefang Pitch is an AoE that barely covers any ground, and its on a 1 min CD. Its going to be a DoA talent choice vs the right side of the tree. It might have 2 charges, but it still barely deals any damage beyond the initial hit. But even then, Wildfire Bomb will deal more damage than it overall so whats the point of using it? For an AoE thats going to be moved out of in 2 seconds?
Theres no fixing Tip of The Spear. Its a boring talent that hides some of survivals damage. And now they tied Strike As One to it, which hides even more damage.
And then Raptor Swipe. First node grants a % chance to turn into Swipe. Second node is flat damage bonus, third node is a 100% chance to turn into Swipe. Whats the point of the first node then?
The tree is a mess, the damage is low, and they’re hell bent on releasing it in a terrible state.