Page 7 beta dropped: Big VEAT changes

[KaizenSoze]

Pointing out some of the what I think are the most interesting changes:

• I cannot believe I forgot this one. Placate is now amazing. A quick recharging AOE placate to set up the 100% crits.
• Pain Tolerance for Night Widow
• Full crits for NW slash and eviscerate
• Better NW only Psychic Scream
• Full crits for all Bane melee attacks
• Scrambled Thoughts for Forts is now nice
• Leviathan pool is actually good now w/o procs
• General animation speed improvement in many attacks
• Fort wanting to play more ranged have gotten a nice buff with Fate Sealed and general control power duration increases

 

Edited January 20 by KaizenSoze

[Marshal_General]

• All Mace attack's cast times reduced to 1.67s.
• Mace Beam's cooldown increased to 6s and damage increased to 1.32 scale.
• Mace Beam Blast's cooldown increased to 10s and damage increased to 0.784 scale. Now has 100% chance for knockback.
• Mace Beam Volley's cooldown increased to 10s and damage increased to 0.824 scale.

Will this make them worth taking now? I really want a single target and AoE ranged mace attack for a build.

[KaizenSoze]

1 minute ago, Marshal_General said:

• All Mace attack's cast times reduced to 1.67s.
• Mace Beam's cooldown increased to 6s and damage increased to 1.32 scale.
• Mace Beam Blast's cooldown increased to 10s and damage increased to 0.784 scale. Now has 100% chance for knockback.
• Mace Beam Volley's cooldown increased to 10s and damage increased to 0.824 scale.

Will this make them worth taking now? I really want a single target and AoE ranged mace attack for a build.

IMO, and there has been strong disagreement on this point.

Mace Beam Blast can replace Frag nade, it does less damage, but has the same radius, quicker recharge, and 100% KB is great for crowd control.

Web cocoon is also via now, now that it doesn't have that long cast time. It is a basket of debuffs plus a hold.

As for Mace Beam and Mace Beam Volley, they are better, but just ok. I can only pay so much KB tax in a build.

[Marshal_General]

1 minute ago, KaizenSoze said:

IMO, and there has been strong disagreement on this point.

Mace Beam Blast can replace Frag nade, it does less damage, but has the same radius, quicker recharge, and 100% KB is great for crowd control.

Web cocoon is also via now, now that it doesn't have that long cast time. It is a basket of debuffs plus a hold.

As for Mace Beam and Mace Beam Volley, they are better, but just ok. I can only pay so much KB tax in a build.

I think the only two I want are Beam and Beam Blast. I can convert them to KD if needed, but I can use Beam for pulling and runners and Blast for defense to give me time when they are getting back up.