Grail Knight by comparison is a weak hero

[SlashKex]

Read through the entire thing. 3 topics that came up: Boss killing power compared to Bh, Shade etc., the main question; is he weak by comparison, and comparison to Merc.

Careers trivialising bosses/Lords are nothing new and but I’ll just copy my thoughts from this thread: Grail Knight trivializes all monsters and lords

@SlashKex

To my knowledge all bosses and Lords have some level of damage reduction. This could be increased and/or perhaps introduce a damage capping mechanic for bosses and Lords that simply does not allow the player to deal more than X damage within 0.something seconds. I think this would work best if the damage was % based rather than a flat number.
Also, I do not know the time interval between GK’s ult’s first and second hits while dual daggers count as 2 hits and the same goes for BH’s Double Shotted, hence limiting damage per hit rather than a short time period would leave us with outliers.

My experience: I have taken GK to weaves; grey ones specifically, Cata+, hypertwitch and cata FoW

Is GK weak by comparison? Yes, without question. Grail Knight has actual glaring weaknesses, areas of combat(ranged not included) in which he does not excel in and he cannot be built in a way that makes him able to deal with everything. Good. You may actually have to back off from an engagement rather than going in without a single care. Forcing you to work together with a teammate that can cover for your WEAKNESS in a CO-OP game. What a time to be alive.

This is most apparent in FoW and hypertwitch where you have a lot of everything coming at you and you need to be able to kill them. Depending on your weapon/property/talent choices you will struggle against at least 1 type of enemy.

Is GK weak? The higher the difficulty the more useful he becomes. Proxying a strength pot at every 200th kill shouldn’t even need an explanation. With Kruber’s melee arsenal he can: stagger(Virtue of Ideal gives 10% power on kill so even for a shield build, taking Enhanced Power is redundant) rather well, and regardless of what melee combo you take, you will be able to kill almost anything at melee range. Take weapons which have weakness that are covered by your teammates weapons/ult. E.g. UC w/ Flail will stagger everything in sight so you can go full damage with M&S, Xsword. and Audacity. You lack armor damage? Bring the 2h hammer and so on.

Compared to Merc? GK is better at dealing damage because of Knight’s Challenge and Virtue of the Ideal, whilst Merc has better cleave because of his talents giving power(Power =/= Damage) and his passive, Hitting the Sweet Spot, and Merc’s ult brings more to the team in the form of thp and DR. At 1 stack of Virtue, GK does slightly less damage and at 3 stacks,20% crit power and 10% chaos you can 1 crit headshot a CW on cata(On legend you can 1 shot headshot CW with 20% chaos at 3 stacks) with the Xsword.

As a career Merc is better(a topic for a different thread) but GK does more damage.