Weapon properties and traits (updated after a little bit of testing)

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@Rebel

If we went by your suggestion, Opportunist would get heavily nerfed, since the trait allows certain weapons like shields to push stagger most enemies in the game like maulers and Stormvermin. It’s a great talent for more crowd control and pretty essential for shields.

In reality Shields are those weapons that would have the lowest benefits from Opportunist. This trait would not add any cool breakpoints.
While, other careers like HM (wich is a crowd control career that… can’t stagger hordes), would be a little bit better.

@Para-Medic

As already I explained above. I refuse your 99%. It’s more like 85%, naturally fast and high crit weapons do not need SS. If you are mindlessly left clicking, RC will get your ult back faster. If you play defensively with LLR/shove/dodge, SS isn’t being used efficiently anyways, so RC is even more pronounced. I feel like you should try it yourself instead of mathing.

EDIT: RC is much more useful for Ults with Long CDs, anything less than 1.5 minutes, sure, stay with SS, the difference is minimal.

Off Balance for shields is great because you’re not killing armor with your normal attacks (except axe). Shield with sword need to do push attacks for anti-armor, so I take a blocked hit to let them stagger themselves then push/stab to the face. It’s your best option against CW/SV.

Off Balance works great for DW and 1H weapons that have a cleave push attack. Synergizes greatly with 60% BCR for anyone who want to have a higher survival rate. It’s an option for less aggressive play styles that otherwise will eventually get you killed without aid. Being able to turtle in a corner and stagger mobs just from blocking and just shove/cleaving them is a life saver.

Man, I mean, 99 is just a symbolic %… it could be 80-85-90%. SS already gives attack speed… in every case it should be less strong than RC to charge faster the ult.
And obvly Fatshark should buff RC and not nerf SS (but this is another speech).

Probably shields are the only weapons that can use Off Balance… but just because the other traits, on shields, are even more useless.

Dunno, here I simply don’t agree. I mean, should I wait to get stuck to find Opportunist (maybe) useful? Probably, with SS, I would not be in that bad situation. Anyway I don’t feel any significant difference.

@Froh

It’s fine as in “It’s actually a nice choice” for bad thp gen carrier (even when it’s bumped via shallya), usually Bounty Hunter, some Sienna’s, etc …
Like, you can play Natural Bound, it’s not a bad choice, and it’s actually useful.

There’s so much others traits that are straight up terrible, than I wouldn’t touch NB at all before all the others are remade.

I don’t agree because, as said, ranged careers are squishy. I get damaged > NB starts to work… but it takes ages to give me those HP that would save me from a second attack.
Anyway almost every ranged career can farm tHP: HS has spear, BW has fire sword and fire dagger, RV has shields and 1h Hammer… they all have tHP on stagger. Even BH + rapier can farm a decent tHP. An entire trait just for WS? And maybe Pyro (even if crowbill + %crit + tHP on kill is a good combo).