Zealot nerfs

[alsozara]

@CruBop

Punishment nerf was so other blessings and talents could be relevant. This change is healthy for the game

I guarantee you people still won’t use those, they’re just highly out competed in most cases.

@CruBop

Fury of the Faithful giving 100% rending to range has been silly since zealot is melee focused. This reinforces that. This also will help with the future balancing of automatic weapons. Hard to balance when one class gets 100% rending. This change is healthy for the game.

@alsozara

They don’t but if you like to run eg heavy sword or d claw as melee your effective options to help with crushers just got cut down dramatically. No more pairing with a brauto, shotty or vraks III, hooray more encouragement to use revolver instead.

Yeah it is NOT a net positive effect on build diversity, and again mostly another slap to the face of weapons that were mid to begin with

TL;DR in practice mostly hurts less competitive options. Revolver eating real good.

@CruBop

Cooldown reduction on ults is really strong. Spamming ults without a stim makes them less thoughtful and is a crazy player power spike, upsetting game balance. I wouldn’t be surprised to see vet get a similar change soon. This change is healthy for the game.

@alsozara

The way this has been nerfed barely affects knife but slaughters D Claw. A nerf that barely affects the strongest user of the talent but dumpstering weaker off meta applications of it is very poorly handled. Its effectiveness is now entirely a function of attack speed. Its effectiveness is heavily skewed towards fast low cleave weapons.

I agree it deserved a nerf but it would have made way more sense to just reduce the cooldown amount per proc down to 1 or even 0.5s. That would have reduced its effectiveness evenly across the board rather than just encourage knife meta for crit builds

Altogether good sensible nerfs for the first 3 seconds you think about them. Pretty mishandled and poorly implemented upon any further examination and thought of consequences.