I love S.M, but...

It lacks offensive, defensive abilities.

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Quick shot ----: This skill is to weak, it deals only 60% of your basics. -- Make it 75-85%

Heavy shot ----: This skill is WAY TO SLOW, increase the animation speed.

Steam conductor ----: is useful in a sense, however STEAM takes forever to regenerate. --- Make steam Regen 5%-10% faster.

Mechanical turret ----: This ability is way to slow to attack a moving target, or do little damage. Its only use in PVP is to DETOUR, even so cashed out players will ignore the damage and attack you. ---- Keep it slow, however make it ignore armor that way no one will jump in and attack you while it is still firing at them.-- Increase steam use if this happens

Machine gun turret ----: this ability is so bad for PVP I don't even want to list it, first when you deploy the torrent the animation is way to slow and the opponent just runs out of its targeted position --- Increase animation so it is instant, or lower steam requirements. ALSO please change the ability tree effect for this useless torrent, make it so it deploys faster, and costs no steam instead of "significantly slows opponents, they can just jump out the way.

C4 MICRO------: I love this ability...It's our only reliable ability to stun.... But please, decrease the cool down to roughly 17-22 seconds... "Steam Conductor" really does not help since its cool down is 30 seconds, that is extremely high.

Jet-pack ----: The animation is WAY TO SLOW it needs to be ramped up just a bit please consider this.

BOMBS ---- : too long to detonate, instant - 1 second please, they are terrible.

Dwarf in a box-----: Give back barrier, it looks more useful.


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Well, in that case, I'd like the removal of mana enchantments to be rescinded.

Also, bring back the stun chance for Ice Missiles.

Change the tree around again so that we can have lightning and fireball talents selected at once.

Undo the missile slow of R089; missiles were slowed down so much that nowadays missile speed WITH fame talent is equal to pre-R089 missile speed WITHOUT fame talent.

Another thing, bring back the Chain of Lightning's ability to hit 20 entities, instead of just 3.

 

I like SM's to, but the skill's and cooldown times are just awful - they might as well paint bulleye on there back's with "hit me-easy kill" sign.

 

Dwarf in the box, is probably the most useful skill in pve, if used correctly.

 

I don't know you are perhaps right my friend, it is hard to pick between the two, but which ability is much better for both PvE, PvP.

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Yes it has potential once they address all these issues

 

It was quite funny when we had a sm on our team and kept on putting barriers around enemy flag carriers

 

That's very smart lol but,

It can't be more OP than a DK standing over the flag x-D

 

This change was made right around the time I started playing the game and few days go by that I don't think of it at least once and want to strangle someone .
On the subject matter, I've always felt the SM was just a tad behind the other classes and that a little sprucing up, as long as it's not to heycya's scale, would be unfair to no one.

 

SM is WEAK! especially at higher levels! wouldn't even get lvl 30 on my little dwarf, absolutely no point!

 

The Barrier skill SM USED to have was actually one of the best it had. Not real fond of the class anymore now, they really gave it a no use skill set outside of maybe 2 skills it has.

 

I agree with you buddy. Some changes need to be made to the dwarf to get it on par with the other classes. However, all of those changes implemented at once might make it able to do more than just be on par.

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I agree with @heycya that:
Bombs detonate too slowly... I could never hit level 20s with bombs in PvP, let alone fully geared 45s.

C14 is probably the most useful skill of a dwarf. I don't really play on my dwarf, not since the dwarf event ended, so I don't know much about the class but what I do know is that if C14 is improved and Heavy Shot is improved, it might be a bit OP. It is a deadly combination, and it shouldn't be made impossible or near impossible to counter/avoid.

However, I believe that Steam Conductor and Steam regen are fine as they are; it heals quite a bit of health and well, steam is not required to deal damage since Heavy Shot and Quick Shot have no steam cost.

I can't wait to see the day when a dwarf has 2 Rings of Fortitude along with other items with steam capacity/regen rates... it'll be quite a sight

P.S: The name of this thread threw me off guard the first time I read it... "is this person really talking about his/her IRL 'preferences'? " xD

 

Lol, funny about the preference thing, I can see the mistake. Sadly I abandoned my S.M as well :\ Went back to my DK.

 

a few problems i have with SM is the lack of stuns, only 1 with a 30 sec cooldown =bad for pvp. Next problem is why is 1 handed weapons range short??? ranger/spellweaver can use a wand/shortbow without there range being effected, this is verry unfair in pvp and pve

tactical turret is useless: maybe change it to throw bombs at your location(same ones as the bomb skill)

 

Yes agreed, they need to make it so S.W, and Rangers have short hands as well. Short bows shoot short range, long bows shoot long range. Wands shoot short range, 2h shoots long range. Many will disagree but it will be fair. Unless S.M gets long range on a 1h gun.

 

Adapt or start from begining with another char.

 

For now S.M. are weakest class in Drakensang.
I play on S.M. so i know.
Short range and you don't have skill that attack more then 1 monster with good dmg(turrets are very weak, 35 lvl skill is also weak and it wont hit all monster)
Low hp, armor .....
They need to work on S.M. .

 

WE are the testers my friend, that is why we need to voice our complaints, much like how earlier players voice their opinions on the other 3 classes before us.
At the moment S.M is in alpha stage lol.


Example;
DK dragon cry use to be 15 seconds long, now it is 5?
Ice bolt use to stun, now it just slows, chain lightning use to hit every thing instead of three targets.

 

I have all 3 chars, A level 40 DK, whom I love. (I just need to enchance him with some gems and I'll be solo king :].)
Mages, are cool, rangers mehhhh to boring, IMO.

Plus dude, how can you say adapt, that is no input what so ever, you probably say that because you don't play S.M or never bother to like it at all.

 

Well, you are wrong, i have sm, she is lvl 40 and personaly i don't have any problems with her skills. But you know what?, you are right i don't care and i wont bother with a bunch of winers, there, complain as much as you like, they won't hear you anyway. Don't bother to reply, i know i won't.

 

Well, some classes are not for some I guess. To each his own, oh well.