For me it's exactly because it's utter garbage. No point having it in the game and it sandbags champs that have to take it.
We've got the heacy crossbow, now I demand we get a special dunewalker who cna teleport anything anywhere. DEMAND!
Watch Sokolov put power attack in place of rapid attack. Or something just as mind numbing simple. Cuz ward of aluir and everything with defensive strike needed power attack. And not tanky abilities. #rapidfirechangedtobarrage1
Irony there is that Defensive Strike is just a terrible ability that is overlapped by several other abilities and was mostly phased out long before I even started working at PoxNora and was brought back accidentally by Gedden during the revamp because it was still in the system. ~ I could see Warsaint getting Defensive Stance or something instead instead, but Ward is kind of a toss up there. Outside of his 2 base DEF his kit isn't really defensive in nature (and wasn't pre-revamp either). Warsaint is kind of weird now too, he used to be a Dueling Pummeler, and now he is just a cheat meat sac.
In regards to the global chat tab now, in theory its primarily to avoid people que dodging. However for example wont I be able to just /who TinyDragon if I see him on and be told if he's in Battlegrounds,Single Player etc ? You'll still be able to find out who's in the battleground this way no ? @Senshu @Sokolov
I will check on that, but pretty sure the answer is yes, tho obviously it is much more tedious, and with this sort of thing any amount of friction tends to help. That said, I am not sure it's a huge deal since most players are going to know who is in what lobby anyway just by looking at their name. Think tinydragon is going to be chilling in single player? Probably not. I am personally not entirely sure what effect this will really have, but I know people have been asking for this so we'll see how it works!
So...umm...more 8 speed champs that aren't KF? Good to know the devs no longer think spd is OP. I assume this means the KF faction apocalypse has been nixed? KF would seriously kill for some 7 spd champs with Weighty. I want a #7spdfatcorgi...sorry not fat, just a little weighty. It is basically a free point of spd for no drawback since most maps have been changed to have the first font be capable by practically anything....and it's not just any point of speed, it is THE point of spd that matters the most. Weighty should trigger on the 4th space moved and last 3 turns, there balanced. On the Rapid assault, it specifically came out at the same time NKD did, and it was specifically explained as being an ability that allowed counterplay against abilities like NKD. Since they said they were changing NKD because nobody likes it, makes sense they no longer need the 1 thing that counters it. Like Sok said, nobody likes it unless they can abuse it. I just cross my fingers that KF will get a rune that falls in between the top 6 and the top 10 best runes in the set. Everybody knows the top 5 runes are pushed to sell packs and will be nerfed after 1 week. They've done it every single time so far, at this point its safe to call it a pattern...making the next few runes to become the best in the set. So sad none of the spoiled runes were KF But only a few days left to wait. I was here at close to the beginning of Pox, but I don't remember the heacy croebow reference. But the flavor text alone makes me laugh.