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Recluse Needs a Buff

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I main as recluse. She's the only character I play and there are few exceptions. I just love playing the role of a mage to the point where other roles are boring, but I think the Recluse needs a buff.

Starting with her main weapon, it is so much worse than any other class. The other spell caster (revenant) gets both a seal and a good short range weapon from the get go The Recluse's weapon is also the only one that cannot be improved with relics because it doesn't classify as a compatible weapon in most cases.

Her ult plain sucks. It negates damage for a time, but there is a window at the end of her ult where the recluse cannot move that a boss can hit her out of. The hp + magic regen is nice, but it's in small doses and is limited. It can bring up an ally after the first time that they die, but it's useless for that purpose afterwards. The relics that improve her ult also suck. One of them improves her max HP after ult activation, GREAT, because it's not like the devs didn't give her the fucking worst health bar in the game! The other one I've seen improves her attack power, which I guess is nice.

I have so many issues during a boss battle, it's reduculous. The Equilibrious Beast has an ability that he ONLY USES the second I activate a spell where I get caught in the animation. I got past it, but still, it's annoying. I activate so much enemy agro, it's like I'm the only person the boss cares about for 5 minutes.

The level of damage I can put out on a good build is astronomical (I put out about 75% of damage on a boss' health bar), but the set-up to get to this point is difficult because my allies never want to do the things that benefit me over going to a random area to fight a random boss. And even if they do, I have to get lucky with a good staff.

Revenant is plain broken, but they can't make the Recluse more playable. I mean, why can't I have a relic that can bring my allies up from 3 bars of death upon activating my ult? Maybe a steady health recovery for my allies after activation would be nice. Maybe I'm just not playing the Recluse correctly, but I swear she is not comparable to other heros in most categories.

And for God's sake, if I see another Guardian with Lusat's Glintstone Staff at the end of a fight, I'm going to lose it.

Posted Jul 29, 2025, 6:16 AM UTC

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