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Praefationes

Obviously too late but rant nonetheless CRU HF

So you used to be able to break the animation of HF with stutter stepping. This while crusader is slow made the build feel smooth and fast in combat. Now I do know the build still do dmg even though it is less. But the feel for the build isn’t smooth anymore. It feels clunky and slow not at all as enjoyable to play. Personally I would much more enjoy a dmg nerf and keep the option of stutter stepping. It honestly took me two GRs after patch to just nope out and play another BK build just because of this feeling. Yes I should have tested this during PTR and come with my input then but new WD set was more interesting to test and well here we are. RIP enjoying crusader HF gonna be terrible to be forced to play that meta now.

Posted Mar 4, 2020, 8:06 AM UTC · edited

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nick47Hmandingo#2158•

Don't play crusader next patch is my advise. I like the concept of a few builds but when I play them it ain't all that so I never play them again.

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PraefationesOP•

Well when season hits i will most likely go support or trashkiller. Crusader will be obsolete in season because of season buff. But on NS crusader will still be BK and I have the best crusader so I don’t really have an option. It is meta or nothing.

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nick47Hmandingo#2158•

I play solo HC apart from bounties, so I just play what is fun. Next season is DH for me. May try N4M6, always have Shadow to fall back on as that is a great playstyle.

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Kika-kunKikaha•

I really disliked the stutter step thing, you kinda had to play with a macro for max dps and I didn't enjoy the laggy gameplay if your stutter step wasn't perfect.

Imo it feels much smoother to play without stutter stepping, you can actually stop near a yellow and its face and kill it.

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PraefationesOP•

No you didn’t. Bind force move to scroll wheel. Hold down HF and scroll and you will stutter step.

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Kika-kunKikaha•

And it will be very laggy and not very efficient. At least it was for me. So I am glad this is not possible anymore.

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PraefationesOP•

Not my experience. Also one thing to point out her is that you could have played like you play today without removing the possibility of stutter stepping. So essentially what you are saying is that just because you don’t think it is fun people who do shouldn’t have fun.

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Kika-kunKikaha•

Also one thing to point out her is that you could have played like you play today without removing the possibility of stutter stepping.

Unlike you apparently, I do leaderboard things. If I want to compete there, I have to min max my stutter stepping, otherwise I would lose quite a bit of damage against other players. Because of that, even though I am a crusader main, I didn't even bother pushing last era, I cleared a 144 in like 5 keys and called it a day.

Crusader needed to be nerfed, and I am happy that their nerf was removing a mechanics that is clearly not needed to make the crus powerful. IMO it could even be nerfed further as far as solo play is concerned.

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