The problem was shifting the damage away from autoattacks into sword 2. That was a mistake.
Sword 2 was always meant to be a snare, and they forced it to be our main nuke.
Then they nerfed UA into irrelevance by gutting its range so the time you were mid animation most targets with swiftness could walk out of its activation.
Add to that all the massive nerfs to shiro, especially the hamfisted Phase Traversal nerfs that make it so once you use PT you can only autoattack your target for several seconds, and you can only really regen energy decently unless you legend swap.
Then there’s staff which was utterly nerfed, they didn’t even bother buffing its miserable autoattack or the pitiful 150 HP healing orbs at the end of the autoattack chain.
Staff 2 in total costs 20 godkitten energy to use, that’s insane. That’s almost a utiulity level cost for an attack that as a condition requires you hit a foe that’s activating a skill. The ability already has a conditional to trigger and on top of that they add 3 times the energy cost of the initial chain to the follow up on a class that unlike thief was not given any resource management in traits.
Another problem is outside Glint and Shiro, the otehr legends don’t have viable stunbreaks. Because all our mobility is pigeonholed into shiro, and the energy costs and lack of baseline defensives mean we can’t run sword/axe to close distances and UA no longer has the range it used to, it means the rev MUST run shiro.
So a rev can’t even run Mallyx without losing significantly in another department, and Mallyx is utterly useless outside its ability to generate resistance as the other skills do nothing of worth. No viable stunbreak on mallyx.
Ventari is the biggest offender, with no good stunbreak, like Mallyx with massive energy costs on utility, and to top it off the only legend that’s utterly useless without healing power as its heal is the worst in the rev kitten nal and taking Ventari means taking a huge hit in survival for only projectile deflection.
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