Celtic Heroes

Gonna be onest beta testers i thought you woulda pushed this skill better i am disapointed with even the new damage skill a max of 500ish with 3 ticks needs a fix the extra dps it creats not with the energy at all, needs 4-5 ticks with the damage its at and would like to beable to recast it without it running out. Other skills are sweet but the improvement on rend is minimal. Try again please.

K

Rend was one of the better Rogue Skills.. Anything we said was good usually got nerfed (no lie).

I don't think putting it onto the Rogue testers is entirely fair. We were posting massive threads about exactly what they could do to improve our skills since the beginning of Beta. Our posts pretty much went with no recognition at all, until about a week ago, me and dogorcat decided to go head to head, him as a skill rogue and me as an auto rogue, with Wulver tanking so we didn't have to worry about taking adds.

It was a good 10 minute fight. I was out of energy within about 60 seconds and literally just afk auto'd/talked for the remainder of the fight, whilst dogo was going all fight with Quickstrike and Shadowstrike, but could not sneaky as it was too much and his 100 energy regen per tick couldn't keep up.

After I ended up getting the kill, it seemed they really took an interest in the Rogue skills, and hopefully we will be seeing some serious fixes to our skills over the next few weeks.

The Rogue Testers really did do as much as they could to try and get our skills right though.. And I mean literally hours of work testing rogue skills every different build, posting results, what's wrong, what could be better, how it could be better.. Just all seemed to be ignored.

My apologies then. Sneak is better but still could use a faster cooldown and cast imo. Rend is better again and cast time is fantastic but prob needs another 10% damage and 1 tick added maybe 2 ticks if no extra damage. O havent tried assasinate. Quick seems decent posion is better lasting twice as long i would like fast reflex to last 2 min also would be nice but not to important. I dont know shadow strike and havent got the lifedrain one yet. Although someone had and was only hitting 300 as some point which seems highly underpowered imo would need another 50% to be worth anything. Smoke needs to last longer. The job done so far is great and appricated skills are better but still need work. A 45 sec and 60 sec cooldown doesnt cut it for sneak and assainate they are limited to when can be used. Why limit them so much on how much we can use 30 sec and 40 sec would be much better imo.

Life drain looked very promising.. Ended up sucking.. We gave feedback but got nowhere.. You don't get anywhere near enough health back.

Shadowstrike is one to watch, very impressive skill, and enjoyable to use.

Rend needs damage DOUBLED IMO. Skills should beat auto by a long way.. My rend actually hit a tick of 93 maxed out at 35/35.. Should hit ticks of 150+ and I'd even say 200+ at the very least.

Sneak is good but cast time on it is so slow it's ridiculous.

Quicks awesome.. Doesn't effect your auto AT ALL, so everytime you cast it, the number you see is damage gained.

Poison cast time again is just awful.. If it was no more than a 1 second cast, a lot more people would use it.. No one likes standing around buffing.

Assassinate has got some super damage buff (went for skill hit and hit over 10k); energy is usable at 260 (46/35).

All-in-all.. Every skill could do with a tiny improvement.. Mainly on cast times and energy usage.

This is what i would do. Double life drain or at least another 1.5x
Increase rend by 50%-100% on damage as a 40/35 rend gives 559 per tick with over 650 str.... Where incin kicks its ass someone in clan has like 2k incin but its 48/35

Decrease cast and cooldown of sneak attack.
Maybe have assainate at 40% as what lvling mob has 30k+ hp so the 10k damage is useless imo.

Quick is great love it. Great job on that one. I would ask for faster cooldown cause its brill but thats greedy lol.

Posion lasts twice as long so thats pretty cool although a decrease to 2 sec not 3 would be nice in cast time.

Thats what i would love too see. Havent or all new skills yet though.

I personally would like a 1-1.5 second max cast time on poison weapon.. Then it would be viable to cast on other classes.

Riposte is also a skill to watch out for.. I duelled one of the best PvP Rogues on Rhiannon.. I casted Riposte and didn't touch him.. He was down to 1/10 health before i had swung my dagger .

If you don't know.. Riposte is a 6 second self-buff instacast cloak that can hit for 900+.. Was hitting 900+ on him in PvP but he was in Earthstone.. A Warrior clanny it was only hitting 300-400 or so on, but on Mobs it will hit 900+