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Exactly. Compared to a Khan the new Nando is simply no fun and also a one-trick-pony. Boring.

@KicsitCsicska said in AFKers with Bots:

@DaddyOoker So do you assume that ppl start a match and leave not cuz of crush or something has came up in the real life, but for plan ahead to do so just because of that little bit of exp or gold they earn?

I know people have crashes and have real life things come up but yeah, I'm of the belief that some of them are doing this just to farm.

If people have a history of crashing why are they Q'ing for a ranked match? Stupid.

me in 2017 - Strix's handgun needs a nerf
me in 2019 - Strix's handgun needs a nerf and Unauthorized Use burst needs a nerf

@HeartQueen said in Champion overview: Inara:

Bring Wrath of Staglia back! lol. On that talent buff her base damage to 250 per stone like the creator of this thread wants, and then that bonus 200 when you hit all stones. With that she'll have a consistent DPS of 950, and 1100 when you add in her warder's stone. It'll be a more offensive Inara, that could have use in some situations which is already better than Tremors which is NEVER good.

Yeah give the tankiest character in the game more DPS than Ruckus in a form of a talent that doesn't change the way you play her in any way. What can possiblly go wrong?...

Tremors is her mobility talent, the "flying Inara" meme build wouldn't actually be that bad if she could afford more point into her vital cards instead of wasting 5 points into Summit.

@Dusklicious
Actually, I was thinking about using his shield more as a siege tool. You can push on enemies with shield's up until you close enough. And if they try to keep distance, they will lose the ground. And if things go awry you have awesome CC to fight your way out and awesome mobility ability to run, if needed.
And Spook still seems OP, can't help the feeling. It's literally better version of Dread serpent, that is affected by CC resistance as well, btw. Maybe with slow instead of dmg amplification it would seem better, idk. This would help you to keep enemies affected in attack range while still controling them. Or maybe reduce its CD and increase its range, but make it single-target ability

Anyway, he seems like an interesting concept (a bit bizarre maybe), but very hard to balace

Coming back after a 3-0 Getting play of the game Ranking up a tier in ranked (from Gold to Platinum was so satisfying, can't wait until I'm diamon) Finally killing the person who's been stalking you the entire game and emoting/spraying getting a penta kill. I was literally screwing around with Moji in casual one time, and we were losing bad, like 0-3. I felt bad because I knew I was at fault. It was only me coming from the spawn, and I literally got a penta kill on all enemies there which allowed us to cap the point and eventually win the game. The Skye watched all of that and shouted "woohoo!" when I got that penta kill. It was epic! When you finally find loadouts that work for a character you decided to try getting best healer after all of your teammates spent the entire game spamming "need healing!" Just winning in general makes me feel good though winning especially when that one person threw your last game, and then tried to go tryhard on the enemy team, but you beat them anyway.

@Rauyne I simply don't understand how is it so hard to HR to realize it.

Torv is too much of a clutch pocket strategy, that is something we all agree.
Torvald has a range of problems that are hard to sumerize as a whole.

Torvalds whole personal barrier bot ordeal is somewhat debatable...
In essence, torvald a personal barrier tank,
I am currently happy with the performace of the ally shielding, having a potential 3-5s personal shield on a potential 5s CD is pretty solid reactive damage mitigation for the team. Its current power as a talent forces the enemy to have a strategy in dealing with barriers...
Personally I am not the biggest fan of damage amp shield being used as its values were overtoned in combination with other damage amps...
But this is all he has got...

The rest of his kit is out matched by other characters just walking up to him and throwing him around when his nullify is down...
His personal durability is pretty average considering his lack of mobility.
He is weak to many abilities with nothing to do anything about it.
He has no CC immunity during ult or recharge... he cannot stop himself from being a free pick once exposed.

You can begin to see why torv considered a shoddy barrier support instead of a tank, when his shield application on an ally is stronger and more consistant then the matainance of his own.

Torvalds recharge is the weakest element of his kit right now...Your barrier can be dropped in 1 attack, while your only base option to regenerate it is backed by a 13-15s CD... and after recharge was gutted the way it was, being a 2.1k -2.6K shield HP restore that caps at 1.8k that only lasts a sec... its not a great ability as a survival tool vs heavy wrecker and fails to make up for the lack of mobility and only seves to restore the half of your HP total while under pressure.... it used to be great at semi damage denial for a duration, sure it was counterable with hard CC, but now it just feels too easy to deny torvalds shield in general.

Your most reactive way restore the shield otherwise is to protect allies with barrier...
Enforcing the pocket strat for maximum durability with your own barrier...

What would really help Torvald?
Some mechanics to improve the consistancy and strength of good shield matainence.
And give Torvald more standing power based dynamic changes to the game.

Without really thinking about cards Dynamics such as...

Torvald peronal Shield Regenerates out of combat. Personal shields deny further cauterise application until depleted. Torvald's personal shield could be overcharged, but should deplete slowly until reaching its normal max threshold.

Small things like these would have a serious impact on torvald's overal tank strength.
Aside from staying power, his Control is fairly counterable unless Tovald or his enemy is willing to over expose themselves... Torvald needs more windows where he can expose himself, gaining the endurance to dive a target and tank damage when he needs to.

@JoeTheMoonwalker Good idea, but unfortunatly Raum already uses the same mechanic
3 charges are still too much... Rockets are also too stronger with Rocket Barrage than with the other talents. Make a talent what makes a skill way better causes the cards based on that skill will be only used with that talent, but that talent will require those cards too much. E.g. in the case of dmg Ghrok...
I created a thread about how to fix it and his other cards' balance problems some days ago

@KicsitCsicska said in The tempo of balancing the game:

Hi!

I agree with all of the new balance changes, im sure that the game will be better in the next patch in every aspects!
But we need way more balance changes, please don't waste 6-8 years for fix all of the clear problems what can be solved literally free by rewrite some numbers in the code.

Items: Cauterize is why more popular than it should be based of the number of the items (there are 16 items, and caut is 90% used by all of the champions each times). Resillance makes most of the CC based talents weak (The Power Cosmeum, Nullify, Agony). Khan's insane 3s stun is the only thing can be still viable, bec it's amount is way too much. Veteran is just a under scaled item, while Rejuvenate's bonus can't be reduced by caut, so it's the number one healing item.

All champions has weak and strong cards, e.g.: Zhin's Embers and Fuel for the Fire are underpowered, while Blade Dance and Fan the Flames are always used. Khan's Bloodthirst and Shield Wall are too weak, but Never Surrender! and Hopeguard are realy strong...

The same cards of the different champions are also unequal for no reason, e.g.: Tyra's Trail Blazer garants way less ammo than Viktor's Speed Load, while Viktor's ammo deals more dmg. Khan's Bloodthirst has less than halve bonus than Ash's Indomitable while Lifesteal is better for Ash, cuz she can be defended from caut effect while shooting, while Khan can't be because of the mechanic of their shields.

Almost all champions has clearly worse and better talents, e.g.: Mal'Damba's Spirit's Chosen and Wekono's Curse.

Champions's meta are different powerful, this is why there are meta champions and weak champions. This balance problem is based on some build in the champions' kit, not on their base kit (e.g. Lian's Eminance is OP, but her other talents are much weaker), but often the base kit is changed (like Lian's ult nerf this time), what doesn't solve the balance in the champion's kit (Lian's other talents will still be unused), just the balance between the champions meta.

Some skills are realy weak by default and the cards based on it have been balanced by make them overscaled. It doesn't solve the champion's skill balance problems (e.g. Kinessa's Opressor Mine is almost useless, the cards based on it are realy high scaled, but still isn't enaugh for make worth to use them...)

All in all many talents, cards, champions... have distinctly different pick-, and winrate, not just those some's what are changed in a new patches. All of the different statistics have real reasons why those are diefferent, and these differences are the balance problems. Also there comes new patches less often nowdays - you mentioned it's technical reasons -, but it makes the balance polishing much slower if you keep the number of changes per patches. Add way more balance changes in the new patches, please.

I feel you on the cards especially. It gets to the point where if I'm familiar with a champion, I can tell whether or not they suck based on the cards picked. If Willo doesn't have flutter damage reduction card and eliminations reduce cooldowns card, then she won't be a good Willo 8/10. Same with Barik, bowling ball and failsafe are must have cards. Skye needs the poisoner card, etc.

The problem with the card system is the illusion of choice. Paladins lets you think that all cards are optional, when, in reality, some cards are mandatory. Imagine being Seris without soul forge. Maeve without persistence and/or sixth sense. Vivian without the ammo chance card. Plus more.

I just would like an option in menu to skip it from happening...
Skipping it at any point is also sort of viable for player flow...
I find that potg can create buggs and issues returning to menu...

This guide really had helped me https://geeksadvice.com/fix-the-application-was-unable-to-start-correctly-0xc000007b-error/

I've seen people do great with gyro control, it felt like they were cheating since they could flick easily^^' I'm pc but when I play gamepad I hate to see switch players for that reason

@Rauyne so, you're a pip main?

Thank you !

Me da rabia yo no quiero dejar de jugar esto pero son ellos mismos los que me hacen imposible seguir con paladins, no sirve de nada sacar skins a cada rato si no arreglan los bugs y la OPTIMIZACION.......................

@TTraw I incites her to use one stance instead of both.

@Nero-di-seppia I agree with you. Still, I think that there is room for a slightly nerf on Resilience.