I have 2 videos for you and I want you to pay attention to boss poise bar. Dont look at the gameplay as it is terrible, I didnt play to kill the boss the fastest, I just wanted to showcase the problem. Both videos I didnt use a single rune attack.
Video number 1:
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This character is level 30, fighting a boss in lvl 26 zone. Character is fully juiced and optimized, 3 rings, every part of the gear with perfect enchantments, lvl 16, gems, fully exalted. Using lvl 16 gossamer gauntlets with damage increased by 15% based on durability and phy damage increase by 25% on gloves. I made sure the pestilence boss has no curses to stagger resist or something like that, curses were reduced movement speed, -10 stamina when hit and 1 more bullshit I dont remember probably like use all the focus when using focus
Video number 2:
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This character is level 13, fighting a boss in lvl 15 zone. Character is dogshit, blue armor with random enchantments, 0 gems slotted, only 1 ring and its a fucking equip load ring. Using lvl 2 random staff that I found somewhere
ITS FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to stagger with gauntlets. No matter if boss, normal mob, large mob. Meanwhile you stagger boss with few staffs attacks. How is that fair?
Idk I like stagger so long as it isn’t a chain CC that negates all mechanics for the entirety of the fight.
Same with statues. As long as a boss still feels like a boss I think they’re good for the game especially when we can build into elements and stagger, etc with affixes.
Otherwise your entire build is just dead stats in a boss fight.
@TeoH made a post on it, I’m on my phone ATM but just look at their profile and you can find it.
You’ll never CC without runes because of the threshold to do stagger and the split nature of your attacks because it’s a “dual” weapon.
Current all the dual or light weapons will never hold a candle to even a 1H sword in terms of poise damage. Despite being able to get 3 attacks out in roughly the same timeframe.
Meanwhile with a 2H just a turnback kick into auto staggers.
Have this clip from another post, even with a build with all the plague affixes and stagger res on the chest.
The only information anyone really has on it ATM is “wait for the combat update”.
To my knowledge we have no information on how Moon intends to “fix” it.
Also “stagger” is coded weird. The echo that all attacks crit staggered opponents works off parry; however none of the affixes do to my knowledge. Also parry has negative effect on stagger meter so this probably isn’t a good example.