So my sharp eyed running partner spotted this little gem from Severlin (emphasis mine)

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/445008-Its-time-to-un-nerf-THF/page4#p...

"Shield Bash isn't hitting an animation cap per se, rather there is a deliberate 1.0 second internal cooldown on Shield Bash attacks. When we remove the 1.0 cooldown the animations are choppy and look really bad at higher speeds.

The new Vanguard tree is being balanced with that 1.0 second cooldown taken into account. Yes, that means secondary Shield Bash attacks have to hit hard to compensate for the internal cooldown.

Sev~"

Wonder what that is all about? There is a 3.5e Vanguard class, which I'm hoping it's not, because I don't know about you but I'm not chomping at the bit for a tank class:

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Vanguard_(3.5e_Class)

Thoughts?

Chafing

Rubbinns wrote on Jul 8^th, 2014 at 3:20pm:

Terebinthia wrote on Jul 8^th, 2014 at 3:50pm:

Yes, those are the same two words.

Quote:


Ive fucking told people that for years.

Terebinthia wrote on Jul 8^th, 2014 at 2:53pm:


He does say tree, so that is not necessarily a new class.  It could be a tree for one of the melee classes (probably Pally)?

Either way, not sure why they would do this.
DDO doesn't really need tank specialists, and people get by with the existing options on the few occasions that they do.  And tbh, turtling isn't a particularly fun or effective way to play.

Have to wait and see what it looks like, but again, I think they're missing the bigger picture. 
If it is a new class (which I could be so they could monetise it), then they really have no clue - we don't need new classes before they complete and balance the existing class and racial PRE's.

Maybe, but I still wouldn't put it ahead of finishing and fixing the existing classes.
I don't struggle for choice when I make a toon these days.

NOTdarth wrote on Jul 8^th, 2014 at 7:43pm:


Yeah, that's a niche that really needs filling: a character that progresses solely by spamming a small number of SLA's.  We don't have any of those.   

Seriously, that ship has sailed: Warlock would be a complete nonsense in DDO now you get SLA's free with every purchase of a blue bar.  There's no meaningful distinction between them and any arcane caster, other than "less flexibility".

Swordsage and/or Warblade would definitely have possibilities though, in the incredibly unlikely event they hired someone with the creativity and talent to convert them over to DDO properly. 

Fuck all that noise anyway, I want Shifters.

I hope they do gnomes before any of the class/tree stuff.

It's an Enhancement Tree. That's the only thing I'm allowed to say.

Flav wrote on Jul 9^th, 2014 at 3:11am:


Cool. Please poke them with sticks hard if they have any daft ideas about people paying lots of wonga for a tanking class

Laraeph wrote on Jul 9^th, 2014 at 5:13am:



Hmmm...  What are the odds that we'll get the least-exciting class from the Tome of Battle?  That sounds awfully like the Crusader base class to me  :/

Laraeph wrote on Jul 9^th, 2014 at 5:13am:


There nothing saying that Shieldbearer was scrapped... just that it wasn't going to be in Paladins and Fighter Trees.