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Hey guys, just wanted to give you a quick heads up on a new martial feat that we’re introducing in the upcoming anniversary patch. It’s called…

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Knight’s Training:

Description: You have undergone rigorous military training with the traditional weapons of war. These weapons receive one of the following morale bonuses in your hands.

• Longsword critical multiplier is increased by 1
• Battle Axes critical threat range is increased by 1. Increased by 2 if you have slashing improved critical
• Heavy Maces, Morning Stars & War Hammers critical threat range is increased by 1

Requires: +4 BAB
Martial Feat (Fighter bonus feats can be used to take this)

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A quick faq on this new feat:

1. Why make this feat? We want players to have more options for their melee DPS builds, so we are equalizing some weapons to be at least closer, if not equal to, the power of the Khopesh. Due to the way crit bonuses become rather great by epic levels, the Khopesh’s superior crit numbers can make it mathematically the only one-handed choice for many builds, and we prefer a more diverse weapon choice for players seeking top DPS

2. What about OTHER weapons? Depending on how this feat goes we will likely introduce other feats or enhancements that handle other sets of weapons. Certain weapons just might not have the itemization pool to really be viable yet, so some weapons will come slower than others.

3. Morale Bonus? Will that stack? Morale bonus has never been used with crit threat or mod before, so it will stack with everything currently in the game. This is more a consideration for effects down the road.

4. Hey Maces/Hammers/etc aren’t equal (unless I go Aasimar Maces) Because bludgeon DR is probably the most common DR due to skeletons we’ve kept maces a little lower for now.

-Torc

Maces will be better, too. My Scourge will be happy. So will my Whelm-using toon.

I has a sad.  I kept a ridiculous arsenal of long swords thru about 10 past lives and then a few months ago deconned them for crafting or sold them outright.

Rubbinns wrote on Jan 16^th, 2019 at 7:13pm:

Visions of dual-wielding Soulrazors have been dancing in my head for several hours now.

Rubbinns wrote on Jan 16^th, 2019 at 7:13pm:

Indeed.

Snu Snu wrote on Jan 17^th, 2019 at 1:50am:


I have a feeling it will become "Knight's Training: Slashing" and "Knight's Training: Bludgeon".

Khopesh is now suboptimal.   Mainly due to itemization. Whelm, soulrazor (and fellblade might be decent) and day, night, and one other mace I’m forgetting will all be very nice.   The profiles on the bludgeoning weapons in ld will be especially interesting.   Combine with wolf, barb, etc and you can get some sick stuff going.   I think horc and scourge are still the racial choices but elf dwarf and gnome lines that link with these weapons are interesting.  And it brings the pdk charisma stat change into play for some unique builds.   These are also deity weapons.

Justanotherlurker wrote on Jan 17^th, 2019 at 4:47am:

true, but at this point I will take it! I mean, it's ssg here, so...

They very obviously did this solely for how underwhelming Whelm and Soulrazor were. At least we get a number of builds out of this.

Asheras wrote on Jan 17^th, 2019 at 8:47am:

When soloing, Calamity still pulls ahead due to vacuum. 20% damage is just such a powerful buff that it beats the 2 dice and razor stacks by a wide margin. Don't feed those badboys to your gems just yet!

Asheras wrote on Jan 17^th, 2019 at 8:47am:


Quite a few builds improved or are now suddenly viable end game due to the dps increase. A max qp monk/pdk using Razors, wisdom based, cha secondary. Dwarf con based barb dual wielding Whelms. Strength based tempests with Razor and Whelm. DPS increase for swf and twf fighter and barbs. There are probably a few more I missed, though this is enough for me to consider the feat good.

Heroic weapons improved. Phosphor and Coronation, the age of rage Beacons, and the Banhammer all become much better now.

So, if I take whirling steel strike on a monk to stay centered with long swords, what monk stuff won't work anymore?

Stunning fist - obviously not
Quivering palm?
Healing curse?
Other light monk and dark monk finishers?

I've only one monk life and it was handwraps all the way, so I'm not as up on monk stuff as you guys.

you can check it in the altar in hall of heroes, the wiki doesn't have picture:

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soulrazor tempests are going to be everywhere. On the other hand, the weapon is not the best DPS for raid, but nothing is preventing to use something else, specially considering it already comes with keen. The AC debuff is nice for raid too

as for monks, I'm not sure if using longsword will be better than wrap, or ranger.

and remember to never block lol

harharharhar wrote on Jan 17^th, 2019 at 5:40pm:

Depends on how much healing amp you have, I'd think. 300 or higher Healing Amp might make Soulrazor's Vampirism useful in mid to high skulls content?

Digimonk wrote on Jan 17^th, 2019 at 7:20pm:



Good thing you can get over 700 hamp.

Vaultaccount wrote on Jan 17^th, 2019 at 5:35pm:

The cc that flow and nightshard provide are superior allowing more aggressive engagement with trash mobs, and for that alone the dps increase isn't something that is even needed. But weapon swapping just got even more annoying. This will most likely be the catalyst that drives dex based tempests out in favor of str. The gearing allows str based to still maintain a high dex score resulting in around only 9 less reflex and dodge while under parry.

Vacuum is still a big deal and flow offers both vacuum and dazing.

Vaultaccount wrote on Jan 17^th, 2019 at 5:35pm:

IDK, but soulrazor alone makes the max qp build viable. Before this feat their best weapons were sunswords? This is a major dps boost, and razor stacks should proc off of qp kills. We need lama up to see how these builds do on dps. Every twf and swf build that isn't a rogue or bard, now has to get these weapons.

Con based twf dwarf barbs are a real build now. Huge hp pool, hamp/prr/dodge clicky/heal on kill. I would recommend these to all new or low life characters, second to tempests.

Head-Meat wrote on Jan 18^th, 2019 at 7:56am:

Yeah, you will get way more out if from Racial ap. It's still really good for low lifers because it meets all the defensive parameters for reaper, self heals, and the hp pool covers up for play mistakes. I'm pretty sure a brand new toon can roll around with 4k hps while maxxed out characters can hit 6k.