Bernadir hills, heroic weapons quest changes

[Mikiko]

Originally Posted by torktoo

Someone mentioned something about the longsword being a tank weapon.

They obviously aren't a tank or they would know that tanking without a 2hander is rather silly on anything but hard hitting 6 dots.

Not because the extra mitigation isnt useful, it very much is, but for the fact that holding aggro with a 1hander as the game currently stands is just ridiculous.

Atleast for DKs.

I have yet to find this to be the case after the defensive fix a few weeks ago.
You gotta do more than just swing a weapon to be a good tank. You must be playing with those people that try to pull agro every fight just so they can say "zomg I pulled agro!"

[Sithgear]

Graystone Bladestaff finally uses correct skill sets (Bladed Staff/2 Hand Pierce), thanks 8).

Its does retain the stick icon of a Martial Staff though, although thats really a minor thing.

[Danth]

"Torktoo is not saying he likes 2h's but i too play a DRK and using a 1h weap is plain silly even with spells to try and hold real agro on a mob."

That's not an issue with the weapons themselves, though.

As an update to my first post, the same issue (missing graphic) was mentioned by another player on Silky Venom and it was noted that the issue is known and will be rectified. I wonder whether it was just some sort of glitch, or if these weapons are getting different graphics?

Danth

[krassus]

You are correct there is a lot of factors in that like the tank, groups agro control but as of now agro is still wack, and 2h > 1h

imho when choosing which weapon reward to go with on a quest like this

[Cylus]

Originally Posted by Sithgear

Its does retain the stick icon of a Martial Staff though, although thats really a minor thing.

Blah blah blah, fixed

Sorry, was easily overlooked

[bylbok]

I used to be 2hand only, but since i am 48 and mobs hit a little harder (add to that the fix on paladin defensive aura finally giving more hate) i do a lot better with a 1hand + shield, i lose a big % of dps but not like tanks dps is noticable in a full group and i gain a huge boost on mele evasion from shield.

So the reward choice for this type of quest (lvl 46..) could be a 1hand if you are able to hold agro with it (aka if you are a paladin, i don't know about War and DK but they used to have better agro than paladin at end of beta).

Ps : if you have troubles holding agro, using macros can help a lot... .

[CJN]

Originally Posted by CJN

Bumping, and in case, I mean even with the +2/+2/+2 modifiers, it's still too ugly number-wise, compared to the rest of the rewards.

Can any Devs please look into this?

[Cylus]

Originally Posted by CJN

Can any Devs please look into this?

What more would you want on it? I can't add anything that's not ranged-based (ie, attributes, resists, haste, etc...). It can only be the ranged offense mods or something like +archery, +bow, etc...

If I put a proc on it, everyone is going to want a darn proc and the meelee weapons for this quest are already frickin' powerful :)

[Leishiu]

Originally Posted by Cylus

Blah blah blah, fixed

Sorry, was easily overlooked

Hmm, it still looks like a martial staff though (actual game graphics) - not like a bladed staff (well like a christmas decoration to be fair, but that's how highlevel martial staves look I suppose!). ^^

[Cylus]

It'll take a patch before the fix to the icon goes in. I wish I could change things directly on Live but, to be honest, that ability would cause more problems than it'd solve

Originally Posted by Leishiu

Hmm, it still looks like a martial staff though (actual game graphics) - not like a bladed staff (well like a christmas decoration to be fair, but that's how highlevel martial staves look I suppose!). ^^