LemonBerry wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:45 pm
A while ago i made this post:
viewtopic.php?f=37&t=16458&p=137795#p137795
Thank for working towards balancing this class, it's a wonderful class to have.
It's a step in the right direction and the flurry adjustment aids to the often unmentioned or conveniently forgotten bonus damage from a spell blade, Many people 'forget' that a spell blade has hidden damages that are not listed on the character sheet (and all we need is a bronze weapon)
And heres an example of a hit, with the hidden damages included.
18 neg + 19 Elec dmg = 37 dmg?¿? not on my character sheet!!? (Elec hits up to 3 targets so a potential of 19x3 cleave damage.)
I honestly do way to much still, even though i lost the 11 damage, i'm in no way a bad position against anything becuase of it and still tower amongst most classes with less investment.
I am not sure why you are surprised that the electric charge cleave damage isn't on your character sheet. You don't have WW damage for X targets on someone else's character sheet either.
Judging by the thread you linked, it also looks like you have a past-Gen Spellsword that still has 1 APR (Or two? Since you didn't fighter-dip for the 16 BAB pre-epic?) more than it ought to have, so I hope that is taken into consideration when discussing future nerfs. It's easy to feel more powerful than you ought to be, when you /are/ more powerful than you ought to be already simply by virtue of when you chose to create that character.
I haven't followed the Spellsword process for too long, so I imagine temporary essences NOT stacking with imbuements is a relatively new thing, since you're still listing that to be a thing in your January post above?
Since this has been the only post that has been acknowledged by someone who seems to be a dev, suggesting that there are likely more nerfs coming to this class: how does the damage compare to other well-built melee builds now? A 68 single target hit at level 30 doesn't seem too outrageous.
Cheers! Still enjoying my Spellsword greatly, personally and the nerfs definitely seem to have been necessary so far, would just caution against being too overzealous.