Armor Up - Developer Diary #3

[jakeelala]

Frankly, I'm not concerned about Holy Sword working or not working on Handwraps or Ranged. My argument was limiting Holy Swords to just swords, when in fact the pnp version has been for ANY equipped melee weapon. It's bad enough that the Devs have changed Divine Might and many other Paladin stuff away from pnp stuff, but to make the only announced change that all Paladins get to work on less weapons than pnp would have been too far.

If the spell is expanded to non-melee weapons, great. But if expanding the spell to work with those weapons causes the spell to be less powerful and not stacking with stuff, I say remove the non-melee weapons.

I'm not worried about monks and their stupid wraps in this discussion. I'm worried about Paladins in this discussion.

This change was not really made with Ranged or Throwing in mind. The builds that would largely benefit from it stacking would be Qstaff builds (Monk or Rogue), or Knives (Rogue). It could have been a concern for Fighters if they could take Keen Edge before lvl 8, but they cant so they wouldn't have enough levels to have that and Holy Sword.

A sireth or dual knife or single weapon fighting knife user would have trouble not splashing 14 Pally if it stacked. It would be by far the highest DPS split. If it works with Throwing, then a 14 Pally/6 Monk or /3Monk/3x Halfling thrower would have been out and out the best possible shuriken build by a healthy distance.

I fought against this change even though it would have resulted in the most superior throwing build this game has ever seen. Simply because that makes the game boring. I would never have let Monkchers eclipse Manyshot/Doubleshot toons either though if I had been in charge years ago. We'd have a much more interesting Ranged character milieu if they had implemented Doubleshot debuff on Manyshot differently.