U51 Preview 1: Fury of the Wild

[Torc]

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Everything seen on the preview server, Lamannia, is not final and is subject to change or removal before live release.

Fury of the Wild

Overview: Fury provides damage and some durability supported by regeneration with a primary focus on melee builds that use two handed weapons, duel wield, animal forms and razor claw.

Core 1 (level 20 ): You gain the Diehard feat. Each Core ability grants +20 Hit Points as well as 10 Melee Power.

Core 3 (level 23): Die Harder: +100 Unconsciousness Range.

Core 6 (level 26): Die Hardest: +250 Unconsciousness Range.

Tier 1 (req level 20):

• Enduring: +2/4/6 Physical Resistance Rating.
• Savage Takedown: +1/2/3 Trip DCs. Rank 3: Gain an additional +3 to Trip DCs if you're wearing Medium or Light Armor.
• Epic Strike: - Multiselector
  
  • Adrenaline: Your next melee attack deals +25/50/75% damage, and increases your threat by 4/8/16. Requires a melee weapon to use. Cooldown: 8 seconds.
  • Quick Cutter: Melee Attack: 0/1/2 W + 0/1/2 Crit Threat. When you use this skill gain the effect “Quick” which grants +2/4/6% dodge for 9 seconds. If you use this skill again while Quick is still active you instead apply Cutter to your target. Cutter: 4d6 bane damage per character level every 2 seconds for 12 seconds. Stacks 3 times and scales with 200% of Melee Power. Off hand strikes can apply Cutter as well. Requires a melee weapon to use. Cooldown: 6 seconds.
• Mantle of Fury: Destiny Mantle: Gain 5/10/15% damage against helpless targets. You also heal 2/4/6d10 Hit Points every 15 seconds. Scales with the highest of positive Spell Power or 200% Melee Power.
• Acute Senses: +2/4/6 Balance, Listen, Spot, Search, and Saves vs Traps. Rank 3: You gain 1% Dodge

Tier 2 (req level 22):

• Fast & Furious: Charge a target dealing 1/2/3 W +0/1/2 Critical Hit Multiplier. Rank 3: When you activate this ability, if you are raging, the cooldown is immediately reset. This cooldown reset may only happen once every 10 seconds, independent of the skill’s cooldown. Requires a melee weapon to use. Cooldown: 12/10/8 seconds.
• Fear my Vengeance: +1/2/3 damage to shaken foes.
• I'm Always Angry: You gain the Barbarian Rage feat. +1/2/3 uses of Rage.
• Primal Scream: Nearby Allies gain a +2 Morale bonus to Strength and Constitution for 5 minutes. This effect cannot be refreshed until the first one expires. Nearby Enemies take 1d20 Sonic damage per character level and are Shaken for 30 seconds. Damage Scales the highest of 200% with Melee Power or Sonic Spell Power. Cooldown: 30 seconds.
• Gird against Demons: Weapons you wield bypass Silver and Cold Iron damage reduction.

Tier 3 (req level 24):

• Sense Weakness +2/4/6% Fortification Bypass. Your Fury Destiny Mantle grants you an additional 5/10/15% damage against helpless targets.
• Multi Selector -
  
  • Wild Weapons: +5/10/15% Strikethrough Chance
  • Wild Weapons: 3/6/10% off hand strike Chance
  • Wild Weapons: 1/2/3% Double Strike Chance
• Eternal Rage If you are not raging and you are out of rage charges, you have a 1/2/3% chance to gain 1 charge of rage whenever you strike a foe.
• Multi Selector
  
  • Furious Force: +1 Strength while Raging. Increases adrenaline Damage bonus by 25/50/75%.
  • Spirit of the Beast: +1/2/3 attack bonus. Rank 3: The effects of Ram’s Might and Animal Growth are doubled on you.
• Embrace the Pain: When you are below 15/25/40% of your Max Hit Points you gain 2d10 Hit Points every 6 seconds. Scales with the highest of Positive Spell Power or 200% Melee Power.

Tier 4 (req level 26):

• Voice of Fury: Doubles the damage of your Primal Scream. If Adrenaline or Quick is active when you use Primal Scream, triple the damage instead, and nearby enemies have a 75% chance of become Confused for 3 seconds, no save. Adrenaline and Quick are consumed.
• Top Dog: You gain the Improved Trip Feat
• Multi Selector:
  
  • Overwhelming Force: +1/2/3 bonus to Hit. Increases your Adrenaline effect by 25/50/75% additional damage. Rank 3: Melee attacks under the effect of Adrenaline cause knock down on target for 4 seconds.
  • Primal Force: You gain a +[1/2/3] Attack bonus and 2/4/6% Fortification By Pass. Rank 3: If duel wielding, using punch weapons or in animal form gain a +2% Epic Damage bonus to all physical attacks.
• Multi Selector -
  
  • Wade Through: +10/15/25% StrikeThrough chance
  • Wade Through: +3/6/10% Off Hand strike chance
  • Wade Through: +2/4/6% Double Strike chance
• Unquenchable Rage:Reduce all damage taken by 8/12/15% for 6 seconds after you consume a Rage charge or use Primal Scream. Rank 3: Now also applies a copy of the Heal spell to you which scales with the highest of Melee Power at 200% or Positive Spell Power.

Tier 5 (req level 30):

• Lore of the Wilds: Every 2 Wilderness Lore feat now grants a 1% Primal bonus to Maximum Hit Points.
• Scarred by Chaos: +50 Hit Points and +10 Physical Resistance Rating. Doubled if you have the Embodiment of Chaos feat.
• Unbridled Fury: Epic Moment: (Cooldown: 5 minutes) For the next 30 seconds you gain +1000 Unconsciousness Range, You heal for 10% of your max hit points every 5 seconds, and your Strength, Dexterity and Constitution are increased by half of their base values.
• Nature’s Fury: +1 Critical Hit Damage multiplier on rolls of 19 or 20 if using a two handed weapons, duel wielding, punch weapons or if you're in animal form.
• The Great Leveler: CD 30 Melee attack. W 3/4/6. Crit Threat: +4/8/16. This attack creates a shock wave that affects all enemies in a short narrow line. The length and width of the line doubles if Adrenaline or Quick is active, consuming those effects. Applies Trip (DC 20 + Highest of Dex, Str, Con + Trip/Tactics DCs).

[Vorachtin]

Overall some nice design here, sad to see this heroic ability filler garbage in an ED "Enduring: +2/4/6 Physical Resistance Rating." Double it so it is epic and not a copy paste from heroic enhancements imo.

[elvesunited]

-----Initial Thoughts ----

Adrenaline/Quick Cutter
Am I wrong in thinking that Adrenaline will completely out perform Quick Cutter. Also as Quick Cutter is an epic strike ability then why doesn't it get enhanced later in the tree like Adrenaline does?

I'm always Angry / Eternal Rage
By the time a Barbarian, bear, or shifter reaches level 20 they've pretty much got their rages set so they can use them near constantly. If not then the character probably doesn't use rage and doesn't have abilties that work with it. So who is the consumer of this?

[TPICKRELL]

• Unbridled Fury: Epic Moment: (Cooldown: 5 minutes) For the next 30 seconds you gain +1000 Unconsciousness Range, You heal for 10% of your max hit points every 5 seconds, and your Strength, Dexterity and Constitution are increased by half of their base values.

What is considered to be the base values for this feature?

• The Great Leveler: CD 30 Melee attack. W 3/4/6. Crit Threat: +4/8/16. This attack creates a shock wave that affects all enemies in a short narrow line. The length and width of the line doubles if Adrenaline or Quick is active, consuming those effects. Applies Trip (DC 20 + Highest of Dex, Str, Con + Trip/Tactics DCs).

I HATE having a linear cc effect in a melee tree. Melee effects do not operate in straight lines, and the mismatch makes this much less useful than a burst or arc. This is not a clever unique feature to me, its making the trees main crowd control not work with the basic operations of the users of the tree. I also do not like the absence of helpless crowd control in a tree that has a major component of damage to helpless.

[Monkey_Archer]

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  • Spirit of the Beast: +1/2/3 attack bonus. Rank 3: The effects of Ram’s Might and Animal Growth are doubled on you.

Ram's might granted from belt of the ram is not being doubled by this

[TFerguson]

This sucks way less than LD.

[Kortar]

Unbridled Fury: Epic Moment: (Cooldown: 5 minutes) For the next 30 seconds you gain +1000 Unconsciousness Range, You heal for 10% of your max hit points every 5 seconds, and your Strength, Dexterity and Constitution are increased by half of their base values.

Doesn't seem to be working, on my shifter barb (18 str, 18 con, 10 dex) it granted 5 Str, 5 Con and 6 dex (instead of 9-9-5), am I misunderstanding what half of their base values means? Is it a stacking issue?

[Kortar]

I'm always Angry / Eternal Rage
By the time a Barbarian, bear, or shifter reaches level 20 they've pretty much got their rages set so they can use them near constantly. If not then the character probably doesn't use rage and doesn't have abilties that work with it. So who is the consumer of this?

Unquenchable Rage gives you a heal when you enter a rage so extra rages are not lost, you can dismiss and rage for a free heal.

[TPICKRELL]

Doesn't seem to be working, on my shifter barb (18 str, 18 con, 10 dex) it granted 5 Str, 5 Con and 6 dex (instead of 9-9-5), am I misunderstanding what half of their base values means? Is it a stacking issue?

Not working here either, it only added 5 str, 89 to 93 on my barb. Pretty sad epic moment even if it works as expected, pitiful as is.

[TPICKRELL]

The Great leveler is ok when Adrenalined. Seems to knock down several creatures in front of me. Without Adrenaline it was only hitting one or two mobs in the First hallway in Grim and Barret (target rich environment).

DPS is way down due to lack of helpless creation (Dire Charge twist), and Haste Boost (Twist). I've not been through all the trees, but don't see anywhere to pick up haste boost.

Incoming damage was way up (no meld for critical fights) but a bit more HP and some passive healing partially offset that.

The 3 tree system is way less flexible than the twist system. I realize that earning your twists slots was painful, but that was a few weeks of work to set up a toon so was a painful but pretty short grind. The lack of comparable features low in trees means that this system is much less flexible for my builds.

[Kortar]

The Great leveler is ok when Adrenalined. Seems to knock down several creatures in front of me. Without Adrenaline it was only hitting one or two mobs in the First hallway in Grim and Barret (target rich environment).

DPS is way down due to lack of helpless creation (Dire Charge twist), and Haste Boost (Twist). I've not been through all the trees, but don't see anywhere to pick up haste boost.

Incoming damage was way up (no meld for critical fights) but a bit more HP and some passive healing partially offset that.

The 3 tree system is way less flexible than the twist system. I realize that earning your twists slots was painful, but that was a few weeks of work to set up a toon so was a painful but pretty short grind. The lack of comparable features low in trees means that this system is much less flexible for my builds.

Haste Boost is gone, but you can get 10% haste boost from every action boost in Tier 4 LD (for 10 seconds like Prowess), you'll have to splash a class that has it in heroic trees to get full haste boost.

[TPICKRELL]

Haste Boost is gone, but you can get 10% haste boost from every action boost in Tier 4 LD (for 10 seconds like Prowess), you'll have to splash a class that has it in heroic trees to get full haste boost.

I figured, just wanted to point out that I hadn't searched for it. so could be missing it.

And LD stinks for a barbarian(at a quick read stinks in general), so not an option to go that deep into the tree.

[elvesunited]

Unquenchable Rage gives you a heal when you enter a rage so extra rages are not lost, you can dismiss and rage for a free heal.

Dismissing rage and re-engaging rage in the middle of a fight seems a bit wonky.
Since primal scream has a cooldown of 30 seconds that seems much simpler.

[Xaxx]

30 seconds on a very narrow cc cooldown and making the epic moment an utter waste of time, but 10% hp for a few classes is nice...

lower/widen cc cooldown (20 seconds/cone) or give us back some version of actual unbridled to make this actually work

[Sorccadin]

So, after playing a few quests on Lamania i´ve got some idea on how this tree is supposed to work. All quests were played on LR4.

1. Not a fan of Fast&Furious. while in theory its great for adrenaline damage, its really wonky to hit just like dire charge on live server How about a multiselector for a cleave attack? I for one would love that.
2. Epic Moment did not work - i suppose thats a bug, but it basicly only gave 4 STR on my 90+ Str
3. On topic of stuff that does not work - the healing is a little lackluster in reaper (obviously). While its really strong outside reaper, making it not reduced in reaper prolly wouold be too strong so not sure how that plays out in the end.
4. FoTW is THE HELPLESSNESS DAMAGE Tree. Well, except there is no built in way to make anything helpless at all. I´d love if the knockdown on adrenaline and the great leveler would make targets helpless, else its kinda useless getting all this extra damage that never applies if you are solo/ your party wont make helpless.

Other than that, i for one had little to no issue playing on R4 mostly solo/ testing with a friend in US. Its a cool tree, but it could be cooler with some adjustments

[GramercyRiff]

Take away the charge from Fast and Furious. If you want to put in a charge attack in addition that's cool, but the big smash shouldn't be a charge because charges are wonky in this game. Also agreed with the above, Fury needs some CC that imposes helpless.

Unbridled Fury isn't Fury nor Unbridled. This thing needs to shake the world when its clicked.

Basically Epic Moments need to be a reason for us to play this game.

[Vish]

this is op
i saw strimtom preview
better than me will exploit it
nerf it to 1 min for epic moment, whatever that is

[Ganak]

Fair disclosure: I'm looking at this through the lens of my dex based tempest ranger TWF.


Currently, I love running in shadowdancer because of its synergies with dex and good melee output. I get the intention to distance from ability stats. I feel this destiny falls short for my niche build. I don't think the offhand bonuses amount to much on my build (I think I'm at 80% already). Anything of positive healing I cringe because outside of raids I play mostly reaper where the healing is quite muted.

I just don't feel good about TWF being lumped into a general melee/THF/Barb/etc destiny.

[Vorachtin]

Buy EDs so you can be EPIC!

Enduring: +2/4/6 Physical Resistance Rating. Required level 20!

or

Just use any of these heroic low level abilities that are cheaper and mostly better!


Bladeforged enhancements

Communion of Warding +4/+8/+12 Physical Resistance Rating

Deep Gnome enhancements

Hardy Nature +1/+2/+3

Dragonborn enhancements

Harder Scales +2/+4/+6

Deepwood Stalker enhancements

Survivalist I-III: up to +12 in light armor

Eldritch Knight enhancements

Improved Shield improves the Physical Resistance Rating by 3/6/10 while under the effects of the Shield spell.

Henshin Mystic enhancements

Each core enhancement grants +3 PRR.

Pale Master enhancements

Shroud of the Zombie: +3
Undead Augmentation (Deathly Touch): +5 while in any Pale Shroud
Eternal Furor: +15 while in any Pale Shroud
Ascendant Shroud: +10 while in Shroud of the Zombie

Ravager enhancements

Ritual Scarring improves the Physical Resistance Rating by 1/2/3.

Sacred Defender enhancements

Sacred Defense: +10 Physical Resistance
Improved Sacred Defense - Durable Defense: When in Sacred Defense, you gain +5/+10/+15 Sacred bonus to Physical Resistance Rating.
Redemption: +5 Physical Resistance
Glorious Stand: +5 Physical Resistance
Eternal Defender: +5 Physical Resistance
Harbored by Light: You gain +10/15/25 Physical Resistance Rating.

Shintao enhancements

Iron Skin improves the Physical Resistance Rating by 5/10/20.
Meditation of War improves the Physical Resistance Rating while under Mountain Stance by 10.

Sorcerer (elemental form)

Elemental Apotheosis: Fire, Air, Water: +20
Elemental Apotheosis: Earth: +25

Stalwart Defender enhancements

Stalwart Defense stance improves the Physical Resistance Rating by 10.
Improved Stalwart Defense - Durable Defense improves the Physical Resistance Rating while on Stalwart Defense Stance by additional 5/10/15.

Tempest enhancements

Cores: 2+1+1+1+1+1
Dervish (capstone): +10
Improved Defense: +1/2/3
Improved Parry: +3/6/10 while dual-wielding. (This bonus does not apply when fighting unarmed/with handwraps).

Thief-Acrobat enhancements

Spinning Staff Wall: Activate to gain 50 PRR for 20 seconds. Cooldown: 90 seconds.

Warchanter enhancements

Rough and Ready improves the Physical Resistance Rating by 2/4/6.
Ironskin Chant provides +6 Music bonus to everyone around
Warmaster (capstone): +15 Music bonus to single ally

Warforged enhancements

Adamantine Durability +4/+8/+12 Physical Resistance Rating
Memories of the Last War: +8 Determination bonus

Warpriest enhancements

Wall of Steel +3/+6/+10 Physical Resistance Rating
Sanctuary For 20 seconds, you gain +20 Sacred bonus to Physical Resistance. (Activation Cost: 10 Spell Points. Cooldown: 1 minute)

Wood Elf enhancements

Forest Origins: Oath of the Wild: You take an oath to forego metal armor, metal shields, and Rune Arms. As long as you do not have these equipped, you gain +10 Physical Resistance Rating.

Renegade Mastermaker enhancements

Supporting Construction: +2/4/6 Physical Resistance Rating
Action Boost Defence: +5/10/15 Action Boost bonus to Armor Class and Physical Resistance rating for 20 seconds

[Saekee]

so the adrenaline knockdown is for four seconds not 10 at 225% damage boost option? Am I reading this correctly? And are they still considered helpless?

The knockdown and 10 seconds of helplessness made this my favorite tree