Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26781209-20180217230921/@comment-32470592-20180218195103

Viperroadster35 wrote: Ainxium wrote: Maracash73 wrote:

Viperroadster35 wrote: Nightengalland wrote: Viperroadster35 wrote: Currently, gneiss is brokenly strong and top of the meta because of it's high defence and damage output. Without that buff gneiss became useable, but no ones talking about the omega that 3 shot them... As gneiss, you should NEVER be that close to a fight, it works the best at mid range for max damage. With it's latest buff, it can take just as much damage as the other tanks without needing to do anything. While gneiss is super tanky, it still has unrivaled damage at mid range. The only otherclasses that can reach at gneiss's damage out put are dedicated damage dealers like mechanic and vulca. In the end, gneiss is a heavy dps with alot of added armor for no good reason. WHY did they buff gneiss, anyways? It was a solid mid to mid-high tier class that did its job well and had a weakness

The buff basically removed the threat of close-ranged engagements, and now gneiss players dont have to think about their positioning, which is what gneiss is supposed to do in order to live because apparently gneiss is supposed to be the new meta class that is omega 1 and 2 but you add rocks and throw in whacky range attacks and damage zones The reason behind buffing the rocks that I can find is to make rocks more meaningful. Before the rock buff, it was "oH bOy MoRe RoCkS *uses rocks instantly*". They might have wanted to give a reason to keep the rocks. 180% defense is still a lot

20% more and you'll get 200% defense, which is how much Obsidian has

and this doesnt go down