Shadow Starter Gems revamp please for racing.

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DogFaceNoSpace wrote:

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Legatus1982 wrote:

It's not just the starter gems. There's a lot wrong with the shadow as a class

As topic starter said shadow does really good in endless ledge. Apart from the quest rewards shadow is fine.

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DogFaceNoSpace wrote:

Shadow start is great and if you want to play ele spectral throw build you can start as shadow. ele spectral throw is one of the most played specs in ambush and invasion as of now. Same goes for trapper. Shadow is best start for trapper. One of the most played specs in nemesis and also played a lot in invasion.

Basically any caster can start as shadow. If you go crit shadow start is simply best and if you do not go crit you can escape the shadow tree by going from mental acuity towards clear mind for a meager two points. which is very point effective.

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Legatus1982 wrote:

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DogFaceNoSpace wrote:

Shadow start is great and if you want to play ele spectral throw build you can start as shadow. ele spectral throw is one of the most played specs in ambush and invasion as of now. Same goes for trapper. Shadow is best start for trapper. One of the most played specs in nemesis and also played a lot in invasion.

Basically any caster can start as shadow. If you go crit shadow start is simply best and if you do not go crit you can escape the shadow tree by going from mental acuity towards clear mind for a meager two points. which is very point effective.

Idk what else to tell you other than the data has shadows as both the lowest number in top 100 and highest mortality rate top 100 in invasion, and has been that way since invasion started.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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Real_Wolf wrote:

More and more I am feeling that the gem rewards need a complete rehaul.

They should have ALL gem rewards available across all classes.

When it comes to the earliest gem rewards — Normal Hillock in particular — I emphatically disagree with this. Starting with an alternate class, getting to Lioneye's Watch, and muling a gem over only takes a couple minutes, but can be a solid race strategy with an interesting drawback. (As we saw earlier, I have zero sympathy for the "every class should have Molten Strike" argument.)

On the other hand, the idea of rerolling to gain access to, say, Melee Physical Damage as a quest reward is patently absurd. So I don't think your point is completely invalid.

What we should see is a steadily increasing diversity of gem rewards as characters progress. The earliest gem rewards should either be class exclusives or really close to it, with a limited number of options; the Merciless gem rewards should be fairly uniform across all classes, with a large number of options available.

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Rithz wrote:

I would just like to point out these suggestions are strictly for racing. The Shadow tree is very good for crit builds, and right now crit builds rank among one of the best builds end game right now. The tree however is terrible for racing. My post reflects on how terrible shadows are for racing due to them getting terrible gem rewards.


Its evident that shadow is weaker in racing because if you look at the signature records you will notice that not 1 shadow had even hit 32, and only 2 shadows had hit 31. The 10 point reward was 32.

In descent champions not one shadow has even hit 26 yet, and I think shadows have only hit 25 like 5 times out of probably 100+ descent champion races. 26 again is the top bracket.

Yes races are meant to be between class vs class, but when a class can't even hit the highest point bracket there's something flawed with the point system or the class.