maybe the only fail of this build
Classic319
Join Date: 2010-11-06 Member: 74789Members
Join Date: 2010-11-06 Member: 74789Members
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The poison? One bite with spike follow up is pretty deadly.
This.
Explain yourself!
Doesn't really need much explaining, they have the most late game roles to support.
1. Bite - In team fights go for the scattered and farthest marines from the armories, just to disrupt and cause excess med packs.
2. Poison Cloud - Every team fight to blink/kill. Needs to watch minimap to pre-gas hallways, once the marines are there it is hard to go in vs 3-4 marines (now that shotgun is good again).
3. Spikes - All around good ranged weapon, comparable to LMG and allows lerk to always do damage at range.
4. Umbra - The umbra effect has been nerfed (or just changed) to effect lifeforms within the cloud only, the effect doesn't carry once you leave the cloud. This make for repetitive clouds for the team to resist massive bullet damage.
The hard part is balancing all these roles (the lerk already takes a bit of a learning curve to master). You need to know when to go in and get out, when to harass, support, or kill.
This made me Lol. Thanks :P
1. Bite - In team fights go for the scattered and farthest marines from the armories, just to disrupt and cause excess med packs.
2. Poison Cloud - Every team fight to blink/kill. Needs to watch minimap to pre-gas hallways, once the marines are there it is hard to go in vs 3-4 marines (now that shotgun is good again).
3. Spikes - All around good ranged weapon, comparable to LMG and allows lerk to always do damage at range.
4. Umbra - The umbra effect has been nerfed (or just changed) to effect lifeforms within the cloud only, the effect doesn't carry once you leave the cloud. This make for repetitive clouds for the team to resist massive bullet damage.
The hard part is balancing all these roles (the lerk already takes a bit of a learning curve to master). You need to know when to go in and get out, when to harass, support, or kill.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
1. Medpacks being hard-counter for the majority of your damage is bad. Has been brought up before and I plan on bringing it up again.
2-3. Spikes are out of class right now. It's confusing. You have a melee-ranged attack for both Bite and Spore then you have a Ranged attack such as Spike.
4. Umbra is wonky right now. I agree that the timer is too short for the effect to be any sort of useful and the fact that you can't umbra down a hallway while flying full speed annoys me (you end up hitting your own umbra cloud and it bursts in mid-air instead of the doorway you want to fly through).
Hopefully these issues can be addressed soon or in the near future.
I have always player lerk, feels fine this patch. Bite is good but i still think spike should have been the basic attack rather then the poison bite.
Been sayin spikes are out of class since forever! :)
umbra is broken
theres my helpful 2 cents.
Been sayin spikes are out of class since forever! :)
umbra is broken
theres my helpful 2 cents.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah I feel like an idiot now, I kept running into the marine base right after umbraing and thinking "Shoot me all you want I'm umbra'd" And even shooting it for my team just before a large base rush, but since it only works inside the cloud it's pretty much useless for base raids other than maybe half a second when you are moving in and still it will only block about 4 damage in that short time plus it means the lerk is going in to the base first, right into sentry and LMG fire just so the onos behind them can take half damage for a second
The harasser role as I understand it is to deal low damages at range, make the marine move around and disorganize , then pick up a weak target (hurt, isolated,...) and to finish it with bite. It works like wolves attacking big mammals.
Now you can't do that because you have two melees attacks (bite and spores), you can't disrupt marines formation, you can just go in for a single bite and hope the marine is low health. Poison works only on public game with a commander that don't med.
What about switching bite and spikes order ? Spike comes first, then you can evolve bite. You harass at range with spikes and finish with bite.
Maybe if they gave him back his old speed this would be more manageable. (I'm guessing they will, but only after a significant performance increase)
However I think we need to see what happens when the resource system is tweaked, as the original point of this posts was...