Forge Guard Mastery Rework For Exciting Build Diversity

[AbombDaChamp]

I posted this in the why play melee thread in this game. As someone who loves melee and wants FG to be good some day it starts with a much needed mastery rework.

@AbombDaChamp

On a Side note let me offer a fix for FG mastery instead of just stating the obvious fact that it’s still terrible.

Both the 2 affixes for FG Mastery don’t do anything. You don’t need Fire/Phy res you already have a ton of it. You don’t need armor when hit again you have tons of Armor nodes in the tree you already never take.

New FG Masteries

• 1% Movement speed and HP per 1,000 Armor
• 5% More Damage per 500 armor
• 2% Attack Speed per 1,000 Armor

Now this is a very interesting Mastery that now turns dead passives into something. This also makes dead talents something of value in builds. You also have a reason to now go past armor cap or to get high armor because of the Mastery.

The above changes would drastically shake up FG build diversity. It would now make certain items you never would use interesting. This also fixes the horrible scaling issues that FG has. I’d really love to play this type of FG and hope to see something like this some day.

[F0lk]

@AbombDaChamp

Now this is a very interesting Mastery that now turns dead passives into something.

Except it makes no sense at all, specially in a game that cares for Character Identity.

Why would a character wearing the heaviest equipment gain increased attack AND movement speed scaling on the toughness/weight of his armor?

Yes, you can make it deal higher damage because his armor is really heavy, thus making the impact stronger. But it would most definitely not attack or move very fast.

When coming up with new ideas, you have to factor those things in.

[Llama8]

Yeah, there’s definitely a line between thematics/reality (why would heavier armour make you move faster & let’s ignore the whole 'cause magic for a bit) and game balance. Sometimes the devs will stay on one side, sometimes they’ll go for the other side.