Just my thoughts on those particular skills I have an eye on for many years:
The good:
- serpent Strike bottom left side is good
- swarmblade’s nodes and locust swarm is fine
- swarmblade as a bug archetype is interesting
The bad:
- serpent Strike spear requirement is stupid, which is why it is mostly used in combination with swarmblade where it doesn’t exist. Otherwise it’s very niche.
- I get the spear serpent fantasy, but it fits more to a Shaolin monk than a primalist. For playing the restriction is just annoying.
- the rework of serpent strike was super weird. The skill was ok before. Serpent venom is a meme, either bad or busted. Constrictor is weird and the serpent useless. Honestly I love the bottom left, but the rest is horrible.
- swarmblade mobility is very bad and dive is a joke considering we are a winged creature. Dive should be connected to fury leap and have the same range. That way it would look like a Kha’Zix like jump.
- I’ve never seen a decent locust build that is not locust swarm.
- hive feels clunky to use. Locusts should be generated automatically like bees.
- Armblade slash is ok, but could slightly better range/aoe
Random thought:
- there should be unique that makes locust nodes affect bees and turns locusts into bees. This should be accompanied by a bee queen skill MTX.