Why is Tariq so bad?

[Coord]

His Heavy Strike does very little damage and generates very little rage. Even hitting every single HS (not hard given you have nothing else to do) + smashing your mortal strike every time you have rage + doing lightning on cooldown results in DPS that is lower than the healer's.

[Tsuru]

Skill issue. Devs stated he has high dmg but also high skill cap.

[Gr3g [AUT]]

if the tank later on does big pulls I frequently see Tariqs annihilating whole rooms

[Coord]

Originally posted by Gr3g AUT:

if the tank later on does big pulls I frequently see Tariqs annihilating whole rooms

That makes sense given he has access to Cleave but this is the worst-designed character I've seen in a long time. Why would I continue playing him to get to "later on" if my gameplay loop in low level dungeons is pressing 1 every 3 seconds and waiting 10 swings until I can press 4? Sometimes I even get to press my chain lightning thing, once every 30 seconds or so.

[Doomvora]

Tariq does crazy damage tho.

[Wolfsoldier5]

What you mean.. you can spam every single skill before hitting your Heavy Strike, you spam more buttons than anyone else

[i believe only in BOB]

stop cry , if it is hard to u press buttons, switch to another dps class and stop "vining" or what ever . for real. if u don't understand how to play on character, maybe u need help and u could ask for it? isn't of talking ♥♥♥♥?

[Coord]

Originally posted by Wolfsoldier5:

What you mean.. you can spam every single skill before hitting your Heavy Strike, you spam more buttons than anyone else

If you spam buttons you just cancel your swing timer over and over and do even less damage than you do pressing HS.

[Tsuru]

Originally posted by Coord:

Originally posted by Wolfsoldier5:

What you mean.. you can spam every single skill before hitting your Heavy Strike, you spam more buttons than anyone else

If you spam buttons you just cancel your swing timer over and over and do even less damage than you do pressing HS.

No wonder you say your dps is low. Not all abiltiies reset your swing timer.

[Coord]

Originally posted by Tsuru:

Originally posted by Coord:

If you spam buttons you just cancel your swing timer over and over and do even less damage than you do pressing HS.

No wonder you say your dps is low. Not all abiltiies reset your swing timer.

The only abilities you start with that don't cancel your swing timer are the lightning buff + its associated cast, your interrupt, and your power-up ability. So I'm expected to just press 1 for 30 seconds then I get rewarded by pressing 4 once? This is what passes for gameplay here?

[Wolfsoldier5]

Originally posted by Coord:

Originally posted by Wolfsoldier5:

What you mean.. you can spam every single skill before hitting your Heavy Strike, you spam more buttons than anyone else

If you spam buttons you just cancel your swing timer over and over and do even less damage than you do pressing HS.

You do know you have until the end (top part) of the gray bar to Q heavy strike right?

[Tsuru]

Originally posted by Coord:

Originally posted by Tsuru:

No wonder you say your dps is low. Not all abiltiies reset your swing timer.

The only abilities you start with that don't cancel your swing timer are the lightning buff + its associated cast, your interrupt, and your power-up ability. So I'm expected to just press 1 for 30 seconds then I get rewarded by pressing 4 once? This is what passes for gameplay here?

You start with HS, wild swing, face breaker, skull crusher, and hammer storm.

HS on swing timer obv. Wild swing doesnt reset. Facebreaker doesnt but can only be cast if wild swing misses or enemy dodges.

At at level 1 you should be spamming wild swing, then facebreaker when wildswing is dodged. So your pressing 3 buttons quite regularily and a rage spending when you have it.

This is just level 1. You'll get more abiltiies when you level.

Did you expect them to throw all the abiltiies at you at level 1?

[Sorrowon]

Originally posted by Coord:

His Heavy Strike does very little damage and generates very little rage. Even hitting every single HS (not hard given you have nothing else to do) + smashing your mortal strike every time you have rage + doing lightning on cooldown results in DPS that is lower than the healer's.

I agree his ability rotation is meh, kind of boring tbh it isnt that he is difficult, its that he doesnt do anything until later on when there are a ton of adds to aoe, his single target dps is also fine but it isnt a fun rotation, leap, face crusher, lightning spam 2 repeat and early when there are not a lot of cleave opportunities or hammer storm opportunities like I am playing one handed and jacking it with the other.

[PhantasyMind 血鴉]

you do know you need to spam 2/3 before you get to hit a 1 right?

[MrGalactus]

i completely disagree i think he is very fun and engaging, once you get the hang of it and know when to queue up stuff and when to reset the swing timer etc he does great damage.

[Gimboo]

Allow UI hud for melee swing timer to be moved and you could place it in a better spot your watching, missing to many melee swing timers and his dmg goes poop, tank pulls small and again he misses so much dmg output. I feel he does need some small dmg buffs to allow for some room of error.