Is "Surprise Attack" overtuned currently?

[Knavenformed]

I've been leveling a new DK and a Templar with quite a lot of baatleground matches
What I've noticed is a lot of Nightblades spamming only Surprise Attack and doing some seriously wicked damage

Wardens still shalk and divebomb for setup
MagDK has a rotation
Arcanists have the "healthiest" death recap with most variety of attacks

But man, surprise attack nightblades are just something else, literally just got ran down mid by one who just did that one attack for almost the whole match

[Sith Lord Seyz]

i gues you are new to battlegrounds. in lower "elo" a lot of people run around with squishy pve builds.
a nightblade can just easily gank these people.
the pvp meta these days is beeing tanky (like 30k+ hp, 30k resistance + and depending on class/build crit resistance). there a nightblade wont deal alot of dmg anymore

[Knavenformed]

Originally posted by Sith Lord Seyz:

More new to Templar basically, I have like 300 hours in PvP alone in the game but I took a 3 year break and decided to play the class with no access to easy defensives

But yeah my DK doesn't have a problem with them at all, seems to be a noob trap to crutch on it as a spammable against lvl15-30 players

[AmaiAmai]

All of NB is overtuned, but don't tell an NB that. They will pretend cloak isn't the best defensive and offensive skill in the game, that NB doesn't have the best healing in the game, that NB doesn't have the most unnamed buff, that vamp is fine, etc.

Balance is trash in the game in PvP. That's a fact, not fiction and why the PvP scene is drying up.

[nonameyet]

Surprise Attack is good value for the Nightblade's build...they're heavily incentivzed to use it because its a decent spammable that provides some buffs and a combo, but the sheer damage of it is not crazy. They're just using it instead of any other spammable.

[Swans]

SA is just a good attack to use, it's not over-tuned as such. I could use Rapid Strike or something and it would not be that different, but SA is the preference of NBs.

[Knavenformed]

Originally posted by Roadie:

Originally posted by Knavenformed:

decided to play the class with no access to easy defensives

I wouldn't recommend that. PvP basically requires it.

Yeah I just wanted to try out MagTemp after my old stamDK got run over by a couple of them thinking yeah "I can also spam jabs"
But now I respect Templar players a lot more as they don't have core defenses and no way to extend the horrible 20 second window on all of their offensive buffs, I'm so used to how easy DK is to manage with their buffs lasting over a minute.