Its still true that critical was always the weaker combo and caster always had the upper hand in teamfights.
The crit damage might be high, but the chance of hitting it are very low since everyone beeing targeted run.
With the server desynch its hard for critters to kill without locking someone in place.
So maybe increasing the range or AA would help (from Wonder cloak)
Or bring back the crit at 100%, the 80% nerf was to nerf ignore elem characters. There was no need to nerf the crit chance in my opinion.
Also you guys keep saying there was no counter to ignor elem, where thats not true.
There is also the point that with crit combo, you lack Skill block debuffs to hit those important debuff. So you rely on having a swash on your team or you will lose any fight.
For caster there is already the easiest combo with 100% debuffs like on sorc/mage/archer/hunter which destroy most classes on DPS uniques...
Dont get me wrong, beiing lock stun was not good,
But
Critters keep getting nerf after nerf.
They need something in return to make them viable if the stun is not a priority option anymore.
They got something in return, slayers got extra ele resi, extra damazge (same for knight and swash) with the new scaling on strenght and the passive going at 500 now, they got more HP (and knight is the one with the highest boost out of it).
Knight got SB debuffs, knight + slayer in selfbuff conditions are destroying everyone, enought MS to catch up almost anyone, enought damage done, and more than enought dodge/block debuff
Swash is an ace for casters and critters
BTW they didnt change the crit chance or crit damage, they only touched the ignore defense, yeah they could bring it back at 100% but it would just allow that every hits goes through defense, boosting the overall damage, but their crit chance has never been changed idk where you saw that
Perma stun shoud NEVER be a thing, imagine you are fully buffed in a team fight, your mates are on a target or helping the one being targeted, they need your debuff to be able to kill, a solo side critter is able to lock you out, its bullshit
Stun needed that change, definitely, but for me the fact a critter stops for a split second when trying to hit someone running is BS, that has to be fixed, and adding range would do it. We should do a dedicated post for that or put it in the community balance project one. I dont know what we can do yet, but i believe if we all think about it we can figure something out
Have a good day