The reason why you have people hating commanders and commanders hating people is that they are weak, and have one very annoying skill that can be used to harass one individual of their choosing on the opposing side.
The original Developers either made the defender and commander class first or last, because you can see that they did not know how much detail they wanted to put into each skill, or last, becuase they were just too tired after creating every other races, that they just threw some generic attack skills in there.
Commanders on average have:
Average HP
Above Average Defense
Low Damage
No Healing
Slightly Above Average Block
Very Low Skill Importance
- I Believe this is supposed to feel like a more all around class with moderate tanking capabilities based on what we have been given to work with, unfortunately in today's world when everyone has maxed defenses a race with very low melee damage cannot survive.
Take Hp as an example, a pretty good commander has around 30+khp. Their block would be around 40-50%, which does not really matter when it comes to casters/sins/Zerk unblockables. There is absolutely no way to tank the damage outputs with these stats when other races are taking away 10k life in 2 seconds. If a Protector can't tank it, we certainly can't.
- Either you have a protectors block + heals (which even they fall after a short while), or you have beserker's counter/hp. Commanders have neither of these classes survival skills, which means they are pure glass on the battlefield when it comes to tanking.
Low survival, Low damage, and no support skills whatsoever. Me, pumping out arguably great (for my class) damage on cap defense means nothing against a caster who has max def and can just wait for Face Strike to wear off, or a zerk with 60+khp who for some reason has counter AND a heal. Yes you can get more scad, but this usually comes at a price. You can load up on regals, but it is not going to save you. And the average commander is not even going to have that great of enchants, so think of how fast they explode.
- In a test It took a tempest around 10 seconds with one aoe and a few pew pews to wear down my 40khp, and in that time I could not out damage his minor heal. That makes me sad.
I touched more on it in the skills section, but it just feels like commanders were given a bunch of straightforward attack skills with no purpose or thought behind them. They don't do anything, and we have no strategy except "Face Strike whoever hits the hardest and then try to chop him down before he kills you." This is a very interesting class that seemed to just fall short because the Dev's got bored after making the other classes. You see no uniqueness or interesting skills, and it's the same with Protector. Hit this, run here, stun that, run here, hit this, die. A fun and fast paced class, just very under-powered.
- Another issue is that the skills limit Commander to only using a shield and sword. You cannot stun with a 2H, and without that you're dead. We have no ranged weapon options, and we cannot, and don't want to use Dual Swords. Options would be nice.
Edited by BloodyHalo, 30 September 2015 - 03:24 PM.
