Impale used to be cool. Fire a massive arrow that smashes people for 275% weapon damage! HUGE!
now you just throw some knives at people, and it does the same dmg. sure its a visual effect however i still have a problem with it. just seems so underwhelming. Jay talks about barbs being able to throw people around and send corpses flying which is awesome, i just feel the demon hunters impale still is so lacklustre. if you ask me it should be a huge bolt that stick in people you shoot. that would be cool. any1 else?
I completely agree! I thought the original impale was so cool, it was actually one of my favorite moves of all of the Demon Hunter's moves. But the knife doesn't even fly quickly through the air anymore. Gah I miss it. I'm glad I'm not the only one that was thinking about this.
But didn't they make it so you could use impale without a bow now? I like the idea of firing shots at an enemy and then, oh yeah, while you're here take this KNIFE IN THE FACE too.
I agree that the overall animation/sound could use an improvement, it felt a lot beefier before when it was a spear fired out of a bow, but I do like the direction they're going with it as a skill. It's a little more dynamic than just one more way to fire an arrow.
It was my understanding that the knife animation was when using impale with a melee weapon (to open up for melee DHs). Is it a knife too, if you have a ranged weapon equipped? Sadface if so.
Always the same graphic regardless of wep. It is a dagger. Personally I don't like this attack much. It is a powerful short term burst. Rapid Fire does more damage for less hatred on a single target. Its usage is probably powerful in PvP but it seems to be very limited by its cost in PvE.
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It was my understanding that the knife animation was when using impale with a melee weapon (to open up for melee DHs). Is it a knife too, if you have a ranged weapon equipped? Sadface if so.
Always the same graphic regardless of wep. It is a dagger. Personally I don't like this attack much. It is a powerful short term burst. Rapid Fire does more damage for less hatred on a single target. Its usage is probably powerful in PvP but it seems to be very limited by its cost in PvE.
Agreed.. but I also feel if you are going to play a DH as your main you are going to have quite a few gripes as far as PVE goes to make way for a PVP class that has potential to dominate
It was my understanding that the knife animation was when using impale with a melee weapon (to open up for melee DHs). Is it a knife too, if you have a ranged weapon equipped? Sadface if so.
Always the same graphic regardless of wep. It is a dagger. Personally I don't like this attack much. It is a powerful short term burst. Rapid Fire does more damage for less hatred on a single target. Its usage is probably powerful in PvP but it seems to be very limited by its cost in PvE.
Oh, really. Wait till you meet electrified elite mob in hell and try to do him with rapid fire. Good luck then
It is a bit disappointing that Imaple has you throwing a dagger. I mean, I could understand that if you had melee weapons equipped, but most people are going to run with bows. Seems to make more sense to me to have the attack being an arrow or large projectile of some sort, and not just a dagger. Kinda takes away from the 'power' of the skill...at least visually.
Well, it is useful for granadiers and for bowas so I say it should be a dagger as you must hide it somewhere in both cases. But they should just make it feel more heavy/solid and it should has stop mob from moving by default by making him fall on his ass for a sec
I have to agree as well, I loved impale when it was a giant, loud shot. Even the icon was cool. Throwing a dagger is defiantly underwhelming, and also doesn't make sense since I apparently I can throw daggers harder than my two handed bow =)
I will say though, I think they changed it to help add a non bow skill. Impale is really nice to have in a set-up that isn't using bows.
impale used to be my favorite skill way back when i first saw beta footage of it. a massive bow shot that even sounded like a powerful attack. still dont understand how a bow-based class has all these bow attacks, but then its main single target attack (burst damage terms) simply throws a dagger -.- rather disapointing
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(this build was before D3 launched... looking back on it now - i had no idea what i was doing)
now you just throw some knives at people, and it does the same dmg. sure its a visual effect however i still have a problem with it. just seems so underwhelming. Jay talks about barbs being able to throw people around and send corpses flying which is awesome, i just feel the demon hunters impale still is so lacklustre. if you ask me it should be a huge bolt that stick in people you shoot. that would be cool. any1 else?
Thanks Caniroth for the awesome sig!
I agree that the overall animation/sound could use an improvement, it felt a lot beefier before when it was a spear fired out of a bow, but I do like the direction they're going with it as a skill. It's a little more dynamic than just one more way to fire an arrow.
A QUADRILLION MAGIC FIND is worthless if you can't kill shit!
Always the same graphic regardless of wep. It is a dagger. Personally I don't like this attack much. It is a powerful short term burst. Rapid Fire does more damage for less hatred on a single target. Its usage is probably powerful in PvP but it seems to be very limited by its cost in PvE.
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Agreed.. but I also feel if you are going to play a DH as your main you are going to have quite a few gripes as far as PVE goes to make way for a PVP class that has potential to dominate
Oh, really. Wait till you meet electrified elite mob in hell and try to do him with rapid fire. Good luck then
I will say though, I think they changed it to help add a non bow skill. Impale is really nice to have in a set-up that isn't using bows.