Morrolan V
05-26-2010, 03:44 PM
<p>The state of Brawler weapons is in disarray, and is imbalanced relative to other tanks.</p><p>1. Weak DPS weapons.</p><p>The Wyrmbone Knuckles from lair have a lower DR and overall stats than available legendary items. The plate tank counterpart (Wyrmbone Axe of Wounding) was buffed across the board in GU 56, and had a better proc to begin with. </p><p>Please buff the knuckles to be on par with the Axe.</p><p>2. No 4.0 second tanking weapons.</p><p>There are no defense oriented fist weapons with 4.0 second delays. Why in the world are the fist weapons from the Vigilant x2 all 2.5 seconds? Having different sets of weapons on different delays makes it much more difficult to balance our dps and defense. Having our tanking weapons on shorter delays makes it harder to hold aggro (we depend much more than other tanks on our own dps for aggro) and also disadvantages us against mobs with big damage shields or other reactive procs, of which there are many.</p><p>3. Lack of decent ranged items.</p><p>Tanking: The Bandolier of Barrier Golem Shards (<a href="http://www.lootdb.com/eq2/item/797528779">http://www.lootdb.com/eq2/item/797528779</a>) is awful, and much worse than the legendary item purchased with marks from heroic instances, the Living Stone Bandolier.</p><p>DPS: The Satchel of Mutated Flesh (<a href="http://www.lootdb.com/eq2/item/-1934153199">http://www.lootdb.com/eq2/item/-1934153199</a>) drops from TRASH in the lab and is really the only option. It is laughably weak compared to the bows available to plate tanks like: Battle Bow of the Traji-Kedon (<a href="http://www.lootdb.com/eq2/item/2072736764">http://www.lootdb.com/eq2/item/2072736764</a>) or the Plane-Warping Longbow (<a href="http://www.lootdb.com/eq2/item/-812097460">http://www.lootdb.com/eq2/item/-812097460</a>).</p><p>While there were improvements made in GU56 (Sublime Handwraps, the new fist weapon/sword that drops in the hole), things are still unbalanced and need some attention.</p>