After i read "translated" patches tyrr dread doeasnt looks "awesome" and pole boosts doeasnt look big. one new (old) 9 sec stun?
But hows it is in valiance ? Is new HB or any spot good for old solo aoe style ? I dont have much time for play and before i compensed that by effective aoe but now if u are not in big clan hard to find good aoe party at HF with EU time zone on Chronos...
I dont like pagan and for HF solo with my 97 is not possible - armor crush debuff lvl 6 and bye bye :)
many years ago i started play on Teon.. did lvl 20 and moved to old Bartz where was nice clan from my country... it was hard for sieges etc. especially if u are mature with kid & wife :) but Naia (before merge) was full of automated russians so Bartz that time was more nice...
Anyway dread forever till end of L2 - it cant be more worse than before hehe... if they maked tyrr dread "poler" other tyrrs needs get pole mastery nerf or it will be again same as old titans :/
Sad even Maliss stromer is not nice as old Icarus pole CS :)
1) Well pagan is pretty much what i see left, without getting crazy. You could get tanks with AI or the SK one to buff yourself but basically anything that has armor destruction will **** you unless you figure out a way to not pull that mob in or kill it very fast till it gets the debuff to high lvl.
I have not tried the Ica pole lately, i know it didnt work in the SOA treykan cuz well is hard to debuff him, but in the others did work. I know the damage is bad but if it works you can go with 2 tyrrs put one with ica to perma stun crowd (i mean rlly 500 crit rate is perma) and the other is the main DD.
In theory what you need is a tank, if you can avoid the dbuffs then you are fine, but then the tank will need healer and then might aswell just get full party. So yea... pagan.
2) About that skill (the cancel), i dont really know. I remember the first time they introduced the lvl 83 skills, we thought in my server (franz) that dread pool was gonna be a cool fear and stuff, and it didnt land that much in important targets or pretty much anything with full buffs and decent epics, and i had full epics high lvl at that time.
I always thought DN should be like the physical version of an overlord, more in the way of having like toggles to proc debuffs when getting hit or hitting, like for example a passive winter or something and some slows, we also miss Howl which was very cool, but then again we have the totems which make things so much better.