I’ve hated all CW incarnations thus far. I feel the class lacks a theme, but mostly, it lacks feedback. When a physician/alch heals someone, they know they did.
As a CW, you never know whether your actions had any effect. So you’re just randomly choosing people to protect, because you can’t even stay on a proven target. No matter how strong a class is, without feeback, people will always feel powerless.
Except for when he had feedback with his 2 target magical barrier, people still complained.
I think it’s less to do with being told that they did something and more feeling like they did something.
I also feel like thematically the class has been lacking; Court Wizard is a glorified guard right now. Ice ward essentially does the same thing a Mercenary does minus the perks of having a person knowing they were protected. The current version is definitely an improvement on the previous versions though.
There usually are enough supporting classes in games to the point where the CW isn’t recognized or valued. His recharge ability would probably work better on a neutral class like Alchemist (being a potion of rejuvenation rather than a spell of course).
Maybe give him the ability to teleport other players and swap their locations during the night? He is far too passive in his current state and needs a proactive and high reward ability.
I’m fairly sure transporter roles already cause enough agro - do we want the CW doing that?
I’d be fine with Bus Driver in the game. It’s a high skill, high risk/reward class that would be a blast to play.
I think devs need to not balance the game around possible salt-fueled rages from players in the future.
It’d definitely need a finite charge (2 uses? 3?), and not leave feedback with the targets
It would leave feedback with the redirected people (rather than the people they were targeting like trans) like everything else in this game.
Nah, no feedback. Let Transporter be more difficult to confirm. Scorned’s feedback is invisible, so should be the Transporter’s. Maybe Scorned’s could claim Transporter this way.
Not what I mean
Let’s say 1 and 2 were swaped and 3 is sheriff
If 3 tried to check 1 he would be told that he visited 2 instead
1 and 2 would be told nothing.
I’d so much rather them introduce a neutral class with a transport ability. Transport always causes chaos in uncoordinated game (ie every single ToL game) and would far more suit a Neutral role trying to see BD fall imo.
He isn’t a transporter. He used to be but it was changed because it was useless to him.
Transporting creates chaos and fits a Neutral class aiming to disrupt the BD more than a BD class. Obviously in higher levels this is not true but in the chaotic ToL a BD transporter would only hinder them.
When did they remove Bait and Switch from the Scorned? I have more than once framed my target in this way when I know who the Paly/Sheriff is going to target at night.
They didn’t even replace it with another night ability. What a bummer. Was Scorned win rate too high?
Did people get notified about visiting a different target other than their original? I thought Scorned swap was silent. I’m almost sure it was.
The people being visited were uninformed
The visitors are informed however
They are told “For whatever reason you instead targeted [Player]”
