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Hello guys, so i want to make that short. I play this game since the beta and i love this game. But now i am done with it till you buff the highlander in a state that he is at the same level as other characters.
First of all his guardbreak range is the biggest joke in the game. A 10 year old kid could probably make more meters with a guardbreak than this 2 meter masculin man...
The next thing is he dont have any opener. Dont say that Celtic Curse is a opener, every player can parry it easy, give the highlander the option to faint it..
Then his stamina management it sucks so badly... i got my whole gear on stamina reducing and stamina recovery at least this gear part... I run out of stamina that ****ing fast... If i am at offense form i can do like 1 kick into caber toss and a heavy and i am out of stamina, when i wasnt at full stamina when i started this combo i cant do the heavy so i got nothing from the whole combo.
Then his damage... Please tell me how its possible that a tiny girl like shaman can do more dmg with her little axe and knife than a guy with a ****ing 2 meter claymore? How is that possible? Her unblockable got 1100 ms and the highlander normal heavy got 1000 ms so shouldnt be the damage nearly the same?
When there is a shaman who only makes her jump attack heavys everytime from different angles i cant react on the PS4. Really its impossible for me and i am no bad player, i am nearly at 700 hours...
So please buff this character. Highlander looks really nice and i like his kit but its just too weak. I think if you would put 2 players which are on the exact same level as opponents the highlander would lose against every character.
Yours faithfully
ArmorKing175 PS4
I hope i get some helpful feedback
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I agree with pretty much all of this.
The Highlander has been aggressively, hilariously mediocre since the second he launched, and It's beyond baffling that no significant changes have been made to him so far.
I do however think he has openers. Celtic Curse works the majority of the time for me, if nothing else as a way to get on the offensive. Asides from that, there's feinting an offensive heavy into a light, or into a kick. Or just go straight into the kick.
Or the superior block lights to get back in the fight.
The problems arise after you do an opener, because you're gonna be out of stamina with very little damage done.
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As a main Highlander ( with Warden) I believe Highlander is the most balanced hero of any of the heroes we got after OG crew. I like his moveset, and most of his gear looks amazing as well. I have no difficulties being very attack minded playing him while still easily surpassing my Warden K/D.
However, something has to change when it comes to relation between Highlander or Lawbringer and Conq. for that matter, and assasins. I still believe that right way should be to decrease damage assasins deal instead to increase damage other big boys deal. Because, as you pointed out, there is just no sense that Shaman or Berserker as well as other assasins can deal so much damage. There are already too fast plus they have more stamina and in current game condition , it hurts gameplay.
Big boys such as Higlander should be the ones who control battlefield but instead I always have to hide behind objects and use my street smarts to win. Want to fight out in a open vs assasin? Good luck!
Only Ubisoft can explain why the Gladiator has so much health , why Berserke can kill me in 2 strikes or why Shinobi exists in this game at all. They screwed up because of they favoritism towards assasins class in general.
So if you ask me, Inwould rather rework some of the assasins because I like the Highlander the way he is. But if that is not an option and they want to keep Shinobis slaping everyone around kung fu style, then I do want to see slightly improved Highlander. Increased sprint speed and higher damage.
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i agree with that, Highlander seems like he has poor damage, but i think it's more that others hit too hard for what they are.
on the Highlander front, i think he is more in line with what the game should be, he is a pretty balanced character, just feels weak because of some unbalanced characters, but i would adjust his stamina costs a bit, some of his stuff costs way too much.
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You're absolutely right.Originally Posted by Vordred Go to original post
In a perfect world, the Highlander is the most balanced character, damage, health and speed wise.
Sadly, we don't live in that particular world, and the result is the Highlander being objectively worse than almost all the other heroes. He is what the game should be, but the Centurion, Gladiator, Shinobi, Aramusha and Shaman just ruin that concept.
So our choices are to either bring the other 15 heroes down to his level, or bring 1 hero up to their level. Oddly enough, the developers seem to be doing neither however.
So for the time being, Highlander is just a 2 meter tall monument to the twisted, irrational and annoying process the developers go through when balancing their game.
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He is my main now, and yes, he need some change.
the big problem with him for me, is that he is got nothing out of Parry.
And no, gb into zone cancal is not cool.
He need some Counter after a parry, maybe some move that do a stamina dmg and let him start a mixup.
Maybe if you press the GB key right after a parry (same as warlord/cent timing) you will do a kick and then you can get a heavy after the kick. Just like any hybrid in the game has a heavy after parry-gb, give it to highlander , but in the cost of self-stamina from the kick.
i think this will make him more "useful" and place his spot in the "hybrid" roster in good spot.
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