Cord Wants Burg Feedback

[Oddessia]

Okay so you want burg feedback, that we've been giving you for weeks. Fine. How in the world did you read through the countless pages of feedback and glean ONLY that the players want "redline dps increase"? What!? Most of the feedback for red is bug fixes. Ill say this loudly since the team seems to have forgotten...There are other trait trees that are not red!!

Imo red dps is fine, BLUE AND YELLOW need an increase, red is fine. Do I expect blue/yellow to be red-level dps? Of course not - and most of the feedback listed here is for BLUE/YELLOW TREE.

1. DPS increase needed (In blue and yellow) to compensate for the RW nerf, not to bring it up equal to redline.

2. **Mischievous Glee applied a heal to **** restoring 2,468 points to Morale. (this is the first hit of the heal and hits only 1 time)
**Mischievous Glee applied a heal to **** restoring 214 points to Morale. (these are the secondary heal puffs after main one)
**Mischievous Delight applied a critical heal to **** restoring 153 points to Power.

This ^ is at level 115 but seriously? How is this even remotely close to being competitive? Its not on the same "cloud", its not even in the same universe. This is with the +20% trick removal healing trait slotted. I shouldnt need to explain why this is utterly ridiculous. Yellow line is my focus - it needs the most work. Yellow line is the group line - what is the point if our group skills are this bad?

3. Trick Counter Defence has stats that are so low no one uses them.

4. Clever Retort has 4 possible effects ALL of which are currently so low as to be entirely useless. Test from today yellow line burg, level 115 (abyss T2 geared) against landscape mobs level 116: (please note this is WITH the +20% healing and +20% trick removal damage boost)
* #### scored a hit with Wound on the Scrublands Wolf for 3,616 damage to Morale. (This is the "spider DoT" effect of the skill and its subsequent SINGLE bleed tick hit)
#### scored a hit with Wound on the Scrublands Wolf for 2,640 damage to Morale

*Minor Inspiration applied a heal to ##### restoring 4,612 points to Morale.* (This is the "eagle heal" effect) This isnt as awful as Mischievous Delight however at current level that is less than 1 hit from a landscape mob. And when players now have 90k+ morale...its low. Yes we can shorten the CD with subtle stab and repeat this skill however it removes the trick - and spamming trick removals to heal in a raid makes you the most useless member. Now if the group heal amount were actually worth the removal - then yes, it could be a good idea. Basically the trade off isnt worth the subsequent effect. If the enemy doesnt have a trick on it you arent doing anything for the raid - its needs a change or boost.

*#### scored a hit with Damage Burst on the Scrublands Lynx for 8,227 damage to Morale.* (This is the "ent red" effect). This isnt bad at all actually, Im fine with the damage on this. Problem I find is that to get that effect you need to use Trick: Counter Defence. Which is currently the most useless trick - most people dont even trait for it. I dont know how to post pics but the stats on it are incredibly low, and without using this trick first as a lead-in to Clever Retort, we cant get this red dps effect. As well since yellow burg is for the group - the payoff for this skill makes it not worth using. Again you have to remove a trick, which hinders the group and the dps of this skill while okay, is nowhere near high enough to be worth a trick removal.

*Restored Power applied a heal to ##### restoring 2,459 points to Power.* (This is the "horse power restore" effect) - No issue here, its fine.

I know you asked for short but its hard to do short on a class that requires so much. Im going to link some great feedback from other threads:

Fingerz's feedback on this page: https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...Feedback/page2 He also states the most obvious, "Devs should focus on the what the burg was always intended and excels at before trait tree, supporting cc and debuffer, make the yellow line better" and is 100% accurate.

Snob's feedback on this page: https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...Feedback/page6

Drizzle's feedback on this page: https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...Feedback/page5

Nearly all of it is asking for blue/yellow buffs and bug fixes for red...NOT RED DPS INCREASE.


-Ods

*Edited for yelling cause I was mad. LOL Still am! But you know...flies and honey and all that*