Cailener1234, post: 3946, member: 548 wrote:

I think you’d be interested in seeing the suggestion I made a few months back regarding Squad Leader with a theoretical expansion.

I didn’t recommend any changes to the core of General’s Aspect because it’s already a mainstay when it comes to action management for large groups and with what we have planned, action management is going to be a major thing that will be needed in the upcoming harder content.

Feel free to see if some of the suggestions you made here are echoed by my previous one.

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Interesting suggestions!

Here's the crutch of what i'm going for here with tying stuff to master box and ga set separately, we want "master squad leader" to have relevance and seriously avoid having power in the dabbling of squad leader, otherwise we'll have folks dabbling into it for the neat stuff and we'll create a hybrid meta rather than making the combo of master and the jewlery set where the relevance is improved. Some of the stuff you're mentioning in your previous post is interesting, particularly to do with paint target

what im hoping here is the changes im suggesting should be relatively minor in terms of the game code to achieve and will create relevance with what exists already, rather than creating an additional variant, changing the relative values on a jewlery set for example, the making skills affect a whole group are a little tougher im sure.

it does sound like there is some desire to make officer more relevant in a played role though, rather than a bot (which is all i ever see today)

Experienced Leadership
Experienced Leadership near the beginning makes sense for easy access for new players, for veterans no so much as we have Evolve Buff Bots.

Reinforcement
Personal opinion I would like to see the Reinforcement to work more like Decoy, take the heat off of the squad leader for a few seconds, it would have more relevance to PVP. Having reinforcement as you suggest would have little value in PVP as it would more likely heal the attacking player then hurt them.

Paint Target
like the suggested improvement to paint target which in PVP would give everyone an edge to take out the target, but I would wait a little while as everyone I think is still sorting out 4.9 update changes to parry and dodge, I know I am.

Jewelry Set
The "Reduction in group buff cooldowns" suggested for the Jewelry Set, would that apply to High Yield and Toughen, if so that is sweet. I know Toughen is very beneficial in World Boss in assisting the Tank. I never payed close enough attention to know if those 2 buffs are applicable to group or single player, which is part of the problem I think with Squad Leader is its a nice support but few play it actively.
Shifting the Swift Heal Chance to only apply to Squad Leader Heals would make it a more role specific and more logical, as is the present jewelry set is the better choice in my opinion over that of the First Responder Set if you have both Doctor and Squad Leader on the same character.

I didn’t recommend any changes to the core of General’s Aspect because it’s already a mainstay when it comes to action management for large groups and with what we have planned, action management is going to be a major thing that will be needed in the upcoming harder content.

Feel free to see if some of the suggestions you made here are echoed by my previous one.

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Anything that makes GA Officer a viable option is a good change in my book.