Yes, Assail was nerfed as the Assail weave was removed from the game, no Assail is not useless, it has not been nerfed to the ground.
In short, all the assail weave removal really did was lower the skill ceiling for using Assail as well as punishing some build options that were barely viable in the first place, which relied on using weapon perks and blessings as Assail stat sticks.
EP Assail and builds that use Assail as a tool like the Psylot build here were not that much affected by it. The greatest loss is mainly that you cannot boost your Assail damage with perks anymore for those builds resulting in shards not killing as fast as they used to do, and you cannot pre-stack Uncanny Strikes with Assails nor deal with Maulers and Crushers with fully stracked Uncanny Strike Assails.
Personally, I understand why one would remove the Uncanny Strike interaction, but it is sad that they removed the perk boost as well as it was such an interesting mechanic to the game, only really impacting the potential player efficiency at the highest levels of play. For things like the Ogryn's Rumbler, the changes make much more sense.
10 окт 2024
