Post Whatever You Want (and Stop Posting Crap on Other Threads)

I suggest that if you plan on talking about this certain item you should definitely create a whole new thread in another subforum :).

But on another related topic, I do agree that PA right now is in a really bad spot. Assuming that I think Silver Edge changes aren't enough or needed on their own, what could be done to the hero itself to make it more playable again? Cause I would like to see her more.

Silver Edge needs to be purgeable by BKB. There's no way around that. The hero is unplayable unless this gets implemented.

But even this isn't enough. PA got hidden nerfs that cut down her damage output by...actually quite a lot. Abyssal Blade lost 30 damage over the patches, and Monkey King Bar lost 22 damage. That's 52 crittable damage that she lost, so about 26 damage in average with the crit loss alone. And since PA scales only with damage and barely scales with attack speed...this needs to be restored. And I'm not even counting the cooldown on abyssal which also reduces average damage, which is actually even more than that. After a bash, there's 2.3 seconds where no bash can happen, so that's a raw 30 damage loss on all the subsequent Phantom Strike hits. I estimate that PA lost about 26 + a bit less than 30 damage/hit. About 50 damage per hit got lost over the abyssal and MKB nerfs as a rule of thumb. Right now, PA lacks damage, badly.

Personally I want Coup de Grace to make item procs crit. This way the damage from abyssal gets reverted to the old abyssal damage in average and the damage from MKB gets actually increased. Besides, the hero is all about RNG ********, right? XD

The main point is, PA being bad is not just a "meta" thing, she actually got hard nerfs, although it may not look like it. Of course all the raidboss items that make focusing single heroes much harder didn't help.

(BTW just for the record Daedalus on a level 16 PA with helm/BKB deals in average ~65 more damage per hit than Abyssal Blade, while being a way cheaper item with a better buildup. So critalus PA *is* a thing, even if you only get 85% of the crit - which is already really good)