Knight's Grace - What does Heavy Armor Spec do?

I'm working on leveling Knight's grace. I have 52 pts in heavy armor specialization right now. Knight's grace says:



But I don't see a buff get put on my buff area. What does the 30 second buff do? Or is it not yet working in game?

 

Hi Sir Agular,

I'm not certain, but if you look at the other Heavy Armor skills, at the bottom of the description, is a sentence that begins with Heavy armor specialization...(does something). Could these be the buffs that are added for 30 seconds?

 

I think it would be best if @Chris explained this.

 

I keep training it and Purify no matter how useless people keep saying it is. It fits in with my concept of a paladin (even though that seems to be a running joke for this game.)

 

My guess is that the buff makes you more resistant to stun for a while.

 

That is what the description implies but I haven't been able to comment on its efficacy from using it around Shock Monkeys or anything that I know would stun me. I am still so wimpy that fighting the monkey room or the troll is too chaotic for me to say for certain which skills are effective or not.

 

@3devious maybe cos theres different types of stun... magical stun, knock back stun,/fall over stun, and like bludgeon stun

 

Hover over the specialization skill in your skill tree after using Knights Grace. Perhaps the bonus to heavy armor mastery is displayed there? Either way, it probably needs it's own buff icon even if it isn't broken.

 

I've tested and the skill simply doesn't work against anything except specifically a stun (doesn't work against mesmerize, knockdown, root, etc. which makes it mostly useless) and even when you do find the magic moment that it works, the secondary specialization bonus is never applied, no buff is given, simply nothing happens at all. This skill has always seemed to be broken.

 

The question is what is a Heavy Armor Specialization Buff? Does this mean you are stung protected for 30 seconds????? A "Specialization Buff"?? Does this increase you specialization for 30 seconds?? Since it is such an ambiguous note it needs clarification.

I have really only found this skill to work with the stuns like oyu get from Liches and stuff. Used to be very important, prob not anymore.

 

This is quite sad. It's the *TOP TIER* active skill in the tree. It should do good things.

Are there any plans to address this, @Lum the Mad ?

 

that is not lum's job. you should address @Chris.

 

I thought he was a community coordinator on top of his writing duties. My apologies.

 

I use it when fighting anything that stuns. I have it locked on my bar when fighting elementals/ undead hammer wielders, barbarians etc. Instantly gives me back control of my character... instead of waiting for the effect to wear off.

 

Yeah I am a heavy plate user and completely untrained this skill because it is useless, sadly.

 

Yup, well stated and true.
It works against a select-few lower level junk mobs, but nothing that matters enough to have it available in a deck.
Fix it please Port........

 

Please drop Heavy armor specialization, so their usage numbers drop to nothing that way they can see just how awful it is and give the whole tree a rework as it desperately needs it.

 

LoL really the whole tree?

Sorry but ITYS specialization was not going to work out like planned.

Anyhow the heavy tree and its skill are fine just need a little tweaking.

Untraining needs to go to Zero today, not in the future not after release - the goofy Prerequisite limit which has hit other players, because a skill requires 80 even thow it is not even trained, is another blunder.

 

Just press the spacebar (jump) to get out of stuns fast and not waist the focus, time or xp of Knights Grace. Im not sure what specialization has done to it but it was an utterly useless skill before

 

Nope... I preferred KG from jumping... allowed me to mine effortlessly and with greater success. I've watched casters etc get owned trying the jumping method against multiple stuns while I just fight effortlessly, and that was long before specialization.