Servers down so I can finally post something. After two days I’m sitting at career rank 18, renown rank 16. I wasn’t really sold to the Ironbreaker when I rolled him, but soon enough I’ve realized the potential of the class. The grudge mechanic is simply awesome, I was a bit concerned about the fact I’ve to take damage to build grudges, but Mythic did a great work to ensure you are not going to be grudge-starved when people ignore you, Oath Friend is awesome indeed. What makes me wonder is the fact that when you switch your oath friend target, you just tap it once, while with Guard you have to tap once to cancel previous one and 2nd time to put it on new target, makes it hard when you want to switch guard to a dying guy. At rank 15 you get Rising Anger, and at this point you basically have no problems with grudges what so ever - you get them from taking damage, dealing damage and from your oath friend taking damage.

IB, unlike BO, has little to none burst damage potential, no exta crit damage (altho you can stack crit chance pretty well), instead you do a lot of dps with dots, so even if you don’t see huge numbers, you can end up on top of the dps chart without huge problems. Once you hit 100 grudges (and you can get them pretty fast), you can lay down some serious punishment, for example at rank 40 with maxed vengeance Binding Grudge has 852 damage over 10 seconds at 100 grudge, to compare Trip ‘Em Up deals only 360 damage with maxed Brawling at rank 40.

I’ll try to fraps some stuff from Tier 2 RvR when the servers get back up, possibly a commentary video, I’ve to say I pretty much like everything but the looks about the IB.

Oh yea, and a bit of bragging:

Although i have to say. I did lose one scenario yesterday (T2 greenskin) with 500-19

But it was a PUG, not a guild run. I think Order had a group of [FiRe] guild in there!

We are leik famous.

Terhix