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Sorting's Adjustments: Cataphract

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Cataphract has been given adjustments to better suit my personal taste in her design.

I found the original design goal of Cataphract to have aged poorly for use alongside other modded classes and tweaks I personally preferred to use. Launch Ranks have been adjusted with some minor number tweaks, she was balanced to my specifications to work more in tandem with other modded classes.

This redesign should free her mobility up just enough to play more nicely with some more classes while still retaining her identity as both a frontline healer and play into her shuffle gameplay more. I did factor in Vestal as the main counter-balance for Cataphract's healing output just a bit.

Is this adjustment balanced? No. Probably not, it probably makes Cataphract a little too good with the freedom but I don't really care, she's a lot more bearable to use for me. I made these changes for myself first and foremost, lol.

> Spear Thrust is mostly the same, it has gotten a small increase of crit across all levels by 1%. It is also now usable from position 4.

> Banner Of The East has been tweaked to my standard of how the healing should go, the lower limit of the heal has been increased and the upper limit reduced. This change is a slightly worse Divine Grace, but with the extra benefit of now applying her Protection buff to the target being healed as well as herself.

> Tailwind is now usable in position 1 and 2, lessening the rank restriction while adjusting the healing numbers to competing with Divine Comfort. The numbers scale oddly but she can compete decently with crit buffs and trinkets with a Vestal's aoe Heal. I'm the least satisfied with this changed skill due to funky scaling.

> Wheeling Disengage is largely unchanged, I felt that it performed its job just fine. It did get a minor crit increase across its levels.

> Winnowing Volley got a radical change of being a Move Back 2 skill and had its targeting limited to only a Triple AOE instead of a Quad. I've debated backing this a frontal cleave with higher damage but that would eat into Onslaught and Pin Down. The movement change is to better facilitate shuffling more freely.

> Onslaught has been nerfed a little by having its damage tuned back by 5% on its Base Damage and Crit has been reduced by 2% across all levels. Its rank restriction has been adjusted to let it be used from Position 3 as well as 4, additionally its meant to target enemies 1-3 but not 4. I feel Onslaught was eating into Pin Down's identity as a Pos 4 Snipe skill.

> Pin Down has been buffed with a smidge more crit across all levels, it is still restricted to position 4 but its attack range has been limited to only enemy positions 3-4. I felt Pin Down was a little too good at locking in place and dissuades her shuffling nature. Will adjust if I feel it should re-target pos. 2 again.


Some Credits why don't we?
-> The Balancing Idea are all from me.
-> Mint for helping me set this up initially.
-> The Iron Crown Modding Discord and the Darkest Dungeon modding community as a whole.