Regarding Skill Balancing

[vaudeville]

My 2 cents for now

Note that the following will focus for the time being on the Physical Amazon.

So I've been recently trying to mess with all builds as much as possible, and I just realized in the specific case of the Physical Amazon, she doesn't really have any other skills to put points on once she has maxed Valkyrie, Decoy (just to give Valkyries more life), Impale (which I may get to later), and Fend. I think its safe to say that Jab will be ignored if you're going to be using impale (for single enemies) and Fend for mobs although even if you also max Jab (for whatever reason), you should still have a few points left over, and it doesn't seem that worthwhile to put them on anything else (1 point on Avoid, Dodge, Evade, Penetrate, Critical Strike, Innersight, and Slow missiles should be good enough).

With the above said, I think the following ought to be considered:

1) That there ought to be synergy boosts (both in terms of a slight damage boost and some other kind of modifier not including AR) from Jab to either (or both) Impale and Fend.

a) the other modifier ought to give some base stat (maybe at least 10% at level ?) to deadly strike, open wounds, increased attack speed, or even life steal followed by some extra percent to that modifier based on the number of levels on that skill or another (similar formula like ravens when it comes to doing crushing blow)

b) Another possibility could be that points toward Jab (or maybe another skill) can slightly increase the attack of Impale

2) Inner Sight ought to lower enemy defenses by a percentage (my impression is that right now its based on a number integer which pretty much makes inner sight worthless) like the Barbarian war cries (such as taunt) though I think it should be clearly less than those used by Barbarians.