Add Tactics scaling to the Impaler

[indigo garden]

The impaler is a decently long range spear weapon, and the main type of item it would want to be paired with is knockback tools, like Wave of Denial or Spartan Sandals, in order to push enemies against walls to deal crits. I think it would make a lot of sense if the Impaler was given tactics scaling because of this, it would open up more potential builds related to knockback in Tactics and it would also just be a good fit for a new tactics melee in general.

[bold vine]

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i’m really not sure
maybe?

[indigo garden]

It was also a tactics melee before the malaise update. It makes more sense than something like valmonts whip or vampire killer

[bold vine]

come to think of it
i don’t know why vk is tactics

[indigo garden]

I guess so fire builds in tactics have some incentive?

[bold vine]

fire stuff just happens to be ranged a lot of the time
fire itself belongs to brutality

[indigo garden]

Well I know

But it gives them a decent crit tool if you're running them on tactics

I don't necessarily think its needed though

But I think if valmonts whip is tactics then it makes equal sense for impaler

They both get a ton of value out of knockback

[bold vine]

yeah, and knockback is a tactics thing
that point makes perfect sense

[indigo garden]

Every time I find it in brut I'm just not really sure what to do with it unless I also have sandals at the time

[bold vine]

alright, screw it

[prime rose]

i get valmont whip scaling but not vkiller

[sinful mirage]

please dont remove tactics from vkiller 🥹

[indigo garden]

I don't see a reason to atm. It's not hurting anything by being there

[sinful mirage]

i like it cos it works with tranq and support (flamethrower) and its also nice to have tactics weapons for acrobatipak options to go with firebrands/pyro....

i can see why it might be more brutality by nature but i like playing it on tactics

[indigo garden]

Yeah that was my assumption. A lot of fire related stuff is also tactics

Not that tactics is especially associated with fire directly, but a lot of fire items also happen to be tactics for one reason or another

[sinful mirage]

tbf tactics does kinda suffer from the most item bloat so i understand why ppl might not like it as a brut tactics weapon

[bold vine]

i like running tactics vk
i just don’t understand it

[indigo garden]

That may have been true back in like pre-2.1 but not nowadays