Hi. I've played a bit of scoundrel, and I found pretty much every enemy to go before me in the first four levels I played. I wrote 3 phrases explaining my problem below, and below that, I put my suggestion.
Experience/problem:
The fact that every enemy acted first was sort of irritating, especially, when I initiated a fight from stealth.
I am 'surprising' my opponent with a stab to the back, and then their entire group gets to act first. It feels horrible.
I'm a relatively squishy character, in the midst of a group of enemies on classic, and the first thing they do is damage me and cc me. It feels bad backstabbing someone, only to have that be my only option.
In fact, it was so bad, that in the end, I initiated battles on distance, and I combat stealthed by running around a corner as soon as I got my turn. The fact that they had to use their initial combat point to run up to me at the beginning was the only tactic I could play around on classic mode.
This sums up my experience in a nutshell, and the entire reason I started this thread. It all boils down to this:
-You either get lucky and the vendors have Initiative Gear with decent stats, or you never go first.
-The broken stat system means Wit is a viable source of Initiative until level 3, and only if you do nothing but DUMP points into a useless combat stat JUST TO GO FIRST.
-This effectively makes you have less health, damage, spell slots and mobility just to act first. This all on top of the fact the stat system already favors the AI.
