Posts by xLutinex

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... And don't even get me started on Shield of Discipline, a skill that never should have been implemented in the first way, because it offers way too much mitigation with 50% uptime. ....

... Hence I don't get why some people claim Champion is vastly superior in terms of tanking and Knight far worse (even read useless once or twice)...

shield of discipline was hardly nerfed some patches ago, where the damage migitation calculation was changed.

Secondly why ppl maybe claim so much about Champions is: you can effectively tank, do dps and heal as a champ in chain dps gear. Something that no other classes can. A raid of 12 champions is same effective running an instance like any other group. For fairness every class should get a skill like shield form and reaching full tank values in their dps gear or none class should have it. Actually there is no need atm doing other gear than chain. The joke was the healing ability of Champ/druid. Just saying but a leather gear rogue/priest or rogue/druid heals nothing while champ/druid is a good healer in dps gear.

It's all about fairness, balancing and class roles. Nobody can deny, that champions can do all jobs in a group effectively with 1 gear

Kind regards

Edit: I don't get the problem, why it would be a problem, if shield form can only be used with plate gear and disables ability to wear chain while active

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(if you ask me, I would entirely remove shield form from game and make it only available for champ/knight, but fortunately I don't do balancing here :D)

I thought this would never happen, but I agree more than 100% with you. But even for champ/knight it needs to be kinda nerfed, because I have in leather gear 4kk p-def as champ/knight... without any short time buffs....

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uhhmmm.... Scout and AOE? You mean Piercing Arrow and Reflected Shot? Because Hurricane Downpour has 1 min cd. D/R has an AOE which can be used permanently and can hit all targets (no limit). Scouts Reflected Shot is strongly limited to few mobs and Piercing Arrow.... pls don't call this as an AOE if you did. Piercing Arrow cannot really hit many targets because of the crap area/stone/flower in the way. I guess the most amount of mobs I had hit with Piercing Arrow was 9 or 10 at B2 after all mobs were pulled to the tank on the same place. In trash it often hits only 1 target, even if 20 mobs there (mantis after b2 for example).

Now im out. I said my opinion

im talking about s/ch, s/r, s/m, s/wd, i didn't play other scouts frequently, and yes, i still believe these classes have somewhat aoe sustain and burst.

aoe damage of d/r was really low compared to other skills of the class in overall in my runs, i don't know how it makes it "good" just by being able to spam it, idk, people often do such mistakes, i mean using aoe skill when there are 3-4 mobs by thinking it would be better because its a "crowd", but in reality single target skill is dealing more damage for certain classes as i mentioned on previous message, yet im not sure about d/r.

but to be honest its been a few weeks since i didn't run, maybe things changed

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Yes, I didnt said I use the aoe on small amount of mobs, but on 8 or more

Anyway, more main mdps player can give maybe better feedback, because I don't play mdps so often. Wrong thread for it btw too.

Sorry for offtopic

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i don't think d/r has aoes the scout has

uhhmmm.... Scout and AOE? You mean Piercing Arrow and Reflected Shot? Because Hurricane Downpour has 1 min cd. D/R has an AOE which can be used permanently and can hit all targets (no limit). Scouts Reflected Shot is strongly limited to few mobs and Piercing Arrow.... pls don't call this as an AOE if you did. Piercing Arrow cannot really hit many targets because of the crap area/stone/flower in the way. I guess the most amount of mobs I had hit with Piercing Arrow was 9 or 10 at B2 after all mobs were pulled to the tank on the same place. In trash it often hits only 1 target, even if 20 mobs there (mantis after b2 for example).

Now im out. I said my opinion

Edit: Scout have more full buffed AOE damage yes, but D/R has higher permanent AOE damage (if mobs living longer than 2 seconds)

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Nowadays it's the druid/rogue and warlock/scout which are most overpovered (imo)

i believe druid/rogue looks op because it is very easy class to play and there is lesser diversity among the players unlike many other dps classes that 80% of community cries that they are too weak and 20% which knows how to play it thinks they are fine compared to other classes

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cheers

I believe, that druid/rogue IS op in some way. this class has full burst (except siege war title) every 90 seconds and I do nearly same damage with my mage gear which is far behind my leather gear, like my scout or rogue classes. The main reason of this class is the CD of selfbuffs for maximum damage. You don't need any other cast speed buffs. Classes like Scouts have Arrow of Essence, which has 5 minutes CD and increase the damage really really strong (strongest buff in game?). So you are doing every 5 minutes your maximum damage, which is really extremly higher than the damage you can do every 90 seconds with a scout.

For me: This is nothing with "fine class for some players".

Kind regards

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WdW

I played the Warden/Warrior these days in rofl, it's a pretty funny class to tank with, but lacks a bit in HP and Def compared to other tanks. Even a chain dps Champion is Shield form has higher values than the Warden with tank plate, which is kinda strange. So I collected some suggestions that could make the class more useful and viable to play.

• Change Resilience of Life⁴⁹⁴³⁵⁴ should additionally increase physical defense by 30% to give the class more def than dps champs...
• The Lv 50 eilte Coat of Arms⁴⁹⁴⁶¹¹ is a bit useless in my eyes. It could buff the entire party or raid instead of only one target and the caster.
• Also the Lv 60 eilte Elf Blessing⁴⁹⁹⁹⁰² could reduce the cooldown of Elven Guidance⁴⁹⁹⁹⁰³ by 30 seconds additionally. My mana consume was a bit too high, even while using a wisdom transformation potion and additional support. So the skill was always having about 20 seconds left, when I wanted to use it again.
• Feral Leader⁴⁹⁹⁹⁰⁰ should increase the damage of party members by 5% instead of reducing the aggro, which is pretty useless, bcz everyone is already at the 10% aggro cap.

Good points, but why "Even a chain dps Champion is Shield form has higher values than the Warden with tank plate". Champs in shield form have higher values than any plate tank with same gear?

And not every class is on 10% aggro cap. There are some classes like Scout/Warlock and Mage/Rogue which has extra +aggro selfbuffs. And again a 5% dmg buff for the group isn't really needed if you compare the outgoing damage now with that 1 year ago. 5-10% incoming damage reduce instead of aggro reduce would be better in my eyes for the Feral Leader.

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Regarding rogue/Champ

The Power mechanism lasts 30 seconds with a CD of 30 seconds. This mechanism is kinda useless to use in trash / move phases. Can you please change the Power mechanism that this would follow the caster or will be an aura of the caster like the change of warrior/warlock you did a few weeks ago.

Therefore you could reduce the buff for raidmembers to 2-3% from 5%

Kind regards

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(...) Actually there is no need anymore to play Knight imho. .

(...)

Maybe knights should support the survivability much more? Maybe with more/better crowd control or damage reduction (for trash phases) since this isn't additively calculated anymore? Just like for example Knight/Mage (dmg reduction on AoE), Knight/Druid (shields and heal) and somehow also Knight/Champ (with its stuns) already do.

One problem or bug at the moment is, that the dmg debuff of warrior/priest overrides the dmg debuff of Knight/Mage. And the debuff of Knight/mage is stronger!!! Please fix

Another point is, like you said all is burned in seconds or maybe less than seconds in trash. More CC or DMG reduction of Knights wouldn't help in my opinion. 3 mages dps can also perma stun everything.

If you see for example the damage of a shield form champ/mage in big trash pulls, you can only cry as a knight tank, because the champ tank is a full dps in such a situation.

For me it is still fail that a full dps geared class can simultanously be a full tank. No other class has this ability. Please change it or implement the same ability for all other classes. I want to have ~2kk HP and 5-10kk def as rogue or scout or mage in full dps gear too

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Hi,

I noticed that somehing was changed with calculating damage reduce skills for example magical damage reduce of the knight. (and I didnt found in patch notes)

I know a few weeks ago, that you were magical immune as a Knight if you had the new ISS (30%) + Shield of Discipline (68,8%) + Fire Ward (11,4%) because it was added in the formula (30 + 68 + 11).

Today I noticed that something changed, that all buffs were multiplied which means, you cannot be magical immune as a Knight anymore (ok, that is something good in some way) but this results more and more in a way, that knights will be more and more useless. Less aggro than champion in dps gear, less def/hp than champions in dps gear and now less damage reduce with Shield of Discipline which results in a way that even this main tanky skill of the class is less effective.

Actually there is no need anymore to play Knight imho. If you want to wear plate gear (why ever you want), play champ/knight -> more aggro/def/hp/utility and nearly same damage reduce (base damage will be even smaller on champ/knight)

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I noticed aswell as wl/k. Maybe is this:

• Changed physical and magical absorb attributes to do not stack by summing.

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Hmm could be. Makes some classes a bit weak imho. Didnt thought about it because I thought "Absorb" is different than dmg reduce skills

Hi,

I noticed that somehing was changed with calculating damage reduce skills for example magical damage reduce of the knight. (and I didnt found in patch notes)

I know a few weeks ago, that you were magical immune as a Knight if you had the new ISS (30%) + Shield of Discipline (68,8%) + Fire Ward (11,4%) because it was added in the formula (30 + 68 + 11).

Today I noticed that something changed, that all buffs were multiplied which means, you cannot be magical immune as a Knight anymore (ok, that is something good in some way) but this results more and more in a way, that knights will be more and more useless. Less aggro than champion in dps gear, less def/hp than champions in dps gear and now less damage reduce with Shield of Discipline which results in a way that even this main tanky skill of the class is less effective.

Actually there is no need anymore to play Knight imho. If you want to wear plate gear (why ever you want), play champ/knight -> more aggro/def/hp/utility and nearly same damage reduce (base damage will be even smaller on champ/knight)

Kind regards

all 15 were killed

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Quote from Zyrex

Thanks for the info, that's good to know. I rlly like that behavior and the mechanics. However, the same or an equal mechanic would be cool for Sandstorm in AoE dmg. At the moment it happens, that you loose all your NP with Sandstorm and can't use your Widow spamable effectively on single targets afterwards to finish surviving mobs. In our runs, the surviving mobs died too fast, not being able to hit with Earth Arrow.

I don't say it needs to be a burst class, it's good how it is atm, but only use case for dwarven ale would be sustained trash dps, which is very bad compared to other classes due to sandstorm is using all your NP at once.

This class design isn't made to perma use sandstorm, is pure single dmg class (yes you can use sandstorm in burst but having really low earth dmg make it worst mdps aoe class). Right now is true, I think in overall dmg is underperforming compared to most mdps and is because they all have aoe so as single dmg class is really hard to scale up. New hammer might help but yes, something is missing.

Ale won't change anything, aoe require 5 NP and single dmg skill 10 so... xDD get 1 psi per second won't help

btw, I think dwl is even worse.

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You think overall the class is underperforming? :O

I did not test mage for a long time, but what I did with druid/rogue with my gear was good. It could depend on fast/slow pace and the rhythm how the tank pulls If we have different experience. Maybe I need to test mage again.

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D/R (w/ new hammer)

I tested the Druid/Rogue these days with the new magical dmg hammer. I found some points to mention.

Poisonous Widow Embrace

• skill needs 10 energy, not 30 as displayed
• the 10% bonus damage is buggy: the break even point is 3 stacks of Nature's Power, means you need at least 3 Stacks so that this skill is better than Earch Arrow. But with 3 stacks, the skill hits with 10 bonus hits like with 10 stacks.
• The Nature's Power is also not removed in general, but only if you don't crit with the spell.

However, the skill is pretty good how it is atm. So even if it's buggy, it should be officially changed into the current behavior. The class is pretty strong in some specific raid setups, but unfortunately feels a bit weaker than any other magical dps class, except S/Wl. I would say, it's equal to SWl. Lesser Burst, better sustain dmg, but good AoE.

So I would say, even Poisonous Widow Embrace is quite good atm. If the skill would work as displayed (30 energy cost, remove all NP by using) it would be unplayable and deal literally no damage.

Another good thing would be to add the same mechanic to Sandstorm: That Nature's Power is only removed, if the skill does not crit. The concept of the class is pretty cool: You have a great dmg potential but loose a lot if you don't crit. However, you have a lot of crit-support/buffs/debuffs, so you need a good management of time to max out your crit potential.

Another suggestion I agree on, is the Dwarven Beer to add additional NP, which would make all druid dps classes much more playable, since they are definitely the weakest magical classes (right next to SWl).

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Hi,

in my tests Poisonous Widow Embrace needs 30 energy. But every additional hit with NP will give you some energy back.

Furthermore I don't think the class needs NP with dwarven Ale. Wach Druid have their own skill which reduce the NP cost of all skills to 0 . It is like a class specific dwarven ale.

The Druid/rogue cannot be a burst class, because you have not such selfbuffs like rogue or scout. But the sustained damage is strong

Edit: to slow on phone writing xd

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We all know the Rogue/Scout is way too strong.

But I think this nerf would destroy the class :

• Reduced Joint Blow damage to 960% from 1125%.
• Increased Wraith Attack damage loss for each extra target to 9% from 6%.
• Reduce Substitute Shot damage to 120% from 400%

It's way too much at once.

I can aggree to these changes :

• Reduced Joint Blow damage to 960% from 1125%.
• Increased Wraith Attack damage loss for each extra target to 9% from 6%.

BUT :

Reduce Substitute Shot damage to 120% from 400%.

Is too much, I think it would be better : Reduce Substitute Shot damage to 250 - 300% from 400%.

Greetings!

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You forgot to mention (if these changes were still there. I looked at 6 CET) that you get ~15% more damage from blood arrow for all skills and substitute can be permanent up. Overall not a hard nerf. We will see if it is a nerf. Shadow stab, Low Blow and wound attack will also profit of blood arrow increase

Mirror World Tickets in next Happy Hour would be nice

Hello,

I want to mention, that there are still massively lag spikes (fps drops) in game, especially with 12 ppl in raid

If we are running with 12 ppl, periodically there are fps drops especially as a healer with raid-heal abilities. Now, after new cenedrils, there are more heal-raid effects and even more fps drops/lags (player, cenedrils and player pets!) Furthermore player pets don't need to be targeted by heal effects in my eyes.

@Devs is it possible, that you can have a deeper look into the mechanic? Maybe also testing in rofl? (Could there be some scripts in the background, which are also prodrucing performance issues?) We are guessing that over 50% of fps drops are belong to raid heal effects with heal over time effects.

Hi Tashield

I've spoke with Idhril of the guild Living Legends. He had the same problem like you. We found out that the problem is the Addon Arcadia Utilities, which is hooking the function CastSpellByName incorrectly.

Maybe you/someone can write the addon owner of this issue.

Kind regards

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It is using this function Oo

https://runesofmagic.gamepedia.com/API:CastSpellByName

there is a second parameter. Maybe it isn't changed in CoA?

Code

CastSpellByName( string Name );

Taken from our API page, I am not entirely sure if it is correct, but as I said, reason of issue might be an addon is hooking this function wrongly which is removing 2nd parameter, so it wouldn't be related with RaidHeal addon.

Greetings

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See Edit:

EDIT: it is still there. I removed all addons ->

https://gyazo.com/b49703a291a200eb57afcb1390a414b1

https://gyazo.com/dda4b49eac445e9f7ef5e7d469e9972a

The API is maybe not complete. It still works without any addon

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Addon is using CastSpellByName("SpellName", "target") for example target = raid2

This still works even on my client with enabled self cast in interface settings

CastSpellByName function do not have 2nd parameter in our API, unless function is hooked by the addon, which means it can be hooked by another addon and lose its 2nd parameter.

Greetings

It is using this function Oo

https://runesofmagic.gamepedia.com/API:CastSpellByName

there is a second parameter. Maybe it isn't changed in CoA?

EDIT: it is still there. I removed all addons ->

https://gyazo.com/b49703a291a200eb57afcb1390a414b1

https://gyazo.com/dda4b49eac445e9f7ef5e7d469e9972a

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dont know if its just me but when i klick on one ppl to heal and have myself in target i only heal myself instead of the clicked person - or did i something wrong?

You need to disable Self Cast in interface -> controls settings in order to cast a skill on some other unit than yourself when you don't have a target, assuming addon do not target clicked person automatically.

Greetings

Addon is using CastSpellByName("SpellName", "target") for example target = raid2

This still works even on my client with enabled self cast in interface settings

I don't know about other persons have this problem. Me neither

https://gyazo.com/fe45865878022aeebbd376a3c23c2bab

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I did a few changes on raidheal.

2 Member of my guild tested and said, fps/lags are better (fewer ^^)

I changed following: No more requesting bufftime/debufftime left on raidmembers, because the version 0.9.7c hasn't it in UI visually with left time (don't know why, but it didn't show me).

Furthermore I decreased the intervall of requesting raidmembers buffs/debuffs from ~20 times per second to 2 times per second.

All settings are the same (for version 0.9.7c). No reconfiguring of addon needed

Kind regards

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I did some improvements with CastSpellByName usage and CASTING-Events in this addon. It should drastically reduce the lags while very fast spamming a skill of skillbook (not from actionslot)

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We didn't make any patches in the last 2 days, so it must be something on your client side.

Try to remove all addons, and reset it's settings by removing "Chronicles of Arcadia" directory in "My Documents" when the client is closed. After that try to launch client at high settings again and check if there is any difference.

But anyway we are still discovering FPS drops/lags with mainly healer classes with many HoT-Skills. If you are using a skill, which is healing every person in raid 4 times (2 * 2% + 2 * healing scale value) every 2 seconds (druid/priest for example; but there are also other healer with raid-heal HoT effects), the fps are dropping every 2 seconds. Maybe you can check this, if there are issues with many heal effects? Because as a healer you cannot hide the healing values. whole screen is full of green healing values if you have 12 ppl in raid

Regarding r/s:

- Reduced Blood Arrow physical damage gain to … from 51.8%.

I'd suggest to reduce it to 48% first, otherwise it could be too much with the other changes

Hi,

please look at combat log from game too. Maybe some hits were parried. Parried hits are not shown in scruti.

Kind regards