Posts by xLutinex

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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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

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Lool i dont need to know any of that i can see whit my eyes what is diffrence , and thx a lot for new nerf realy... And you even got nerf for s/d and it was now closer to other scouts , so why you asked for nerf , its not much but still why ?

First: If you see it with your eyes: 51.8% physical damage is more than 62.8% damage like it was before. just saying.

Second: S/D is OP too. It is nearly at the same level like r/s is current. I don't know what you mean with "s/d is closer to other scouts". S/D is like 1.2 - 1.5 stronger than other scouts (except s/ch, which is strong as s/d atm)

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Regarding latest changes of rogue/scout:

• Changed Blood Poison to modify Blood Arrow to increase physical damage instead of melee/ranged damage, by 51.8%.
• Changed Substitute to inflict Shot damage with 100% chance instead of 60%.
• Changed Wraith Attack to have 6% lower damage for each extra target.
• Changed Fast Draw to do not be interrupted while moving.
• Reduced Precision focus cost to 50 from 100, changed it to make Fast Draw recover 10 focus upon landing successful attack additionally.
• Reduced Shadow Figure ranged attack speed gain to 10% from 20%.

I guess it is the wrong way, if this changes are the intention of buffing the class furthermore. The class was still the strongest and after the patch now, it is even stronger

First i think thiese changes are good ,its more better energy-focsu consuming even if its dmg again nerfed its ok . Second you cant compare only whit other rouges , because its always one combo who is stronger then others ,and R/S was weakest rouge for a long time . You need to compare to other classes whit similar gear , and i think its now close to some other top combos , but still weaker then some .

dmg was nerfed?

You should learn what "Changed Blood Poison to modify Blood Arrow to increase physical damage instead of melee/ranged damage, by 51.8%." in this sentence "Physical damage" means for dps classes instead of "damage" what it was before.

Anyway, the next patch will balance the class more. The classes should be balanced within all secondary classes. Why should you compare one rogue class with other classses? balancing all classes for every secondary class and then you can balance between different main classes.

(Yes, there are still rogues who cannot compete with r/s or r/w now. For example r/wrd, but thats kinda "ok".)

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I think you're talking nonsense, I'm referring to a badly nerfed skill and you're making up some heresy, plus your answer is completely off topic.

wtf?... the skill is not nerfed.

Like espar91 said, it is for "pro players" and not for players who don't know how to play properly. If there are ppl hitting for higher chance and you cannot even buff yourself, play another class, where you maybe are "ok" without buffing yourself. Just stop kidding. It's not the job of the DEVs to compensate the incompetence of players

And I linked you a thread, where a DEV answered it.

There are still ppl on the server, who are hitting with 98%+ so no, there is not a bug in my opinion if ppl proofed it

Rouge Scout : Fast Draw Bug

There you can read. More precision = better hit chance. It is not a bug, it is a game mechanic, that you should learn

One suggestion for Scout/Druid:

Reduce "Boiling Blood" to 18% damage.

Kind regards

~1,7kk p-attack with hot stew. Damage don't know. t12 weapon. you see the average damage of all skills. no other rogue have such high hits. Wraith Attack for example sustained damage without buffs ~2kk in trash. Power of the Wood Spirit of r/warden do only ~700-800k with my t15 dagger.

You see. I don't have double or tripple p-attack of others and with t12 weapon I have even way lower p-dmg.

My suggestion was to reduce damage of substitute while having 100% trigger chance. But that will be only 1 skill to be changed for balanced. Wraith attack should also be reduce to maximum 500% dps compared to Power of the Wood Spirit

Nayat (I started a bit late)

https://gyazo.com/6daa618d1b5f3be100e2212288f46d50

Khat

https://gyazo.com/a664320ee35e2a19fc37957adfd9e85d

(Balton missed to reset)

Astaroth

https://gyazo.com/7d596d24d346b0fbddd3010f06ae9ba5

Overall Scruti

https://gyazo.com/0cb21565e7e7c9dee2c6f66be9cf01ed

https://gyazo.com/7832aac65e87312c5a65c430cadafb21

I still miss some hits because of low gun level xD

My weapons:

Dagger

https://gyazo.com/089a50785619a2e3eb47430c47522de8Gun:

https://gyazo.com/72754ad743bce846f24f03edcfb35436

This infos just for clarifying that it does not depends on my "high" weapons. The class is, compared to other rogues, totally OP

Regarding latest changes of rogue/scout:

• Changed Blood Poison to modify Blood Arrow to increase physical damage instead of melee/ranged damage, by 51.8%.
• Changed Substitute to inflict Shot damage with 100% chance instead of 60%.
• Changed Wraith Attack to have 6% lower damage for each extra target.
• Changed Fast Draw to do not be interrupted while moving.
• Reduced Precision focus cost to 50 from 100, changed it to make Fast Draw recover 10 focus upon landing successful attack additionally.
• Reduced Shadow Figure ranged attack speed gain to 10% from 20%.

I guess it is the wrong way, if this changes are the intention of buffing the class furthermore. The class was still the strongest and after the patch now, it is even stronger