Posts by Serenadae

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    I had the opportunity to test Warlock as mdps over the last two days and wanted to give my feedback, especially regarding a MAJOR (at least in my opinion) problem in the current balancing progress.

    We did a rofl run with two dps yesterday, Warlock/Warrior & Mage/Warrior and overall we had a smooth run, so both classes are actually quite good and able to handle all content. After these first hand experiences I can confirm what was already said by Madoxx and Burningflame, Warlock is pretty good in longer fights and seems to be in overall dps better than Mage (although seems slightly behind on bosses, at least compared to M/W - pre patch).


    Today I did rofl with several pdps involved (S/W, S/R & R/Wl), again as Warlock/Warrior. I stood no chance because 1. Everything died way to fast (casts vs instants) and 2. Because only pdps siege titles and Lute were used.


    So PLEASE, as already suggested, remove shared cd from Lute & Guitar and merge Regal Cry and Storm Assault into ONE skill. Because right now, you can't compare mdps to pdps because there is no equal testing environment atm. This, in my humble opinion, is currently the major problem in the whole balancing process and I can't see balancing coming to an succesful end without solving it.


    Regarding warlock in general: Loosing your Psi after combat ends (especially with the latest changes to it), is very, very unpleasant. Please remove PSI deterioration out of combat. If this proves to be too much, the dark damage passive always can be cropped afterwards. Right now, the core mechanic of Warlock just doesn't work smoothly.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    "The Knight currently has no aggro problems."

    Indeed. That's why K/Ch will be fine, even with 6 sec cd on Shock Strike.

    "The entire point is that aggro should not be changed otherwise there will be issues."

    Not a single Knight combination has to rely on secondary-class specific skills to build and hold aggro. The default Knight skills (and iss) are more than enough.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    Quote from clairebennet121

    Hi i would like to say that nerfing wardens is dumb and totally unnecessary , you should take care of other classes and leave alone wardens , for example champions that still are way too strong......

    This couldn't be more far from the truth. Coming from someone who plays both Champion and Warden, the PotW nerf is perfectly justified.

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    • Changed Shock Overload to do not wear off when you are out of rage. Inflict damage depending on your current rage. (i.e.: 10 Rage = 10% damage, 100 rage = 100% damage), removed cooldown.

    This will be most likely a nerf, since especially during trashfights Rage is almost never full. Moreover, the changes you made to end of combat will result in even more Rage loss.

    Please just reduce the cd to 10 seconds like you first wrote, or leave the skill like it is.


    Edit: Thank you for the quick change, sounds like a pretty good solution to the issue.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    Quote from wiedzmin97

    And saying that there are classes that are better than (or as good as) the r/w... well, nothing more to say.

    https://gyazo.com/fc4c654d0608cd6e2eb62c6232b9e98b


    On a serious note, R/W has very good sustained AoE from what I've seen, but that's it. If stuff dies quickly it can't keep up with non-gcd classes that deal their damage quickly.

    Since the general direction taken by the balancing team seems to point towards nerfing all classes to where Champion is now, R/W needs to be adjusted. However, I think the class needs some instant damage in exchange.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    • Decreased Finishing Hammer 1-H hammer damage gain to 57.6%, 2-H hammer damage gain to 72%.*

    I am honestly speechless. Champion already was underperforming, why another nerf ? Especially in fast groups other classes do much more damage. I don't see why anyone would play Champion over Warden or Warrior after this change, please reconsider it.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    • Champion
      • Changed Rune Growth to passive skill.

    Thank you very much, this will make the class much more pleasant to play. Although the problem with Forge stacks running out frequently remains. Please consider my suggestion.

    Champion/Warlock

    • Fixed Blast of Remorse wasn’t pulling targets visually until they change position by manual moving.

    Finally, thank you !



  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    Some suggestions regarding Champion:

    -Increase the duration of Forge stacks to 60 seconds like those of R/Ch & R/P: Atm it's almost impossible to maintain them in trash, especially when taking beaver knockdowns and plant roots into account.

    -Remove Rune Growth & Wl/Ch Indomitable Spirit gcd: Having to constantly sacrifice gcd's during combat is a major disadvantage compared to other classes.


    These issues make Champion in our relatively fast paced groups much worse(or in case of Ch/M slightly worse) than almost any other chain wearing option atm. I'd say these changes would be reasonable, because most importantly they impact overall balancing not too much, especially when considering that all (traditional) dps classes but Champions got a damage boost from their new iss.

    Don't get me wrong, "Secret Technique of the Ruins" is great and all, but it's a symmetrical effect that doesn't benefit the class in comparison to others.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    Power of the Wood Spirit already has a decrement per additional enemy hit.

    Please take the time to test before commenting.

    Thanks.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    I play all chain classes and I disagree on all points you've made.

    First off, every class (maybe with the exception of Warlock, we'll see after this patch) has at least one class combination that can hold its ground against current top dps.

    Moreover, P/W even without Fairy did very good damage that could compete with all other classes. The bug was just broken and I'm happy they've fixed it. Not to mention that P/W has superb supporting capabilities.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    Quote from Madox

    Warrior: Increases physical damage by 5%, physical critical hit rate by 2500.

    Mage: Increases magical critical hit rate by 1500, magical damage by 1%.


    Hmm guess someone love warriors? xD

    Btw this force us to use this skill, m/ch needed 55 ring rage ISS... now I dont have space for it. You need to improve its rage management like for yesterday like swl have. Class is already sad, low matt, worst single burst, worst-painful-horrible plasma arrow and its burst aoe which was the best, now is nothing compared with some other mages, all this in a mage that needs to play melee xD This class have no buffs so it was a good sustained dmg class, now there is no reason to use it at all.

    Mages have much better iss than Warriors in general. 8% from 99, 15% more int & 10% more mdmg from 75 one. So I'd say it's fine that the new one for Warrior is better.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    I have tested both Knight-pdps (/Wd & /Wl) in rofl and both underperformed.

    My suggestions:

    /Wl: Increase the damage increment of 2h-Weapon Mastery from 87% to 95%.

    /Wd: Change Briar Shield to increase your patk by 10%.


    Those changes would make both classes viable again.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    Regarding Ch/S:

    First of all, thanks for the change, focus management works fine now. However, I agree that the cast time of Crippling Shot should be removed. Right now, I only use it with Chain Drive anyway, so it would just be a neat quality of life change.

    Moreover, I fully support Rakot's suggestion to reduce the amount of life consumed by Blood Arrow. I'd even go further and say the hp cost of Shadowforge's Rage should be reduced to 1%, because Ch/Wl has other skills that consume life.

    Being hit by melee aoes and getting drained by such large amounts may be manageable (yet annoying) for players like Rakot and me, who already finished gold gear and have considerable amounts of hp & pdef, but will break any new players back.


    Regarding Ch/Wl:

    Damage seems fine now, however it's very annoying to sacrifice a gcd every 20 seconds to use Indomitable Spirit. We already have to use Rune Growth (which has a gcd as well) every 30 seconds. Please consider removing at least one of those gcds.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    Quote from Zyrex

    I think the functionality of stacking the trash is quite useful. Many classes have very limited ranged aoe's that require stacked mobs. So I would appreciate to remove the stun of Electrocution Chain (at least this skill, maybe also the champ one if it makes sense, which I can't estimate?) in order to just pull the mobs instead, because the actual pull is much more viable than an additional stun, even since there is already a viable stun for Knight/Champ available which hits most units with the correct positioning.

    I would much more prefer the implementation of the "old" Blast of Remorse pull & stun (for both skills), which worked just fine.

    But I agree, the stacking component is the part that matters the most.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    Quote from Rakot_Hades

    Additional comment re wd oak walker - I wonder given that for example psychic shadow increases pcrit by 1200 and pcrit damage by 20%, while oak walker gets only 200 pcrit and 10% pcrit damage, a buff of the oak walker to get it similar to the other pet would make sense for wd combos other than wd/wl? Note that oak walker has ISS (Chaos of greed) that enables 6% damage increase, so I think keeping the pcrit damage of 10% is fine but perhaps consider increasing pcrit to 1200 instead of 200?


    Cheers!

    Sounds good, however I'd suggest making Chaos of Greed work with every warden pet, since it's an iss.

    Talking about iss, Iron Focus (ToS is) should be changed, since it's pointless atm. I'd say change it to increase physical critrate by 1k instead of accuracy.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    They should just be careful with buffing Wd/Wl, because in my experience the class performed as good as any other. I'd hate to see Wd/Wl first buffed and then nerfed into oblivion:|


    I agree that Wd/W needs a buff though, the earth damage variant of Charged Chop & Power of the Wood Spirit sounds good to me.


    Edit:

    • Decreased Corruption of Nature cooldown time to 3 minutes, reduced physical damage gain to 24%.
    • Increased Essence of Poison poison damage gain to 30%.

    These changes should improve sustained damage a bit, while not crippling burst damage too bad. In our group this is going to be a nerf most likely (big pulls, most overall damage comes from burst scenarios), but should be a minor buff for groups that do smaller pulls.


    • Changed Power of the Wood Spirit to do not require a target to be casted, increased radius to 80.

    Huge quality of life change, thank you !


    Speaking about quality of life, I suggest removing the gcd of Energy Absorb. The small delay before you can start hitting the boss is annoying. Same goes for Phantom Cleave. Skills with a channeltime shouldn't trigger a gcd imho.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    • Changed Psychic Rampage to modify Rune Pulse to inflict dark damage when it is active.

    Thank you !


    • Reduced Vampire Shot effect retrigger cooldown to 10 seconds, changes focus regeneration 80% focus consumption reduction.

    This should definitely help with focus sustain a lot.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    Quote from Rakot_Hades

    Me again:


    It seems that changes are worked on, i would like to bring one more time that ch/s focus issues still there - I made some suggestions before with arguably the easiest to change Pulsing shot to return 50 focus instead of the rage which champ has a lot of options to generate already - please add option to return actual focus not % regen, as % regen is not working very well since you have to move alot. The class has nice design but not comfortable nor pleasing to play atm when half of the time you have 0 focus and nothing you can do to address it unless your intention is to have it not use gun skills half the time - which in my opinion makes class not fun since whole concept is gun based champ. Please consider it.

    Agreed. Some other ideas to solve focus issues: Add Focus regeneration to Forge triggers OR Shock Overload. The Focus regen sadly doesn't help much.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    Quote from Rakot_Hades

    Also changes to probing attack - warr is still better off with using 2h hammer over same tier 2h axe or sword, thus i suggest to add bleed from slash to be implemented when using 2h weapons, not just axe/sword, would help warr too, else the probing attack buff is largely irrelevant

    At least having such a change for Ch/W would be much appreciated, the class even has 2h hammer as the highest weapon level, so it would make sense.

  • Class Balance [Patch 10.2.1.1000] & Bard

    Quote from xLutinex
    Quote from Serenadae

    Some Feedback regarding the upcoming patchnotes.


    Warrior:

    • Fixed Moon Cleave had unintentionally increased damage. Manageable for /Ch and /Wd (although they can't keep up with R/P and S/M anymore I'm afraid)...

    Need to say that r/p AOE is not so strong anymore after upcoming patch like warriors AOE. r/p is nerfed to 6 targets.

    But yes, S/M AOE is too strong in my opinion as it I already said.

    You forgot to mention that Holy Surge gets capped at 6 targets, BUT gets buffed in terms of damage.

    Moreover, R/P still has the same excellent burst damage. Out of all Warriors (if not all classes across the board) only /Ch can keep up with that. Moon Cleave in its current(290x3) state is too weak compared to most other AoEs. It's only worth using in burst and even then doesn't do much damage. R/P on the other hand has very good sustained AoE and especially excells at damaging smaller packs.

    W/Wd has a weaker non gcd spammable, singletarget and AoE. Not to mention that they both don't do elemental damage like Kick & Holy Surge. R/P has a very strong, permanent patk buff (yes, 18% is still a lot!). I'm absolutely positive that W/Wd can't keep up with that after the Moon Cleave change.

    W/Ch has the same burst potential like R/P I'd say, but looses in terms of sustained damage. We'll have to see how this plays out.

    And thats even without taking into account, that R/P is much, much more tanky than any of the two, thanks to Patience and Salvation, Holy Surge & Target Defense iss.