Posts by Madox

Before anything, thx for the changes on our lovely forgotten w/m, thought I would never see it again

Few comments before testing in rofl and some propositions.

-Dwl, although I love earth arrow as sustained skill dmg in mobs with fast cast will help us a lot, the combo of the class is so sad. Now we don't need to bother about it, only if we have burst in boss. Rest of ini earth arrow + sandstorm and GG. class difficulty just went to the floor tho I suggest toxic arrow dmg should be improved aswell.

About Unity with Mother Earth new duration, lets see if its enough to improve single dmg burst on bosses. For burst aoes I still think this skill should add some small extra dmg to our skills like m/wd have but smaller.

-D/R, class require that new mattack as passive, not only 25% of the time. Druids don't get mattack from anywhere. Class still missing burst buffs and aoe fix (nature points and increased dmg). Also propose to reduce poisonous widow embrace energy cost to 10 and remove its gcd. Lose all nature points on this skill isn't realistic and not worth at all.

-W/M, before testing its dmg which it can be improved or nerfed just changing the numbers if its necessary, for the class design, I think it is a good idea to have Electrical Rage without global cd so stack up x3 dmg isn't a tragedy specially on mobs.

-M/S, add myself to Laisha's proposition, ISS to restart 5min skill should have same cd as the other skill or reducing cd from 4min to 3min is an illusion just to make people think reducing 60% dmg to 48% dmg on it isn't a nerf. Thx for starting to fix this pet. Still 2 bugs, distance of the skill is 80 and not 200 as it says. Gear, guitar, potions, nothing affect this pet casts (except its own) when warden pets do, make it equal.

-M/R, if we can't spam purge anymore what should we use? Rest of sustained dmg skill in this class aren't even enough. Give a non gcd spammable shadow stab.

-M/P, same proposition as m/r. Aoes are fine but, single dmg (sustain) is non existant. Add spammable non gcd rising tide with decent dmg for those cases.

-M/Ch, please remove extra cast on plasma arrow, is depressing to play this class lately. Hard to finish its cast and huge rage issues, specially in squishy mobs. Increase static field rage recovery like you did with focus on s/wl.

Is really good to see class balance isn't over and devs are back to work even harder. Keep the good work!

Druid/warlock:

Did a few rofls with it. There are a lot of aspects that are well balanced, it has good survival, it has good mattack and specially it has decent aoes.

-Aoes: are good as they are now, so to fix the other problem this class have, I hope aoes don't get overpowered, they are really balanced imho now. Even with the 5 NP per use, that make you think when to use them and not spam them without control.

-My previous proposition to reduce cd of skill which give 10 NP to 10s. I take it back . With 30s it allows you to do some burst aoes and that should be enough, they have good dmg.

-Main problem of the class (and is a huge problem), single target dmg. Is reeaaaaaaaaaally low. Earth arrow, toxic arrow and nature poison dmg should be increased like 20-30%.

-Also single burst potential is low, almost non existant. I suggest to increase fusion with mother earth from 15s to 20s and while is on, make skills do a small extra hit, for example. Have to remember this skill is pretty useless unless is used in boss.

-To control NP during burst I would suggest that nature poison (the skill that finishes the combo) should recover 2x of NP it gives right now.

In general I really like the class.

Few thoughts about this year balance and where things are going.

Overall im happy with the job done so far, mages are viable yuhuu, thats a win. Rest of magical classes? Disapointing.

I see you guys are focusing a lot of magical classes into "sup" material, we keep asking you to stop, to change that but is just simply like talking to a wall.

-Mage/rogue. Class is missing dmg, we asked to remove what you call sup potential and make it proper mdps but no, instead you give the sup buff a bit more dmg?

-Warden/druid. Same. It was a great mdps and could be hybrid magical tank. Ignored all our comments and turned this class into a small support with low sustain, not good single burst and terrible aoe burst. Btw, magical tank is gone, hybrid and full tank gear.

-Warrior/mage. Useless. Zero aoe and bad single burst. Aswell really low mattack.

-Knight/mage. Well, already talked about this few weeks ago, still no improvement on any direction dps or tank.

-Scout/warlock, everyone is using it. 3 nerfs in 3 patches. It will end up being useless at this way in couple of weeks, like happened to m/r and wd/d over the last months.

-New change on mages 5 min skill. Some mages needed 60s of bursting to reach other dps dmg like in last boss or organs, now mages like mch or mr with low single burst pontential are screwed. Consider improving the dmg of those classes 3s spammable skills.

-Druids: warlock and rogue... I hope we can make them viable dps.

-New warlocks. Please, please, please give us mdps! not supports!!

As a lot of people suggested, I would like some info on why some changes are taken, some feedback from Byte/Thor on why they turn down our propositions and do literally the opposite. We are the ones testing 24/7 every possible combo, give us atleast some credit and imagine we know a bit about the things we are proposing.

After this book, happy new year to everyone

Few comments:

• Reduced Unity with Mother Earth cooldown time to 60 seconds.

Nice try but, most of the times useless. We already have more than enough crit in mobs and can't afford to stand there xD. In boss might help I guess. This should give something else worth to use.

-Druid/warlock, I suggest to change cd of Focused in Nature from 30s to 10s. Atleast this could help us to manage nature points from aoes and spammable combo skills. Right now is insane and didn't do anything to fix it.

-Druid/rogue, Im glad you guys didn't forget this is a dps (or should be). Would like to see same change as dwl in aoe dmg with some kind of nature point management of it aswell.

• Changed Magic Turmoil to increase magical damage by 20.8% instead.

Good start although it still misses a bit mattack boost somewhere. Waiting to see what you guys do about its burst potential since is 0 atm.

-Warden/druid, speed attack formula is just not right. It requires lute+stimulant as extra attack speed for wand to equal staff dmg. We will need to use 2 dif weapons depending on our buffs every minute? that doesn't feel good.

• Reduced Elemental Catalysis duration to 20 seconds, reduced cooldown to 4 minutes.

Just why?

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Druid/Warlock

In advance I have to say that I didn't test this in rofl ,but I probably will tomorrow.

First and foremost: Sandstorm (1490763): As mentioned many times before, this skill does absolutly no damage (even with 20 points of Nature) and consumes, contrary to it's description, 5 Points of Nature. On any other Druid, and at least in the german translation of this skill, Sandstorm should consume 1 Point of Nature to enhance Sandstorms damage, but it consumes 1 per tick ( So 5 in total). It makes no sense to use a skill that a) doesn't do any damage and b) costs you 5% Poison damage and 5% magical damage.

To the damage of this class overall I have 2 ideas.

1) Also mentioned from different people above the only "buff" you can activly use this class has is Body Vitalization. So I suggest that Unity with mother Earth, instead of 10% healing increase, instead increases the magical damage or poison damage of this class. Also I think that Savage Blessing should increase your magical damage (e.g. as it increases HP on Champ/Druid) because although you have much magical attack points your magical damage is rather low.

2) Give the skills of this class a cast speed scaling as you did with Scout/Warlock. This would increase the damage of almost every skill greatly.

Another point is that "Earth Arrow"(1490762) as well as "Psychic Arrows"(1490760) have no use on this class at the moment because "Poison Arrow"(1490621) (not sure if this is the correct name :D, with 0 Points of Nature deals more damage than the other 2 with 20 points of Nature.

Lastly, although I hope this will be solved with the new world boss, I hope in the future there will be a talisman with elemental damage, but even without the elemental damage any talisman would benefit my second suggestion since you can use an additional "curse"-rune.

Anyway, these are just my opinions on this class.

Greetings.

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Count me in for casting speed scale.

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Hi

We have a magical knight warrior scout guardian but we don't have a magical rogue. Why? Can be change the damage of rogue / knight to mdps (element light). This will diversify the magic branch of classes. I hope this idea will get support from other players.

I would prefer a fix or balance on wd/d, w/m, d/wl and k/m before anything xD

Did some rofl tests with mage/rogue (didn't try in a long time). Aoe dmg was ok, sustained and burst. When there are more than 6 mobs it starts to do decent. Single dmg? damn, that was a disaster. Both sustained and burst was trully terrible. My suggestions, stop treating this class like a support.

- Giving this more dark dmg or mdmg would make the aoes too strong so, do magical shadow stab without global cd with good dmg (similar to m/s shot or wl/r shadow stab) so our single dmg isn't that depressing.

- Remove 5% dmg buff for party.

Right now is a mix between bad dps and not so important support.

Hmm no estoy seguro, quizás Rivendel?

Fast bug report, Mage/rogue kiss of the vampire, 3 seconds cast with global cd, please remove it, thx.

Druid/warlock: First of all thx for this new damage reduction, will need to test if is enough to survive tho

A few things that should be changed. Before I can properly test in rofl, so idk how dmg will be.

1. Sandstorm, is still bugged and require 5 nature points per use instead of 1. Please fix this.

3. Sandstorm doesn't have dmg reduction after every mob so if previous point gets fixed and skill is too op, will need to add nerf like rest of dps have on their aoes.

4. Surge of Malice from warlock isn't included as poison dmg like s/wl have (for example), it probably should be included.

5. Body vitalization, in case the class needs more sustain, change this skill to 30s and 60s cd (like most of similar skills in game) can help fixing it.

6. Combo toxic arrow + nature's poison should be changed from stacks into a target to stacks on us. Seriously, cast 4 stacks on a mob will be impossible

Btw im glad nature points now properly give dmg as it should, thx for that fix.

Time to test!

Edit: Now that i think deeper into this while doing a proper kitty, the burst on this class can't never work. The only 3s cast skills are toxic arrow (remove nature point) and nature's poison (restore max 3 nature point, 6s cd). So, without even considering how the dmg is, we will need to spam 2s casts most of our burst because we can't use 3s casts. Unless Ale potion restore nature points aswell, this design won't work in any burst.

huhu happy christmas

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About Mage/Warden

- Change [Fireball] Damage to earth insteed of fire -> since everything is scaled with Earth damage

Itzamna

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About that class, I had the feeling is lacking some sustained dmg. The class itself doesn't have much earth dmg and the spammable 3s skills is one of the worst. I would to change the earth barrier from 20s (2min cd) to 30s (60s cd) like other buffs this class have and see how that work.

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So I tested Knight/Mage again today and before I start giving my feedback on this class I wanted to report a translation mistake. In „Hall of Order“ (490035) the magical attack increment is missing in the german translation.

Just for information, all numbers used below are just examples so I don’t have to write „xyz“ evrytime

Regarding the gameplay with this class I think this class has 2 main problems.

First, it has 0 area damage and second, the skills this class uses all scale with Stamina. Which is why I propose the following changes.

War Prayer(490078) and Holy Light Domain (491628): Let the skills scale with INT instead of stamina, e.g. War Prayer: Deals 1775 + 0.2x INT light damage. That increases the damage of these skills and, regarding the area damage, lets Holy Light Domain inflict area damage that is worth mentioning (unlike now)

Holy Strike(490148): Like on Knight/Warlock, let this skill inflict xzy% + 0.2xINT light damage and give it a 2 sec cooldown.

Whirlwind Shield(490178): As you did with the Shield of Discipline from Mage/Knight, remove the shield requirement and instead let it inflict 331% + 0.2x INT light damage. That way you have, in my opinion, decent area damage. This change could be made by changing Lightning Shield (491630) because although the movement speed reduction is quite nice so maybe keep that :D, the wind damage is useless. This class only deals light damage and has so many increments for light damage so I really don’t get why that skill deals wind damage.

Anyway, these are just my thoughts/impressions of this class.

Greetings.

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I wonder if they would turn this class into a proper magic tank. Right now is a mix of physical tank, a try of a dps and at the end, isn't good on any of them. Im kinda sick of "white hit" dmg classes... They should do like wd/d (btw is still bugged waiting for a fix) or s/wl, turn everything into elemental dmg and magical hits.

Hmm found a bug in warden/druid. Speed attack is totally bugged. Doesn't matter how much i buff up wand is never beating staff dmg. Even full buffed wand dmg is really low.

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Regarding the last posts.

I would suggest, that the mystical guitar and lute will be changed, that they don't share the cooldown. So most parties can be fair for mdps and pdps, because every person can play both

Maybe same for tambourine and rattle.

Kind regards

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And please, change guitar icon is so so so annoying not knowing if I have guitar or lute on xD

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Ahoi ,

to throw in my 2 cents here .
I dont think Scouts are weak at the moment . From what i have seen they are in the good middle of all Classes . Well below some Chain Classes and Above Mage ( with comparable gear of course).

Greetings

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And they still keep nerfing mages xD.

About mages being better than pdps with low gear, that is mostly the m/d because it has tons of mattack. In endgame mages are not better than Scouts. So 2 solutions, improve your gear or play mage if you want to be low geared forever.

As they said, casts classes are in disvantage on a lot of parts of rofl and destroyed in most of lower inis when we can't even cast. Stop crying about mages being Gods and scouts suck when is not real.

Are you sure that addon is updated to the 64 bit client we have now? Some addons were updated but others weren't so they don't work.

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Don't take me wrong, I imagine you guys had your thoughts when you disabled it, and i really hope for the sake of the server isn't the one you just said. Right now you publicly admited that you guys prefer 1 random person who join the server for the first time (and ofc by magic that newbie will want to download au, cose every newbie do that on their first hour of game, ???) that all the hundreds of players who relay on it to play this game.

If the reason you give would be the real one, couldn't you just do a warning on the download of the addon? Stop the downloads until is fixed?

Extended Action Bar, for example, caused a 70% perma fps drop and noone warned about it. Wtb, isn't disabled, you can use it on your own getting terrible experiences.

Imho you really should think more on your current players next time you wan't to do something like this.

Regards, Madoxx.

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Thx, but pls don't tell totally wrong things.

Not every newbie is installing AU at first. As my guild switched to CoA, we didn't heard about it, because we have our own addons for UI or something else.

So why should every newbie install AU at first? I saw in last days many ppl crying because AU does not work. Why are ppl totally relying on ONE addon? you can even play this game without any.

P.S. Addon writer are also ppl with more or less time. So if you totally rely on an addon and it does not work anymore -> your problem, or fix it yourself. Just my opinion. That's why I have nearly 100% standard interface^^

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Please read my comment again. Grox said the reason of disabling au was because new people get it as the first thing to do on this game. I know for sure that is not true, thats why I was being sarcastic, new people do not need au. So no, im not telling wrong things.

P.S. addon isn't broken or not working anymore, it was 100% working. Author is a friend of mine and im sure he isn't happy when all his work go disabled because 10 people reported a MIGHT (yes might, not always lets keep this in mind) crash when who knows how many conditions get together. Well those people shouldn't use it until fix it (i repeat, for them. For the rest of humanity it has no problems).

Disabling an addon because 10 people have a problem with it when rest of server don't, makes no sense. Stop pissing us off.

Btw Grox, fps problem isn't solved at all, its worse every day. Even doing mirror world is becoming a challenge nowadays. Every patch we get with "improved fps" on notes make us lose even more.

Don't take me wrong, I imagine you guys had your thoughts when you disabled it, and i really hope for the sake of the server isn't the one you just said. Right now you publicly admited that you guys prefer 1 random person who join the server for the first time (and ofc by magic that newbie will want to download au, cose every newbie do that on their first hour of game, ???) that all the hundreds of players who relay on it to play this game.

If the reason you give would be the real one, couldn't you just do a warning on the download of the addon? Stop the downloads until is fixed?

Extended Action Bar, for example, caused a 70% perma fps drop and noone warned about it. Wtb, isn't disabled, you can use it on your own getting terrible experiences.

Imho you really should think more on your current players next time you wan't to do something like this.

Regards, Madoxx.

Disabling AU was a terrible idea. It makes no sense paralyze most of the server running instances again just because you found someone who crash I guess, well we crashed millions of times for years and we were still able to play. It worked perfect for me.

Other addons cause way more problems and we just had to wait for a fix, they weren't disabled.

#FreeAU

R.I.P. Warden/scout Sup 01-Dec-2020

Any new on when are warlocks coming?

Mages have been useless (except mwl as support) what? the last 4? 6 years? All we had was 1 class warrior/mage (not even a mage itself) with 0 aoes. Even Scouts were almost the only option for years in Tikal-Inferno times. Now we can finally play as main mage (new warlocks aren't even here) while specially chains have tons of main classes to try. But you cry because we got a magical scout, well sorry but I can't understand it.

Every class have atleast 2-3 combos that are really well balanced, other classes even more. I think they are slowly balancing the field so everyone can enjoy as much classes as they can, we are now more balanced than this game ever was.

My opinion is if you can't reach the potential you want isn't the class fault, you are lacking gear and/or performance improvement in your play style. Also depends on which instance are you comparing this and what kind of damage are you looking for, a class can't be the best in sustain, aoes and burst, you need to pick what do you prefer and follow that path with the class more suitable for you.

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Crash while farming tiers in ibp. Is my second client, mostly empty. First crash while playing tho.

What fusion addon did you use ? New OptiFuse can cause crashes if you do a certain mistake

Greetings

New Transmutor addon.

Crash while farming tiers in ibp. Is my second client, mostly empty. First crash while playing tho.