Posts by Brontes

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As a k/w main, i honestly feel like the knight in general is in a good spot right now. Though this might change with higher raids since i only ran up to rofl and idk as of now. The main issue i face is, while my gear already feels strong on this content and i can tank pretty much comfortably, the percentage dots feel unfair. Even just running into rofl, i randomly take a single dot and die from full hp even with pots if not by chance a healer saves me. Further into the raid either a strong healer needs to constantly heal me during some passages or i need to intentionally delete buffs for a little healer (which otherwise would be completely able to soloheal) to be able to keep me alive. It doesn't feel right that stronger gear actually requires stronger healers, just because the amount of % damage can't be reduced by any of my skills.

my recommendation therefore is to either change the DoTs to a flat value or even better be affected by MDef, which sadly really doesn't play a noticeably role. Another approach would be changing existing ISS that reduce Magic damage (level 58, 100 and 104 ISS) to include DoT damage, though i'm not sure if that will affect % damage done by DoTs

Greetings,

%-based damage over time abilities are a core factor in highlighting strengths and weaknesses of tanking and heal classes.

While knights in general are the strongest tanking class, their lack of short cooldown stuns and high HP while lacking self healing means, that comparing to lower HP tanks (like Champions), they will take proportionately more damage from these abilities while simultaneously be stronger against flat DoTs.

Knights in general pair well with healers which are strong in counteracting sustained, fixed damage (as it can't be reduced by threaten). This weakness is by design, not as coincidence and therefore %-based DoT simply can not be changed, as otherwise the spot of weakness shifts to the aforementioned Champion. In spots where you know that healing is going to be tight, you can alternatively try to negate the application of the negative effect entirely.

Hooroo,

Brontes

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Quote from xLutinex

Hi tank community,

what does other tanks think about this change?

• Reduced Protection of Nature HP share to 4% from 8%.

Compared to Knights threaten + new Grace of Life, it seems that the 4% is too low.

We tested yesterday in orkham and a dps closely survived the electrocute hit from mobs. With a knight tank, they also survive a hit. Now with the nerf to 4%, you literally die again with warden tank (yes, you can interrupt, but it is for testing purpose).

I know it is hard to balance and 8% + threaten from knight dps would be insane. Hence my suggestion:

• Increase ratio back to 8% and change it to be only share if spirit of the oak is summoned
• Change knight threaten for dps knight classes, that it does not reduce attack power of enemies
• Change w/p debuff that it does not apply any debuff on enemies, if you have a warden or champ tank (with Warrior, warlock and rogue tank it is still usefull)

Greetings

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Then just interrupt electrocute hit. Warden is not equal knight class, why do you think, that dps must be survive after cast with warden tank in party? Warden have overpowered stuns, use it and all will be okay. 4% its okay now, i think. Developers said me: "Warden is designed to be stun tank". Let it stay that way.

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Greetings,

We generally categorize types of defense into reactive and preventative defense.

Wardens, by far, have the strongest reactive defense in the game; however, the current endgame instances do not lean very well to reactive defense. Much of the damage affecting the party outside of the tank can't be played against with a stun or general interrupt. In order for Wardens to ever be viable as a main tank in any of the current endgame instances, they therefore had to be given a strong enough form of preventative defense.

In addition, Grace of Life is now much stronger on tanks than it was before, allowing parties to double dip when both sources of the buff are properly equipped. As stated earlier, we will monitor this closely.

The combination of Threaten and Traces of the Cross Sword reduce the parties damage taken by roughly 65%. We aim to achieve similar numbers for Champions and Wardens. We do not want tanking to come down to a numbers game, but rather offer unique effects from each class to distinguish them; while it should be possible to conquer the vast majority on the game with just one class(combination) on this role, we aim to have substantial performance differences in instances between them.

This can be seen to it's fullest in Ruins of the Ice Dwarf Kingdom, where a Knight/Champion can easily cut down run times by 40% on the average run by itself. While it is no longer an endgame instance, this was already the case on release. We've seen similar trends in other instances. Wardens were drastically underperforming in both Grafu and Orkham.

Generally, we'd also rather overpower than underpower with changes on tanks, as it's better for the player base to have a class that is too strong for a week than one that can't be played at all. Unlike with DPS classes, overpowered classes tend not to affect raid speed significantly either. However, we obviously we aim for a balanced environment in the end.

Hooroo,

Brontes.

G'day,

It has already been decided to increase it back up to 6% and we will continue to fine tune these auras (this includes GoL). Feedback is appreciated.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Greetings,

Holy Light Domain has an AFK timer to prevent farming overworld Monsters while away. We will look into the interaction in the Entity Chamber soon.

Thank you for reporting,

Hooroo,
Brontes

Quote from LegendarykeF

Hi everyone, what do you think about "new" mechanic of shock strike? Now you cant spam this skill in raids, because it has internal stun cd. Stuns by this skill doesnt work every 3 seconds.

It works in 10 seconds approximately if you spam it. The developer has confirmed that this skill works correctly. I think itsnt right.

How do you think the player should understand when he can click on the skill and the stun will work? In the real raids, this can never be done normally.

In my opinion, it is necessary to at least create a debuff on the mob by which it will be possible to understand that the stun will not work.

Greetings,

This is a tooltip error.

The internal cooldown for the stun has been set to, as you deduced correctly, 10 seconds.

Other uses of the skill will still interrupt your targets casts.

Thank you for reporting it!

Quote from Crielle

Ooohhh it's called Paradise fields that one.

Greetings,

Exactly!

For each different event, the portal will lead to a different celebratory subzone.

Watch out for Christmas!

Hooroo,

Brontes

Greetings,

We're currently not planning to add another way of obtaining Injectors.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Just a little teaser, but you will read a lot about target limits in the notes

Quote from xLutinex

May I ask who is responsible for the knight classes?

And maybe can this person PM me to talk about the future of the knight for class balancing?

I could also talk about the other tank classes, but I have seen, that only the knight is always missing (tank and dps)

Greetings

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Greetings,

the very next patch (v.2008) will have a lot of tank adjustments, especially for knights. Stay tuned for the patch notes!

Hooroo,

Brontes.

Quote from yali61

Knight/mage buff is needed, while it used to be the most played class, now it is not good to play anywhere.

You may look forward to the next patch.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Quote from xLutinex

After some additional trys in the last months: the aggro as warden/knight is not good without Oak Power (which you get from 1490859 Heart of the Oak). The class is supposed to play with 1h + shield, but in my experience, the aggro is really low, especially in bigger pulls (more than 6 mobs) and classes with only 1 recon rune have mostly more aggro than the warden tank

Thank you for your feedback,

We're currently looking into warden tanks and will provide some updates to them in the near furute.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Quote from EricJade

Quote from Madox

When you go through the portal, you can read in chat which mode did you enter.

Says 35. But, I wasn't given a choice.

At level 35, the instance will not open past Mula Nail. To fight the last bosses, you will need to enter the level 50 variant of the instance.

To enter the level 50 variant, you will need sufficient quest progress in the region.

To enter the level 105, Hard Mode version you will need to have sufficient progress in the Memories of Taborea quest line.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Greetings EricJade!

Is this about the level 35, 50 or 105 version?

Hooroo,

Brontes.

Quote from Groot

maybe add a dmg increase for 1hand weapons for wd/k in the lvl15 eliteskill:1490659 or change the skill 493409 for wd/k

Greetings,

Currently no changes to the class are planned.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Quote from yali61

bringing this dungeon, kalin and idk finished, will there be a change for this?

Yes. With the release of the next nostalgia instance, the previous will be added to Sathkur. Quantities of materials will fall in line with how many are gotten from the original instance.

Hooroo,

Brontes.

Quote from Leszix

I remember few changes on this boss since instance start. This time is little different because you were so brave to put it in patchnotes and forum.

Maybe Im too rough but I am really tired of "It seems to work as intended" and then suddenly appears small "OOOPS" and you change something, despite the fact all this been tested.

How can I know is it the same, is a bit different, or completely different? Or you will not change this again to another version? Or if pets are working or not unless I go there and check for myself. Ehh

Greetings,

The main issue with this boss was a miscommunication between the development team and the testers. The testers didn't see a visible change without being hit (even though it should have gotten one) and we got the feedback that things were working properly. Now that the depth of the issue came to light, efforts have been made to fully correct this bosses event.

We have learnt that we need to better communicate to the testers how and what exactly the behaviour of bosses is in order to eliminate circumstances like that in the future.

Quote from Leszix

Anyway, is it possible the last door be open automatically after kill all previous bosses, without this stupid runes? If someone got dc or go save his house from fire, rest of the party is "bad word"

We will change this in the future.

Thank you for your feedback,

Hooroo,

Brontes.

Greetings,

Thank you for your suggestions regarding the Knights 'Disarmament'.

We currently have plans for that skill, which can't be realized at the moment, which will definitely make the skill good again. One could say it'll be golden for it.

We will keep your basic idea in mind to possibly use with another skill, as there are a few ISS still pending a rework on the horizon. We're always happy to read your suggestions, we just can't promise that they'll be implemented verbatim.

Hooroo,

Brontes.

Greetings,

We've already implemented the change to no longer need Gorge or Inferno to enter ROFL in Patch 10.7.1.3020.

Quote from PATCH NOTES 10.7.1.3020

• Removed need of completing Inferno of Divinity and Gorge of the Ice Giants quests in order to go into next instance after getting requirements of Understand the Happenings quest complete.

Hooroo and thank you for your suggestion,

Brontes.

Greetings,

Thank you for your feedback and bug report!
We've already noted that the description was missing. To clarify now, the buff lasts for 20 seconds and is applied to the entire party. This, and 'Metamorph - Demon Witch Ancalon' will be fixed with the next patch.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Greetings,

The order in which you recieve these titles is correct, but the logic on their description is flipped and will be fixed with the next patch.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Greetings,

We're currently not planning any change like that, as we feel like the opportunity cost of rune swapping needs to stay intact.

Hooroo,

Brontes.

Quote from playboy

not fully understanding of how this works, i know its for all classes i just put in warlock cuz it was quickest

• • The Scales of Justice will modify Damage Dealt, Damage Taken, Hitpoints and Healing Taken depending on class combination.

Main Class	Sub Class	Damage Dealt	Damage Taken	HP	Healing Taken
Warlock	Champion	-40%	20%	-40%	-20%
Warlock	Knight	15%	20%	-30%	-20%
Bard	Scout	-15%	-10%	/	-30%
Scout	Bard	-25%	/	/	/

These Changes are for PvP only, not the Warlock Class in general.

While you are in any Battleground, you will gain a buff that modifies the afformentioned values.

Hooroo,

Brontes.

Quote from Denis987

Yes, can aura be deactivated ?

Greetings.

Yes, Auras can be deactivated.

-Aggro% Buffs are not included in the Change to Auras.

Hooroo,

Brontes.

Quote from ZaciukamCie

Rework of:

Knight/Warrior

Knight/Champion

Knight/Druid

Knight/Scout - it doesnt need rework but..tbh all of us pick it just to wear bow?

With druid there is like almost extra 17% stamina.. for what tbh? Its almost as much % as K/Ch o.o

Also elite for damage % - with warrior we already have bonus to all weapons while champ only for hammers.

The only thing I see about all the classes is - each one must perform in any role and this is completely wrong way.

Tank is tank - with plate armor not chain or clothes or leather (or just skins on) and not a typical dps as players want.

Okay you can do it - why not if its possible, but still - main role of tank is to take thunders and keep enemy focussed on you.

Yes, this is the only case where should be a combo that outperforms the rest of Knight/xxxxx and in general I mean knight/warrior. As this combo is almost forgotten (useless) because it doesn’t posses any support skills (lol?)

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Greetings,

Thank you for your feedback.

The idea behind the base designs of these tank combos is to have them viable at base level at all content (meaning that it is theoretically possible to conquer the game with one class combination) but that different situations are more or less challengening, depending on class choice. This also includes Warden tanks.

Hooroo,

Brontes.

Greetings.

We've heard you and will add a mercy system, which will guarantee specialty material drops at certain thresholds of coins thrown into the well. We will publicize these barriers in the planned patch notes in the upcoming days.

Hooroo,

Brontes.