Posts by 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.

Quote from Cruvor

Hi,

would it be possible to change the Sound of Plunderers Protection(1502771) that it is not triggering every second ?

Also the torches in endbossroom also have this debuff

Greetings

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Greetings.

We have added a task for this debuff to no longer make any sound.

Hooroo,

Brontes.

Greetings,

While your frustrations with the current system are understandable, please keep in mind that the system is not meant to be soley for endgame players. Sathkur allround, even with just the free weekly entry, provides a significant amount of progress for those that need more than one nostalgia instance to progress.

You will receive magicite and splinters at sufficient quest progression, yes, but not in quantities to fully substitute the real instance. Substitution was never the goal. To specifically farm one material, it is advisable that the specific instance is farmed instead.

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According to one piece of information, you should bring your drop rate to at least 900% before handing in the coins at the fountain, which would mean a noticeable improvement.

That is not correct. Drop rate has no impact on the Wishing Well.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Greetings,

please keep in mind that the Arcane Chamber of Sathkur (hard) is supposed to be a catch up instance, designed to reduce the grind for new or returning players to get back into the game over time. The instance is meant to supplement nostalgia content, not replace it.

Smaller parties will get significantly lower amounts of loot. While you can't take one of your own characters to boost your parties haul, it is highly recommended to try and fill the empty spaces with other players, as additional players aren't taking away any of your loot (except for cards, which are decently common).

We've not added RNG to the loot per se, we simply moved the RNG portion of what is gotten to a seperate step, instead of direct drops. While these drops aren't guaranteed, a player can expect to see at least one specialty material per 250 coins thrown into the well.

It is relatively rare that none of these materials are obtained, more commonly players will gain one or more materials.

Hooroo,

Brontes.

We will implement this after the next patch.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Thank you for your suggestion.

We have decided not to implement this change.

Hooroo,

Brontes.

Greetings,

We've added new sets for Phirius Shells in the past, which allow players to get neccessary stats and catch up much quicker. You may find Vendors for these Items on the pier of Atlantis.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Quote from Denis987

May be return old Priest/druid elite skills:
1) 1490960 (i dont know, why i should use staff, if stick + talisman with 12-13 lvl runes give more, then this skill)
2) 1490463 (need give normal heal in units, not in % or remove very long cast)
3) 1490464 (casting time 3s, remove heal bonus, cd 25s, activity 15s, heal every 3s)
4) 1490468 (raid heal every 3s, if target get damage many times, 20% damage transferred to caster)
After last nerfs this class combination is dead, but i think we can return him w/o a full rebalance.

Greetings.

Thank you for your feedback about this class. We already have some significant changes planned for the combination, not too different from your suggestions.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Quote from Ceophilix

Hey, I hope this is the right place for it:

Is it possible to change the buff value of the priest/druid buffs back to fixed values. The whole "who's buff is better ahh XXX one's better so we take him with us" or you're not allowed to buff 'cause XXX has a higher buff is more than exhausting.

- Concentration Prayer (ID:493530)
- Grace of Life (ID: 490290)

- Amplified Attack (ID: 490491)

I don't know if it was discussed before... but it is becoming a big problem for many not "high-end" geared people.

Furthermore it's bad in my opinion that all neccesary buffs of priest and druide are general skills...

The focus of the class balancing should be to make all classes kind of equal and not give up on their favorite class. Regarding the heal rework:

Currently you get forced to play druid/priest in almost every raid. That isn't balanced in my opinion.

I would wish for more diversity in the class selection and i think that can be fixed by making the priest buffs or at least Amplified Attack (ID: 490491) and Concentration Prayer (ID:493530) Primary only

Thank you

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Thank you for your feedback.

The buffs have been designed, as suspected, to give healers a good reason to stack more wisdom and grade their gears higher to feel the impact.

We're at an impass in this game where nerfing heal classes would cut off the less-skilled players from the game entirely, as damage taken is unevenly applied within different instances. Healing, unlike damage, doesn't get progressively harder to deal within content.

We're monitoring class diversity within healers pretty heavily, which is why we regularly apply small changes to the classes to push more into the realm of viability.

If you have suggestions for healer classes to push them into realm of the viable, please let us know. We love to hear them.

Hooroo,
Brontes

This is intended. The stats are aimed at newer players. The 'Unknown' and 'Times Past' stat lines are available here.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Quote from Madox

Quote from Brontes

The individual ticks of the skill are three times more potent now.

Old one: per second.

267x3= 801 in 3 seconds, 267 per second.

New one: every 3 seconds.
320x1 = 320 in 3 seconds.

Are you sure?

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Healing over Time is calculated as total heal divided by it's intervals, not by multiplying individual values. Increasing the delay between intervals reduces the total ticks, which in turn increases the heal done by these individual ticks. Camelia's total heal over the duration has not changed.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Quote from Madox

Why d/p have its duration increased to 15s and this dont? Please change.

Druid/Priest has had it's regenerations changed to make group-healing more difficult. The duration was increased as we have found that the class could not really function with skill as low duration.

Druid/Scout does not have this problem, hence an increase to it's aoe-heal is not warranted.

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Also do something about camelia. It was per 1s and now 3s. Also the cost is ridiculously high.

Decreasing the frequency of Healing Over Time effects increases their ticks strength accordingly. The individual ticks of the skill are three times more potent now. The entirely negated cost of the skill also made it too easy to heal with.

Additionally, camelia has caused issues on many people's ends and shredding their game performance when used. Reducing the rate at which the skill is healing has helped tremendously without hurting the total heal done.

Hooroo,
Brontes

Quote from xLutinex

I fast checked the values. 1400% seems only possible with 40% artifact boost (5 hits in 60 Seconds). That's nothing a tank relies on.

So perma aggro is around 1000% which is ~50% higher than before (only calculated/tested with my equip)

As stated in the original post, values were and still are subject to change if necessary. Quite a few values have been adjusted since thursday. Internal tests have shown that aggro is not an issue if one plays their class correctly. If you have different experiences after your own tests, feel free to share them here.

Hooroo,

Brontes

Quote from xLutinex

Btw what about rogue/champ? The class can only wear 1 recon rune. That will not possible to play anymore ? XD

We have already planned (but not yet implemented) further aggro changes. These will be reflected in the planned patch notes once added into the que to be patched.
These will include (optional) aggro reductions for classes that only have the possibility to wear one aggro rune.

Quote from kunxu

i think you can use 1hammer + 1hammer

I hope they change that too.Cause the nature of the Rogue class it's best to use both-handed weapons

While theoretically possible, the class was designed and balanced around the use of a two-handed weapon.

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Brontes is it intended that Warden/Warrior has 120%+ parry after patch? Now I have 86% parry in plate+ spirit of the oak =106% parry and after the patch + coat of the arms = 126% parry permanent. Intended?

Yes. Monsters in Dark Core are significantly higher level than you and even with 126% shown in the character frame you will still not have 100% parry against certain bosses.

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Knight tanks in general will generate about twice as much aggro than before. You can expect to land somewhere around 1.500% to 1.700% aggro, certain combinations will far exceed these values though.

please do the math for me

While we don't believe in telling players what to do, this is on a knight without secondary class. Explosion of holy might and appropriate buffs are active. Many have much more aggro than that. Please keep in mind that values are subject to change.

Quote from Serenadae

I just hope the Warrior iss doesn't become mandatory, due to the changes.

As a chain user, I for one don't want to be forced to play Warrior all the time for the sake of the group.

From what we have tested and calculated, the buff will be of benefit for the group but not mandatory. We're balancing the the stable aggro of players with these kinds of buffs added later on.

Generally speaking, the direction we want to take tanking (and as extension, generating aggro) into a more exciting route.

Our goals for that matter are:

• Create more viable tanks
• Make tanking more active
• Allow for more diverse and interesting class setups
• Help out the survival of melees
• Give each tanking archetype a distinct playstyle

Quote from xLutinex

What about barbarian battlecry from Warrior/priest?

These two buffs will be made exclusive to one another. We want to keep Warrior/Priest alive as a support but give it competition in the form of Knight-DPS.

Quote from xLutinex

so dps will do approximately 57% more aggro than with 10% aggro.

I calculated my future aggro after the patch. I will have ~33% more aggro fullbuffed.

Greetings

Knight tanks in general will generate about twice as much aggro than before. You can expect to land somewhere around 1.500% to 1.700% aggro, certain combinations will far exceed these values though.

In addition, we removed the exclusivity between Threaten and some other aggro buffs that existed before, as Threaten itself no longer generates aggro. We also expect DPS to use Tranquility Powders when bursting. We removed the shared cooldown between it and experimental dwarven ale for that matter.

Quote from xLutinex

And there will be classes with only 1 recon rune possible

Greetings

Classes with only one reconciliation rune will get effects which will reduce their aggro.

Quote from Laisha

Also since you're increasing the aggro of dps: Could you change or reduce the the 75% aggro increase of 499604 (Shadow of the Baron) of the Mage/rogue? The whole increase of aggro is unnecessary imo anyway cause there are far better support skills on other classes without such an increment, but if you want to keep it I suggest to at least reduce it or this class will always tank (at least in certain parts of instances) where tanks won't be able to do any aggro (e.g. cause they have -1000% attack speed)

Greetings.

We're generally not done with the full aggro calculations for every class, but from the first tests with DPS that increase their aggro artificially with special skills, none have yet been able to steal aggro in proper raid setups. These tests take a significant amount of time.

We understand that with the current difficulty of instances, classes that instantly steal aggro will be borderline useless.

From what we have seen, tanks will generate about twice as much aggro as before, certain combinations even more. We're especially looking into classes that cannot use a second reconciliation rune as they will have a significantly harder time to gain as little aggro as possible.

With overdura and two reconciliation runes, a DPS should now have about ~15.7% aggro when wearing a dark core and RoFL set.

We currently plan major structural changes to the archetype of tanks.

These changes will cement the definitive superiority of plate tanks in comparison to other gear types. Our aim is that we do not destroy non-plate tank classes.

Generally speaking: We are aware of the power difference and homogeneity between the tanks.

Threaten as an ability pidgeonholes non-plate tanks to gain absurd amounts of defense in order to survive. This has caused further complications in the form of defenses on DPS-Classes, as a boost there would translate into much higher defenses for the tank-swap on certain combinations or outright allow for these classes to tank.

This has caused a significant spike in difficulty for melee classes which we aim to fix.

Tanks, historically, have been chosen for their supportive abilities, which cemented the Knight/Mage as the absolute favorite. We have already worked out a solution for this issue that we will share in the near future.

I would like to kindly ask everyone in this thread to remain civil and on topic.

We have considered changing some of the loot to be friendlier to endgame players, but have found that the addition of universal potions, the deposit injector, cards and instance-tier phirius potions to be sufficient.

Most of you guessed correctly, the main focus of this update was to help players breach the gap between mid- and endgame. The loot has been set up accordingly.

We're not currently planning such a change. Thank you for your suggestion!

Please keep in mind that this forum thread isn't here to provide a place for your personal feuds but rather a place for feedback. Posts containing open jibes against other people will be removed.

Quote from Leszix

P.S. Is it possible or "not intended" to add some blackboards in few places on INI like that, so everyone will know what is intended or not intended? thank you

As hilarious as that meme is, the prerequisities for Kalin are not as astronomical as one might think. Kalin is mostly focussed around good timing with it's events:

Time your cooldowns well -> Boss 1 goes down;

Time your druid clean/free at the right times at B2 -> Boss goes down easily.

If you run in semi-blindly with bursting every boss (as I've watched some groups do; yeah, GMs sometimes watch runs since some recent issues.) you will fail, no matter how big the weapon or how t14 the gear.

As I've written before: Kalin is supposed to be the most difficult instance right now; there's no place for weak links in a party, there is little room for mistakes and gear can't save you.

In addition: The amount of players that could do one run but no subsequent runs is vanishingly slim (>1%!). The instance will have to be farmed by everyone again with new rewards.

That being said, there was nothing taken from these players, as they once more could farm their artefact before boss 1.

Boss one has one strategy (which was completely breaking the boss) fixed. You can still kite for a short amount of time with certain speed boosts - but you really shouldn't need them.

It wasn't good that one scout + a tank a dn ring could outrun the boss without any other speed boost.

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Quote from Aresta10

And why should it be made even more difficult, if others had it easier before (including you)?
In my opinion, for the first artifact, the difficulty shouldn't increase. It is fine for an upgrade.

Because they Trying to make ppl make t13/t14 gear and t17/18 weapons

I can firmly say: No. The instance was tested with Tier 10 Golden equipment and a T14 weapon; slightly above the rofl standard. No stats beyond ROFL (Titan & Unknown) have been used. These are the minimum requirements for a player to comfortably run the instance. The better your gear, the more relaxed the afformentioned timings are, but not to a point where it trivializes the instance.

Quote from Mieteq

Tbh it is waste of time to write with this brontes. First he writes you can get artefact without doing full ini. Now he writes this things xD. Man, are you drunk?

That is not a very nice comment.

You theoretically can obtain the artefact without the bosses, though one full clear is required to end the quest and be able to actually do it. This is not a hard concept to grasp - beyond this first clear it is not necessary to do the bosses for the base artefact.