New updates on test!

Stabbytime · 02-19-2009, 07:39 AM

Noticed update this morning while getting ready for work. Here are the bits related to us directly.

FEATURED

Ward of Elements

A brand new level 80 two-group raid instance has been added! This zone is balanced for players without a proliferation of raid gear, and should provide an exciting challenge to any group of 12! The first six bosses can be tackled in any order, and provide fantastic fabled loot with brand new armor sets upgraded from the tier 2 void shard sets, complete with new appearances! You can find it in Lavastorm beneath the Hollow Tower and Deep Forge.

Lavastorm

Lots of brand new content has been added in this classic zone. Almost all of the population has be re-tiered for solo players, with a brand new level 45 to 55 quest line with the industrious…but rather insane Sootfoot goblins. Brand new void invaded areas also feature new level 80 solo quests. Additionally, a solo-able daily shard quest had been added as well as lots of brand new mount paths and teleporters to make traversing the zone much easier!

ACHIEVEMENTS

General

Threat components have been added to some achievements which enhanced the new fighter taunts.

Shadowknight

Adjusted Shadowknight’s Fury to be an encounter based hate gain to better match their role. A bonus has also been added to threat while reducing the added spell damage.

SPELLS

General

Fighter offensive spells will no longer let you apply threat or hate position gains.
All taunts have been improved slightly.

Fighter

Changed the primary green taunts to all be 0.5 second casting time.
Several adjustments have been made to threat values.
Fighter taunts in offensive stances should no longer be locked out.

Shadowknight

Shadowknights can now cast the Decree line while stunned or stifled.
Adjusted the damage of the Doom Judgment, Sickening Decay, Cruel Intent, and Tap Veins spell lines.

Off to work i go!

evilastro · 02-19-2009, 10:26 AM

Fucking over our procs and our aoes. They never do things by halves do they? They fix minor cracks with a fucking sledgehammer.

Druuna · 02-19-2009, 10:56 AM

so how big of a nerf to the aoe dmg did they do?

Ramone · 02-19-2009, 11:09 AM

I don't know, going to try and log in once I get updated. I want to see how much our spells took for a damage hit.

Fucking retards at Sony.

Kuja · 02-19-2009, 11:29 AM

Screens?

evilastro · 02-19-2009, 11:39 AM

They have wiped the test copys. Will have to wait til they put my new copy on test to see. I imagine the nerf to procs will hit us harder than the reducion in damage of our aoes. It annoys me that they cant do one step at a time, its big sweeping changes all the fucking time. Doesnt annoy me as much as ninja patches like fucking over Aura of the Crusader and Mana Leak though.

Satris · 02-19-2009, 03:23 PM

Just quickly glancing at my test copy before they brought the server down again this is what I saw so far:

Painful Aura: Initial dmg drops from approx. 813 to 778, ticks on encounter stay the same

Circle: Initial dmg drops from 805-1250 to 900-1000, ticks on encounter stay the same

Tap: Initial dmg drops from 2564 to 2371, heal stays the same

Doom: Initial dmg drops from 1467-2354 to 1426-1706, dispel stays the same

Again this was a quick glance of all Master 1 spells in Offensive stance with approx 989 Int on both live and test.

Demilitch · 02-19-2009, 04:59 PM

And the nerfs begin.

Pitty · 02-19-2009, 05:15 PM

Small nerf imo, it will be the proc changes that i'm worried about

Taktikal · 02-20-2009, 07:33 PM

All AoEs are supposably getting nerfed by 8-25%~ for SK, even higher for zerkers, And procs on top of that... DPS will be laughable for some, should be interesting to see.