that's mostly due to school though.
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Check out the big brain on OrangeBrand!
Anyone still playing this game?Seems alot of people already got bored.
I stopped playing after my free month until they get their shit in order and make Open RvR better than shitty scenarios and fix the problems with Magus abilities just not working at all.
But when I can get on, freaking loving it
edit: you get 100% more experience in open RVR situations, and they are fixing at least that lame engineer/magus ability. Because honestly that was pretty game breaking. To be fair though, it was pretty funny when paired up with the right skills (lol magus pull + dok morale 2 stun). Addy fucked around with this message on 10-25-2008 at 02:17 PM.
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I'm playing. Pretty enjoyable game still.edit: you get 100% more experience in open RVR situations, and they are fixing at least that lame engineer/magus ability. Because honestly that was pretty game breaking. To be fair though, it was pretty funny when paired up with the right skills (lol magus pull + dok morale 2 stun).
Except for the fact that without people to back it up, Chaotic Rift and Electro Magnet is just a 40% AoE Snare and Suicide.
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Except for the fact that without people to back it up, Chaotic Rift and Electro Magnet is just a 40% AoE Snare and Suicide.
At least from the Magi/Engineers I saw using it, not really.
Farmed it and got 3.
Sometimes the bags had 1 item, sometimes it had 2. I cant remember the PQ, but is south of the flight master in Dragonwake.
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Skaw wrote this stupid crap:
You really can't determine the strength of an ability based on a case where idiots were the victims then.
I've never seen a magus/engineer using it unless they have sorc/bw right next to drop PBAEs on the players. It was always pretty devastating unless those affected used a PBAE knockdown immediately after being pulled in and most don't seem to do so.
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I've never seen a magus/engineer using it unless they have sorc/bw right next to drop PBAEs on the players. It was always pretty devastating unless those affected used a PBAE knockdown immediately after being pulled in and most don't seem to do so.
And hence why it's a worthless ability when you're alone, and it's strength only shows when you actually have other people to use it with.
The only people that see it and electromagnet as overpowered are moronic PUGers. But hey, if coordination is considered overpowered, why bother playing a game thats about coordinated large scale battles? Skaw fucked around with this message on 10-26-2008 at 12:12 PM.
Being able to suck in the entire enemy team to one spot and then burn them all down with AoEs is not overpowered?
Even if you don't manage to wipe out their team, you're still going to do a fuckton of damage, and there's no other strategy that is nearly as effective as Rift/Magnet + AoE.
It takes a very slight amount of coordination and trivializes large fights. Saying it isn't overpowered is like Bright Wizards or Sorcerers claiming to not do too much damage.
Or that weapon procs are balanced. Willias fucked around with this message on 10-26-2008 at 02:17 PM.
If an engy/magus was using it solo, I'd say the engy/magus was retarded. Used in conjunction with other classes that can AoE, however, makes the ability ridiculously powerful.
When people start forming groups based around a single ability, something is fucked up.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Drifting Castle is a low pop server being moved to higher pop servers. Guess I'll move those characters to Ironfist.
Funny thing is, I also rolled up a Destro character on the Drakwald server, which is also getting transfers. Guess I'll be joining you gits on Azazel. Willias fucked around with this message on 11-05-2008 at 04:42 PM.
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Folks,Okay, heres the first part of the 1.05 patch from us. The 1.05 patch is the anxiously awaited Combat and Careers patch. As I mentioned already, it is over 17 pages long and still growing and it includes, among other things, adjustments to every career in the game. Some careers got a special shot of extra-loving goodness and some careers also got some tough love as well as some goodness as well. We hope to post the full patch notes tomorrow morning but as we continue to conduct a final review of all the preliminary changes and the notes themselves, it might be held up a bit longer, but I certainly hope not. It is, by far, the largest WAR patch yet and is by its very nature, full of far-reaching and sweeping changes. Here are some of the highlights of the patch.
1) We are pleased to announce the official opening of our Public Test Server. Similar to our Pendragon sever for DAoC, this server will be both open to all players but players will be able to copy (not transfer, your original character remains on its server) their existing characters over to this server at anytime. This server will get the latest, but not final, version of the game and feedback from this server will be used in making any further adjustments to the version. We encourage all players who want to help in the development process to give it a shot. More information on the PTS will be posted on the Herald.
2) Rally masters have been put at every Warcamp to make moving around the world a bit easier and faster. This is only the first part of some improvements we are making to the transportation system to cut down on the time that players have had to spend simply running back and forth between places. The next step will be to allow players to have multiple bind points.
3) Players should be able to use the morale button abilities more effectively now. In other words, the darn thing should work every time.
4) Many of the issues with spell/abilities animations not firing off/ending properly have been corrected. Hopefully we got all of the issues but only time will tell.
5) An additional gold bag will be generated when a keep or fortress is taken.
6) Morale abilities will now display their cooldowns correctly at all times. This is just one of many UI fixes.
7) The "Ability Not Ready" message will no longer display when the remaining cooldown on an ability is less than or equal to the full global cooldown.
8) Corrected an issue with the cooldown timers on the action bar buttons that was causing them to count down improperly. The timers will now count down in half-second increments beginning at 3 seconds remaining. See, I said there was more than 1 other UI fix. happy
9) Another warhammer to the head to those that try to AFK in scenarios and PQs.
10) All classes have had some abilities buffed and some abilities have been debuffed a bit. For example, the Squig Herder has gotten 30+ adjustments to its abilities. Out of those 30+ adjustments, the phase damage has been increased shows up about 80% of the time. As part of this update, the team has looked at every career in the game and made adjustments. Things such as Electromagnet, Fire Cage and snares/roots in general have drawn particular attention from the team and have had numerous changes/fixes made to them. Of course, where major changes have occurred to the careers a free re-training has been offered. Tomorrows notes will detail all of the changes and considering that the career changes are about 14 out of those 17+ pages, I think you can say that we made a whole lot of changes.
So, hopefully qill tomorrow's 1.05 patch notes will put an end to the Mythic doesnt respond, doesnt want to make changes threads eh? Nah! happy
Again, 1.05 is primarily the C&C patch, expect more other big patches coming as well over the next month or so. When you see the contents of the patch, I hope most of you, if not all of you, will see why we have been taking "baby steps" with C&C changes up to now.
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Greetings!The Public Test Server is coming soon, so in the meantime we wanted to provide you with instructions on how you can get onto the server as well as how to copy your characters and jump right into testing.
The purpose of the Public Test Server (PTS) is for the players to help us refine and test the latest version of the game by experiencing the changes firsthand and providing feedback and bug reports to Mythic. As such, we want to remind you that the content introduced to this server is still considered in development, and that bugs and issues not found on the LIVE server may occur on the PTS. All features and fixes listed below are subject to change until we release Game Update 1.0.5 to all live servers.
When leaving Feedback or Bug Reports we encourage you to provide details on why you feel the way you do or why you think something needs to be fixed. It's also important to note that when you submit a Bug Report, it automatically records your location in game so be sure to submit them at the location where you experienced them when you can!
To access the Public Test Server, locate the new patcher: testpatch.exe in your main Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning directory. This file will be automatically downloaded when the Public Test Server is opened.
Simply run the testpatch.exe file to start the patcher. Just like the live game, it will download everything automatically, just click play and you're good to go!
Creating a copy of your Live character to play on the Public Test Server is easy, too. Visit your Mythic Account Center, login, and click on the Character Transfer Button above your Game Account profiles. Then, follow the instructions to the Character Transfer Center. Once you are in the Character Transfer Center you will see three options at the bottom. Select "character copy" and then fill in the information on the next page to choose the character you wish to copy.
Once you have confirmed the copy you can view the status of the transfer as it is processed. Please note that you may be required to change the name of your character to avoid naming conflicts. If for any reason there is an error with your transfer, you can click on the "More Details" option to find out why the Character Copy was unsuccessful.
That's all it takes to jump into the action and test the latest bleeding edge updates before they come to a server near you!
And now, without further ado, we present to you the Public Test Server notes for Game Update 1.0.5...WAAAGH!!!
Highlights
* Each career has been reviewed, and we have made many changes to improve career balance and playability. Players who belong to one of the following careers will need to speak to their trainers in order to re-train their Career Mastery abilities:
o Black Orc
o Bright Wizard
o Chosen
o Engineer
o Ironbreaker
o Magus
o Shadow Warrior
o Sorcerer
o Squig Herder
o Swordmaster* Players who go AFK while in Public Quest areas or during keep sieges will no longer receive contribution credit towards those encounters.
* Players are now able to set their rally points in warcamps.
* Fixes have been made to issues which were causing guild promotion and demotion not to work properly.
* Several issues have been addressed that previously allowed players to get to locations they were not supposed to be able to reach.
* Morale abilities will now be much more responsive. These abilities will now fire immediately when activated by the player on the first attempt.
* Morale abilities will now display their cooldowns correctly at all times.
* Root effects, with the exception of morale roots, will now grant a 5 second immunity from all roots to the victim when the effect breaks, and in addition will no longer stack with other roots.
* Root effects will now properly have a chance to break whenever a player takes ANY damage. This includes individual tics of Damage over Time spells.
* To promote population balance among the various scenarios, we have added a feature that reduces the number of times a scenario can launch in a short period of time. This will give scenarios which are launched less frequently an opportunity to catch up in the queue population and launch more often.
* Improvements have been made to auto-attack animations. Players will now see smoother, more consistent weapon swaps when players change from ranged to melee auto-attacks, and vice-versa.
* The responsiveness of ability activations has been improved. Players will now see less of a delay between the activation of an ability and the corresponding animation.
General Changes and Bug Fixes:
* There were some instances in which the reticule for ground-target-area-effects was allowing these spells to be cast in areas which were not originally intended. This has been adjusted.
* Several issues have been addressed that previously allowed players to get to locations they were not supposed to be able to reach.
Combat and Careers
General
* Tactics gained from Tome Unlocks have been renamed.
* Damage over Time abilities: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of these abilities has been made consistent across the board. This generally resulted in an increase in damage, but some abilities have also been brought down. Individual abilities are noted under each careers section.* Unstoppable: Knockdowns will now be listed on all tooltips for this ability when applicable.
* Point Blank will now correctly ignore Knockback and Knockdown immunity, as well as not trigger it.
* Fixed assorted issues in which certain movement reductions/increases would stack, slowing or speeding targets more than intended. This also addresses cases in which snared players would find themselves essentially rooted when in lava.
* Image Changing Rewards: A players illusion will now break upon using an ability in addition to breaking on damage.
* Alter Fate: Tooltip should now display the correct values.
* Misdirection: This ability should now play an effect on the caster while the ability is active, and play a brief effect on anyone damage by the effect.
* Rampaging Siphon: Morale should now heal the group for each target hit, instead of only once.* Frenzied Slaughter, Force of Will, and Relentless Assault: These abilities will now play an effect when used.
* Relentless Assault: This ability will no longer remove snares and roots.
* Divine Protection should now list the amount of damage absorbed in the tooltip.Renown Rewards
* Mission Focused: This tactic should now provide the correct bonus while fighting around objectives.
* Spiritual Refreshment: This ability should now show its bonus correctly in the Character Window.
Archmage* Prismatic shield: This ability will no longer fail if your defensive target is not a group member.
* Transfer Force: The damage of this ability has been increased.
* Hurried Restore: This tactic will now stun the caster when the resurrection spell is cast, instead of when it is accepted.
* Healing Energy: Contribution from stats has been reduced to bring the ability in line with our design goals.
* Drain Magic: This ability will now increase in potency with High Magic.
* Balanced Mending: The HoT portion of Healing Energy will now benefit from this tactic.
* Radiant Lance: This ability will now reliably consume high magic.
* Law of Conductivity: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Radiant Gaze: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Transfer Force: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Dissipating Energies: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased slightly to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Scatter the Winds: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased slightly to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Lambent Aura: Duration has been increased to 24 seconds, amount healed over this duration remains the same.
Black Orc* All Black Orcs have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
* All War Bellows will now persist through the Black Orc's death. This means that you will not have to recast a War Bellow after respawning or being resurrected.
* Trip Em Up: The snare from this ability will no longer stack with other snares. Also, the damage has been reduced but no longer occurs over time. The AP cost has increased and the reuse timer has been removed.
* Da Big Un: The damage of this spell has increased, and its radius reduced.
* Skull Thumper: This ability now adds an effect that deals additional damage to the target whenever they are critically hit.
* Right in da Jibblies: The reuse timer of this ability has been lowered.
* Follow me Lead: The Toughness buff given to the defensive target should now work correctly.
* Juggernaut: This ability is now available at rank 12.
* Guard: This ability should no longer attempt to work on players outside of your group.
* Rock 'Ard: This ability now starts a Plan chain.
Bright Wizard* All Bright Wizards have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
* Flame Breath: Affected targets will now properly receive a debuff icon.
* Explosive Force: The damage done to the targets around the caster is now defendable.
* Fiery Blast: The tooltip now displays the correct damage and radius. In addition, this ability now builds the correct amount of combustion.
* Scorched Earth: This ability now builds 10 combustion.* Playing with Fire: The damage from this ability is only triggered when the affected player casts a direct heal and cannot do critical damage.
* Detonate: Fixed a bug in which this ability was receiving double stat contribution on the direct damage portion of the ability.
* Combustion will no longer start to fade away if you continue casting spells after hitting 100.
* Fire Cage: This abilitys cost has been decreased, the cooldown has been increased and the ability is now available at rank 12.
* Pyroclastic Surge: This ability is now available at rank 10.
* Scorched Earth: The ability should now have the correct cooldown.
* Ignite: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Boiling Blood: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Detonate: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Flame Breath: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Spreading Flames: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Backdraft: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Chosen
* All Chosen have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
* Suppression: The parry buff from this ability should no longer stack with itself.
* Mixed Defenses: The tooltip for this ability should now display proper values.
* Juggernaut: This ability is now available at rank 12.
* Guard: This ability should no longer attempt to work on players outside of your group.
* Seeping Wound: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Disciple
* All Covenants will now persist through the Disciple's death. This means that you will not have to recast a Covenant after respawning or being resurrected.
* Covenant of Tenacity: Fixed a bug that made the radius of this ability much too small.
* Covenant of Vitality: Fixed a bug that caused the healing portion of the lifetap to always heal the Disciple, instead of the player who procced the damage.
* Covenant of Vitality: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Consume Essence: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Transfer Essence: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Restore Essence: The stat contribution has been fixed. This ability was previously receiving more stat benefits than intended.
* Bloodthirst: The snare component for this ability has been removed, and damage has been increased.
* Lacerate: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Fell Sacrifice: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Soul Infusion: The duration of this ability has been increased to 24 seconds, and the overall amount healed over this duration remains the same.
Engineer* All Engineers have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
* Flak Jacket: Magic Damage will no longer reduce Armor counters.
* Steam Vent: Newly created Engineers will no longer show this ability as being trainable at Ranks 15 and 21.
* Gun Blast: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Field Repair: Cost, range and cooldown increased, now instantly restores health instead of being a channel.
* Incendiary Rounds: The damage and cost of this ability have increased.
* Friction Burn: The damage and cost of this ability have increased.
* Fragmentation Grenade: The damage and cost of this ability have increased.* Signal Flare: The damage and cost of this ability has increased, and its reuse reduced.
* Penetrating Round: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Focus Fire: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Firebomb: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Self Destruct: This ability has had its cost removed, the reuse timer has been increased significantly, and now deals damage in addition to knocking down.
* All Turrets: Gun, Flame and Bombardment Turrets have had their cost greatly reduced and their auto attack damage greatly increased. In addition they are now core abilities and will match the level of the players rank when summoned.
* Pet Ability - Penetrating Round: Damage Increased, now considered a Path of the Rifleman ability.
* Pet Ability - Machine Gun: Now considered a Path of the Rifleman ability.
* Pet Ability - High Explosive Grenade: Damage and build time increased, reuse reduced, now considered a Path of the Grenadier ability.
* Pet Ability - Shock Grenade: Damage and reuse increased, build time reduced, now considered a Path of the Grenadier ability.
* Pet Ability - Flamethrower: Now considered a Path of the Tinkerer ability.
* Pet Ability Steam Vent: Now considered a Path of the Tinkerer ability.
* Electromagnet: This ability has undergone significant changes. The cost of the ability has been significantly reduce while the cooldown has been increased. In addition the build time has been increased,the ability can no longer be cast on the move, and the maximum number of targets affected by this ability has been decreased and it can now be defended against. Lastly this ability will grant immunity to knockback effects.
* Barbed Wire: This abilities cost has been decreased, the cooldown has been increased and the ability is now available at rank 12.
* Hip Shot: This ability is now available at rank 10.
* Friction Burn: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Acid Bomb: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Incendiary Rounds: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Fragmentation Grenade: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Signal Flare: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Phosphorous Shells: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Sticky Bomb: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Napalm Grenade: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Lightning Rod: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Blunderbuss Blast: This ability now has the correct cooldown.
* Fragmentation Grenade: This ability now does the correct amount of damage.
Ironbreaker* All Ironbreakers have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
* Shield of Reprisal: This ability will no longer knock down Unstoppable targets.
* Guarded Attack: This abilitys Oathfriend buff will no longer stack with other,
more powerful Armor buffs.* Punishing Knock: Targets will now actually fall down after being hit by this ability.
* Avenging the Debt: This abilitys damage has been increased.
* The rate in which Grudge is lost has been changed. Grudge will now start decaying 10 seconds after you stop building Grudge. It will decay at 10 Grudge every second.
* Oath Friend: The rate in which Grudge is generated has been changed. If the Ironbreaker is at 0-30 Grudge, the Ironbreaker will gain 5 Grudges every time the Oath Friend is attacked. If the Ironbreaker is at 31-60 Grudge, the Ironbreaker will gain 3 Grudges every time the Oath Friend is attacked. If the Ironbreaker is at 61-100 Grudge, the Ironbreaker will gain 1 Grudge every time the Oath Friend is attacked.
* Oath Friend: The cooldown for this ability has been changed to 1.5 seconds.
* Juggernaut: This ability is now available at Rank 12.
* Guard: This ability should no longer attempt to work on players outside of your group.
* Binding Grudge: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Stone Breaker: This ability will no longer be considered a Blessing.* Inspiring Attack: The Strength and Willpower bonus from Inspiring Attack will no longer stack with the bonuses from other Ironbreakers. Players will only receive whichever bonus is most powerful.
* Ironbreakers may now use Hammers.
Magus* All Magus have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
* Daemonic Armor: Magic Damage will no longer reduce Armor counters.
* Summon Blue Horror: Opponents must now be close to the Blue horror to melee it.
* Wither Soul: The ability tooltip has been corrected and no longer gives the false impression that % debuff was scaling.
* Warping Blast, Dissolving Mist: These abilities now display the correct icon.
* Infernal Blast: The damage and cost of this ability has increased.
* Baleful Transmogrification: The damage and cost of this ability has increased.
* Pandemonium: The damage and cost of this ability has increased.
* Wither Soul: The damage and cost of this ability has increased.
* Rend Winds: The damage and cost of this ability has increased.
* Strengthen Thrall: This abilitys cost, range and cooldown timer have been increased. In addition, it now instantly restores health instead of being a channeled ability.
* Instability: The cost of this ability has been removed, its reuse timer has been increased significantly, and it now knocks down the target instead of draining Action Points.
* Flamer, Blue Horror, and Pink Horror of Tzeentch: These abilities have had their cost greatly reduced and their auto attack damage greatly increased. In addition, they are now core abilities and the demons will match the level of the players rank when summoned.
* Pet Ability - Flames of Change: Reuse time reduced, now considered a Path of Changing ability.
* Pet Ability - Flame of Tzeentch: Reuse time and channel duration reduced, damage increased, now considered a Path of Changing ability.
* Pet Ability - Coruscating Energy: Damage reduced, now considered a Path of Daemonology ability.
* Pet Ability - Warping Energy: Now considered a Path of Daemonology ability.
* Pet Ability Daemonic - Consumption: Build time increased, now considered a Path of Havoc ability.
* Pet Ability - Daemonic Fire: Build time and damage increased, now considered a Path of Havoc ability.
* Chaotic Rift: This ability has undergone significant changes. The cost of the ability has been significantly reduced and its cooldown has been increased. In addition, the build time has been increased. The ability can no longer be cast on the move, the maximum number of targets affected by this ability has been decreased, and it can now be defended against. Lastly, this ability will also grant immunity to knockback effects.
* Tzeentch's Grasp: The cost has been decreased, the cooldown has been increased and the ability is now available at rank 12.
* Move Surging Violet Fire: This ability is now available at at rank 10.
* Infernal Blast: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Glean Magic: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Baleful Transmogrification: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Pandemonium: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Withered Soul: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Mutating Blue Fire: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Seed of Chaos: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Dissolving Mist: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Agonizing Torrent: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Demonic Consumption: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Flames of Change: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Marauder* Tainted Claw: This ability will now be increased in duration by Ailments, not Cripples.
* Rend: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Wave of Mutilation: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.* Deadly Clutch: The Value of this debuff has been reduced to 50%. In addition, 25% of the value the target is healed for (after debuff) also affects the Marauder.
Rune Priest* Blessing of Valaya: This ability will no longer fail to cast if you dont have line of sight to your defensive target.
* Rune of Fortune: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Rune of Fate: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Rune of Mending: Stat contribution fixed. This ability was previously receiving more stat benefits than intended.
* Oath Rune of Sanctuary: This ability will now be affected by the anti-resurrection aura.
* Rune of Immolation: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Rune of Cleaving: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Spellbinding Rune: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Rune of Fate: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Rune of Battle: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Rune of Warding: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Rune of Iron: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Oath Rune of Power: Now also increases the targets Ballistic Skill.
* Rune Of Regeneration: The duration of this ability has been increased to 24 seconds, and the overall amount healed over this duration remains the same.
Shadow Warrior
* All Shadow Warriors have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
* Festering Arrow: The hotkey for this ability will no longer light up when in Assault Stance.
* Hunters Fervor: The radius has been increased to match similar group based effects.
* Acid Arrow: Buff Icon will now state the actual number that the armor is debuffed, instead of percent.
* All stance abilities will now persist through death.
* Skirmish Stance: The buff granted to the Shadow Warrior when in Skirmish Stance will now allow ranged autoattack to fire while moving.
* Vengeance of the Nagarythe: The cooldown of this ability has been reduced.
* Assault Stance: This ability has been given an added benefit. While the Shadow Warrior is in Assault stance, all +Balistic Skill benefits provided by items will be considered +Strength as well.
* Broadhead Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Acid Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Takedown: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Spiral Fletched Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Flame Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Rapid Fire: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Eye Shot: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Throat Shot: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Glass Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Festering Arrow: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Fell the Weak: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Shadow Sting: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Flanking Shot: The damage of this ability has increased.* Whirling Pin: The cost of this ability has decreased, the cooldown has increased, and the ability is now available at rank 12.
* Vengeance of Nagarythe: This ability is now available at rank 10.
* Broadhead Arrow: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Draw Blood: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Flame Arrow: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Glass Arrow: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Shadow Sting: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Shaman* Gorkll Fix It: The buff icon for this ability will now state that the ability is healing you, instead of damaging you.
* Greener n Cleaner: This abilty will now properly remove effects from allies.
* Ere We Go!: The tooltip for this ability will now list the duration of the effect.
* Bleed fer Me: : The damage of this ability has increased.* Dat Makes Me Dizzy: This tactic will now stun the caster when the resurrect is cast, instead of when it is accepted. In addition, when this tactic is equipped, Shrug it Off will now work properly.
* Gorkll Fix It: The stat contribution for this ability has been fixed. This was previously receiving more stat benefits than intended.
* Life Leaka: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Bleed Fer me: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Ere We Goes Again: Duration of Ere We Go will no longer be reduced with this tactic equipped.
* Brain Bursta: This ability will now reliably consume Waaagh!
* Shrug it Off: This ability will no longer work in anti-resurrect areas.
* 'Ey, Quit Bleedin': The duration of this ability has been increased to 24 seconds, and the overall amount healed over this duration remains the same.
Sorcerer* All Sorcerers have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
* Surging Pain: This ability now builds 10 combustion.
* Triumphant Blasting: Players knocked back by this ability will now correctly be provided knockback immunity.
* Grip of Fear: The cost of this abiltiy has decreased, the cooldown has increased, and the ability is now available at rank 12.
* Arctic Blast: This ability is now available at rank 10.
* Piercing Shadows: The damage done to targets around the caster is now defendable.
* Chillwind: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Word of Pain: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Ice Spikes: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Gloom of Night: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Absorb Vitality: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Squig Herder* All Squig Herders have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
* Ard Noggin: The cooldown for this ability has been removed.
* Sneaky Stabbin: The tooltip for this ability is now correct.
* Spiked Squig: The buff granted to the Squig Herder when a Spiked Squig is summoned will now allow ranged autoattack to fire while moving.
* What Blocka?: This ability is now defendable, and now reduces the targets armor and block chance.
* Plink: The Action Point cost and damage for this ability have been increased.
* Stabbity: The Action Point cost and damage for this ability have been increased.
* Run n Shoot: The Action Point cost for this ability has been reduced.
* Squig Armor: While in Squig Armor, the Squig Herders Ballistic Skill from items is now converted into Strength.
* Ard Noggin: The damage of this ability has increased.
* All pets will now summon at the same level as the Squig Herders rank.
* Pet Ability Poisoned Spine: This ability now fires properly and its damage has been increased.
* Pet Ability Goop Shootin: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Yer Bleedin: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Stop Runnin!: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Run n Shoot: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Explodin Arrer: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Lots o Arrers: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Not So Fast!: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Choking Arrer: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Finish Em Off: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Shrapnel Arrer: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Rotten Arrer: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Behind Ya!: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Sticky Squigz: The cost has been decreased, the cooldown has been increased and the ability is now available at rank 12.
* Squig Frenzy: This ability is now available at rank 10.
* Yer Bleedin' : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Cut Ya : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Explodin Arrer : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Big Claw : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Shrapnel Arrer : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Rotten Arrer : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Gore : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Poisoned Spine : The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Swordmaster
* All Swordmasters have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities! All Blade Enchants will now persist through the Swordmaster's death. This means that you will not have to recast an Enchant after respawning or being resurrected.
* Heaven's Blade: This ability now reduces resists by the correct amount and will display as a debuff.
* Graceful Strike: Fixed a bug in which this ability was receiving double stat contribution on the direct damage portion of the ability.
* Nature's Blade: The proc from this ability now has new art for its area effect.
* Gusting Wind: The cost of this ability has been decreased, it has been changed to a Perfect Balance attack, and it now deals spirit damage.
* Quick Incision: The cost has of this ability been increased, its cooldown timer has been removed, and its damage has been changed to apply instantly instead of over time.
* Wrath of Hoeth: The cost of this abilty has been increased, it has been changed to an Improved Balance attack, and its radius has decreased.
* Blurring Shock: This ability now applies an effect on the target for the next 10s: whenever they are critically hit they take additional damage.
* Phoenix Wing: This ability no longer adds additional hate. Its damage has been increased, and its radius has been increased.
* Crushing Advance: The damage of this abilty has increased, its reuse has increased, and this ability now adds 10% to the Swordmasters block instead of increasing the current value by 10%.
* Protection of Hoeth: This abilty has been changed to an Open Balance attack, its reuse has been decreased, and its absorb effect has been decreased.
* Juggernaut: This ability is now available at rank 12.
* Guard: This ability should no longer attempt to work on players outside of the Swordmasters group.
* Graceful Strike: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Warrior Priest
* All Auras will now persist through the Warrior Priest's death. This means that the Warrior Priest will not have to recast an Aura after respawning or being resurrected.
* Prayer of Absolution: Fixed a bug that made the actual range much shorter than the range listed in the tooltip. The range has been increased to match the tooltip value.
* Soulfire: This abilitys tooltip will now state that the effect is a Curse, instead of a Cripple.
* Divine Strike: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Sigmars Radiance: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Prayer of Righteousness: The buff window tooltip for this ability will now display correctly.
* Divine Aid: The stat contribution for this ability has been fixed. This was previously receiving more stat benefits than intended.
* Prayer of Devotion: The health gained when this ability triggers has increased.
* Castigation: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Healing Hand: The duration of this ability has been increased to 24 seconds, and the overall amount healed over this duration remains the same.
White Lion* All Training buffs now persist through the White Lion's death. This means that the White Lion will not have to recast a Training after respawning or being resurrected.
* Blindside: Fixed a bug in which this ability was receiving double stat contribution on the direct damage portion of the ability.
* Pet ability Gut Ripper: Fixed a bug in which this ability was receiving double stat contribution on the direct damage portion of the ability.
* Cleave Limb: This ability now snares the target for 10-seconds. The ability no longer reduces auto attack speed.
* Pet Ability Bite: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Pet Ability Claw Sweep: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Pet Ability Shred: The damage of this ability has increased.* Pet Ability Leg Tear: The duration has decreased on the Damage over Time aspect of this ability.
* Pet Ability Fang and Claw: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Pet Ability Maul: The damage of this ability has decreased and its reuse timer has been decreased.
* Pet Ability Gut Ripper: This abilitys reuse timer is now 20 seconds.
* The White Lion pets auto attack damage has been given a substantial increase.
* Pack Assault: Fixed a bug that prevented the initial damage of this ability from being displayed to the player.
* Blindside: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Shattering Blow: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Echoing Roar: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Leg Tear: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Gut Rip: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
Witch Elf
* All Kisses now persist through the Witch Elf's death. This means that the Witch Elf will not have to recast a Kiss after respawning or being resurrected.
* Envenomed Blade: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Wracking Pains: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Elixir of Insane Power: The benefit of this ability has been reduced. The Witch Elfs attacks will now ignore 50% of her targets armor.
Witch Hunter* All Witch Hunters have undergone significant changes and will need to reallocate their career mastery points as a result. Be sure to speak to your trainer right away to regain your abilities!
* Repel Blasphemy: This self-buff is now right click removable.
* Blessed Bullets of Cleansings: The damage of this ability has increased and the amount of Action Points stolen has been increased. This ability is now available at rank 35.
* Blessed Bullets of Confession: The damage of this ability has increased, and this ability is now available at rank 9.
* Blessed Bullets of Purity: The damage of this ability has increased, and this ability is now available at rank 4.
* All Bullets now persist through the Witch Hunter's death. This means that the Witch Hunter will not have to recast a Bullet after respawning or being resurrected.
* Sanctified Bullets: This tactic has been adjusted so that Blessed Bullets of Purity will now heal for 50% of the damage they cause.
* Fervor: Fixed a bug in which this ability was receiving double stat contribution on the direct damage portion of the ability.
* Sweeping Strikes: This tactic will now correctly affect two other targets.
* Emperors Commendation: This ability now triggers off of from-stealth openers.
* Fervor: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.* Burn, Heretic!: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Burn Away Lies: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Seal of Destruction: The Witch Hunters attacks will now ignore 50% of his or her targets armor.
Zealot
* Endless Gifts: This ability will no longer affect Winds of Insanity.
* Boon of Tzeentch: The damage of this ability has increased.
* Dark Medicine: The stat contribution for this ability has been fixed; it was previously receiving more stat benefits than intended.
* Manipulation: This ability will no longer trigger if the target of the heal is already at full health.
* Mark of Remaking: This ability will now be affected by the anti-resurrection aura.
* Warp Reality: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Demon Spittle: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been decreased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Tzeentch's Lash: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been slightly increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Wind of Insanity: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Vortex: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.
* Spell Destroyer: The amount that stats contribute to the damage of this ability has been increased to make it consistent with other damage over time abilities.* Mark of Daemonic Fury: This ability now also increases the targets Ballistic Skill.
* Tzeentch's Cordial: The duration of this ability has been increased to 24 seconds, and the overall amount healed over this duration remains the same.
Content* Common monster disable abilities will now be gated by monster rank and tier. Players will notice fewer disable abilities from common monsters at the lower ranks of play.
* Non-humanoid monsters will no longer hit for 50%+ of players health on critical hits.
Items
* An issue has been fixed that was causing the buff icon on various marketing rewards not to display correctly.
* Book of Boom: You can no longer be knocked back while under the effects of the Book of Boom.
* Numerous bugs have been corrected relating to Weapon and Armor effect procs. These should now display correctly and fire more reliably.
* Opponents may no longer right click item effects to remove them from themselves, and the Boost, Blades, Barrier and Barricade effects will now proc far more reliably.
* Fixed a bug that was causing weapons and armor not to display their proc effects in the item display.
* Numerous bugs have been corrected relating to Weapon and Armor effect procs. These will now display correctly and fire more reliably.
* Opponents can no longer right-click unfriendly item effects to remove them from themselves, and the Boost, Blades, Barrier and Barricade effects will now proc far more reliably.
* Image Changing Rewards: A players illusion will now break upon using an ability in addition to breaking on damage.
* All Dwarf spanner items in the game are now set to be useable by Engineers only.
* All Dwarf great hammer items in the game are now set to be useable by Iron Breakers only.
* All Empire rapier items in the game are now set to be useable by Witch Hunters only.
* Tooltips on armor set pieces will now display information relevant to the that set's bonuses.
* When conquered, Keeps and Fortresses will now offer one or more guaranteed gold loot bags as part of the chest loot.
** Standards: All references to banners should now be removed. All text now refers to standards.
* In addition to reducing the amount of damage received from high-level encounter NPCs, each Ward on high-level armor set pieces worn will now affect the amount of damage players are able to do to those NPCs. Players not wearing any pieces of the appropriate armor set will see their damage greatly reduced. For each piece of the appropriate armor a player wears, their damage against the boss monster will increase.
Realm vs. Realm
* Fixed an issue which was causing the Martyr's Square battlefield objective not to issue renown properly.
* Fixed an issue with the postern door of the Ghrond's Sacristy keep which was preventing players from being able to enter the keep through the door.
* A time delay has been added to the preliminary spawns of flags and murderballs in several scenarios. This change was made in order to ensure that both sides have a chance to run to the spawn location of the flag or murderball at the start of the match, and battle for control of the area even before the object has spawned. The affected scenarios include the following:
o Mourkain Temple
o Stone Troll Crossing
o Tor Anroc
o Howling Gorge
o Talabec Dam
o Serpent's Passage* The interact timer for planting the bomb in the Howling Gorge and Talabec Dam scenarios has been lowered to 2 seconds.
User Interface
* The "Ability Not Ready" message will no longer display when the remaining cooldown on an ability is less than or equal to the full global cooldown.
* Corrected an issue with the cooldown timers on the action bar buttons that was causing them to count down improperly. The timers will now count down in half-second increments beginning at 3 seconds remaining.
* Characters will no longer have all of their currently-active cooldown timers reset when they are granted new abilities.
* Morale abilities will now display their cooldowns correctly at all times.
* Fixed the tooltip display for the first custom guild rank slot.
* Kicking a player from a guild now properly deactivates the guild and alliance tabs for that player.
* Guild members may now be promoted to the first customized guild rank slot.
* Fixed an issue in which guild and alliance roster sub-tabs appeared on the screen if the player joined a new guild after having left a guild with the Guild Roster tab as the last Guild Window viewed.
* Guild titles will now sort by rank rather than alphabetically.
* Players who have not been given permission to kick members from their guild will no longer be presented with the option to do so.
* Fixed an issue in which the guild roster was not updating properly when 'Hide Offline' was checked.
** Guild Leaders, Officers and anyone with appropriate permissions can once again use the guild window context menus to promote and demote members.
* Locking the chat window will now persist upon logging out.
* Fixed an issue with the targeting system that could be used by players to gain an unfair advantage. Targeting of friendly players will now work in the same way as using abilities. Players must either use a keyboard key or click with the mouse to acquire a friendly target. To target a monster or NPC, players must click on the target in the world or /assist a friendly player. Players using our default user interface should see no change as a result of this fix.
Some of those classes that are being forced to respec don't seem to be getting very many changes.
edit: tried to make things easier to read Willias fucked around with this message on 11-06-2008 at 03:47 PM.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
No indication that tanks will be any better. Not resubbing.
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Mr. Parcelan probably says this to all the girls:
Eh.No indication that tanks will be any better. Not resubbing.
It's like they're oblivious to the RDPS domination currently going on. I guess they think that tanks are still necessary to complete PvE, and therefore, are okay.
I mean, why the hell are tank classes getting respecs? There's almost no changes for most of them.
And what the fuck is up with the Ironbreaker nerf? Grudge buildup was fine, Grudge scaling on 2 attacks was not. So they nerf the mechanic. :V
Also, increasing Bright Wizard DoT damage in addition to fixing DoT stat bonus effects seems like a really big mistake. They were already too strong to begin with.
Grats on making roots breakable on DoT ticks, too. They effectively made them completely pointless. Might as well remove them from the game now. What class with DoTs isn't going to use them? What are they going to do when the shit hits the fan now? Skaw fucked around with this message on 11-06-2008 at 05:39 PM.
Some of the changes are boneheaded and it also doesn't seem like they're all there.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent OrangeBrand said:
Roots would break on damage in any game.. They worked that way in EQ and they work that way here. Don't be so dramatic and say "remove from game" Just dont attack what you are rooting, Simple as that.
Breaking on the application of a DoT, I'm fine with. The actual effect though is just way too retarded, especially considering the sheer amount of AoE DoT effects in the game. Some of them last 20 seconds or more as well. You're never going to know when you're going to need to root, and holding back your attacks because of this is stupid. You have to remember that there are entire mastery paths dedicated to DoTs.
This change also means one DoT has a significantly higher chance of breaking a root than a normal attack.
A DoT that ticks once every second over 3 seconds has an 85% chance of having a root break, while a spell that takes 3 seconds to cast still only has the normal 50%, and obviously does significantly more damage within that time frame. Skaw fucked around with this message on 11-06-2008 at 06:29 PM.
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Skaw had this to say about Duck Tales:
What are they going to do when the shit hits the fan now?
Die like you're supposed to
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Verily, nem-x doth proclaim:
Die like you're supposed to
Maybe instead of rendering roots pointless, they should make root breaks useful.
Grindtastic.
