Hello, fellow gamer and MMO enthustiast!
Right here come the biggest balancing patch since our Early Entry launch, focused at each PvE and PvP. This patch wasn’t deliberate, but it surely was sorely wanted as we noticed gold and divine reward era get uncontrolled ultimately recreation, with insane quantities of gold, orbs and recipes being generated day-after-day.
This had no injury on the economic system but because it’s been happening for a couple of days solely, however would have a significant influence in the long term. Furthermore, complaints about PvP balancing have been nonetheless widespread, so we wanted to deal with these as properly.
Is that this all? After all not, much more shall be dwell within the upcoming patch Endgame Changer, the primary main launch of the sport! For now nonetheless, this could shake the meta and alter the economic system. Due to this, we’ve reset the respec timer for all characters and respecs now have a cooldown of 1 day as an alternative of 1 week!
Learn on for all of the adjustments!
Legends & Monsters
That is essentially the most vital a part of the patch, and it’s all about PvE. We labored following these ideas:
- CR7-9 mobs and summonable legends ought to be tougher – the latter specifically are supposed to be run by teams, not solo.
- Final Legends ought to be the very best reward-giver, not Summonables. The world map now exhibits the kind of problem.
- Being Impartial on the human world ought to be rewarded, in any other case the world will stay largely break up between Evil PKs and Good gamers.
Right here come the adjustments intimately:
- Summonable legends now all deal extra injury and name monsters close by to assist them.
- Summonable Dragon legends now drop 2 Divine Reward, whereas Colossi drop 4 (as an alternative of 5 for each). It’s because the Colossi are a lot tougher to combat than Dragons. This shall be equalized once more as soon as we’ve given customized spells to Dragons.
- Ogres, Jotunns and different CR 7-9 creatures now additionally name monsters close by for assist, however at a smaller vary than legends.
- Gold and divine reward drops have been decreased far and wide, however significantly for CR 6-9 creatures since they already drop rewards way more highly effective than these of low-CR creatures.
- Be aware that gold drops haven’t been decreased equally: for instance, Jotunns drop 30% extra gold than Ogres and Skeletal Dragons drop 50% extra gold than different Dragons since each are a lot rarer and thus a lot slower to farm.
- Divine Reward drops at the moment are 25% increased for gamers of Impartial alignment on Aerhen (e.g. 8% turns into 10%).
- Respec cooldown briefly decreased from 7 days to 1 day.
Weapons & Armor
The adjustments listed here are equally focused at PvE and PvP balancing.
- Important injury bonus from Slayer Armor decreased from 50% to 25%, however now goes as much as 8 stacks (so the max remains to be 200%).
- Important likelihood bonus from Ranger Armor elevated from 2% to 4%, however now goes as much as 10 stacks as an alternative of fifty (so it reaches 40% max as an alternative of 100%). The goal right here is to make it extra helpful in PvP, the place it was completely ineffective, and nerf it for legend farming, the place it was OP.
- Harm bonus max from Hunter Armor decreased from 50% to twenty%. We’ll doubtless rework this set bonus totally sooner or later.
- The Handaxe now has a vital injury bonus of 60% as an alternative of 40%, whereas the Nice Axe has a bonus of 20% as an alternative of 40%. It is a non permanent change pending a deeper rework of the relation between completely different weapons and significant injury.
- Armor Encumbrance decreases injury (-30% at 100 Encumbrance, applies to assaults and talents of any kind) as an alternative of accelerating cooldowns.
- Supplies that scale back encumbrance and expertise now each scale back it by 20% as an alternative of 25%.
Bodily Skills
All these adjustments are PvP-related, apart from the final one.
- Whirlwind: cooldown decreased from 10s to 8s, can now not be Important.
- Heavy Blow: Cripple period elevated from 0.12 x STR to 0.15 x STR, injury bonus decreased from [8%-12%] x STR to [6%-9%] x STR.
- Deadly Strike: Unhealable period decreased from [0.18-0.27] x DEX to [0.16-0.24] x DEX, injury bonus decreased from [18-27] x DEX to [10-15] x DEX.
- Rend Armor: resistance debuff elevated from [1.2-1.8] x DEX to [1.6-2.4] x DEX, additional weapon injury decreased from [12-18] x DEX to [8-12] x DEX.
- Disrupting Strike: additional weapon injury decreased from [12-18] x DEX to [8-12] x DEX.
- Debilitating Strike: additional weapon injury decreased from [12-18] x DEX to [8-12] x DEX.
- Coronary heart Piercing Strike: mounted description.
- Puncturing Strike: now offers Pure injury as an alternative of ignoring a portion of the sufferer’s resistances, can now not be Important.
- Cleave Armor renamed to Strike Down. It’s nonetheless a assured vital and good points a vital injury bonus (stacks with PER), but it surely now not has armor discount, which doesn’t match Axe Combating thematically.
- Sharp Strike is now not a assured vital.
- The Bleed stacks utilized by all melee skills that used to stack with STR now stack with DEX. Be aware: Eviscerate will even be modified within the subsequent patch.
- Strike Wounds injury cap is now 30% decrease when used towards monsters.
Magical Skills
The adjustments listed here are goal at each PvE and PvP balancing. Adjustments to storm spells have been wanted in PvE, whereas the others are geared toward construct selection and PvP.
- Atrophy Wave, Thoughts Strike and Shimmering Sphere injury decreased from [16-24] x WIS to [12-18] x WIS. Furthermore, they will now not be Important.
- Life Drain period mounted at 5s as an alternative of 4s-6s, cooldown elevated from 7.5s to 10s, life stolen decreased from [8-12] x WIS to [4-8] x INT.
- Mana Drain period mounted at 5s as an alternative of 4s-6s, cooldown elevated from 7.5s to 10s, mana stolen now stacks with INT.
- Demise Circle injury, Bone Barrage injury and bleed, and the entire Skeletal Dragon Breath now stack with INT.
- Shatter Wards injury and Pierce Magic injury now stack with INT.
- Mage Armor bodily armor bonus lowered from 20 x WIS to [8-12] x WIS, however now stacks with bodily armor from different sources.
- Firestorm: injury decreased from [12-18] x INT to [10-15] x INT, variety of fireballs decreased from [0.4-0.6] x INT to 0.4 x INT.
- Hailstorm: now spawns the right variety of hail drops, however Chill stacks decreased from 1.8 x INT to 1.4 x INT, variety of hail drops decreased from [0.4-0.6] x INT to 0.32 x INT.
- Thunderstorm: variety of bolts decreased from [0.2-0.3] x INT to 0.2 x INT.
That is all for now. Keep tuned for the engame changer!
