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Are all adjustments to the Band of Air and Ring of Darkness done? What I mean, is there any point to give feedback in hopes of increasing it's effectiveness? Don't get me wrong, for some classes the balance is just about right, that using it or a stat ring, like the red eyes glare would make no difference on your damage. So I ask what's the point to have the Band of Air anymore?

BoA was the best thing to happen for Endgame players for a long time. We had something meaningful to actually bring us back to play each day to work towards, and now its.... RIP

So far, looking at my test results (on a Rogue, best class to proc it now), with the significant reduction to the proc chance, and its damage, it has become a very random damage source. I am reaching the conclusion that it is better to have a reliable damage bonus, like a stat ring instead. And that will be what I will be advising moving forward, if there is no hopes in change. No point using or trying to obtain the Band of Air.

Here are the bugfixes that should currently be live on Preview:

• Maelstrom of Chaos should now calculate its damage similar to other character powers.
  
• Maelstrom of Chaos should no longer decrease its critical damage the higher the character's Critical Avoidance stat.
  
• Storm Fury should no longer decrease its critical damage the higher the character's Critical Avoidance stat.
  
• Repel should now deal damage to control immune targets when used from the Spell Mastery slot.
  
• Fireball now gains a 10% bonus to damage when used in the Spell Mastery slot.
  
• Arcane Tempest now gains a 10% bonus to damage when used in the Spell Mastery slot.
  
• Arcane Conduit now gains a 10% bonus to damage when used in the Spell Mastery slot.
  
• Oppressive Force now correctly states that the magnitude in the Daze portion of the power as 375 magnitude. The Repel portion of the power now states 325 magnitude. Functionality did not change for this power.
  
• Arcane Power Field daily is now properly modified by the caster's stats.
  
• Chill Strike now receives the 10% bonus damage benefit from Spell Mastery when used from the Tab slot.
  
• Storm Spell now correctly deals reduced damage on non-crits.
  
• Shield spell now properly provides a 20% maxhp shield, and a 30% shield when used in the Tab slot. Previously both standard and Tab slots were providing only 20%.
  
• Shield now properly deals more damage on critical hits (from the AoE caused by reapplication).
  
• Fanning the Flame's AoE damage over time component is now properly increased by Spell Mastery.
  

This time around I had a couple of other people helping me, which was awesome (and gave me more time to think about the balance issues, not just the bugfixes). So if a couple of other devs pop into the this thread, that's why!

Enfeeblement only has a 6 seconds long effect, so it does not match the description for years now.

Ray STILL doesn't match the tooltip after the M6 fiasco.. we can change mechanics but not tooltips???????

These accusations are false.
The ROE icon disappearing is merely the DOT effect ending.

The +10% incoming magic/projectile damage debuff lasts for its stated 10 second duration and are indicated by these icons.


You can even verify this with working backwards on the ingame math.

Character Used:


Assuming a non critical, non CA, non deflect hit, with no sources of Defense reduction, the base effectiveness of a regular hit displayed in ACT would be 66.67% (mathematically: 2/3) due to enemy defense being 50% and applying to damage. If you apply only the 10% debuff from RoE applying the +10% Magic/Projectile Vulnerability up, you would have a displayed effectiveness of 73.33% (non deflect/non crit/non Combat Advantage* hits) or 50.4% (deflect hits for this character's stats**).

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Combat Log:



You can see with this combat log that I am getting hits of 73.33% or 50.4% effectiveness way after ROE's ticks have ended.

If you want to audit the time, check the time difference between hit with an effectiveness of 50.4% versus the last hit with an effectiveness of 50.4%.


The first hit with an effectiveness of 50.4 has a time of 13:42:07.3 (1:42 PM and 7.3 seconds).
The last hit with an effectiveness of 50.4 has a time of 13:42:16.4 (1:42 PM and 16.4 seconds).

The difference in time is 9.1 seconds, longer than the 6 second duration you guys claim it is.

I would say that also practically confirms the 10 second duration if you account for cast time delays for when the game forces you to stop casting Ray of Frost after holding it down for ~5 seconds.