Difficulty changes with last maintenance?

eldeskal

About an hour ago, my guild did a few SH dragons as an event.
Several guild members, myself included, noticed that we were being one-shotted by things that didn't do so before (for me, it was the wing-flap knock-back from the red dragon).

Then running edemo, I noticed that Cw's 'steal time' is not slowing demons during casting like usual.

Were there changes to affect difficulty introduced with the maintenance that turned on Waukeen/2xEnchants?

(My game has been running like HAMSTER since the maintenance lagging to a complete stand-still several times per day, so the latter may just have to do with server latency---but the one-shotting is inexplicable.)

[Edit: changed 'patch' to 'maintenance' in the title]

[Edit 2: just ran eToS, and took a 300k crit on "spider's bite" from Priestess of Syndreth...instagib with no chance to be revived. I've probably run eTOS 50 times and never seen anything like it.]

mamalion1234

i noticed something weird today in valindra( that dungeon had always latency).i have played my gf and with steel defence and without two days ago. i didnt take so much damage aggro and blocking monsters ( also help me i have and 60% and 20% deflect).today i changed to vanguard because i bored the steel defence mode and i noticed monsters hit me very hard even when i was blocking and using menace and lunging to max the damage resistance i pop up daily 6 times vs 15 monsters ( tactician). i dont know latency? something broke again? no clue.

beckylunatic

eldeskal said:

Were there changes to affect difficulty introduced with the maintenance that turned on Waukeen/2xEnchants?

Considering they didn't actually patch anything, no. Events that haven't had any changes to rewards or mechanics can be flipped on and off without patching them. This week was just a reset.

It could be related to poor performance, not actually getting a chance to see the hit that kills you or something.

mmm1001

It is all about lag. Sometimes after server restart game works differently - sometimes better sometimes worse. In few hours things will settle down to "normal" behavior.

Anyway playing game without lag is completely different experience. I was one of lucky players left on server after previous maintenance broke account server and new players were not able to join for 3 hours. Game works incredibly well with just 10% of typical players online. I never ever saw IWD without lag before and it was relay nice. Even in VT pulling 30 enemies at once was lagless.

hedgebet

My Jboots seem slower too...