Power Changes Coming to Neverwinter

strumslinger

Later this afternoon, the Cryptic team will be pushing an update to our test server that will include several changes to class powers and the Lostmauth Artifact set. We’ll have a full forum post up in our test server forums that will detail fully the changes that are coming to several class powers and the gear set.

Remember, this is only the FIRST set of changes. We need to do balancing little by little instead of in one fell swoop.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9895123-power-changes-coming-to-neverwinter

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strumslinger

Completely real, guys.

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rhadamathys

Can u link to the official thread and not just the default forum overview?

regenerde

No offense, but i'm going with April Fool’s joke, and not just because of the date of today.

Power changes... ok, that might really happen at some point in the far future.
But any change to the Lostmauth set... that is just unbelievable after all the threads with and without polls about it.
And improvements coming to the horrendous level 60-70 grind, while the XP boosters are still in the ZEN shop... yeah, right.

Last but not least, there is no winning in this one here...
one way or another, you will end up with an angry mob on your hands.

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zibadawa

Agreed with rhadamathys. It feels like details are intentionally trying to be hidden by not providing clear, direct links to the information.

I also know that any time I see an announcement post with that image it means "HAMSTER meets fan in 3...2...1...". The faces just clearly say "WTF is this?!"

I am otherwise optimistically interested in whatever these EE changes are, and worried about how much time and AD the lostmauth changes will end up costing me as I may have to regear three slots on multiple characters (and I'd have to wait for double refinement to do it, no less).

bitt3rnightmar3

... Are we going to have to redo EE on ALL our toons now for some campaign?

kvet

bitt3rnightmar3 said:

... Are we going to have to redo EE on ALL our toons now for some campaign?

ugh. i hope not

strumslinger

The specific threads will be posted on Preview sometime later today.

zibadawa

defiantone99 said:

Well lets hope everyone does not delete the LM set like they did characters last April Fools. lol

Haha. Using "we're fixing two of the biggest gameplay issues in Neverwinter" as a joke would be pretty cruel, don't you think? I mean, we like to talk about Cryptic being incompetent, but they're not malicious, right?

*looks at the t-bar store*

On second thought...

zekethesinner

Yeah lets nerf elol set while BI set is dealing 2k dmg in total over whole Phantasmal Fortress,

@strumslinger do u rly think its step in right direction? I dont think so... maybe boost all other pathetic sets?

For once do something clever there.

(Sin)cerely
Kain

mrvincent1959

DCs, get ready for your semi-annual nerfs!

zibadawa

zekethesinner said:

Yeah lets nerf elol set while BI set is dealing 2k dmg in total over whole Phantasmal Fortress,

@strumslinger do u rly think its step in right direction? I dont think so... maybe boost all other pathetic sets?

For once do something clever there.

(Sin)cerely
Kain

I assumed BI was designed for PvP. Piercing damage is awesome there, and just about everything else about IWD has always fed into its derelict PvP feature.

commanderander

bitt3rnightmar3 said:

... Are we going to have to redo EE on ALL our toons now for some campaign?

I'll answer this to allay any concerns. Our goal with the EE campaign from the very start was to have it reward players who have made progress in the existing zones, i.e. if you've already completed Spinward Rise, then you'll have completed all the Spinward Rise tasks in the campaign.

We'll have more details to come about how this works.

gankdalf

If this is in fact a aprils foold joke, its a cruel one :P

zibadawa

ejziponken said:

If this is in fact a aprils foold joke, its a cruel one :P

I dunno, already three responses from cryptic employees, including a dev? They've already exceeded the maximum amount of communication with the playerbase that they allow in any month with that alone. Pretty suspicious.

aimeesellers

*giggles and polishes her Valindra's Artifact Set* Oh... oh I am go glad I never changed to the LM set...

blag001

If it's true and you're doing any power/balance change based on PvP complains posts, congratz, you just screwed the game.

setill

How about fixing bugs before trying to implement more bugs ? Asking because we know how you guys work now.

arabatur

It's funny how that even with @commanderander confirming the blog post, most people are still highly sceptical. And with Cryptic's history of questionable "game improvements" it would seem only prudent to continue with this scepticism.

rondy44

Put a Cooldown on sets, boons, buffs. This the only thing the game needs to balance.

CD it's the solution. CD it's the solution. CD it's the solution.

torontodave

heh..

May 2015 - http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/comment/4407396 "Lostmauth 3/3 set bonus"
June 2015 - http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/comment/12581564 "lol set too powerful, buff other sets!"
*leaves change color*
*jingle bells, jingle bells*
*happy new year!*
*snow melts*
*sun comes out*
April 2016 - We glad you all bought and refined lostmauth set to max. Now we're gonna nerf it. =X

=O

I don't really know what to say. Yay? for steps in the right direction? Boo for taking a year?

Maybe next blog post you will fix the botting economy, and ban goldspammers? ;D

Keep it up?

silence1x

Standing by . . .

oldbaldyone

This sounds like something the US government would say.

"We don't know where, we don't know when, we don't know how. But, somewhere, something bad is going to happen. Thank you for your time, no further questions."

thefabricant

Guess I will be leveling a SW then, because without the lolset, my CW just became a pure support class with a dps spec that does less damage than GF or DC.

beckylunatic

regenerde said:

But any change to the Lostmauth set... that is just unbelievable after all the threads with and without polls about it.

None of which was officially endorsed, nowhere did they say, "oh well, if public opinion says they wanna keep their overpowered tat, we'll just have to leave it alone".

regenerde

beckylunatic said:

regenerde said:

But any change to the Lostmauth set... that is just unbelievable after all the threads with and without polls about it.

None of which was officially endorsed, nowhere did they say, "oh well, if public opinion says they wanna keep their overpowered tat, we'll just have to leave it alone".

Let's just say, it is way to obvious... the power changes alone, ok, that might have worked today.
But adding LM artifact + EE areas rework to it?
Yeah... right.

ghoulz66

Power changes like Into the Fray I hope..!? One power granting up to 80% damage to the entire party....

Way too many buffs in the game.