I just started playing for like a week on a DPS barbarian. Level 63. Everything was fine untill this update came. I literally cannot progress. It is ridiculous. I can hardly kill like 3/4 mobs at a time. If there come more than 4 , I die instant. Even tried as the tank paragon but even worse. I quited few days ago and will not return untill this 'combat rework' gets deleted.
I noticed at least 5 times my companions have been sent away when switching zones with at least 3 characters played. Maybe something broke with the comp window changes. It's a bit troublesome to see if it's a bolster comp without a physical form, e.g. black stone. So you may notice it only by viewing the comp tab or by bad iLvL.
I apologize right away for my level of English. M6, M16, M20 - "veiled" wipe If you made these changes back in M16, then there would be almost no questions for the developers. But after M16, you sold a huge variety of mounts, companions, gear and two races. (Including for ZEN) Spoiler - Most of what was sold became trash. People supported the developers with donations to the game and at the same time pumped their characters. What gratitude have we received? Another "wipe", 20 tokens and two stones I tried to play all 8 characters in this game. They looked good for ToMM and Citadel. Now all my efforts have gone to the trash heap - thanks! What amused me the most: 1. When I insert stones into my equipment, I lose stats, since inserting stones I raise my Total Item Level. 2. When I got into a random dungeon. I have 50k TIL. I suddenly found that guys with a general item level of 20-25k damage indicator (former weapon damage) the same as mine. Why should I condemn myself to torment, increasing my TIL, if in most of the game content, it is scaled? I have endured M6, M16, mount changes... I'm not sure if I'm ready to endure this. I just want to say that Cryptic has taken a wrong turn. Thanks for attention
Chains popped, and I was instantly dead... If there was any warning for chains, it wasn't noticable/audible immediately before hand like it is in CR (although, even in there the timing can be really off).
[Combat (Self)]Nightmare Sister of Fury deals 605283 Unavoidable Damage to you with Spite.
No idea if this mechanic does this much damage in CR, as it's pretty much the one dungeon I've refused to run for something like 12 months, as I find it to be the least enjoyable dungeon in the game.
With the current hotfix, I have just tried the same Sharandar basic zone content as before. It's no longer completely unplayable, but the difficulty is now at "a challenging quest you do once when you've fully prepared and are mentally ready, fully expecting to fail a few times"-level, not "something the game expects you to run through every day on autopilot while doing dailies"-level. And yet the latter is what the game functionally expects from its players for this content.
I would point out that the Combat Rework post explicitly states in the What You Will See On Login section:
You should be able to jump into any of the content you previously could play and play it without issue.
Clearly the implementation, even with the current hotfix, has spectacularly failed at this stated intent.
As far as I can tell there has still been no meaningful guidance from the developer on what actions players are actually expected to take in response to this rework, in order to regain some of their effectiveness. (If I have missed an official post I would appreciate someone pointing me to it.)
As a new player, I also have to give feedback. I have 2 characters a lvl 68 paladin that was levelled before the patch and a barbarian that was levelled after the patch. The paladin had problems with some groups before the patch and died 5 times up to lvl 65 and needed about 50 healing potions. After the patch, he needs 2 to 4 healing potions per group. Boss fights in story mode that are supposed to go alone are unmanageable. The barbarian played very tough up to lvl 30. Up to the current level he has died more than 30 times and needs between 1 and 4 potions per group. Small groups of 2 to 4 mobs work without potions, but as soon as a respawn occurs due to a timer or more mobs spawn during a boss fight, it is almost impossible to kill this group. There are groups that onhit the barbarian and the paladin with a critical hit. As a new player, I have neither VIP status nor ZEN invested in companions, so I only play with the standard gifts that I get through crates or rewards. With this equipment it is more than just tedious to lvl. Fun is something else.
At the same time I see that my healer companion gets 300 to 800 damage from mobs that hit me with 4000 to 12000 damage. The companion also manages, when he attacks, to do more damage to the mobs than I do with the barbarian and the special skills.
The last point is bosses and mobs. In the single-player instances, there are sometimes mob spawns of bosses that are unmanageable. The mobs have more HP or defence than the boss itself. Sometimes 6 to 12 undead spawn on a boss as soon as the HP of the boss is at 50%. After that, the boss can only be defeated with extreme difficulty, if at all. The damage that arrives through the adds is many times higher than the damage of the boss, at the same time the defence of each mob is higher than that of the boss.
Mount Hotenow is no longer playable as a paladin, because I already die in groups of 4 or 5, and I don't even need to talk about boss fights.
Hello, I can't select feats on barbarian tank, if i choose feat it is still unselected, but the ""choose this feat" button is missing, i can still select the other one, and if i do, it's still unselected and now i have both feasts unselected and missing their "choose this feat" button, all feats have the same problem.
Hello, I can't select feats on barbarian tank, if i choose feat it is still unselected, but the ""choose this feat" button is missing, i can still select the other one, and if i do, it's still unselected and now i have both feasts unselected and missing their "choose this feat" button, all feats have the same problem.
I have read the entire thread and have little to add to it...that said.
If your intention was to "balance" out the players you could have not used a larger hammer here if you tried. Enchantments/runestones/boons went from something to be proud of while also being wanted/needed to MEH. I get it you wanted to make power/combat advantage/hit points have caps, but why didn't you just do THAT!
I am just logging in currently to use my daily keys, and HOPE you fix this "mistake" because if you do not, no matter the rewards offered, it will, I feel, be the death of this game. Although I love the combat systems and flow of the game I can find another game to play easy enough.
Next one I find though will treat it's players more like customers and less like lab rats or I won't even download it!
One thing I particularly liked about Neverwinter was that you can play it solo as well as in a team. I work at irregular times, so the times at which I can play also vary greatly. That makes it hard to play in a team regularly as I cannot play often at the same time as my teammates would. In Neverwinter that was never a problem. I enjoyed playing the questlines solo and played the dungeons, skirmishes etc. in randomly formed teams, which worked fine: just cue up and sooner or later, you’re in. I think a lot of people were playing like this. Because playing solo has become so much harder that it isn’t fun anymore a lot of people like me will leave this game. I expect it will strongly increase waiting times in the cues for dungeons for those who (despite everything) keep playing the game solo and occasionally team up for dungeons. This will take out even more fun of this game, causing more people to quit, which worsens the problem, so even more people quit, etc. etc. This game is dying…
It seems ARC has made a classical mistake: they tried to fix something that wasn’t broken and broke something that didn’t need fixing.
I’ve been playing this game a lot for the past year. I’m a lvl 80 Ranger, item lvl over 29k. As defensive skills were never the strongest qualities of a ranger, I compensated for that with a strong companion. I invested a lot in my companion and in companion influence because that improved my character in a very balanced way (almost all stats simultaneously). Now in one blow you’ve taken away half the possibilities to improve a companion and you completely ditched companion influence as a concept. Most of what I invested in (like bonding runestones and upgrading enchantments) has been lost. That might just seem tough luck for me and anyone else who invested in companion and companion influence, but there’s more at stake.
Most importantly: by taking away a whole concept, you’ve changed the rules of play during the game. And now you’ve done that once, there is no reason to assume you won’t do it again. That means that whatever we invest in, can be made useless in one update. I now certainly think twice before spending real money in this game by buying ZEN.
On top of that: One less attractive feature of this game is that there are a lot of repetitive actions. We keep on playing the same quests again and again. The reason we keep on doing them (at least for me) is that we are developing our character by earning boons, acquiring items, etc. and progress to harder areas. Now why should we keep playing to improve our characters, if one update sets us back so severely that we can’t even survive areas that we have unlocked and mastered long ago?
There’s just no drive anymore to keep playing this game. You took out the sense of building up a character and the feeling of making progress. Frankly, you took out exactly those elements that made the game fun and gave me a reason to keep playing it.
from what i have heard this is time 3 they have done exact same thing last time was with mod 16 2 years ago
With the new system, tanks should feel tankier and necessary for all dungeons, skirmishes, and trials
Nop nop and nop. Tanks arent tankier, they are squishy. i have a paladin 50kIL, Ihave tried all combinason as possible its bad all the time.
Please tell me how, after just a couple of days, you've tried every combination possible...
You need to get your Defense to 90% You need to get your Deflect and Deflect Severity up to around 70%+ You need to get your Awareness up over 60%
Tanks need to pay attention to defense stats now and basically ignore offense stats beyond what they need to grab and hold aggro.
thats fine for someone (like myself who has play tested on preview for 3 months) to say but 99% of the player base hasnt 50% of the player base dont even know what preview is i knew exactly what i had to do to get my toon viable and it still cost me 8 million ad and 5k tradebars knowing i was making 0 mistakes one mistake and that cost can double tell me how many players can afford that kind of outlay (and yes i used 0 zen as i will never put another cent into this game i saved like crazy and sold everything worth even 10 ad since october)
If All content is so hard, who’s going to replay it with alts. How much fun is it to struggle on every toon for piddling rewards. It’s not. It’s a grinding game that no one is going to grind anymore.
Thank you for your feedback throughout the weekend. We are working on a new patch to improve gameplay experience with one dot mobs (minions). We hope to have the patch out sometime this week.
try to fix the cleric arbiter. Can't get both stats (advantage or critical) to get critical, you have to give up the batiri and use the hell pit glyph (+ 5% critical + 5% accuracy) which doesn't last forever. All dps can manage 4 stats, the cleric only 3 (unless he doesn't use the things mentioned above). HR can cover 5 stats, even the CW.
Despite the cap DOES NOT DAMAGE, a SW without a CAP managed to distance me by 20 million.
From first dps to tomm, I can't even get into the rankings.
@nitocris83 That's one problem of many. As somebody who has spent over 2 years building my character and getting all high level gear I'm angry that I'm being scaled down in content while somebody who has been playing 2 months is scaled up to do the same amount of damage as me. If someone has put in the time, effort and money to get top level gear, enchantments, boons, companions, mounts & insignia I think it's within reason to assume their damage output should be significantly higher than a new or casual player. I've worked hard to be strong and you're scaling me down to a point that it feels worthless.
There's also the crappy rewards for completing dungeons. If I'm scaled down and it takes a half hour or more to complete, again, it's within reason to assume I should get a decent reward. A black pearl and lvl 400 gear for a different class is a joke. Why would I ever stay in a Cragmire Crypts REDQ? I'd rather just abandon it then waste time, potions and scrolls. If every dungeon is equally difficult then I want to collect cool new things from every one of them. At end game I have little to no use for legacy campaign currency. I want mounts and companions I don't yet have, fashion, dyes, vanity pets, or things that are actually worth posting on the auction house to get a few astral diamonds. I'm not saying I should walk out of every dungeon with something new to me, but I should walk out with something of value. I can't even tell you how many times I've re-rolled the chest in TIC 5 times just to get some chaotic writings and seals. That's the most recent dungeon and the rewards are consistently junk. There's no replay value if there's no reward.
I could adjust to a new combat system with floating caps. What I'm having a real issue with is the scaling and rewards. And I really hope that is addressed within the next couple of weeks, not in a couple months or down the line on your road map. At this point I'm just logging in to collect my keys, but when my VIP runs out I won't be renewing it unless these issues are resolved. I started playing STO in season 1, I've been a loyal customer who happily spent money in these games for YEARS, and after this debacle, I'm ready to walk away and give my money to a company who gives something back to their players. You can do better.
I hope this new patch comes out soon. I started a new Barbarian and made it to level 10 without too many problems but at that level you usually only have to fight one group at a time. Took my level 39 paladin to the graveyard which is way low for him and couldn't take out one mob without dying. What fun is that?
Ok, spent the past few days doing Sharandar quests to complete the Campaign before it is killed (for the boons an the satisfaction). I have all classes and paradyns of charaters. They all have level 80 crafted Cobalt/Velvet/Basilisk equipment, mostly epic mounts with Prosperity insignias when possible. QM and DH slotted, Orccus/Flower Artifacts. I am using Rare Wererat or Kinku Archer or Uncommon NW Guard Archer depending on stance (melee uses archers, Kenku goes with TR because it stealths). 19Kish IL
1) Quickling 'event', what used to be a minor interruption by some pesky little rats is now a major mob spawn issue. Usually 2, sometimes 4 will attack, usually just as you finish a group (or two) of powies and your encounter timers are still in cooldown. It is so bad I find myself hiding on a hill watching for them before I go to the road to pick up my loot after a battle. Very nerve wracking for a useless reward.
2) Arcane Reservoir - a pack of 4 powies now spawns in the second room (after the commander and troll) after you kill the powies in the room. Sometimes before you finish (on a timer). If you go into the next room, they will pause and then join the Commander/Troll in the first room (I always sneak by the mobs in the first room while they are fighting each other). In the room with the circular walkway and two groups of Powies, if you avoid the second patrol and go over the bridge to kill the Commander/Troll in the next room, you will not be able to loot the skill node afterward. The game will keep you in combat mode until the patrol of powies you avoided are killed. Everything else has been scaled up, it is all about killing Whithers first or die.
CW, Assassin, Barb Tank/DPS, Warden, Hellstorm, GF Tank/DPS all work reasonably well. You need to focus on not aggro'ng nearby groups, watch the Quicklings and kill the whithers quickly, but it is doable (more stressful than it was, but doable).
Paladin - Divinity drains superfast and all my encounters are waiting a 300 sec timer ... constantly. Since I cannot attack while blocking (unlike a GF) I am constantly spamming potions and slowly dodging around.
Clerics - The areal fireball seems to vary in effectiveness. The repel-like AoE is handy, the lightening bolt seems to do more damage. The healer is a bit slower, but the at-wills work well. Very dependent on the Companion for damage.
The biggest factor is the stress of playing, the need to focus constantly makes playing the game for more than 5 hours at a time very bad for my nerves (Adrenaline drain). Not practical for a daily/weekly repeatable quest scenario.
I would challenge anyone to do the Gnarlwood Caves or the Quickling Siege mini-dungeons solo. I can't even begin to imagine what the Cult Prison boss in WoD or the final battle in Spellplague Caverns is like now ...
All of this should be playable with level 60 Bounty Gear from Rothe Valley/Whithering Caverns/EE and R5 enchants and green companions/insignias.
It's nice to know that they (devs) read our comments and issues, and that there is going to be an update. But what if like to know is, do they even okay they game? Do they feel they this original combat rework was good? Do they also see as we do that it need a lot of work? Giving us a one sentence of we're making changes, isn't feedback to us.
I'd challenge them to post a poll to see just how many people would be willing to loose any progression made this last week and revert back to the old game mechanics.
Trobriand ray(red field people use to wake scorpions) doesn't hit where it should. Even if you can see on the ground, it will follow the player with aggro making it unavoidable.
Master Expeditions runes that deal corrosive damage over time deal them in 100k damage every 5 seconds. This seems high for current health levels
Rings of condemned+5 and ring of brutal fiend +5 stats not updated to current format [combined rating is at 440 while total stats are at 16.5k defense and 6.6k crit sev and 9.9k crit strike]
Mount stats in Your Collection are not displaying correct values
I don't think my issue is connected to the last patch, but I'm leaving this feedback here just in case.
Back in 2018, I completed three campaign tasks that have boons listed in rewards. Then I took a long break that lasted several years until now. When I go back to the game several days ago, I had zero boons instead of three. I contacted customer support, and among many other things they told me to post here.
There was many updates between 2018 and now, I know, but better safe than sorry.
Tenebous enchantment bug on fighter: Tenebrous enchantment doesn't work with heavy slash, i tested it for 5 min and it procs 0 times, but if i use reave it works fine.
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned already but the Protector's Camaraderie Insignia Bonus still states "When your companion attacks, you gain Armor Penetration and Defense" in it's tooltip
Accuracy is extreamly hard to cap please change the barbarian overpenitration feat to activate if power is capped
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enemies in mod area from before avernus need to have their hit points reduced. dread ring mobs at 70k to 120k way to much when similar type avernus enemies have 80k-120k health
i recently returned to Neverwinter after some months, and prior to the combat patch i loged in 2 of my characters. the rest 6 were loged in after the patch.
on those 2 loged before i have all 21 Companions i had. on the 6 loged after the patch i 'lost' 16 Companions on each character from 21 total, and only 5 Companions stayed in Companion tab in Character Sheet.
i lost such Companions as Stalwart Golden Lion, Ghost, Redcap Powrie, Dragonborn Brawler, Lillend, Combat Medic, Assassin Drake from those of Rare/Epic levels. and all of the Commons/Uncommons, most of them are easily re-acquired, but not those Rares/Epics
i opened a support ticket and the guys wrote me to post my experience here on the forum.
A suggestion for maybe lessening the impact of changes such as the combat rework would be to post videos of dungeon playthroughs. Especially at the dungeon cap IL. They don't have to have voice, maybe just show the char sheets of each player in the party.
This won't of course appease everyone, people will still complain they don't watch videos/read blogs/forums/etc, but right now it's hard not to watch your healer fail at the LOMM Bore worm, or your Tank fail at the TIC first or second boss and think "do these guys even play the game or are they just changing stuff and looking at the death/win stats?".
It would also help with people's ideas on how to spec builds. I know a lot of creators put a lot of work into this stuff for us players, but here we are several weeks on preview and now on live and it's still really hard to get info on how to spec a healer/tank/etc build.
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M6, M16, M20 - "veiled" wipe
If you made these changes back in M16, then there would be almost no questions for the developers.
But after M16, you sold a huge variety of mounts, companions, gear and two races. (Including for ZEN)
Spoiler - Most of what was sold became trash.
People supported the developers with donations to the game and at the same time pumped their characters.
What gratitude have we received?
Another "wipe", 20 tokens and two stones
I tried to play all 8 characters in this game.
They looked good for ToMM and Citadel.
Now all my efforts have gone to the trash heap - thanks!
What amused me the most:
1. When I insert stones into my equipment, I lose stats, since inserting stones I raise my Total Item Level.
2. When I got into a random dungeon.
I have 50k TIL.
I suddenly found that guys with a general item level of 20-25k damage indicator (former weapon damage) the same as mine.
Why should I condemn myself to torment, increasing my TIL, if in most of the game content, it is scaled?
I have endured M6, M16, mount changes...
I'm not sure if I'm ready to endure this.
I just want to say that Cryptic has taken a wrong turn.
Thanks for attention
Chain of Spite mechanic.
Chains popped, and I was instantly dead... If there was any warning for chains, it wasn't noticable/audible immediately before hand like it is in CR (although, even in there the timing can be really off).
[Combat (Self)]Nightmare Sister of Fury deals 605283 Unavoidable Damage to you with Spite.
No idea if this mechanic does this much damage in CR, as it's pretty much the one dungeon I've refused to run for something like 12 months, as I find it to be the least enjoyable dungeon in the game.
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I would point out that the Combat Rework post explicitly states in the What You Will See On Login section:
As far as I can tell there has still been no meaningful guidance from the developer on what actions players are actually expected to take in response to this rework, in order to regain some of their effectiveness. (If I have missed an official post I would appreciate someone pointing me to it.)
The paladin had problems with some groups before the patch and died 5 times up to lvl 65 and needed about 50 healing potions. After the patch, he needs 2 to 4 healing potions per group. Boss fights in story mode that are supposed to go alone are unmanageable.
The barbarian played very tough up to lvl 30. Up to the current level he has died more than 30 times and needs between 1 and 4 potions per group.
Small groups of 2 to 4 mobs work without potions, but as soon as a respawn occurs due to a timer or more mobs spawn during a boss fight, it is almost impossible to kill this group.
There are groups that onhit the barbarian and the paladin with a critical hit.
As a new player, I have neither VIP status nor ZEN invested in companions, so I only play with the standard gifts that I get through crates or rewards. With this equipment it is more than just tedious to lvl. Fun is something else.
At the same time I see that my healer companion gets 300 to 800 damage from mobs that hit me with 4000 to 12000 damage. The companion also manages, when he attacks, to do more damage to the mobs than I do with the barbarian and the special skills.
The last point is bosses and mobs. In the single-player instances, there are sometimes mob spawns of bosses that are unmanageable. The mobs have more HP or defence than the boss itself. Sometimes 6 to 12 undead spawn on a boss as soon as the HP of the boss is at 50%. After that, the boss can only be defeated with extreme difficulty, if at all. The damage that arrives through the adds is many times higher than the damage of the boss, at the same time the defence of each mob is higher than that of the boss.
Mount Hotenow is no longer playable as a paladin, because I already die in groups of 4 or 5, and I don't even need to talk about boss fights.
If your intention was to "balance" out the players you could have not used a larger hammer here if you tried. Enchantments/runestones/boons went from something to be proud of while also being wanted/needed to MEH.
I get it you wanted to make power/combat advantage/hit points have caps, but why didn't you just do THAT!
I am just logging in currently to use my daily keys, and HOPE you fix this "mistake" because if you do not, no matter the rewards offered, it will, I feel, be the death of this game. Although I love the combat systems and flow of the game I can find another game to play easy enough.
Next one I find though will treat it's players more like customers and less like lab rats or I won't even download it!
Because playing solo has become so much harder that it isn’t fun anymore a lot of people like me will leave this game. I expect it will strongly increase waiting times in the cues for dungeons for those who (despite everything) keep playing the game solo and occasionally team up for dungeons. This will take out even more fun of this game, causing more people to quit, which worsens the problem, so even more people quit, etc. etc. This game is dying…
It seems ARC has made a classical mistake: they tried to fix something that wasn’t broken and broke something that didn’t need fixing.
but 99% of the player base hasnt
50% of the player base dont even know what preview is
i knew exactly what i had to do to get my toon viable and it still cost me 8 million ad and 5k tradebars knowing i was making 0 mistakes
one mistake and that cost can double
tell me how many players can afford that kind of outlay (and yes i used 0 zen as i will never put another cent into this game i saved like crazy and sold everything worth even 10 ad since october)
It’s not.
It’s a grinding game that no one is going to grind anymore.
All dps can manage 4 stats, the cleric only 3 (unless he doesn't use the things mentioned above).
HR can cover 5 stats, even the CW.
Despite the cap DOES NOT DAMAGE, a SW without a CAP managed to distance me by 20 million.
From first dps to tomm, I can't even get into the rankings.
There's also the crappy rewards for completing dungeons. If I'm scaled down and it takes a half hour or more to complete, again, it's within reason to assume I should get a decent reward. A black pearl and lvl 400 gear for a different class is a joke. Why would I ever stay in a Cragmire Crypts REDQ? I'd rather just abandon it then waste time, potions and scrolls. If every dungeon is equally difficult then I want to collect cool new things from every one of them. At end game I have little to no use for legacy campaign currency. I want mounts and companions I don't yet have, fashion, dyes, vanity pets, or things that are actually worth posting on the auction house to get a few astral diamonds. I'm not saying I should walk out of every dungeon with something new to me, but I should walk out with something of value. I can't even tell you how many times I've re-rolled the chest in TIC 5 times just to get some chaotic writings and seals. That's the most recent dungeon and the rewards are consistently junk. There's no replay value if there's no reward.
I could adjust to a new combat system with floating caps. What I'm having a real issue with is the scaling and rewards. And I really hope that is addressed within the next couple of weeks, not in a couple months or down the line on your road map. At this point I'm just logging in to collect my keys, but when my VIP runs out I won't be renewing it unless these issues are resolved. I started playing STO in season 1, I've been a loyal customer who happily spent money in these games for YEARS, and after this debacle, I'm ready to walk away and give my money to a company who gives something back to their players. You can do better.
1) Quickling 'event', what used to be a minor interruption by some pesky little rats is now a major mob spawn issue. Usually 2, sometimes 4 will attack, usually just as you finish a group (or two) of powies and your encounter timers are still in cooldown. It is so bad I find myself hiding on a hill watching for them before I go to the road to pick up my loot after a battle. Very nerve wracking for a useless reward.
2) Arcane Reservoir - a pack of 4 powies now spawns in the second room (after the commander and troll) after you kill the powies in the room. Sometimes before you finish (on a timer). If you go into the next room, they will pause and then join the Commander/Troll in the first room (I always sneak by the mobs in the first room while they are fighting each other). In the room with the circular walkway and two groups of Powies, if you avoid the second patrol and go over the bridge to kill the Commander/Troll in the next room, you will not be able to loot the skill node afterward. The game will keep you in combat mode until the patrol of powies you avoided are killed. Everything else has been scaled up, it is all about killing Whithers first or die.
CW, Assassin, Barb Tank/DPS, Warden, Hellstorm, GF Tank/DPS all work reasonably well. You need to focus on not aggro'ng nearby groups, watch the Quicklings and kill the whithers quickly, but it is doable (more stressful than it was, but doable).
Paladin - Divinity drains superfast and all my encounters are waiting a 300 sec timer ... constantly. Since I cannot attack while blocking (unlike a GF) I am constantly spamming potions and slowly dodging around.
Clerics - The areal fireball seems to vary in effectiveness. The repel-like AoE is handy, the lightening bolt seems to do more damage. The healer is a bit slower, but the at-wills work well. Very dependent on the Companion for damage.
The biggest factor is the stress of playing, the need to focus constantly makes playing the game for more than 5 hours at a time very bad for my nerves (Adrenaline drain). Not practical for a daily/weekly repeatable quest scenario.
I would challenge anyone to do the Gnarlwood Caves or the Quickling Siege mini-dungeons solo.
I can't even begin to imagine what the Cult Prison boss in WoD or the final battle in Spellplague Caverns is like now ...
All of this should be playable with level 60 Bounty Gear from Rothe Valley/Whithering Caverns/EE and R5 enchants and green companions/insignias.
I'd challenge them to post a poll to see just how many people would be willing to loose any progression made this last week and revert back to the old game mechanics.
the rings from Bel & Mog/Garyx are back to giving too much stats, like in preview before combat rework went live
Rings of condemned+5 and ring of brutal fiend +5 stats not updated to current format [combined rating is at 440 while total stats are at 16.5k defense and 6.6k crit sev and 9.9k crit strike]
Mount stats in Your Collection are not displaying correct values
Back in 2018, I completed three campaign tasks that have boons listed in rewards. Then I took a long break that lasted several years until now. When I go back to the game several days ago, I had zero boons instead of three.
I contacted customer support, and among many other things they told me to post here.
There was many updates between 2018 and now, I know, but better safe than sorry.
Tenebrous enchantment doesn't work with heavy slash, i tested it for 5 min and it procs 0 times, but if i use reave it works fine.
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RIP Foundry: On that day, when the sky fell away, our world came to an end. ~Lifelight
dread ring mobs at 70k to 120k way to much when similar type avernus enemies have 80k-120k health
i recently returned to Neverwinter after some months, and prior to the combat patch i loged in 2 of my characters. the rest 6 were loged in after the patch.
on those 2 loged before i have all 21 Companions i had. on the 6 loged after the patch i 'lost' 16 Companions on each character from 21 total, and only 5 Companions stayed in Companion tab in Character Sheet.
i lost such Companions as Stalwart Golden Lion, Ghost, Redcap Powrie, Dragonborn Brawler, Lillend, Combat Medic, Assassin Drake from those of Rare/Epic levels. and all of the Commons/Uncommons, most of them are easily re-acquired, but not those Rares/Epics
i opened a support ticket and the guys wrote me to post my experience here on the forum.
This won't of course appease everyone, people will still complain they don't watch videos/read blogs/forums/etc, but right now it's hard not to watch your healer fail at the LOMM Bore worm, or your Tank fail at the TIC first or second boss and think "do these guys even play the game or are they just changing stuff and looking at the death/win stats?".
It would also help with people's ideas on how to spec builds. I know a lot of creators put a lot of work into this stuff for us players, but here we are several weeks on preview and now on live and it's still really hard to get info on how to spec a healer/tank/etc build.