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Missing patch note: owlbear cub nerf.
macaran5123
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UPDATE2: Affected classes: DC, CW, and OP dots. SW PoP and TR Smoke Bomb still proc per tick, reportedly.
UPDATE: this seems to only affect DCs, bringing their dots inline with other classes. SW is unaffected.
Just as an FYI, the patch note regarding the change to the Owlbear Cub is missing.
(Owlbear Cub now only procs once per encounter usage, instead of every tick of an encounter's damage).
EDIT: This may need to be tested for non-DC classes. (Could be DC specific?)
Just as an FYI, the patch note regarding the change to the Owlbear Cub is missing.
(Owlbear Cub now only procs once per encounter usage, instead of every tick of an encounter's damage).
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I am also curious how this does not effect sw, anyone actually test it?
I went on preview with my OP to test on a dummy and indeed Owlbear Cub now only procs once per non crit encounter usage.
A guildmate mentioned SW's DoT on preview still multi proc with owlbear cub.
DC on life:
FF,BtS - 5/5 (procs on every DoT's hit)
DL,CoBL - 2/2 (on 2 targets hits for each)
test.
FF,BtS - 1/5 (procs only on first DoT hit)
DL,CoBl - 2/2
SW on test.
Warlock's Bargain - 1/6 (procs for first DoT hit only)
Dreadtheft - 27/72 (procs only for each non-crit hit, chance of crit on skill - 29%)
BoVA - 16/33 (procs as Dreadtheft, chance on crit on skill - 42%)
PoP - 30/30 (hit for every target on every hit)
TR on test
Smoke bomb - 18/18 (looks like SW's PoP)
Deft Strike - 1/2 (procs for non crit hit for 2 targets, crit chance 50%)
OP on test
TemWrath - 2/3 (procs on non crit hit for 3 targets, 33%)
Burning light seems the same.
so nerfed only solo DoT skills
for aoe skills it procks for every target in case of non crit
just leave to learn SW's PoP to have crit hits for sometime, hah.
As an aside, I can actually do a very respectable amount of damage on my healadin by speccing it similarly to how I spec my TR. 100% crit and use a vorpal but... very few people will take a healadin over a DC as the DC offers much stronger buffs and debuffs while a healadin compensates with raw healing potential. Thus is the bane of 5 man dungeons as a game design focus.
5 man content will never be a good thing to design a game around, only the 10 man or greater content will allow for full utilization of the wide array of spec's available in a game like Neverwinter. Ever wonder why 9 out of 10 paladins are tanks? Try getting a group as a healadin... but I digress.
As far as the Owlbear is concerned; no item in the game... companion, weapon, artifact, whatever... should EVER, and I mean EVER be doing 50-60% of a player's overall damage(based on SW logs from ACT). Hell, no single item should even come close to 20-25% of a player's overall damage. I consider it bad game design and makes further game development just that much more difficult, because any new items introduced would have to be made that much more overpowered in order to make people want to replace the current overpowered item they are using. It also makes it that much more difficult for the developers to balance classes when they have these recklessly overpowered (and adorable) companions wiggling their butts all over the place.
I understand the frustration from people who have built and equipped a character (at great expense) around taking advantage of this one companion... but at the same time you have to realize the danger in doing so, and accept the repercussions thereof.
Seriously, anyone who built around this should have been aware of the risks.
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It just seems like it is one thing after another that is being changed. I believe you said it best earlier when you said not to chase BIS. I have viable level 70 toons for all classes, so can adapt. I did calculate I've spent millions of AD to improve my toons, only to have those items nerfed, even though none were equipped to consciously take advantage of an exploit. (The AD spent includes Masterwork, which is probably a different subject but still adds a straw to the camel's back).
Again, that's the nature of the game, and we learn not to count on anything that is too good to be true. But a day or two of being disgruntled is perhaps allowed, especially when these changes are not advertised but are just dropped into the game.
Are there any HRs out there that could test if their "ground targeted trap" spells also are broken with the change?
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My problem with most of these "fixes" like keygate, SW's TC, etc. Is they are micro targeted changes that tend to have macro level impacts. There needs to be a balanced approach to these changes that doesn't swing the scale so far one way or the other.
Some day those things get fixed and a hole class/paragon, aimed to be balanced, seems to be build arround bugs and doesn´t work that great anymore... I am sure this already happened in NWO, can´t remember wich class.
- Multi-proc
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- No proc at all
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