Enchantments being reworked to function with all encounters!

demonmonger · February 2017

The devs are working to make weapon enchantments work with smoke bomb and path of blades.

Yay

dedikted · February 2017

How do you know this?

sirjimbofrancis · February 2017

It's here:
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter/#/discussion/1227227/official-feedback-thread-weapon-enhancement-changes/p11

Thanks for the heads up @demonmonger!
Up until now, several powers, including smoke bomb, only procced with vorpal and dread. Now they'll proc for all enchants when the fix gets implemented.

demonmonger · February 2017

(Big smile) it's going to be awesome.
This is the main thing I'm looking foward to in the future of nw.

kinganuthin · February 2017

what would you use over vorp?

demonmonger · February 2017

It all depends on what I am fighting...
Some of our current enchantmen's have been nerfed as well. So let's just wait and see.

lordseth1985 · February 2017

So far, I'm using Lightning but from what I saw on preview, maybe I can change to Flaming. Just need to see if it will work or not.

I used Vorpal, and since I changed to Lightning my dps increased around 15%, probably because of lightning chains.

raymond00713 · February 2017

Any news here or are we sticking with vorpal?

sirjimbofrancis · February 2017

From what I understand (haven't tested myself), they are still not proccing on SB or POTB...

lordseth1985 · February 2017

sirjimbofrancis said:
From what I understand (haven't tested myself), they are still not proccing on SB or POTB...

yeah, many powers and dots don't proc any enchantment.

lordseth1985 · February 2017

raymond00713 said:
Any news here or are we sticking with vorpal?

I tested on preview trans lightning, flaming, bile, terror and plague fire. From those, only lightning and flaming was better than vorpal, but I needed to change my build a little to work well with them.

stachu0jons · February 2017

lordseth1985 said:
From those, only lightning and flaming was better than vorpal

1. Where ? on dungeon ?
2. How is possible there are better ? flaming after 3 stack have AoE attack, lightning is for AoE class
3. On some blog (NWO_U) wrote for class Single target best is Bilethorn...

PS. Special question @ sirjimbofrancis : Do you try calculate how this scaling power works ?

sirjimbofrancis · February 2017

stachu0jons#2959 said:

lordseth1985 said:
From those, only lightning and flaming was better than vorpal
1. Where ? on dungeon ?
2. How is possible there are better ? flaming after 3 stack have AoE attack, lightning is for AoE class
3. On some blog (NWO_U) wrote for class Single target best is Bilethorn...

PS. Special question @ sirjimbofrancis : Do you try calculate how this scaling power works ?

No, I didn't for a couple of reasons.

First, thefabricant already did a ton of testing on it.

Second, they are really buggy. Really buggy proccing multiple times on different powers, and different enchants proccing differently. I'm not sure that was intended, but I ran a MSVA last night with a (admittedly great) HR with one of these enchants and he flat murdered everyone in DPS. Like, I looked at one point and he had 200 million to the next person's 40 million. The people I run with are pretty good, too. And, good for him! I've never been creamed that badly! Lol I'm pretty sure,though, that is not intended and the enchants will get modified, eventually.

Thirdly, I keep making the mistake of signing into the live account to do professions on my alts, intending to then swap out to the preview server to test, and, by the time I've finished with my alts, I am committed to a run on my main. Then another and another, and pretty soon, I'm out of time to go to the test server...T_T

lordseth1985 · February 2017

stachu0jons#2959 said:

lordseth1985 said:
From those, only lightning and flaming was better than vorpal
1. Where ? on dungeon ?
2. How is possible there are better ? flaming after 3 stack have AoE attack, lightning is for AoE class
3. On some blog (NWO_U) wrote for class Single target best is Bilethorn...

PS. Special question @ sirjimbofrancis : Do you try calculate how this scaling power works ?

1 - Yeah, dungeons and trials: demogorgorn [normal and epic], castle never, kessel, valindra and elol.
2/3 - even if flaming hit the 3rd stack and proc aoe, soon I had another 3 stack [even won't proccing aoe] and my dmg was also increased by 3%. So, almost all the time I had that 3% dmg bonus [dunno if it's wai or not]. I tried Bile, but that only was usefull for bosses and big mobs, since the aoe don't have enough time to proc. Lightning spammed those arcs everywhere and even on bosses it was great.

demonmonger · February 2017

With flurry... bilethorn and lightning are amazing... with single huge attacks vorpal and dread are perfect.

ghoulz66 · February 2017

Change couldn't happen sooner. My TR is suffocating from dust bunnies.

stachu0jons · February 2017

demonmonger said:
With flurry... bilethorn and lightning are amazing

so, what if i have 95% crit chance ? Bilethorn still better than Vorpal ?

demonmonger · March 2017

Yes for low damage attacks
Your weapon damage from a critical hit will increase bilethorns damage, plus it will be aoe splash at higher enchantment levels

lordseth1985 · March 2017

stachu0jons#2959 said:

demonmonger said:
With flurry... bilethorn and lightning are amazing
so, what if i have 95% crit chance ? Bilethorn still better than Vorpal ?

not to mention the cap on crit severity...

larrylowlife83 · March 2017

new TR built for PvP, using vorpal now... any ideas on if i should change in mod 11?

trgluestickz · March 2017

larrylowlife83 said:
new TR built for PvP, using vorpal now... any ideas on if i should change in mod 11?

For a pvp TR, a vorpal is a solid choice still. You could also go feytouched, its debuff is very powerful in pvp and it does almost as much damage as a vorpal. Lightning, frost, terror, and bilethorn do less damage but also offer powerful debuffs or control effects to consider.

I was on a premade team not too long ago where one of the rangers would ask if anyone else had a feytouched, if they did, he would switch to a terror enchantment for that match. From what I understand, feytouched does not stack with other people's feytouched enchantments and having multiple types of enchantments at work tends to be scaryer than your team mostly using the same type. Bilethorn has its slow up nearly constantly when attacking and does good damage. Because of its near constant slow, I've been considering bilethorn on my scoundrel TR since I have a feat that grants me 25% more damage against targets affected by CCs. Lightning enchantment is a great AOE enchantment and its chain effect is also really good for knocking nearby TRs out of stealth. Lightning also is really nasty against targets who don't have much lifesteal/self heals and the chain means you can kill a target at low health by simply hitting someone else nearby. Frost is only up 50% of the time thanks to its cooldown but it's combination of cc effects and debuffs are very powerful and give you a significant advantage.

Enchantments being reworked to function with all encounters!

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