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  • darthtzarrdarthtzarr Member Posts: 1,003 Arc User
    edited August 2017


    We are going to switch the up time to being able to be 100% (cooldown and up time will match). This will be with the lowered percentages that we presented and seems like the best way to address many of the concerns while still bringing bonding power more in line with where it should be.

    This is somewhat a contradiction with itself. 100% uptime and cooldown = duration are not the same thing. Buffs like Anointed Army would need to be applied as it procs for them to take affect. Not only that, but any gaps between companion attacks can cause several seconds of delay between procs, which could mean several seconds without bondings.

    You said the cooldown and duration will be the same, but removed them from the information post, so we don't even know what timers we have to sync our AAs with anymore.

    Signature [WIP] - tyvm John

  • fogcrowfogcrow Member Posts: 82 Arc User
    take a look at the dev post on page 10
  • skatopsixos7skatopsixos7 Member Posts: 46 Arc User

    We fully understand how big of a topic this is which is why we wanted to get the details out early to get feedback on all of the changes. And feedback certainly has been given! Although these types of topics can get heated due to the passion players have for this game, it is a good thing to see such involvement and discussion from our player base.

    There are valid points being brought up through out this discussion. Reading over all of this feedback, from multiple sources, has allowed us to take a look at different perspectives on the bonding issues. Bonding runestones do need an adjustment and we'd like to allow for other companion and runestone choices to not be so underwhelming compared to a bonding companion.

    Many of the points brought forward by you is that a 50% up time changes too many dynamics which will drive many players to feeling that an augment pet is the only correct route to play. That is not our intention and not where we want the game to go.

    We are going to switch the up time to being able to be 100% (cooldown and up time will match). This will be with the lowered percentages that we presented and seems like the best way to address many of the concerns while still bringing bonding power more in line with where it should be.

    Also, we are going to look into switching the offensive effect of Eldritch Runestones to match the defensive effect, meaning that either slot will grant the stat gain (it does mean the AP functionality of the Eldritch Runestone offensive slot is going away). This allows players who would like to use an augment pet with Eldritch Runestones to have a choice in which augment pet to use.

    The concerns on dungeon runs/difficulty in the game with any changes to bonding runestones is not unnoticed and something we have been paying attention to internally throughout all of this. We have been doing internal testing on this and look forward to feedback during preview on this very topic.

    Now you're talking brother, that is something we can work with. we all thank your for taking the time to listen to us, as you know we all play this game and know it very well and if we say something is bad, it most certainly is..

    P.S so now i can stream and upload nw content as previously.. so happy :)


    regards.
    Galactic underwear .

  • oria1oria1 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 263 Arc User
    edited August 2017

    We fully understand how big of a topic this is which is why we wanted to get the details out early to get feedback on all of the changes. And feedback certainly has been given! Although these types of topics can get heated due to the passion players have for this game, it is a good thing to see such involvement and discussion from our player base.

    There are valid points being brought up through out this discussion. Reading over all of this feedback, from multiple sources, has allowed us to take a look at different perspectives on the bonding issues. Bonding runestones do need an adjustment and we'd like to allow for other companion and runestone choices to not be so underwhelming compared to a bonding companion.

    Many of the points brought forward by you is that a 50% up time changes too many dynamics which will drive many players to feeling that an augment pet is the only correct route to play. That is not our intention and not where we want the game to go.

    We are going to switch the up time to being able to be 100% (cooldown and up time will match). This will be with the lowered percentages that we presented and seems like the best way to address many of the concerns while still bringing bonding power more in line with where it should be.

    Also, we are going to look into switching the offensive effect of Eldritch Runestones to match the defensive effect, meaning that either slot will grant the stat gain (it does mean the AP functionality of the Eldritch Runestone offensive slot is going away). This allows players who would like to use an augment pet with Eldritch Runestones to have a choice in which augment pet to use.

    The concerns on dungeon runs/difficulty in the game with any changes to bonding runestones is not unnoticed and something we have been paying attention to internally throughout all of this. We have been doing internal testing on this and look forward to feedback during preview on this very topic.

    The change is welcome and we will wait to test it on preview but please make sure of one thing. The powershare double benefits from companions and if we got worried over a TR double dip on debuffs we should also do the same about double dip on powershare. Remove the effect of powershare to double buff us through the companion bonding buff and problem with power is solved. With the new enchants going to r14 now it will be even more crazy then what it is now.




  • stschiffstschiff Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 18 Arc User
    @noworries#8859 Awesome, thanks. This seems to be waaaay more fair. Great job on the RP system aswell, i'm looking forward to testing it on PBE as soon as it hits it.
  • lowjohnlowjohn Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,061 Arc User
    Uptime = cooldown isn't quite 100% uptime - the bonus will end after 30s and only come back the next time your companion attacks. So fast-attacking companions have a small advantage, and dead companions will need to be resurrected before your bonus comes back, but I think both of those are perfectly fair.
  • mamalion1234mamalion1234 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,415 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    Practical change

    We fully understand how big of a topic this is which is why we wanted to get the details out early to get feedback on all of the changes. And feedback certainly has been given! Although these types of topics can get heated due to the passion players have for this game, it is a good thing to see such involvement and discussion from our player base.

    There are valid points being brought up through out this discussion. Reading over all of this feedback, from multiple sources, has allowed us to take a look at different perspectives on the bonding issues. Bonding runestones do need an adjustment and we'd like to allow for other companion and runestone choices to not be so underwhelming compared to a bonding companion.

    Many of the points brought forward by you is that a 50% up time changes too many dynamics which will drive many players to feeling that an augment pet is the only correct route to play. That is not our intention and not where we want the game to go.

    We are going to switch the up time to being able to be 100% (cooldown and up time will match). This will be with the lowered percentages that we presented and seems like the best way to address many of the concerns while still bringing bonding power more in line with where it should be.

    Also, we are going to look into switching the offensive effect of Eldritch Runestones to match the defensive effect, meaning that either slot will grant the stat gain (it does mean the AP functionality of the Eldritch Runestone offensive slot is going away). This allows players who would like to use an augment pet with Eldritch Runestones to have a choice in which augment pet to use.

    The concerns on dungeon runs/difficulty in the game with any changes to bonding runestones is not unnoticed and something we have been paying attention to internally throughout all of this. We have been doing internal testing on this and look forward to feedback during preview on this very topic.

    We fully understand how big of a topic this is which is why we wanted to get the details out early to get feedback on all of the changes. And feedback certainly has been given! Although these types of topics can get heated due to the passion players have for this game, it is a good thing to see such involvement and discussion from our player base.

    There are valid points being brought up through out this discussion. Reading over all of this feedback, from multiple sources, has allowed us to take a look at different perspectives on the bonding issues. Bonding runestones do need an adjustment and we'd like to allow for other companion and runestone choices to not be so underwhelming compared to a bonding companion.

    Many of the points brought forward by you is that a 50% up time changes too many dynamics which will drive many players to feeling that an augment pet is the only correct route to play. That is not our intention and not where we want the game to go.

    We are going to switch the up time to being able to be 100% (cooldown and up time will match). This will be with the lowered percentages that we presented and seems like the best way to address many of the concerns while still bringing bonding power more in line with where it should be.

    Also, we are going to look into switching the offensive effect of Eldritch Runestones to match the defensive effect, meaning that either slot will grant the stat gain (it does mean the AP functionality of the Eldritch Runestone offensive slot is going away). This allows players who would like to use an augment pet with Eldritch Runestones to have a choice in which augment pet to use.

    The concerns on dungeon runs/difficulty in the game with any changes to bonding runestones is not unnoticed and something we have been paying attention to internally throughout all of this. We have been doing internal testing on this and look forward to feedback during preview on this very topic.

    Ok thanks while you are looking on bondings do not allow them to transfer the buffed power from power sharing to the character.

    ( something happened with double quote i dont know).

    One of the reasons i would like to see this change is : you nerfed first the personal gain from brutality rings or sudden rings ( general underdark rings) to not function on companion because the statistics were ridiculous and they were reseting easily so it was almost permanent very high stats.

    IN other hand power sharing does exactly the same thing on a companion with bondings increasing power on ridiculous levels. IT should have the same treatment as the underdark rings.
  • triggerhappy102triggerhappy102 Member Posts: 2 Arc User

    We fully understand how big of a topic this is which is why we wanted to get the details out early to get feedback on all of the changes. And feedback certainly has been given! Although these types of topics can get heated due to the passion players have for this game, it is a good thing to see such involvement and discussion from our player base.

    There are valid points being brought up through out this discussion. Reading over all of this feedback, from multiple sources, has allowed us to take a look at different perspectives on the bonding issues. Bonding runestones do need an adjustment and we'd like to allow for other companion and runestone choices to not be so underwhelming compared to a bonding companion.

    Many of the points brought forward by you is that a 50% up time changes too many dynamics which will drive many players to feeling that an augment pet is the only correct route to play. That is not our intention and not where we want the game to go.

    We are going to switch the up time to being able to be 100% (cooldown and up time will match). This will be with the lowered percentages that we presented and seems like the best way to address many of the concerns while still bringing bonding power more in line with where it should be.

    Also, we are going to look into switching the offensive effect of Eldritch Runestones to match the defensive effect, meaning that either slot will grant the stat gain (it does mean the AP functionality of the Eldritch Runestone offensive slot is going away). This allows players who would like to use an augment pet with Eldritch Runestones to have a choice in which augment pet to use.

    The concerns on dungeon runs/difficulty in the game with any changes to bonding runestones is not unnoticed and something we have been paying attention to internally throughout all of this. We have been doing internal testing on this and look forward to feedback during preview on this very topic.

    THANK YOU.
    I was ready to write an endless post complaining about why reducing the uptime of Bondings to 50% was a TERRIBLE idea when I saw this. Now the hole update makes a lot more sense, i'm okay with that.
  • jaime4312#3760 jaime4312 Member Posts: 844 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    @noworries#8859 with bondings having 100% uptime and therefore our companions still being worth something you have undo some of the damage done which is good.

    Now I don't think I am the only one who wants to know specifically from you what the price of greater and superior marks will be as you substantially increased the amount of them needed to upgrade enchantments.
  • zomak#4611 zomak Member Posts: 223 Arc User
    I think the updated idea with the percentage nerf but maintaining 100% uptime is reasonable. It's still a really big hit but a manageable one and they probably did need it, particularly at the higher ranks. With the RP changes making them easier to rank I think I'm overall ok with this change now. Still not thrilled I will be losing stats but I'll be able to recover them so it's acceptable.
  • martelis1981martelis1981 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 121 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    @noworries#8859

    Incredible HAMSTER. guys, you really like shoot your own feets, don't you? :|

    You don't realize the impact of this decision. As many said, there are many people who invested their hard earned money to level their bondings plus the insane grind of the free players, and suddenly nerf the bondings to the ground? That may cause the massive exodus of angry players. Why? because with the nerf we would have to change everything, artifact, gear, etc. to rearrange the stats like arpen or crit that is ussualy obtained fron the companions to get the limit needed. the majority of people won't grind again or buy new items after that. Apart from seeing that the suggestions of the players are never taken into account. There are very good ideas in the feedback threads aboout it.

    What I want to highlight is: all the people angry can warning in social media (I'll be one, btw :) ) about how Criptyc sistematically thrash their player base, affecting e.g. the new game of Cryptic.

    You can reduce the % provided for the bondings, we can live with that but WITHOUT the cooldown.

    You shoot your own feet with Mod 6, with this you will shoot your other feet. With the reduced player base that we have at this moment a new exodus could fall to a point where it would be economically unsustainable in long term for the game

    Think about it, please
  • sikkmadejuggalosikkmadejuggalo Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    It's nice to see there's plenty of time to build a new refinement system and nerf bonding stones into the ground yet there simply isn't enough time to do the rework for us TR's like you promised you would over 6 months ago during a livestream.
  • hudman21hudman21 Member Posts: 276 Arc User
    I get that augments became virtually useless (but moar affordable), I get that runstones became awesome refinement material, and I get that runestones became virtually unused for companions.

    but, ...

    The answer is NOT to kill bonding's, which by the way became a cash cow for Cryptic on the companion market. The answer is to make a way for the runestones and augments to be worthwhile investments once again.
    Life is full of drains, I prefer to be a fountain
  • danpio1217#3410 danpio1217 Member Posts: 58 Arc User
    edited August 2017



    We are going to switch the up time to being able to be 100% (cooldown and up time will match). This will be with the lowered percentages that we presented and seems like the best way to address many of the concerns while still bringing bonding power more in line with where it should be.

    Feel like people are glossing over a detail here. What will the even further lowered percentages be?

    edit: misinterpreted post. 100% uptime with previously stated percentages, not a further reduction

  • ravenskyaravenskya Member Posts: 1,891 Arc User

    ravenskya said:

    I'm not even sure why I'm writing this... I mean I expressed my opinion before. And I want to apologize to everyone - this nerf of bondings is my fault... I upgraded two last night and within the hour Cryptic heard that I made progress and swiftly put out their announcement.

    I mean they nerfed my TR (the original main) they nerfed my pally (my replacement main) the are about to nerd my Combat HR (the char I'm currently building) they are threatening to nerf my guild's stronghold boons. They stopped me from opening half of the chests in the game because I won't pay for keys for junk. They lied to me about increasing the drop rates of things (ninja nerf), and now I have been working on taking companions that I'm rather fond of (I never did the archon thing) to legendary and your telling me that they no longer have the value

    But how freakin idiotic are you to say that something is OP and that you want people to use a variety of options....

    And then choose a path that leads to a single augment. Seriously? You guys really can't be that stupid... are you going to change the other stones so that the def/off slots actually work for all of the stones or are you some how buying stock in the bullette pup market? Do you plan on handing my pally an augment to replace my legendary hawk with rank 12 bondings? She and I have become very close. I spent a LOT of time on her, I spent a lot of time and AD on both her and her bondings. I spent a lot of time getting legendarys on many of my characters, and getting each of them their own set of bonding.

    You gutted my healadin

    Now everyone with any sense knows how this game works

    1) make announcement - it will have good first, then extreme bad, then some more good.
    2) let players rant
    3) claim to have listened to the player base and implement a slightly less harsh version of what you stated - but it is what you planned all along
    4) player base says "yeay you listened to us" and happlily accepts the nerf because it's not as bad as the fake nerf you put out at first.

    My prediction - stats nerf will stay as is, they will back down on uptime.

    My other prediction. Some will scream and yell about quitting. Those generally wont.

    The pain will be when you log in a few weeks in and see no one online in your guild. They will start trying out other games and maybe in a group or maybe one by one they just drift off. I'm not sure how well they know the PS4 playerbase but it's a fickle crew.

    My inner pessimist is cheering this post, I doubt I am the only one. It's completely tin foil in tone but I think that was the intention. To the small child inside me bemused by this change and others of it's kind, this answers a very basic question many of us have or at least I have at the very least.
    I shall now remove my tinfoil hat - lol
    Founding Member of "Wrong Side of the Stronghold"
    Ravenskya - TR / Krisha Chaos - OP / Waffles - GF / Dex Domitor - HR
    Becky the trendy GWF - GWF / Too Toasty - SW / Falcor - DC / Morrigan - CW / Sir Didymus - OP

  • valnoledvalnoled Member Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited August 2017



    We are going to switch the up time to being able to be 100% (cooldown and up time will match). This will be with the lowered percentages that we presented and seems like the best way to address many of the concerns while still bringing bonding power more in line with where it should be.

    Sorry for pointing this out, but why CD is needed anyway? With that renewed mechanic still there will be a gap of a buff, simply because pets die WAY TOO MANY TIMES in your designed dungeons. Why don't you leave buff renewal with every pet attack?
  • ragequittingdc#8599 ragequittingdc Member Posts: 229 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    stat share reduction is still all bad, 100% uptime or not. I'll ask again, maybe with an answer this time, how and where are bondings over performing? I literally just did nsva as the only dps with 3x rank 12, and guess what happened? fail...to be fair storvald only had his last sliver of life left. I wonder how much life he would of had still with the proposed changes.
    im actually the gwf carry
  • dairyzeusdairyzeus Member Posts: 304 Arc User
    Hmm, did a little math based on my current mod 11.5 gear and it looks like if I upgraded every single offensive enchant I had (including bondings) I'd gain ~400 power and lose ~400 crit.

    So assuming the power share timings that dupeks and darthtzarr pointed out get addressed then we'll stay at pretty much the exact same power level as we are now.

    It's only going to cost us millions in enchantment upgrades from 12-14 XD
  • sobacsobac Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 434 Arc User

    We are going to switch the up time to being able to be 100% (cooldown and up time will match). This will be with the lowered percentages that we presented and seems like the best way to address many of the concerns while still bringing bonding power more in line with where it should be.

    Better, but still, you boosted eldritch too much (176.5% with three runestones) comparing to 195% bondings. Now, all augments and eldritch were bough at 10-20k and resold for 30x as much; no one buyin bondings now, maybe when R12 will cost 100k. Brilliant! If you want to leave eldritch as is, boost a bit bondings, 225% maybe? Huge profit for those who bought them all at low price.
  • audioboxer#8681 audioboxer Member Posts: 34 Arc User
    Seems like every few months Arc/Cryptic are going to do something that cheeses off most of the community.

    I think it's just time people accept F2P games think they have an ongoing right to be hostile to the userbase. At this point I'd still say Cryptic make a killing off lock boxes but who knows. I've said time and time again I'd prefer the devs consider an actual monthly fee over VIP and the reluctance to do it either shows the active userbase isn't deemed high enough or its much more lucrative just keeping it F2P. An addition of a monthly fee doesn't need to mean mandatory.

    Bumping all the enchantments up to rank 14 has been a while coming to fuel the 1% upgrade chance gambling again. Most of the userbase won't even be at rank 12 across half of what they own due to the financial or time commitment needed. Now we're at 14 and there is a beastly bonding nerf. The devs know it is what every new player is told to get to r12 first.

    I think these changes might actually be what slays a good portion of the userbase. I know everyone said that about the key changes but this isn't about dungeon loot but nerfing everyone's characters whilst also saying you now need to get to R14. Wrong way to do it Cryptic. Don't punish the userbase and make people feel like they're going backwards for no reason. Raise to R14 to get your money from ward purchases and make endgame harder to suggest to players they need to grind to R14.
  • muckingfuppetmuckingfuppet Member Posts: 207 Arc User
    > @einsieg said:
    > I would be fine with reducing duration of Bondings if they left the stats the way they are. I am not sympathetic to making it so we get slightly more than an augment with Eldritch runestones, half the time. Personally, I just want them to remove the interaction between Bondings and DC power sharing, so they can keep the stat multiplier how it is, and not have to nerf DC's directly at all anymore.

    a very easy fix to this whole problem is to make it so your companions don't receive any buffs at all from any outside source which will stop the massive stat bonuses
  • mamalion1234mamalion1234 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,415 Arc User
    edited August 2017
    dupeks said:


    We are going to switch the up time to being able to be 100% (cooldown and up time will match). This will be with the lowered percentages that we presented and seems like the best way to address many of the concerns while still bringing bonding power more in line with where it should be.

    This is somewhat a contradiction with itself. 100% uptime and cooldown = duration are not the same thing. Buffs like Anointed Army would need to be applied as it procs for them to take affect. Not only this, but any gabs between campaign attacks can cause several seconds of delay between procs, which could mean several seconds without bondings.

    You said the cooldown and duration will be the same, but removed them from the information post, so we don't even know what timers we have to sync our AAs with anymore.
    I applaud the decision to move to 100% uptime for bonding stones. However, there is a concern about how you have phrased it with duration = cooldown.

    The current refresh behavior of the bonding stones allows the Companion's Gift proc to refresh before it expires, and it "re-snapshots" the companion's stats each time the gift refreshes.

    If this behavior is staying the same just with a reduced % stat transfer, that is good. However, if instead the gift is not allowed to refresh, then the concern Darthtzarr raises is a big one: power sharing will become useless as it will need to be timed with the (difficult to see) bonding refresh cadence of each of your party members.

    In my opinion, it's important that the gift be allowed to refresh and "re-snapshot" the stats before the entire duration elapses.
    I Have a question about this why you call that power share will be useless if you will not able to buff a companion? lets put down the numbers. A champion dc can transfer 25% of his power to the player if his power is 35000 for example will give to the player 8750 that is more than a stronghold boon level 10. Also the annointed army will give to the player a boost to his power 33.6%? if that player has 45000 base will go 60120 add also the previous 8750 to thos and we have 68870. Now do 68870-45000= 23870.
    So the dc with 35k power buffs with 23870 the teamate with 45k base power .

    Do you think that is small boost to call it useless almost 24k power buff?
    and forget a dc has and other buffs + the powershare so lets be a little logic.
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