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Edit 2019-10-07: Added / updated the following entries. They were in the patch; I'd just missed them on the notes.
Highlights
Stat Balance Changes
Crit Severity and Combat Advantage now each multiply all damage dealt, instead of adding their values to each other and other certain damage buffs.
Queue Changes
The queues have been recategorized to provide a more consistent experience and expectations to players who enter them. The updated categories are now:
The role requirements for Skirmishes have been removed; players can queue with any number of tanks, damage dealers, or healers.
See more info below for additional changes made to the individual queued maps.
Release Notes
Content and Environment
Dungeons
Combat and Powers
Classes and Balance
Items
Zen Market
- Vorpal Enchantment: This weapon enchantment has been reduced in efficacy so that the buff to critical severity doesn't make it more powerful than intended.
- Manycoins Bank Heist: This skirmish should now properly unlock for other characters on the account, once it's unlocked on a single character.
Highlights
Stat Balance Changes
Crit Severity and Combat Advantage now each multiply all damage dealt, instead of adding their values to each other and other certain damage buffs.
- Before, a player with 100% Crit Severity and 100% Combat Advantage (100k more than the enemy's Awareness) would deal 3x as much damage when they critically strike with combat advantage active.
- Now, that same player would deal 4x as much damage: Double from their 100% Crit Severity, and double that from their Combat Advantage.
- Known issue: This fix is not yet working 100% correctly in this build; players still deal less damage than they should.
- For instance, if a player has a 10% damage buff and a 5% damage buff, they should expect to deal 15% more damage (before factoring in critical strike, combat advantage, or the enemy's damage reduction effects).
- For instance, a player who has two separate 50% damage reduction effects should consistently take only 25% of base damage.
Queue Changes
The queues have been recategorized to provide a more consistent experience and expectations to players who enter them. The updated categories are now:
- Dungeon: Requires level 12 or above.
- Skirmish: Requires Item Level 14k or above.
- Epic Dungeon: Requires Item Level 17k or above.
- Trial: Requires Item Level 16k or above.
The role requirements for Skirmishes have been removed; players can queue with any number of tanks, damage dealers, or healers.
See more info below for additional changes made to the individual queued maps.
Release Notes
Content and Environment
Dungeons
- Malabog's Castle
- Respawn points are now properly distributed more evenly through the map.
- There are now about 20% fewer enemy encounters in this dungeon, and the dungeon overall has been made easier.
- Respawn points are now properly distributed more evenly through the map.
- Temple of the Spider
- In accordance with the adjustments to random queues, Temple of the Spider has undergone minor adjustments to make its runtime closer to other dungeons at the same item level entry requirement.
- Two new doors have been added to the dungeon.
- All doors now require the party be out of combat, and that nearby enemies have been defeated before advancing.
- Team corrals have been added to the first and second boss fight.
- In accordance with the adjustments to random queues, Temple of the Spider has undergone minor adjustments to make its runtime closer to other dungeons at the same item level entry requirement.
- The first and second bosses in Temple of the Spider (Master), Cragmire Crypts (Master), and Gray Wolf Den (Master) have had their health increased to be closer to that of other bosses.
- Gray Wolf Den
- The damage of certain attacks used by Ethraniev Marrowslake has been adjusted.
- The number of additional enemies that appear when fighting Ethraniev Marrowslake has been reduced, and their positions have been adjusted.
- The damage of certain attacks used by Ethraniev Marrowslake has been adjusted.
- Spellplague Caverns (Master)
- A handful of enemy encounters have been removed from the dungeon.
- The position of some encounters has been adjusted.
- When falling off the platform during the fight against the Giant Nothic Stone-Eye, players are now returned to the platform in a downed state.
- A handful of enemy encounters have been removed from the dungeon.
- Tomb of the Nine Gods
- A handful of enemy encounters have been removed from the dungeon.
- When falling off the platform during the fight against Ras Nsi, players are now returned to the platform in a downed state.
- A handful of enemy encounters have been removed from the dungeon.
- In accordance with our random queue adjustments, the following queues have been recategorized to skirmishes:
- Kessell's Retreat
- Shores of Tuern
- Kessell's Retreat
- Skirmishes once again can be run by any group of 5 players, instead of requiring a tank and healer.
- To better fall in line with other skirmish lengths, a few encounters have been added to the following skirmishes:
- Dread Legion
- Garrundar the Vile
- Master of the Hunt
- Shores of Tuern
- Dread Legion
- Manycoins Bank Heist: This skirmish should now properly unlock for other characters on the account.
- Prophecy of Madness: The duration of this skirmish has been reduced by about 20%, and it is now about 25% easier to reach Gold rank.
- Demogorgon
- Demogorgon's maximum hit points have been increased.
- The damage dealt by Tentacle Strike, Forked Tail, and Tentacle Blast has been increased.
- Tentacle Strike no longer applies stacks of Madness.
- Paranoid Delusions now apply Madness less often.
- Demogorgon's Maddening Aura effect now applies every 15 seconds, up from 4. The damage has been increased and the power is now accompanied by a visual effect.
- The damage indicators for Forked Tail and Tentacle Blast now consistently fade once their powers finish casting.
- Demogorgon's maximum hit points have been increased.
- Convention Infiltration: There should no longer be a way to become unable to complete this quest.
Combat and Powers
Classes and Balance
- Rogue
- To match other standard AoE powers, Whirlwind of Blades now properly hits up to 15 targets, up from 5. The tooltip now indicates that the damage increase granted by hitting enemies with Whirlwind of Blades cannot exceed the amount granted by hitting 5 targets.
- Warlock
- Accursed Souls: The magnitude has increased to 900.
- Brood of Hadar: The tooltip has changed to reflect damage done to primary target. The magnitude has increased to 600 to the main target, and 150 per brood attack.
- Tyrannical Curse: The magnitude has increased to 900.
- Accursed Souls: The magnitude has increased to 900.
- Warlock (Hellbringer)
- Dark Prayers now summons a soul puppet when an enemy cursed by the warlock dies.
- Soul Investiture is now a 10% damage increase for the Soul Puppet per stack.
- Risky Investment now grants a 4% bonus to damage for each stack of Soul Investiture.
- Killing Flames and Dreadtheft have been moved into the Hellbringer paragon encounter selection.
- Arms of Hadar and Blades of Vanquished Armies have moved into the Warlock general encounters.
- Hellfire Expertise no longer increases Fire and Necrotic Damage.
- Soul Sparks now increase Hellbringer damage by 0.2% per spark.
- Arms of Hadar: The magnitude has increased to 50.
- Vampiric Embrace: The magnitude has increased to 240.
- Blades of Vanquished Armies: The magnitude has increased to 20 per blade.
- Hadar's Grasp: The magnitude has increased to 200.
- Fiery Bolt: The magnitude has increased to 175.
- Killing Flame: The magnitude has increased to 480.
- Hellfire Ring: The magnitude has increased to 100, DoT increased to 200.
- Soul Scorch: The magnitude has increased to 9 per spark used, and the DoT has increased to 1.5 magnitude per spark.
- Gates of Hell: The magnitude has increased to 750.
- Flames of Phlegethos: The magnitude has increased to 1000.
- Dark Prayers now summons a soul puppet when an enemy cursed by the warlock dies.
- Warlock (Soulweaver)
- Lifebind has been reduced to taking 10% of damage dealt to allies. This has switched from an increase in Defense to an increase in Damage Reduction.
- Feat Transfusion Tactics has changed to Mending Mastery, and increases outgoing healing by 5%.
- Prince of Hell now gives 5000 Armor Penetration.
- Dark Revelry now increases teammates' Awareness and Critical Avoidance by 5000.
- Soul Sparks should no longer deplete when in a downed state.
- Wraith's Shadow: The healing magnitude has increased to 100.
- Lifebind has been reduced to taking 10% of damage dealt to allies. This has switched from an increase in Defense to an increase in Damage Reduction.
- Vorpal Enchantment: This weapon enchantment has been reduced in efficacy so that the buff to critical severity doesn't make it more powerful than intended.
Items
Zen Market
- A version of the PvP Starter Pack is now properly available when the character is maxed out on loadout slots.
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You’re probably wondering what im getting at....well i love seeing that demogorgon got some hps hopefully a bunch so he will stay alive longer than 10 sec - but what about drufi? Nostura? Dont even get me going on the dragon turtle? Should i even ask about ravenloft? Will that ever be queueable again? Cradle? I really hope you go thru fangbreaker, that used to be one of the most challenging dungeons i could tell you everything wrong but most of the stuff here falls on deaf ears - you are raising dmg from what was outlined in your examples and then simplifying dungeons just seems like a bad combo for some of these dungeons, yes we want to get through them reasonably but it’s equally not gratifying taking down a boss as fast a few packs of mobs - i dunno i just know what msp and fang used to be and now packs of mobs are getting cut out - the funnest part was aggroing huge packs and seeing if you could not die it was like a test if you were good or not - these bosses are dying so fast the mechanics don’t matter I thought that was the point of this mod 16 changes - to me the hard dungeons became super easy and the super easy became hard - any insight on this would be great
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> people aren't willing to take the days required to train people to stay on the platform. I don't think any of the newer players are willing to take the days to train necessary either considering it's a very old trial now. explaining won't keep them on the platform. lol
Then those ppl shouldnt run codg.
So if you get say dread legion You get less rough ad that day. that does not seem right. It sounds like an AD nerf
RIP Real Tiamat, RIP Real Demogorgon RIP real Temple of the spider. Why remove non bis content to give to bis players ????
FORCING the majority of your player base to play 4 mod old dungeons and trial will have a bad result on player base
Changes are getting so bad i would rather prefer no new changes (RIP ICE FISHING in winter fest)
This skirmish should now properly what? Be less painful and actually able to be completed with a random group? My healer was #1 dps last time I tried this one which was definitely not a good sign...
Overall I kind of like the changes and REALLY excited you can go back to any 5 for Skirmishes. Requiring the 3-1-1 was a bit much.
Classes and Balance
sometimes i sit here and wonder...
Now do the same thing for Cradle.
Also, Folly spawns twice the mobs I feel would be challenging, hundreds of adds is just overkill.
Sw Hellfire expertise nerf, really? I've got over 50 Tower of the Mad Mage keys, my 25K+ Hellbringer has yet to receive an invite to a run.
Also how funny is it that we are going back to Skirmish, Trial, Dungeon, Epic Dungeon where we were back in 2017
https://arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1234049/official-feedback-thread-random-queues/p1
... get you drowned by jim's wand?
...explode when ending destroying all protector's enclave?
C'mon don't leave us with the intrigue I mean, if you guys when you wrote that number didn't laugh as much as i did when i read it, you clealrly have no soul
Believer in SMASH
Fairplay,no bots , no bugs, and play well
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnN0Yofs-Scv1nd8U_bSYLA/featured
Pleeeeease =D
Rewards from Codg(enhanting stone, rank 6) is already has low price which shows lots of people was able to learn that single jump...
But to add to this tangent, how about adding invisible walls to the Sahha picket so that balls cannot be knocked out of bounds XD
If I had ranged equipment, it would go up around 5%, so to around 200k DPS. It's still lacking to Assassin, but moving at-wills designed for a pure melee paragon that are practically making Assassin viable to Whisperknife is just not a good idea at all. Players geared up for Assassin.
If some powers could be tweaked, then Whisperknife might actually start being useful on the level of Assassin. In AoE WK is good enough, possibly even better than Assassin, but as for single target it's lacking on it's last at-will - Disheartening Strike. The damage is laughable and I do suspect that DoT is not as high as it was supposed to be. Cast time for it is terrible and -5k defense is only usable in PvP. Pretty low for a single target at-will, Cloud of Steel beats it in every aspect and it hides before Duellist's Flurry in DoT. If the magnitude could be higher - 100 for hit and actually 50 for DoT - that could make it outperform Gloaming Cut and bring the paragon in line with Assassin.