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Patch Notes: nw.120.20200427a.2
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Patch Notes for tomorrow's maintenance are now available.
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/11429993
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/11429993
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You mean the Golden Warhorse from Hellpit?
Thats nice.
Another problem that irritates players on daily basis are those deadly AOE red circles - that are missing... coupled with disappearing of follow-up visual effects. (icy floor, fire, poison gass)
Dragon breaths in Tiamat (white, green) usually have a warning red before cast, but do not leave red warning neither any visual indication of dangerous area while still happily functioning as a near insta-kill. (a long time ago there was a poison in the air/ice on the floor)
"Three breath attack" from many dragons (Lostmouth, green, red and blue drags) - those are often missing even the red circles before cast. (Lostmouth and other reds are missing the fire indication afterwards, greens are often missing the poison in the air)
What is it with the dragons tho? Cultists schemes I guess.
It's deal exact the same amount of damage as before, but now in description 6.7 magnitude.
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- slow down the mimic spawns where they go incredibly fast
- make the cocoon phases impose a mark on the affected players (in or nearby) that, after the 2nd stack, prevents you from being revived
- fix whatever is causing players in the cocoon from not being full when they seem to be (like they receive a bit of damage or whatever) (bug previously reported, I think)
Then again, if players are having a hard time at Arcturia, revive sickness from cocoon fails is going to make it harder for them to finish. Guess we'll see how it goes.
On the test server "Lurker", as I understand it, this patch appeared.
And the only change for this mount - is a change in description.
I hope I'm wrong
If I really made a mistake, I apologize for the misinformation
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/11429993
The golems really did not matter. The insta kill from cocoon was devastating to random teams that got a poor healer, especially when they only pull one good HDPS who keeps getting knocked out of the battle from cocoon. This change makes LoMM random-friendly. Easier yes, but not a cakewalk.
If you wanna punish leechers and underperformers, how about installing an AD reduction for players that die 5 times and for any DPS that deals less than 15% of total damage?
The patch notes warned us that the proc rate of Spell Storm wasn't working as intended, and would be brought into line.
If you don't know the wizard class too well, the Thaumaturge paragon is broken and discarded. We're down to the Arcanist paragon, where Spell Storm is the mandatory class feature. It's a significant component of our AoE damage, which is sadly lacking behind other DPS classes, after the string of nerfs that has recently been applied to the wizard.
Your patch notes warned us that the proc rate of Spell Storm wasn't working as per the tooltip, and those that understood what that meant knew that, for some reason, you were going to decrease the proc rate.
The other thing that the patch did, and didn't warn us about, was that Spell Storm also got a nerf to it's own crit rate. It went from reasonably high (which is generally the WAI rule - inherit the crit status of your proc source) - to a zero. No more crits.
In other words, our best class feature got a very severe double whammy nerf.
Now, I'm all for proper class balance, and everyone getting a fair chance, but I just can't understand the motivation for this.
After the string of nerfs handed to Wizards recently, the potential of our class clearly lags against the at potential TRs, HRs across the board, and Barbies for AoE.
Surely nobody is complaining is complaining about Wizard DPS.
Are they?
I can't even reconcile this as misguided governance of further nerfs so that the tool tip is correct. The addition of the Spell Storm 's ability to crit itself is actually against the WAI genral priciple, and the full change is clearly, simply a CW nerf.
We work hard to try and better ourselves with game play and slow progression. We spend millions of AD to scrounge an extra % of damage here and there. Then a nerf comes along taking something worth 15%+ of (AOE) damage, and smashes us down by about a whopping 9%.
Worst of all, we're nothing like an over perfoming class now - particularly where we got hurt most, in AoE.
I understood why wizard changes were necessary after the very strange , weird module (single target, beginning to end) that was ToMM. I couldn't understand though why they nerfed the wizard the *way* that they did (smashed the core, in addition to single target nerfs). The nerfs were so bad that they spilled across to the Thaumaturge paragon, and despite Dev attempts to revive it in the same set of changes, it became an even more broken and neglected option.
So now, it's starting to feel like the bad old days of mod 6 through the heights of class despair when ToNG landed.
It's hard to see if the relative balance of classes is properly understood, and that the consequnces of changes made are understood.
But, the hardest bit is the question "Why do I play this game, struggling to better my character by a few % here and there, over months, when a random nerf comes along with something like a big 9% hit, when I'm nothing like an over performing class"?
So, please, just try and find out for us why this happened.
If you get an answer along the lines of "that's what the tool tip says for proc rate", then find out for us why they also stopped Spell Storm from critting. The precedent for that is the opposite of what got done in the patch.
How can we interpret this as anything other than an inexplicable nerf?
Thanks.