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Classes and Balance
Content and Environment
Enemies
Items and Economy
- General
- Tenacity: Points in Tenacity are now worth roughly 36% more. Base Tenacity for all players remains unchanged at 10%.
- Control Wizard
- Chilling Advantage: The material components have been found and this feature now works correctly. Chilling.
- Great Weapon Fighter
- Destroyer's Purpose: Determination gain from this feat has been increased.
- Destroyer's Purpose: Now caps at 10 stacks (down from 20) and grants 5% per stack (up from 2%).
- Destroyer's Purpose: Now increases the damage of encounter powers by 20% (up from 10%).
- Trickster Rogue
- Stealth: Striking a player while you are stealthed will temporarily reveal you to the target you strike. This reveal lasts 2 seconds.
- Last Moments: Now correctly benefits from putting points in this feat and correctly activates in all cases.
- Master Infiltrator: Shocking Execution: Damage reduced by roughly 20%.
- Shadowy Opportunity: This feat no longer improperly triggers multiple times on channeled powers such as Bloodbath.
Content and Environment
- Well of Dragons
- Factional Assets can no longer be abandoned.
- There is more descriptive text as to where to find the items that can be donated. Talk to Elminster or interact with the donation cart for more information.
- Resolved an issue with the Tiamat fight that could cause rewards to not be properly awarded in some cases if the map opened faster than the Event Logic could detect it.
- Switching instances in the Temple of Tiamat has been disabled.
- The door to the Temple of Tiamat is now easier to interact with.
- The Temple of Tiamat now has an updated entry hall to allow for better organization of parties.
- Tiamat's Hoard: Player investments to the Hoard will now be more impactful and chances at reaching higher tiers of investment are much better. Scaling for current population has been further adjusted to this effect as well.
Enemies
- Tiamat: The Blue Dragon heads FX should more reliably draw on low end machines.
Items and Economy
- Potions of Dragon Slaying and Scrolls of Protection from Dragons are now able to be equipped in your potion belt.
- Resolved an issue that could cause level scaling items to not work properly if dyed or transmuted.
- The Lathander artifact set bonus will now protect from injuries suffered due to death from falling.
- Tyranny of Dragons Campaign: We have removed the Astral Diamond cost for the Adventuring Gear task and the items received will now be bound to account rather than bound to character.
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Added a few more items for the .4:
FINALY! Now the Destroyer will do some more decent dps. This upgrade is nice, i like it, so dont take it badly, but GWF also need Unstoppable to be really UNSTOPPABLE - still being in this mode GWF can be thrown away, moved somewhere or proned by various attacks from not only bosses but mobs too.
Also more and more enemies are fast moving or jumping + brainless co-players with pushing away powers are doing life harder for GWF so it will be nice if GWF can have faster powers (also during power activation, i can see animation, sound of this power but the power is interrupted, causing delay to use it again and in worse scenario the power is used without doing anything) to use these powers effectively since we are melee only.. any ranged class has a huge adventage.
And the last thing, i would like to see new pure dps oriented armor set for GWF. This class should be primary single target dmg dealer and as a second aoe dmg dealer or tanky dps. So far, after many new Modules, the best pve dps armor set is Avatar of War and that´s pretty sad. The new Draconic Templar set looks nice, it can help to party, but 1750 critical stat loss, really? Please, make a new dps armor set, stat wise (power, crit, defense) with interesting 4 set bonus, not only extra stats which are useless these days, also compared to SW Accursed Diabolist or Fabled Iliyanbruen 4 set bonus, it is really joke.
Thank you for reading this Panderus and keep up good work doing.
Chilling Advantage: The material components have been found and this feature now works correctly
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Nice GWF changes. It's actually something people suggested. Looks really nice.
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Also nice change on Adventuring Gear, can you look into increasing the value of the Tiamat chest as well? Only the book is worth as much as the key.
Also can you consider making the Templar gear 10% bonuses again? I was actually considering a set at 10% but at 5% it's not really an improvement for any class over tier gear.
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• Please remove some of the immunity HR's have while casting powers. For example, fox shift. HR's have a LOT of immunity.
• Roll back Supremacy of Steel, before the damage could be mitigated.
• Please add a 'Collect All' button for professions.
• Sunburst CC is broken, GF's are no longer able too block the CC effect.
No offence, but you're fixing the wrong thing again. There is NOTHING wrong with SE damage! You just made it worse for PvE TRs!
The problem with SE is that it pierces ALL defenses, tenacity including. GWFs, GFs and SWs have no way to dodge that. Their mechanics increase their DR which is completely negated in this case. Please do something about that.
Also, 1st strike amplifies SE beyond belief. In fact, 1st strike amplifies everything beyond belief. It's too good for PvP but too bad for PvE. Why don't you make it +15% damage damage to the first attack after leaving stealth? Instead of +60% once per combat.
ok change, but with the amount of dps in pvp atm. it still doesn't make destroyer a viable option. they'd still die in 5 seconds.
Will be back to give my feedback for TR's
OK. Back after some testing....
If you want to make tr visible after striking fine.
***However, give us the ability to tab on and tab off our stealth at will as long as we have some stealth bar remaining.
Since we can be seen when attacking give us 100% cannot be seen at any range while not attacking.
So even if we are right behind our target they cannot see us until we attack
Thanks
Changes to shocking execution wont prevent what is happening now.
iam not ask for 2, or 3, or 100% critical chance, just a single strong class feature better than 3 sec of nothing. up the time of destroyer/wm to 5 sec will break the game? or make steel blitz better? steadfast determination? really? this change for a single capstone for a single tree seems a solution For ALL the problems discussed every day here? you guys just read the part of the stacks? really?
I hope the pvp surprise is unlock akuma.
ps: 0 changes on preview... came a patch, but do not know if it was the last patch or the new.
Is it the new drow pvp set ?
I hope they are ready to increase the damage by encounter / destroyer porpose by 50% or include all types of damage when unstoppable if the idea is "fix" the class by a single feet ... again and again...
I do not at all excited about these changes (especially if the damage is this what I saw).
Yep, by Mod 6 we'll be back to where we were or worse.
On the face of things though, 2 secs is probably too much. To leave stealth depletion on at-wills whilst bringing this change forward feels like balance will be incomplete.
Modification to Bloodbath is reasonable, and whilst I almost never use it, the nerf to Shocking execution is a bad move.
there are 3 classes who can't dodge, they get bonus DR instead which is COMPLETELY NEGATED by shocking execution, even with the nerf SE still hurts like hell and like what another TR posted in his thread it still need a further nerf.
Well this is just over nerf . Whenever we pvp we almost strike our target 90 % of the time which means we r visible 90% of the time . TR will die within 10 sec if he dont have ITC , stealth is supposed to be a survive tool and dmg boost for TR . Now you take away our survivebility and everybody probably wont go for the sab tree . Whenever we strike we are visible . Yes , i can accept that we are visible for 2 sec , the only thing i dont accept is WHENEVER WE STRIKE .THAT IS JUST RIDICULOUS .
My suggestion
- Only activate every 5 sec
-When our stealth is below 50% then whenever we strike we are visible for 2 sec
-We are visible for 2 sec when we use an encounter ( for sab build - One with the shadow )
-When enemy hit us when we are in stealth we are visible for 2 sec ( every 2 sec )
why do you keep insisting on those stacks, most gwfs hate them, please buff bases, from stuff like mark, destroyer and destroyers purpose we get +150% damage, and still the end result is pathetic, you can multiply nothing as much as you want its still nothing
GWF base dmg is beyond pathetic, we could use double the base dmg considering how squishy gwf are
dps GWF have the least hp of any class(to maximize gains from unstoppable)
also marks are really important for gwf damage, why SM doesnt have DPS oriented options to mark targets, while IV _have_ to slot Threatening rush and lose an aoe at-will ? IBS isnt reliable and daring shout is more tank option, we need more ways to mark
I think the duration should be 1 second instead of 2 for being seen when striking. The second of visibility is more than enough right there. Else cant really utilize the crit chance granted from stealth using the at wills very well. the second of vunerablility per attack is more than enough. With two seconds, the TR wont know really when he's visible or when he isnt when in stealth even after pauses in attacking. (and Im speaking of a TR that isnt perma stealth or attacks using cloud of steel spam)
I dont really see reason for reducing the damage of Shocking Execution. its already lost its health damage scaling and is dodgable ( for the classes that can dodge )
I am glad for the Shadowy Opportunity exploit finally being fixed.
I think the daze from the scoundrel feats need to be reduced slightly. They last just a bit too long.
1) If you're going to nerf damage on TR because of pvp make it ONLY affect pvp play. We know you can split effects between the two game modes so do it here. Make SE less effective against players not mobs. In fact do this for all changes.
2) If attacks reveal stealth then get rid of at-will stealth depletion. Have one or the other, not both. The fact you put a lotof work into implementing stealth depletion shouldn't be the only reason to keep it if it undermines the whole class. Try it on Mimic at least.
Then perhaps it should respect DR, and ignore dodges. Perhaps the mechanic should be adjusted so it hits all equally on all classes and gives parety to all. Reducing the damage is not not going to make a difference in whether it hits those 3 classes or not. It's supposed to be Shocking, its supposed to be an execution.
Incidentally, this is my feedback with my opinion. I'll leave further feedback after testing on preview, but my opinion is mine alone and as such I don't speak for all TRs. Just like "the other TR"!
This is not on preview!
Stack are still the same as on live (20 stacks)
drow pvp set?!?!?!?!?1111!11!?
about GWF destroyer changes
thats a good start however instead of 20% dmg to encounters only while in unstoppable change it to +10% base dmg while picking capstone something instigator capstone alike,also destroyer purpose could grant 1% crit chance per stack
and also a change to focused destroyer feat would be nice like 100% chance to stack at max rank and incrase buff duration by 5 seconds.
for those that are preaching doom and gloom for the trickster rogue class in player versus player content I would say don't despair. In fact what you will more than likely see is a massive increase in the amount of gloaming cut spamming dodging TR's. 2 seconds of visibility is around the same time frame that the road gets for immunity while dodging so envision if you will getting hit with a 7 K 2 10 K gloaming cut, the rogue becoming visible, then the rogue dodging which makes them immune for approximately one and a half seconds and then vaporizing into thin air once again.
I will reserve my final judgment on this change until after I see how it plays out on live but I don't think this was the correct direction to go towards fixing the problem.
Gloom level 60 Control Wizard
Dusk level 60 Trickster Rogue
Dawn level 60 Devoted Cleric
Eclipse level 60 Hunter Ranger
Wrath level 60 Great Weapon Fighter
Jinx level 60 Scourge Warlock