I have a huge friend list of people who haven't logged in the game for the last 10 days. I don't think they were all banned. What is worrying is that the game is not officially released and already lost a significant % of its potential customers.
I havent played my GWF for some time but is it the feat that boost the dmg bonus from strength? If yes, then yeah it does work, I remember checking the tooltip for restoring strike and it went from something like 879 to 880 after a point investment. It's just terribad because it's not a flat bonus, like having 20 STR…
I think you need to go in the audio settings and disable the voicechat to get rid of that annoying bug. The other benefit is that you wont hear anymore people chewing **** in pugs.
I don't think "Underhand Tactic" is that good, though that depends on how the math works, which I am unsure of. On my rogue with 16 CHA, combat advantage is around +20% dmg, so Underhand Tactic = an overwhelming +4% damage. Unless you really want to min/max your dmg output at the cost of anything else, there are better…
This game seems to have the exact same aggro table than Champions Online, among other things, where heals > damage > various threat bonus. The only exception is the taunt/mark that overrides it but doesn't last long.
At release Champions Online used to have 120 instances of its main zone with at least 75 persons in each, most reaching the 100 cap. 2 months later there was only 30 of them, with maybe half of them full. I hope it'll goes differently for this game but it'll depend on what kind of support Cryptic gives to it.
While their practise is moraly questionable, I think Cryptic has a nice busyness plan. See, all their games have quite high instant fun value, but not much to keep people interested in the medium/long term, imho due to a lack of content and fubar team mechanics. So, if they did a "real" open beta -with a wipe at the end of…
"hey look our game has no classes balance, its economy is fubar due to sploit but at least you get a lolcat cape. Now hurry and buy a founder pack before the beta ends!"
"Hope"??? "Majority of the currency"??? So you're basically saying you know your roll back doesn't solve much, but "hope" it will be enough of a band aid. Well I suppose you made enough $ from this game already and are now shifting ressources to your next project, which will most certainly be based on another license so…
Given Cryptic's track record, don't expect any fix for the warrior classes before 6-8 months. Then they'll probably overbuff them to Godmode for a few months, during which TR, DC and CW will be totally useless.
I can say cos I tested by making 2 GWF with different CON score, and compared the % of damage mitigated by the same mobs. The armor pen from CON is added to your armor pen from gear, but armor pen can't give your target a negative armor value. If you mouse over your armor pen score, it shows your % defense ignored, and it…