Combat Changes - Launch Live Issues

nitocris83 · January 2021

Please use this thread to report any issues with the recent changes to combat, companions, and bonding runestones. Please do not report unrelated issues or bugs present prior to today's patch.

Known Issues

New Guilds cannot be created.
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burekna2 · January 2021

Hello

I started playing yesterday and got to lvl 30 by todays maintanance. i log on see mobs have tripled their hp, i do more damage i have more hp myself but the game as a lvl 30 character in a lvl 30 zone is unplayable. i constantly need to use hp restore items wich come at a cost, i need 3 minutes to kill a pack of monsters that took me 10 seconds yesterday with constant kiting and runing waiting for hp pot to come off cd. i do hope its not intended to be like this

adfadkjakdjhakdj · January 2021

Similar situation with a level 64 warden. I can no longer make it through Rothe Valley to the dragon encounter (a level 52-55 zone) without getting hammered by the mobs. Time to kill is up slightly, but the mobs seem to hit really hard now. Logged out after a half dozen deaths to see if there's bug to be fixed.

tempeste27 · January 2021

I can see guild and alliance chats but am not able to chat within them. I get this error "[System Notify]You are not subscribed to "ALLIANCEID_Dragon100000039"" as my default upon logging in was alliance chat... no /all or /g and they are not options inside the change chat menu. Every other chat channel is working fine for me.

bigbug · January 2021

mobs overpowered (?) make the game unplayable, in fact.

mcoaxe · January 2021

Yea unplayable solo by all means. Sad that I spent money just yesterday.

barttreb · January 2021

Mobs are now too powerful, even in lower level zones.

xibao · January 2021

Agree with all of the above regarding difficulty. Game has become unplayable due to mob overpower.

netherdragon · January 2021

lvl 35 ranger with lvl 35 gear and I destroyed everything up until the new patch today. Last night I was having fun killing stuff and today my arrows barely do any damage to SIMPLE basic mobs in the game and not just in one area but EVERYWHERE. My health drops so fast that I die instantly engaging in the basic mobs. This should NOT be happening! Right now nobody can play the game

beckar83 · January 2021

I can't even play Ebon Downs!! I died from ROTTERS!!! I took down the dragon there on tuesday by myself.
I literally cried, I had to mute my mic because I was bawling!! HOW IS THIS A GOOD THING?
I am through under mountain, to stardock and starting in Vallenhas. If I can not do Ebon Downs HOW am I to do those???????? I thought you guys said we would still be able to do the content we were already doing?

barttreb · January 2021

Even in Blacklake District I have a problem fighting enemies. 40 level Paladin.

forumaccount · January 2021

I just did LOMM and something is wrong with the final boss fight. Trobriand's lightning attack follows the person that has aggro and doesn't attack on the marked area on the ground. That made finishing it impossible because everyone died.

mrkadookabob · January 2021

Agree w/ all the above. It almost feels like the mobs are scaled for the highest level in the instance, rather than the players scaled to the area.

monk · January 2021

I have to agree, bad enough we have to relearn how to play the game but mobs are way tougher after the patch than before..I'll not be wasting any more cash on Zen if it stays this way. It's nuts you spend to build your character into something that can get things done and someone decides to trash all your work and lets not mention the Zen and diamonds wastes to build it up only to have it trashed after a patch.

pwf7602 · January 2021

Since the new update the game has become virtually unplayable, an area I cleared within 5 min before the update, you can not even get past the first mob, have died numerous times and respawning costs. What is the deal? After many years of playing I am now considering deleting the game and my ARC account.

theelusiveone · January 2021

Flayed Storyteller's Journal is shown as IL 180 at mythic, Envenomed and Frozen are shown as 300. Yet for all 3 if you remove one it only subtracts 150 from IL.
Book of Vile Darkness is shown as 450 IL but only subtracts 300 IL if removed.
Seems the actual IL of the artifacts don't match the tool tips or vice versa.

forumaccount · January 2021

The batiri shamans in the MPF Skirmish are way to tanky. They take 10 times as long to kill as the other mobs.

Also the mobs in the skirmish deal a ton of damage and because there are so many mobs people day very often. Considering it's a skirmish where it's possible to do it without a tank and a healer with only dps it's way to hard. I think today was the first time that I didn't finish the skirmish in 15 minutes.

sriram · January 2021

FBI final boss is bugged and it is automatically resetting the fight.
1. At the start the is moving to the end path and dancing over there
2. after automatic reset he is dancing near the entrance gate..

frfloppy · January 2021

Game has become almost unplayable. I am lvl 80 and yesterday I could do all zones (except Avernus) on my own. Also quick skirmishes. Now I can barely do anything without a lot of struggle. I even needed 20 minutes (in a party) to do something yesterday I did on my own. And I died twice... Something is very wrong with the overpowered mobs (all of them). Any enemy makes incredible damage now and is very hard to kill. And I am talking in everything I tried. Instead of fun, game has become a very hard (and unpleasant) work

calowaren · January 2021

Yesterday my level 42 ranger romped through Ebon Downs completing the missions and winning the Mushroom event. Today I'm getting mobbed by Rotters who kill me before I can get them to half health. It's not fun and it's now almost unplayable sadly.

blargskull · January 2021

I haven't even logged in yet and all my friends are calling me and chatting on Discord about the Fashion and Dye bugs. We are role-players, fashion and dye means a lot to us. Especially in this game that is far too limited on how much we can do. Reports to me range from, people are telling me it is fashion disaster, to no issues on most characters. A few are actually paying AGAIN for new dye and fashions with both AD+gold. They are not happy this went live looking like a mess.

Just FYI, I plan to stay on Champions myself until you get your house in order.

lauralh28 · January 2021

Longtime Level 80 ranger warden here, and I'm experiencing the same OP mob issues that lower-level players are. I logged into River District after the update and to my great surprise, I almost got killed by a group of 5 normal Nasher Rebel enemies, the same group that I had destroyed yesterday with little problem. Instead of seconds, it took minutes to beat them and I lost 3/4 of my HP. I experienced similar issues with other zones and enemies. Seems like mobs take three times as long to kill now, and they deal greater damage. This issue happens even in campaign zones which I finished a while ago and was just romping through for boons, zones where my character should be able to survive no problem, such as Sharandar. Instead I'm getting overwhelmed by basic enemies, and almost everything is much more of a struggle. I feel like I'm just starting out each zone, even for long-completed campaigns.

I tried to fix my stats according to the new patch notes but not much changed. I also heard that higher-level players are encouraged to spend Zen money to compensate for these issues, which frankly seems unfair to me. I have never spent any Zen money because I have no real-world money to spare, and I was content with that. But now it seems the game is trying to force me into making Zen purchases.

I don't really have this problem in dungeons with parties, it's mainly a solo issue. It seems like this update was intended to facilitate parties instead of solo playing, but I disagree with this idea. I loved solo playing, it's how I got to where I am in the game today, but now it's really not fun and, like other posters have said, almost unplayable. I feel cheated out of my Level 80 accomplishments, to be honest, and it's kind of disappointing, especially with the new Sharandar update on the horizon. No longer as exciting. Hope this OP mob issue gets fixed soon.

vastano · January 2021

I cannot believe any company (bar flagship of coarse) can release to live such a messed up buggy update that makes a game unplayable
scaling is rediculas chat channels not working quests unplayable and unfinishable
it is blindingly obviose you havnt listened to any of the bugg reports on preview and rushed this in so it doesnt hinder mod20
not impressed

jarushk · January 2021

Before the combat rework was implemented, my main char (dps cleric) had no problems in all of the 70s zones like Dread Ring, Icewind Pass etc. Now, with the rework, the simple Servitors in Dread Ring almost kill my cleric, and for the first time since months I have to use healing pots and even healing stones during fights with trash mobs. The incredible high damage of simple trash mobs is inacceptable. I suggest a rework for the rework and a massive reduction of the damage these plain mobs can do. Until then, I will not put one single dollar into a game that converts fun to anger about messed-up game mechanics.

Thank you.

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tokoz · January 2021

I liked the old, solo the start of the area and get a group at the end, dynamic of the game. It's gone. Nothing is solo-able. I shouldn't need 3 health stones to fight a couple mobs of yard trash. As it stands the game is completely unplayable solo and not very playable with 2 players. I'm sure the intent was good and I was really excited for the changes, but the execution is very poor.

Taking out things that were payed for with AD and/or Zen was hopefully unintentional. Specifically, cosmetic things, like character appearance, required paying out AD again and I'm hearing some people saying similar things about purchased dye packs.

I understand what's being said about the companion changes, but it translates into having a companion that was at least still useful, even at the common level provided you leveled up enough, being totally useless. Giving a few upgrade tokens, but not enough to actually upgrade anything doesn't help your case.

A roll back seems like the best option while you get things to work and balance properly. It probably wouldn't hurt to have some sort of incentive to encourage casual players to help in testing, since that's the group you're hurting the most.

pitshade · January 2021

Ran Malabog's Castle in private queue. Noted several problems. Quicklings and Witherers one shot players numerous times. A friend said the Quicklings weren't even doing attack animations just that he was taking massive damage. (can't confirm this)

Another issue was the gate before Second Boss, King Malabog. My friends got there first and went in but when I got there it gave me the Gather Your Party circle. I was unable to enter until after they died and respawned outside. Which leads to the next issue, boss had no HP so multiple HP thresholds were crossed instantly, summoning a horde of mobs that had more HP that expected. When I was finally able to enter the room with my party, all that were left were a pair of Red Wizards so I assume the rest despawned.

Another issue and a longstanding one, is that I invited another player to queue after we were already inside and they were spawned outside the castle, unable to join us. This has happened for a long time but now with the Gather Your Party gates added, I had to kick them and not reinvite until we were outside again at the final boss gate. Otherwise they were unable to get to us and we to them.

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augok · January 2021

Sentinel tank, i was (and am after spending a retrain token) able to select ALL of the feats in powers (both parts of the OR options) and have checked and effects are active for both selected feats. Other classes not effected that i have been told (Most represented ) but definite bug there for Sentinel

harvmonster · January 2021

If the new combat system is what caused even the basic mobs to be able to one-shot anyone, then the new system is BROKEN. This needs to be addressed ASAP. This is making the game too much of a headache to try to even level.

Combat Changes - Launch Live Issues

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