Shadowmantle Preview Patch Notes NW.14.20140224a.7

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• panderus Member, NW_CrypticDev, Cryptic Developer Posts: 1,007Cryptic Developer › Cryptic Developer

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  UPDATE (3/5 1:20pm): Preview will be updated to the .7 later this afternoon. Updated patch notes above including:

  • Fools’ Crown of Neverwinter is now Bind on Equip and has one free appearance change.
  • Profession rewards now include the Aqua Regia and Aqua Vitae alchemy resources.
  • Rare armor pieces and weapons have been removed from the Gift of Tymora box."
  • Sword Coast Adventures is celebrating the Tymora’s Gift event too! Gift of Tymora items have been spotted all up and down the coast.
  • Two new items have been added to the Gift of Tymora box; Tymora’s Lucky Coin and Tymora’s Lucky Enchantment!
  • Combat: Knight's Challenge has a further reduced cooldown.
  • Content: Temple of the Spider: Adjusted colission in this dungeon to prevent players needing to use the /stuck command.
  • Localization: Status debuff FX pop ups such as "Tricked" and "Dazed" now have localized text on the FX.

  
  UPDATE (2/27 10:30am): Preview will be taken down at 3pm PST to apply this build.
  
  Patch notes posted a bit early for your feedback. We tried an updated format to make it read better. These are the complete patch notes for all of this release's build, previous "Shadowmantle PvP" patch notes are all rolled into here as well as a few new ones.
  
  Preview is currently scheduled to be updated mid-late afternoon tomorrow 2/26. I will update when I have a more clear time.

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• dardove Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  panderus wrote: »

  The Hunter Ranger pack now properly allows players to claim the 24 slot Bags of Holding and Adventurer Helper Kits when purchased through the Arc website.

  
  Ah, that explains why I had issues last week.

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• kolbe11 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  panderus wrote: »

  
  Guardian Fighter
  

  • Guard: Now blocks targeted player powers that do not originate from the caster regardless of facing. Awesome! Thank you!
  • Mark: Now applies a "Focused Mark" on the target. This effect does not end if the affected target damages you. Only one target may be affected by focused mark at a time. If a new target is selected, an existing target’s focused mark will be converted to a standard mark.
    Interesting, but I think most of us would rather have a shorter mark animation than a change to some primary/normal marking system. Threat has not been an issue in a while.
  • Lunging Strike: Now deals 1/3rd of its damage in a cone behind the primary target. Threat will be generated on these targets as if they were struck for the full amount.
    Awesome! Thank you!
  • Enforced Threat: Target cap has been increased from 5 to 8.
    Awesome! Thank you!
  • Griffons Wrath: Animation lock has been reduced.
    Awesome! Thank you!
  • Kneebreaker: Now moves the player slightly closer to the target when activated.
    Awesome! Thank you!
  • Knight's Challenge: Cooldown has been reduced from 28 to 20 seconds. Now only enters cooldown when the target has been killed or the effect’s duration has elapsed.
    Awesome! Thank you! I very much appreciate the thought put into this,
  • Anvil of Doom: Animation lock has been reduced.
    Awesome! Thank you!
  • Supremacy of Steel: Will no longer be triggered by reactive damage sources.
    Awesome! Thank you!
  • Iron Warrior: While under the effect of Iron Warrior, players will now generate 150% more threat.
    Meh, again, threat really isn't an issue.
  • Bull Charge: Lunge distance has been increased from 18’ to 28’.
    Awesome! Thank you!

  panderus wrote: »

  Iron Vanguard

  • Crescendo: Now requires a target in order to activate.
    This is a Swordmaster encounter, not an Iron Vanguard one.
  • Feat Reinforced Surge: Now increases damage by 1/2/3/4/5%. Additional prone duration has been reduced to .1/.2/.3/.4/.5 seconds.Fair enough given the Frontline Surge cooldown
  • Frontline Surge: Cooldown has been reduced. Target cap has been increased from 3 to 5. Damage has been reduced by 25%. Prone duration has been reduced against players. The ground splat has been increased to better represent effect area.Awesome! Thank you!
  • Threatening Rush: Now requires a slight delay before reactivation if canceled early.
    Sigh, well, that'll affect GWF's more than GF's anyways

  
  While I think many of us GF players will appreciate the attention we have been yearning for and will surely appreciate some of these changes, it still does not address the core issues that many threads in the Barracks and here keep covering. So while this is good news, it still, at least for me, bums me out a bit.
  
  Guardian: Primary role; A warrior who fights with a shield and heavy armor, thus able to fight with a high degree of survivability and control the battle around him or her.
  Yet its primary role can still be done just as well or better by other classes
  Fighter: Secondary role; Fighter which uses tactics and placement while fighting the enemy intelligently.
  Yet its secondary role still lacks the DPS to even warrant the name "Fighter". It should be Guardian Turtle.
  
  So even with these changes, the GF still only has 50% of the DPS any other class (except DC) and that makes them rather undesirable still. That said, none of these changes will make any difference in winning the hearts of players to have them on any Dungeon Delve team outside of Frozen Heart.
  
  In summary, I hope these changes are simply the beginning of some process of incremental balance and that more ideas are just waiting in the wings for some level of testing. We GF's sorely need it and the IV buffs only help GWF's out in the long run.
  
  None the less, thank you for acknowledging and attempting to make GF's better.

  "It is said that idle hands are the Devil's tools: Idle geek hands, however, came up with gunpowder, nuclear weapons, and toilet plungers." -Illiad

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• panderus Member, NW_CrypticDev, Cryptic Developer Posts: 1,007Cryptic Developer › Cryptic Developer

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  kolbe11 wrote: »

  *snip*
  
  So even with these changes, the GF still only has 50% of the DPS any other class (except DC) and that makes them rather undesirable still. That said, none of these changes will make any difference in winning the hearts of players to have them on any Dungeon Delve team outside of Frozen Heart.
  
  In summary, I hope these changes are simply the beginning of some process of incremental balance and that more ideas are just waiting in the wings for some level of testing. We GF's sorely need it.
  
  None the less, thank you for acknowledging and attempting to make GF's better.

  
  We don't have any definitive plans or release dates yet, but we recognize that this is an issue we need to address.

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• loboguild Member Posts: 2,371 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Will this build go live tomorrow? Just curious because you summed up all the changes across various updates.

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• blureel Member Posts: 163 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  I'm looking forward to the skill level matching in the new PVP! I like the leaver penalty idea, but I think it only solves half the problem with players who give up. Yes, many of the players who give up leave the match, but there are also players who give up and sit in the spawn camp for the rest of the match which is just as bad as the players who leave. I think the penalty system will increase the amount of players who sit in the spawn camp.
  
  I hope the skill level matching system rolls out quickly enough that we don't see this behavior become prevalent.

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• panderus Member, NW_CrypticDev, Cryptic Developer Posts: 1,007Cryptic Developer › Cryptic Developer

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  loboguild wrote: »

  Will this build go live tomorrow? Just curious because you summed up all the changes across various updates.

  
  Not live tomorrow. It is scheduled to go to Preview tomorrow though.

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• jazzfong Member Posts: 1,079 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Can i know why control wizard can bypass tenacity while clerics must suffer from Healing Depression greater or greatest among all classes?

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• kunekaden Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 115 Bounty Hunter

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Feedback:
  
  This just seems like a summary of updates that have already been pushed to preview for the most part?
  
  Where is the Deep Gash fix? Any ETA or acknowledgement that this feat is being worked on?
  By how much is Frontline Surge recast timer being decreased?

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• trippysmurf1 Member Posts: 188 Bounty Hunter

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  senti GWFs are too powerful.
  fix deep gash
  fix armor pen for all classes.
  high prophet boots have been bound since beta.
  
  i.e. please fix old bugs and balance issues before releasing new content.

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• melodywhr Member Posts: 4,220 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  there's not a LOT of class changes, nor are they across the board, but i thought i would ask since it may come up:
  
  will there be a retraining token issued with this release when it goes live?

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• orangefiree Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,148 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Just curious, but since most updates give the enemies for that update in the foundry and this update is about PVP, will the adventurer encounters be finished? We still need ranger, rogue, and GWF, might as well through in warlock too since we have an warlock NPC in the Dread Ring already.

  Neverwinter players are stubborn things....until you strip them down to bone. (Cursed players, my flowers, MINE!) Oh how I plotted their demise.

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• eldarth Member Posts: 4,494 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Unresolved Issues

  • "An issue where ..." appears preceding every note in Resolved Issues and Known Issues sections.

  
  :rolleyes:

  PWE Vanilla Forum Bug Fixes, Enhancements, and Themes

  Foundry Bugs | Foundry Improvement Requests
  
  Encounter Matrix | Advanced Foundry Topics

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• todesfaelle Member Posts: 1,370 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  panderus wrote: »

  Guardian Fighter

  • Guard: Now blocks targeted player powers that do not originate from the caster regardless of facing.
  • Mark: Now applies a "Focused Mark" on the target. This effect does not end if the affected target damages you. Only one target may be affected by focused mark at a time. If a new target is selected, an existing target’s focused mark will be converted to a standard mark.
  • Lunging Strike: Now deals 1/3rd of its damage in a cone behind the primary target. Threat will be generated on these targets as if they were struck for the full amount.
  • Enforced Threat: Target cap has been increased from 5 to 8.
  • Griffons Wrath: Animation lock has been reduced.
  • Kneebreaker: Now moves the player slightly closer to the target when activated.
  • Knight's Challenge: Cooldown has been reduced from 28 to 20 seconds. Now only enters cooldown when the target has been killed or the effect’s duration has elapsed.
  • Anvil of Doom: Animation lock has been reduced.
  • Supremacy of Steel: Will no longer be triggered by reactive damage sources.
  • Iron Warrior: While under the effect of Iron Warrior, players will now generate 150% more threat.
  • Bull Charge: Lunge distance has been increased from 18’ to 28’.

  
  Guard: I like how we can now guard those AoE splats that do not have an origin. It sucks when we get Dazed by that AoE attack that the boss has in Death Forge even with Guard up. This should be useful in a lot of ways although it may vary by situation.
  Mark: Although this is one step closer to making the GF's Tab Mechanic a little more useful, I think everyone can say that this is still lacking. Would it be too overpowered to turn our Tab Mechanic into a "Hard Taunt"? Where monsters who are affected by Focused Mark will be locked in combat with us until we decide to remove the Mark? This would allow us to fulfill our purpose so much easier and allow us some breathing room in terms of building our GF's. Some tank players would like to generate their threat in more graceful manners rather than relying on "raw" threat from DPS. We've got our Threat increase skills, but we are lacking hard taunts.
  Lunging Strike: This is AWESOME. The target cap is a bummer but still, very well thought of. I love this improvement.
  Enforced Threat: Same here, this is very nice. We get to produce 66% more threat as long as there are enough mobs present thanks to the increase in target cap.
  Griffon's Wrath: Tested this back then in Preview and it definitely feels a lot more fluid.
  Kneebreaker: I'm not so sure about this one. I mean it moves us closer to our opponents but it doesn't make it any more useful. If the slow was significant enough like the one we see from the TR's Courage Breaker, I guess that would merit using such a debuff as it'll be an effective way to cripple the opponent without the use of Daze, Stun or Prone skills. Slow is such an underrated Debuff in the game.
  Knight's Challenge: Please do not let this go through to live. It is abysmally bugged like Knight's Valor. I humbly request that these "toggle" skills be scrapped in place of more stable non-toggle skills. In the heat of battle, the one thing you can't afford to have on your skill bar is a bugged skill which your build relies on to protect your allies. Knight's Valor and Knight's Challenge will be in the same boat after this change pulls through.
  Anvil of Doom: Yes this one definitely feels more fluid. I love this skill, specially when feated. I'm pretty sure we should see some GF's rocking this much more than before, but then again, the GF population is technically close to extinction.
  Supremacy of Steel: Not much to say. I guess this is goodbye to Storm Fury vs. Supremacy of Steel scenarios in PVP.
  Iron Warrior: One of the improvements I love the most about this patch as it would synergize very well with our other methods of generating threat. Thank you very much for this.
  Bull Charge: Gone are the days that we'd stop in the middle of our lunging animation because the opponent was too fast!
  
  All in all there are a LOT more improvements that can be made for Guardian Fighters, but this is a good start with the exception of Knight's Challenge turning into a toggle. Some other areas about the GF that could be made would be Guard Potency, Weapon Damage scaling with Encounter Damage for increased DPS, improvements to the underused Protector Path (the primary tanking path), etc.

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• ranncore Member, Moderators, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 2,508

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Feeback: Guardian Fighter
  
  I still think Gf tab ability is the most glaring weakness in GF overall. Making it last longer just makes it a subpar ability that lasts longer. Quick comparison:
  
  Gwf: up to FIFTY percent more dr, temp hp, increased atk speed
  Cw : an EXTRA encounter power with additional abilities
  Tr : INVISIBILITY and increased damage on all attacks
  Dc : alternative at wills and increased and bonus powers on ALL encounter powers
  Hr : completely changes functions of at wills and encounters giving AWESOME utility for many situations
  
  Gf : plus 8 percent damage and some threat (that no gf actually needs, pulling aggro in pve can be done fine with mark the way it is now ie. threat rush and enforced threat. our tab needs extra abilities that give us damage, survivability or utility, not threat)
  
  The primary class feature of Guardian Fighters is actually more powerful for gwf because of the plus fifteen percent dmg feat gwf have access to.
  
  This strikes me as the weakest and least inspired class feature in the game.
  
  The activation time on Tide of Iron and Shield Bash render them pretty much useless altogether (like many other GF skills a few of which are being looked at here, thanks).
  
  I haven't hopped back onto Preview yet but last I checked, you ruined Knight's Challenge. Giving it the same type of cooldown as Knight's Valour also gave it a horrendous bug that has been posted over and over again. Please revert it back and, while you're at it, change Valour to a normal cooldown so it isn't bugged anymore.
  
  TL: DR Tab still sucks, please don't ruin Knight's Challenge.

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• ortzhy Member Posts: 1,103 Bounty Hunter

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  todesfaelle wrote: »

  I'm pretty sure we should see some GF's rocking this much more than before, but then again, the GF population is technically close to extinction.
  
  All in all there are a LOT more improvements that can be made for Guardian Fighters, but this is a good start with the exception of Knight's Challenge turning into a toggle. Some other areas about the GF that could be made would be Guard Potency, Weapon Damage scaling with Encounter Damage for increased DPS, improvements to the underused Protector Path (the primary tanking path), etc.

  
  Same was with the GWF prior to module 2 and now they are everywhere
  
  I like the changes and i would add to the wish list the rework for some weapon dmg based enchantments so the gf can benefit from them also, maybe put a fix bonus damage?!

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• frarii Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  As a GF i like they are adressing probably our biggest problem in terms of playability... our slow animations, more than DPS output, more than threat, and sure more than Guarding attacks, is our slowliness that makes us cringe, some of the changes are really good, mainly the enforced threat targets increase (should be without mmax, if you yell you yell to all who is arround you), the frontline surge is a good change, i dont care about the 25% damage reduction, and the lunging strike is also good change, the others are mostly pvp oriented changes and i feel they are going in good direction...
  
  Now... if you want to really really fix GF and make them on par with any other class... 3 really easy changes:
  
  Increase speed of cleave animation 0.1s in 2 first attacks and 0.2s in the final one.
  Increase uptime of "into the fray" to at least 80%.
  Increase speed of animation of Villain's menace and fighters recovery slightly and in VM buff it slightly in terms of DPS done while buffed.
  
  So three easy fixes... and our DPS would be better... and our party desiderability would be again great.

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• warpet Member Posts: 1,969 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  dps of gf is not a problem and dose not need to be bigger all gf needs is more utily on some of his buffs knights valor should improve damage of efected target by 10% iron warior should improve our resist by 20% or makes us cc imune to and into the fray should allways give 5% damage buff and at tactician 5% more and wms should mark with this changes i posted gf would be more wanted i dont want gf to be another dps class when he can be tank and good team buffer and support as for pvp gf dose not lack dps there at all if run iron vangourd

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• ryugasirius Member Posts: 996 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  todesfaelle wrote: »

  Enforced Threat: Same here, this is very nice. We get to produce 66% more threat as long as there are enough mobs present thanks to the increase in target cap.

  
  Increasing the cap but leaving the power "blind" won't help us much.
  
  The skill should affect targets with least threat, rather than being based on distance. As it is now, we keep reapplying it to mobs that are already taunted and already following us, because they will always be closer (the power has an execution delay that allows most mobs to close any distance we managed to gain, and we are certainly not known as a mobile class), rather than everything else that needs to be taunted in the room.

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• todesfaelle Member Posts: 1,370 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  ryugasirius wrote: »

  Increasing the cap but leaving the power "blind" won't help us much.
  
  The skill should affect targets with least threat, rather than being based on distance. As it is now, we keep reapplying it to mobs that are already taunted and already following us, because they will always be closer (the power has an execution delay that allows most mobs to close any distance we managed to gain, and we are certainly not known as a mobile class), rather than everything else that needs to be taunted in the room.

  
  But it's a start, right? You should write your detailed feedback. I'm sure the devs would be more than inclined to listen to an experienced player like yourself. I personally am not yet content with what we have, but it's relieving that the undesirability of the class is being addressed. If I could have an Enforced Threat that has a zero target cap, I'd be ecstatic!

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• l3g10nna1re Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 372 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  @ panderus
  
  In Regards to the Guardian Fighter, What is the basic Block/Guard Value ? is it 10,000 points 20,000 points? the reason i ask is when usin the Gaurd/Block ability in mob heavy situations even when full Tank Spec and with Tier 2 PVP gear to increase block by 25% and 15% trait it seems to run down VERY quickly iI was wondering iif we can perhaps have a review of the guard ability, maybe double the value it currently is now ? before Buffs,

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• charononus Member Posts: 5,715 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  l3g10nna1re wrote: »

  @ panderus
  
  In Regards to the Guardian Fighter, What is the basic Block/Guard Value ? is it 10,000 points 20,000 points? the reason i ask is when usin the Gaurd/Block ability in mob heavy situations even when full Tank Spec and with Tier 2 PVP gear to increase block by 25% and 15% trait it seems to run down VERY quickly iI was wondering iif we can perhaps have a review of the guard ability, maybe double the value it currently is now ? before Buffs,

  
  Pretty sure you can block more than 3 hits in a row, so you already have more than you should compared to other classes.

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• grw0lf Member Posts: 10 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  A very nice start to improve the GF's viability. Although I do agree with the other comments that it's not yet done.
  A capless enforced taunt would be awsome. You could settle that by making the marks from ET 'normal marks' which leave by getting damage from those mobs.
  A hard taunt is what we really need, though. A mark which doesn't go off unless we get killed or 'unmark' them. Cap that at say 3 to avoid it to become overpowered. Add some nice buffs at the hard taunt and we'll be a whole lot more wanted in dungeons.
  Also, I'd like you to see what people think about adding enchantments to our shield, rather then our sword. I'd love to have my plaguefire on my shield to add those (de)buffs, rather then losing my defensive status with shield and cleaving around to apply the plaguefire.

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• zippich Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 93 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  I still have the feeling that the GF is right and the rest is wrong Anyway, good changes, even they are not new (were in previous preview patch notes).
  
  Two suggestions:
  - change the way how is the Damage Reduction calculated from Defense, now is it very unfriendly for guardians; more close to 1:1 ratio would be better
  - there is already too much damage in the game, so I will always prefer lowering, therefore > slower at-will animations for GWF (how can they swing big sword that fast?) and less dmg for CWs at all (I liked when they were real controllers pre-module 2)
  
  Many things can of course solve different dungeon design - add uncontrolable harder hitting elite enemies for example

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• l3g10nna1re Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 372 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  charononus wrote: »

  Pretty sure you can block more than 3 hits in a row, so you already have more than you should compared to other classes.

  
  The other classes do not Have any block ablity, Unless your refering to escape skills, Slide/Dodge/Shift/sprint etc and i was asking for a responce from Panderus not yourself in terms of a way to measure this or increase it and to be honest blocking 3 hits from a boss would be impossible,

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• frarii Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Threat generation and management is not and has never been a problem! FFS! you never, ever, ever, lose the agro of the packs you agro, and if you do it you are badly specced!
  Survivality same, never been a problem! you have the single most powerful daily in the game, fighters recovery, that puts you from 0 to max hp in a second, you have another awesome daily in villain's menace that makes you survive in 3 VT NPC packs of mobs surrounded for about 20 high level mobs, our HP and Damage reduction should've higher, because i've seen CWs with the same HP pool than me, a Max con Dwarf GF, but i wont complain about that...
  
  Our main problem is WE ARE SLOW, we slow down upper high end parties! those parties are only a 5% of the players, but set the opinion on the other 95%... Devs cannot redesign the whole game, they cannot rework the entire dungeons, they cannot make the combat sistem anew... so unless we change of the class is perceived, as it happened with the GWFs, they always have been viable, but before the ultra DPS buff and the bugged deep gash, nobody wanted one in a party! Now, GFs and TRs and in a lesser rank HRs are only running in guild runs because that uber endgamers set the tone for the other players, who read forums, who listens gossips, who talk ingame... and that opinion of "those who know" is: GFs, TRs, HRs are useless! Only CWs and GWFs with a high prophet DC to stack buffs are needed, the reality in a MMO... is what people perceives, like in any other enviroment.
  
  So we need a DPS buff... or what i really think is more important... an INTO THE FRAY uptime close to 100%, that way we would actually speed up runs, make them smoother and more fun, and smoother animations to feel less "mechanic", that way, without making us OP in PvP (into the fray is not used in pvp) we would always get our spot in all parties, we always had real use in low-mid level parties, that wont ever change, most people wont ever get to the point where nothing but GWFs and CWs are needed, but speeding up the game would get us a sure spot in ANY endgame dungeon, ANY party despite the power of it...
  
  So, as we cannot ask for a total rework of the game... we have to ask for something really easy to implement that would make the game more fun and the class almost perfect.

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• pers3phone Banned Users, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  I hope the Live release date is at least 2 months away. No need to rush this, it would be a disaster as things are now on Preview.
  
  And I cannot understand how at least 2 developers play CWs yet I don't see any meaningful, extended changes to our class in PvP (thanks for the resistance ignored tweak however, it's a step in the right direction, even as it's probably insufficient - remains to be seen).
  
  I'll make it simple:
  
  Even though the CW class is quite weak in Live, I prefer playing it there 100 times more than on Preview, where my experiences were pretty much horrific, regardless of enchants, build and gear used. Need I say that the most "efficient" build I tested actually has no burst and only a single CC? We're Control Wizards, our specialty should be CC.
  
  Conclusion:
  
  Please don't rush this to Live any time soon!
  
  Thanks.

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• iambecks1 Member Posts: 4,044 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  pers3phone wrote: »

  I hope the Live release date is at least 2 months away. No need to rush this, it would be a disaster as things are now on Preview.
  
  
  Please don't rush this to Live any time soon!
  
  Thanks.

  
  Changes are due within the next few weeks according to cmpinpointerror:
  When asked

  pappy43 wrote: »

  and when will these changes happen? a set date and time would be nice ^^

  
  He replied

  cmpinpointerror wrote: »

  In the next few weeks!

  
  Here : http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?615991-Items-Preview-New-PvP-Equipment&p=7348131&viewfull=1#post7348131

  

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• zacazu Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,934 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Leveraging the news, I have 2 wishes about character customization:
  
  I love the art of this game, in my opinion, the best area ... but I do not particularly like much of the look of the "super saiyan hair." Front he is ok, but depending on the angle it completely loses its meaning. It seems that the vegeta becomes beackman. It would be possible to redesign this hair or launch an alternative version of the same?
  
  The second issue is the facial expressions. Is there any way to create personality options? I'd love to put a "joker smile" on my wizard.
  
  Ps: Everyone who is in this game for some time and has no personal quarrels with gwf know very well that this significant increase of damage was fundamental for the class to be viable (and by the way, that's why I created one) . While I am "a torrent of unfettered rage and anger que deals the crushing amount of damage on foe is Likely to Survive"., Everything is beautiful.
  
  ps2:... I was not completely honest. the "sword master" was abandoned.

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• methuselas Member Posts: 275 Arc User

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  panderus wrote: »

  
  Class Changes
  
  [*]Guardian Fighter
  

  • Guard: Now blocks targeted player powers that do not originate from the caster regardless of facing.
  • Mark: Now applies a "Focused Mark" on the target. This effect does not end if the affected target damages you. Only one target may be affected by focused mark at a time. If a new target is selected, an existing target’s focused mark will be converted to a standard mark.
  • Lunging Strike: Now deals 1/3rd of its damage in a cone behind the primary target. Threat will be generated on these targets as if they were struck for the full amount.
  • Enforced Threat: Target cap has been increased from 5 to 8.
  • Griffons Wrath: Animation lock has been reduced.
  • Kneebreaker: Now moves the player slightly closer to the target when activated.
  • Knight's Challenge: Cooldown has been reduced from 28 to 20 seconds. Now only enters cooldown when the target has been killed or the effect’s duration has elapsed.
  • Anvil of Doom: Animation lock has been reduced.
  • Supremacy of Steel: Will no longer be triggered by reactive damage sources.
  • Iron Warrior: While under the effect of Iron Warrior, players will now generate 150% more threat.
  • Bull Charge: Lunge distance has been increased from 18’ to 28’.

  
  This is a joke, right?
  
  Seriously, this *IS* a joke, right?
  
  So, thanks to "Tenacity" *EVERYONE'S* damage is reduced, yet you decide to reduce the damage frontline surge does by 25%, but only increase the number of targets by 2, reduce the prone time and reduce the cooldown a whopping one second??!?? That's the *ONLY* AOE attack a GF has. The only other class that has any kind of damage reduction to encounters is the TR and they've been OP since day one. Oh and thanks for the 25% healing nerf using Fighter's Recovery now. We can't always line up 5 targets for frontline surge.
  
  "Enhanced Mark", actually mark in general, is ABSOLUTELY USELESS! We can't hold it and using "Enhanced Mark" takes up a coveted slot. Oooh. Now I can mark an extra 3 opponents. Big deal. *ANY* AOE attack, by another class instantly kills our mark. In Orc Assault -CTA, I was, as a Level 60 LOSING aggro to a 7th Level Ranger.
  
  SEVENTH LEVEL RANGER.
  
  I have continually tweaked my GF and I'm still lucky to get the 3rd spot in damage done, but I'm a tank. I don't "tank the boss". I don't get the highest number of kills. I don't do the most damage. Lemme explain to you what my "role" is as a Guardian "Fighter."
  
  I kite.
  
  Kite
  1. (verb) A term in video gaming and elsewhere to describe when a ranged fighter skirmishes with a hand-to-hand fighter by running and shooting. This can have 2 purposes: a) to damage the enemy while staying outside of hand-to-hand range, or b) to make the enemy follow you so you can lead them to a specific location.
  
  So, let me get this straight. I'm the SLOWEST toon in the group and I'm expected to do the job of someone that has RANGED attacks AND is fast.
  
  You screwed us GFs, when you gave GWF Iron Vanguard. Now, we're even MORE useless. Hell, even in my guild my GF is only invited along when they need someone to kite. Yet, unlike everyone else, I can actually STAND in AOE attacks from the boss, throw up guard, TAKE the hit, instantly get my guard meter refilled AND still swing.
  
  Way to go, Cryptic. WAY - TO - GO!
  
  *rolls eyes*

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