They nerfed elite henchmen to the ground ty crybabies.

Good to know that it was not intended.

Also confirmed by devs, it was a bug.

I'm going to wait to get them at the end, but I'm interested in how their buff works. I imagine they will be beneficial for a lot of players.

In regards to the ETech ones, I'm glad it was just a bug. Who knows what caused it to drop to that, might be related to them getting patched with the old pet code or something? Either way, glad it was fixed.

I didn't particularly "love" Obsidian, but at least he knew how to conduct tests correctly....from the videos that you can find...it's hard to understand anything...and this applies to any "theme", a new artifact, a new iconics, or a new henchman... everywhere the tests were disgustingly conducted...

I never watched his videos, even for comparison. When test was open, I was a pretty heavy tester. These new Hench are part of the 20 day event reward. I'll get a chance to try them to see if I like them.

I do agree, it's hard with Artifacts and Allies now, with no open Test Server. Which is probably partly by de$ign.

???
No test was really required....

The Elite Henchmen used to do about 9 000 000 damage.....
then all of a sudden they were making 900 000 damage.

Either it was an UBER Nerf.... or a Bug.
Turns out it was a Bug..... and it is now fixed.

As for testing on the test server....
One of the issues is that the test Server and the Live server are not exactly the same. Sometimes something will perform better on the test server for some reason.... or sometimes it will perform better on the Live server.

Why???
Could be one of many reasons.
Could be there is a Game Update on test that is not on Live yet??
Could be that some of the Updates on Live were never added on test??
Could be a Bug on Live that we did Not have on test??
And 1000 other reasons.

Heck an example.....
On test... I cannot place Amenities in the House of Legends Lair.... I get an error massage..... but it works fine on Live.
Why???
No idea... and odds are.... we will never know.

The best way to really test something is to do so on the Live server.

An example....
The Shadow Curse Iconic.
When I used it on test.... I would get crit after crit after crit.
On Live...... not a lot of crits.
Why??? Maybe I should make a new video about it Live and try to find out??
We shall see.

And this was not a stone in your garden, do not be offended, but people come to You, or to Metanite ,not for detailed testing, but for news and shovkase. The focus of your channel is completely different, you do not set the task of detailed testing of game mechanics as Obsidian did. You have completely different priorities and goals, and you cope with them excellently. There are no complaints about you, but about people who post their videos with the "tag" testing mechanics, but at the same time conduct the tests themselves ineptly ....

It looks like they were still doing full damage outside of the Spring Event, which was not intended, and someone (who is probably getting really badly teased in the office now) set them to do 10% of their damage instead of removing the 10% buff?

It's quite staggering how many people start slinging around the "crybaby" insult when they're literally coming to the forums to... well...

good to know it was just a bug

Envirotech Henchmen
· Fixed a bug that incorrectly reduced their damage and health

glad it is taken care of!



also, posting this more so for my benefit in case i need it in the future

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/dcuo/index.php?threads/server-update-june-5th-2025.334674/