Theft of Essence IX

Discussion in 'Casters' started by Elendieal, Sep 19, 2018.

  1. Elendieal Journeyman

    Is the new haste component slowing down our pet DPS? It seems like it might be, but I do not parse or anything.....
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  2. Raytan Augur

  3. Elendieal Journeyman

    Thank you for showing me, now just another month to wait for pets to be fixed.... /SIGH
  4. Sancus Augur

    It really sucks that this went live. For now, I would heavily recommend blocking Theft of Essence (/blockspell add pet 49680).

    I appreciate that the devs were trying to add Haste to Theft of Eseence; it's something I've wanted for a while. However, pushing changes live that weren't on test is really bad, and that's how we ended up in this situation. The consequence is that most Mages and people grouping with Mages will have their pets perma-slowed for the next 4 weeks, as spells aren't hotfixable. Those that block Theft of Essence will lose its significant benefits, but it seems to be the lesser of two evils.
  5. Elendieal Journeyman

    I was so excited, and now it's a nerf for a month....:(
  6. Piemastaj Augur

    It is almost like there should be a server that we could log into (which we both did) to parse this type of thing...

    Literal entire purpose of Test is to weed out things like this, and it got completely bypassed. Takes all of 10 seconds to realize this is a giant slow. Bravo.:rolleyes:
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  7. Jaylin Augur

    Well to be fair even if it was sent to test it would have still gone to live. Many many many many things reported on test over the years but still go live. It gets well documented and still goes live. The devs then act like it was a surprise and don't know how it wasn't caught with plenty of documentation. Many problems found in the patches on test are never fixed before live. I'm not blaming anyone, but it's why people don't bother to go test things. People only test to know what is really going on, but not to resolve the problems. For years now live has been the beta and test server
  8. Piemastaj Augur

    The issue is, this was clearly the opposite of what was intended. The intention was to increase pet haste, not decrease their haste by 75%. That gets fixed in about 10 seconds with just adjusting numbers. This was literally misinformation with the developers leading to a nerf.

    Not saying things do not get by, but this would have been adjusted before the patch hit today.
  9. Jaylin Augur

    It is the opposite of what was intended but over the years many things were inadvertently done and we're documented and still failed yo get through. I don't have faith that if it was documented that a Damn thing would have been done about it until after the patch.
  10. kizant Augur

    I sometimes think the purpose of Test is just to see whether a patch completely destroys the server and makes the game unplayable. As long as everything doesn't crash then the patch is good to go. Although, in this case I think it worked out rather well!
  11. Leskathemag New Member

    I have noticed this as well , ((
  12. divirgmar Lorekeeper

    Maybe this will get fixed today?
  13. Brohg Augur

    It did not get fixed today.
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