Another pet Nerf?

- player summoned pets, and mercenaries in that it will be subject to the armor class 'soft cap'.
- This corrects an issue seen on the test server where player summoned pets and mercenaries had their total mitigation AC impacted by the soft cap.

think of it as more of an adjustment ....

The wording is ambiguous. What's the actual outcome of this 'adjustment'?

My guess is that pets and mercs weren't subject to the AC soft cap like players were and now they are.

It's very ambiguous though, hard to read exactly what was changed. A lot like the research changes in this patch as well.

Dzarn commented on this in the test update thread.

Sancus said: ↑
“Something is very broken with pets on test.
...
Pet mitigation needs to be fixed before this goes live.”

Dzarn said:
PC Pet and mercenary mitigation on the test server is currently applying the player AC soft cap value and post cap multiplier to PC pet and mercenary total mitigation AC.

This resulted in a drastic reduction in their mitigation and is unintended.

This has been changed for the live patch to instead only apply the soft-cap multiplier to buff AC for pets and mercenaries and should be noted in the patch notes as follows:

“- Mitigation armor class granted from buffs will now function the same for players, player summoned pets, and mercenaries in that it will be subject to the armor class 'soft cap'.
- - This corrects an issue seen on the test server where player summoned pets and mercenaries had their total mitigation AC impacted by the soft cap.”
The intended effect of this change is that buff AC for player pets and mercenaries is equally effective as it is for players, rather than 300-400% as effective. Its omission from the test patch notes was a mistake.

Mitigation AC values for a single case to highlight the situation on test v live v the upcoming live patch:

“Unbuffed mitigation AC for a level 105 Magician's Convocation of Air, Enhanced Minion XVIII:
Test: 2282
Live: 5563
Pending Live: 5563

With full Rk III raid buffs:
Test: 2543
Live: 6310
Pending Live: 5802”

So it is a pet nerf, but only to buffs cast on pets. So it's a "minor" nerf. It was a huge nerf on test that they then fixed before it went live.

well that is good, at least the fixed it before it went live.

You obviously can't read. How do you like the personal insult thrown back at ya?

It was a nerf to AC buffs cast on pets. Before this patch they weren't using the soft cap, now they are.

You can read all about the discussion here:
https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq...1-17-patch-notes-and-discussion.237743/page-5