Test Update 5/9/16 - Patch Notes and Discussions

EnchFWO · May 14, 2016

Sindaiann said: ↑

“Appreciate the change and the admitting of the error. Can't call it intentional and then unintended. Just get it fixed. Sucks it'll take basically a month but whatever.”

I'd consider a month turn around for the fix to be rather fast all things considered.

~Mills~ · May 14, 2016

Kunon said: ↑

“On Live there are 34 ranks of Vengeful Spirits and Destructive Cascade combined. On test there is only 33. I'm going to assume this is oversight?”

Did you test out the mod? Is it still 4.52 even though its only 33 ranks?

mackal · May 14, 2016

Qulas said: ↑

“The in game description on test server says it's 1% per rank.

According to raidloot.com's aa parser, rank 18 of the current live version of staff block gives us 35% chance to block.

So we are going from 35% to 18% if the in game tool tip is correct, or about half of what it used to be.”

Raw data: SPA = 405, base1 = 18, base2 = 0

Human readable: 1: Increase Staff Block Chance by 18%

(So as expected)

mackal · May 14, 2016

Qulas said: ↑

“It wont' be.

Punch Mastery only effects special attacks now.”

The h2h bonus from Punch Mastery (and Fists of Steel) were moved to a new AA, which at max rank has 1350. Searching for "Increase Hand to Hand Damage Bonus " on raidloot gives me 510 from Fists of Steel and 420 from Punch Mastery. Which gives me a max of 930. Unless I'm missing something, that should be a nice DPS increase. 2hb DB bonus is probably still higher, but using h2h/1hb is definitely more viable now.

mackal · May 14, 2016

Fists of Steel (max rank) is now:
1: Cast: Fists of Fury on Skill Use (28)
2: Limit Skill: 1H Blunt
3: Limit Skill: Hand to Hand

(higher chance, no min damage mods as expected)

Xianzu_Monk_Tunare · May 14, 2016

Kethir said: ↑

“May 9, 2016
***AA***

- Monk - Consolidated Hastened Purification of the Body to be ranks 2-11 of Purify Body.”

Maybe I am miss remembering something but haven't we had a second rank of Purify Body since TBM? So shouldn't that be ranks 3-12?

Tlail · May 15, 2016

“- Bard - Consolidated Hastened Blades to be ranks 4-6, 16-18, and 34-35 and Extended Dance of Blades to be ranks 25, 32-33 of Dance of Blades.”

Just as example ....

What happens, if someone only has Dance of the Blades maxed and none of the other AA so far? Are all 3 AA refunded and you wont be able to get the final rank of the regular Dance of Blades back ?

Usually i do the "parent" AA until i have it maxed and then i will start with extended / hastened / quickened .... and i would prefer to still have the choice how to spent my aa in the future and not to be forced a certain path.

Tlail

Attickus · May 15, 2016

Kethir said: ↑

“May 9, 2016
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- Monk - Corrected an issue where Five Point Palm was not correctly reflecting Five Point Palm Focusing.
- Monk - Consolidated Hastened Purification of the Body to be ranks 2-11 of Purify Body.
- Monk - Consolidated Hastened Five Point Palm to be ranks 7-11 of Five Point Palm.
- Monk - Consolidated Hastened Zan Fi's Whistle to be ranks 10-12 and Extended Zan Fi's Whistle to be ranks 13-15 and 23-24 of Zan Fi's Whistle.
- Monk - Consolidated Hastened Thunder to be ranks 3-5 of Infusion of Thunder.
- Monk - Consolidated Hastened Stunning Kick to be ranks 16-18 and 25-27 of Stunning Kick.
- Monk - Consolidated Hastened Eye Gouge to be ranks 22-24 and 28-29 of Eye Gouge.
- Monk - Reduced the effectiveness of Staff Block.
- Monk - Pressure Points has been updated to increase the accuracy of all 6 monk special attack types.
- Monk - Consolidated Stonefoot into Kick Mastery and adjusted the minimum damage bonus to work on all 3 kick special attack types.
- Monk - Consolidated the minimum damage component of Heel of Brithrax into Kick Mastery and adjusted it to work on all 3 kick special attack types.
- Monk - Renamed Heel of Brithrax to Focusing of Brithrax and adjusted the damage multiplier to function on all 6 monk special attack types.
- Monk - Consolidated the hand to hand and 1-hand blunt minimum damage components of Fists of Steel and Punch Mastery into Disciple of the Tonfa.
- Monk - Consolidated the 2-hand blunt minimum damage component of Disciple of the Tonfa into Way of the Katori and renamed the ability line Disciple of the Katori.
- Monk - Adjusted the proc rate of Fists of Steel, ranks 9-10 reduced by 1-2%, ranks 12-15 increased by 1-4%.
- Monk - Adjusted Punch Mastery to include more ranks and more closely match the bonuses offered by Kick Mastery.”

Maybe I'm a cynic on my best day's, but these seems way too lackluster at best considering a fairly decent nerf to monk's durability.

We've always been told that the reason we don't do more damage/dps and have had lesser damage/dps gains compared to other pure melee dps classes is because of our durability and defensiveness.

So this seems quite a bit excessive in my opinion to be cutting the defensiveness on an AA for a monk by about half from 35% to around 18%, and then only giving mediocre damage buffs in exchange seems a bit unbalanced and underwhelming.

Just my 2cp though.

Gyurika Godofwar · May 15, 2016

Test is down again and has been for over 3 hours now.

Greymantle · May 16, 2016

Curious if anyone can illiminate. The new combo skills that previously were capped at say 100, are now capped at 300.(Avoidance) Is this an actual increase in the effectiveness of the skill or just a new scale?

--Voodoo-- · May 16, 2016

Greymantle said: ↑

“Curious if anyone can illiminate. The new combo skills that previously were capped at say 100, are now capped at 300.(Avoidance) Is this an actual increase in the effectiveness of the skill or just a new scale?”

It's an increase to the caps from the conversion to using heroics for mod2s.

See https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq...dation-and-you-may-2016-patch-preview.232498/ for more details.

Ibadan Kun'Tirel · May 24, 2016

“- - Accuracy: 4 points per point of hDEX up to 150 accuracy.
- - Avoidance: 3 points per point of hAGI up to 100 avoidance.
- - Combat Effects: 3 points per point of hDEX up to 100 combat effects.
- - Damage Shield: 1 point per point of hSTR up to 35 points of damage shield.
- - Damage Shield Mitigation: 1 point per point of hSTR up to 25 points of damage shield mitigation.
- - DoT Shielding: 1% per point of hWIS or hINT (whichever total is higher) up to 35% DoT Shielding.
- - Shielding: 1% per point of hSTA up to 35% Shielding.
- - Spell Shielding: 1% per point of hWIS or hINT (whichever total is higher) up to 35% Spell Shielding.
- - Strikethrough: 1% per point of hAGI up to 35% Strikethrough.
- - Stun Resist: 1% per point of hSTA up to 35% Stun Resist.
- - Additionally, the caps on Heroic Mods have been extended once the player's corresponding heroic stat reaches 400 points. The increased caps and the amount of heroic stats required to increase Heroic Mods beyond their initial caps can be viewed as tooltips in the Stats page of the inventory window.
- Removed the restriction that required Secrets of Faydwer to be unlocked on the server and owned by the player in order to utilize the effects of Heroic Statistics.
- Coinciding with the conversion of numerous 'Item Mods' to 'Heroic Mods', all items that previously had mod values that are now 'Heroic Mods' have had their values converted into Heroic Statistics. If the existing Heroic Statistic on an item was already greater than the conversion value, then it has been left unchanged. Due to the fact that each Heroic Stat (besides Heroic Charisma) now impacts two Heroic Mods, the conversion ratio has been scaled as follows:
- - Accuracy: 1-3 points is now 1 hDEX, 4+ points is now 1 + total/8 rounded up.
- - Avoidance: 1-2 points is now 1 hAGI, 3+ points is now 1 + total/6 rounded up.
- - Combat Effects: 1-2 points is now 1 hDEX, 3+ points is now 1 + total/6 rounded up.
- - Damage Shield: 1-3 points is now 1 hSTR, 4+ points is now 3 + total/2 rounded up.
- - Damage Shield Mitigation: 1-3 points is now 1 hSTR, 4+ points is now 3 + total/2 rounded up.
- - DoT Shielding: 1-3 points is now 1 hINT and/or hWIS, 4+ points is now 3 + total/2 rounded up.
- - Shielding: 1-3 points is now 1 hSTA, 4+ points is now 3 + total/2 rounded up.
- - Spell Shielding: 1-3 points is now 1 hINT and/or hWIS, 4+ points is now 3 + total/2 rounded up.
- - Strikethrough: 1-3 points is now 1 hAGI, 4+ points is now 3 + total/2 rounded up.
- - Stun Resist: 1-3 points is now 1 hSTA, 4+ points is now 3 + total/2 rounded up.”

Is there a chance we can get the tool tips for stats updated to reflect how they affect these mods? Just for reference in game?

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