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Tides of Time - Missions - Level 60 Bracket Rebalancing required

Discussion in 'The Veterans' Lounge' started by Aziuno, Jun 19, 2024.

  1. Aziuno Augur

    Negreth, thank you for context. It really means a lot and goes a long way when dealing with your fanbase.

    Again, thank you.
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  2. fransisco Augur

    do you mean the max damage of a npc spell will increase by 2.5 times? Or that the perportion of overall damage the npc does via spells will increase?
  3. Ngreth Thergn Developer

    For level 121+ NPCs in errands, yes, the SPA 0 spells (most damaging spells) will increase by 250+ % It is ONLY the spells that are cast in errands that use the level scalar 3000. (You may see the 3000 in the spell data parsers)
    Spells that do not use scalar 3000 will not be affected by this particular change. (Only spells intended for use in errands use this scalar... (I guess there could be some bugged spells, but that is those spells and not the target of this change!))

    a caveat to that... I am adjusting the damage of spells in the Tower errands DOWN... so... there will be countering effects in the tower. The MULTIPLIER will go up, but since the spells damage is going down, the overall effect of the spell damage increase will not be as large as it could be.

    And to be clear again, this increase in damage will not affect Teek in the current era. On Teek damage is going down! (Until Teek reaches level 120 cap)
  4. Kaenneth [You require Gold access to view this title]

    So this curve will affect more than just the tower? I recall complaints about TBM era HAs being overpowered (not a problem I had, but I recall talk about it on this forum)
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  5. Riou EQResource


    Is the 3500 scalar for level 105 capped HA getting the change too?
  6. Ngreth Thergn Developer

    Yes and no. This will ONLY affect spells, not the NPC melee damage, hp, etc
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  7. Ngreth Thergn Developer

    Not immediately, but it is something I can look at.
  8. Ngreth Thergn Developer

    So... the "adds" part of this was always doing half damage for those level mobs in errands.

    We did ALSO extend that and made a change to lower their level to level -5 , so they should be more mezable (And they still do half damage compared to base NPCs of similar level to their new level in errands)

    This change will go in the July patch
  9. Aziuno Augur

    Would this (Under level 121+) be lowering the Recourse effect's heal per target as well?
    Mission 3 - Oasis of Forests - an orc thaumaturgist - Spell Galek's Howl of the Undying
    Recourse portion - https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=8700
  10. Geoux Elder


    Interesting way to phrase it, man. Does that mean the Tower is going to be a new, permanent fixture in the game?
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  11. GameKiller Elder

    Curious as to the response on this, as it drastically changes all TLPs moving forward.
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