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"We have finished our testing, comparing the Thief-Acrobat's DPS and mitigation to a wide variety of build in both heroic and epic content. We have some changes coming to improve its performance.

Rogue

Sneak Attack damage now scales with 150% Melee Power or Ranged Power (depending on weapon). Previous: 100% Melee Power or Ranged Power.


Rogue - Thief-Acrobat


Innate Abilities

Cartwheel Charge: After tumbling you gain a +2 Morale bonus to Strength and Dexterity for 12 seconds. Passive: +2 Maximum Dodge, +20% Doublestrike. Previous: +5% Doublestrike.


Tier One

Acrobat Staff Training damage with staves increased from +1 to +2.


Tier Three

Acrobat Staff Training damage with staves increased from +1 to +2.

Sweeping Strikes - +1/3/5(W) to all nearby enemies and trips them. The trip DC is 10/14/18 + Rogue Level + Dexterity Mod + Trip Bonuses. The enemy rolls Balance to negate the trip. Previous: +1/+2/+3(W), the Trip DC was 10 + half Rogue level + Dex Mod.


Tier Five

Acrobatic Staff Training: +10 Melee Power, +3 to hit and +3 damage with quarterstaves. Previous: No Melee Power.

Sev~"



"We have completed our testing, comparing the DPS of Assassin in heroic and epic content versus a variety of top end builds. We have some changes to improved its performance.

Rogue

Sneak Attack damage now scales with 150% Melee Power or Ranged Power (depending on weapon). Previous: 100% Melee Power or Ranged Power.

Rogue - Assassin

Innate Abilities

Lethality - (Removed all old functionality.) While wearing light or cloth armor you gain +1 Insight bonus to critical damage multiplier to any weapon you are wielding.


Tier One

Poison Strikes - a new Assassin's Mark now refreshes the duration of an existing mark.

Stealthy - Movement speed during stealth is increased to +25/+50/+75. Previous: +20/+35/+50%

Tier Three

Shadow Dagger - the saving throw is now 10/14/18 + Rogue Level + the greater of Intelligence or Dexterity bonus. Damage now scales with 400% of Melee Power. Previous: the saving throw was 10/14/18 + half Rogue level + Intelligence bonus, and damage scaling was 200%.


Tier Four

Execute - Extra damage now scales with 400% Melee Power. Previous: 200%


Tier Five

Assassinate - the saving throw is now 10 + Rogue Level + the greater of Intelligence or Dexterity bonus + bonuses to Assassinate. Previous: the saving throw used 10 + Rogue level + Intelligence bonus + bonuses to Assassinate.

Measure the Foe - now gains 6 Melee Power per stack. Previous: 4 Melee Power per stack

Deadly Strikes - now adds +10 damage against enemies with an Assassin's Mark. Previous: +5

Sev~ "




"We've finished our testing of Mechanic, comparing both repeating crossbows and non-repeating crossbows to a variety of builds. We have some changes coming soon.

Rogue

Sneak Attack damage now scales with 150% Melee Power or Ranged Power (whichever is higher). Previous: 100% Melee Power or Ranged Power.


Rogue - Mechanic


Tier One

Sharpshooter: Non-repeating crossbows increase the damage to +2 and add one Sneak Attack die.


Tier Two

Sharpshooter: Non-repeating crossbows increase the damage to +2 and add one Sneak Attack die.


Tier Three

Sharpshooter: Non-repeating crossbows increase the damage to +2 and add one Sneak Attack die.


Tier Four

Sharpshooter: Non-repeating crossbows increase the damage to +2 and add one Sneak Attack die.

Leg Shot: Requires level 4. Previous: Required level 12.

Tier Five

Sharpshooter: +3 additional damage and one Sneak Attack die with all non-repeating crossbows. Now requires level 12.

Sniper: Non-repeating crossbows increase this to 3 Sneak Attack dice and also gain +2(W).

Mechanical Reloader: Fixed a bug where the +20% Ranged Alacrity with non-repeating crossbows wasn't working.

Sev~ "


Plus a follow up post answering some questions:
"~Is this final now? Or do you still want feedback on these changes?
~Any estimate as to when these changes will go live?

Answers:
~ Final for the next build, open to feedback after that. I would have loved to have a Lamannia testing phase, but doing that for an interim update isn't in the cards.

~ Soon.

Sev~

Seems really good.

trip dc change makes it viable now.

TA gets 20 dstrike, 10 melee power and extra +5 to damage.

Sneak now scales with 150 melee power.

Assassins get 6 melee power per measure foe stack. assassin giving +1 to crit multiplier. poison strike scaling with 400% melee power. 10 damage on marked victims.

non-repeaters get 8d6 sneak alone. no small thing. 18/x builds should be at around 25d6 or something stupid like that. and +2 (w) along with +5 damage. There is also 20% alacrity wasnt working, so that should be even more damage now.


Looks like I will be doing few rogue lives. \o/

bugblatterbeastoftraal wrote on Apr 24^th, 2015 at 12:00am:


You missed some stuff.

Every change worries me, because Turbine code is resilient as wet tissue paper. The devs have the foresight of Nixon with a tape recorder. And about the same ability to recognize the shit they break as they have to fix it.

These changes look like they will suck less, if any of them wind up working.

Wipe wrote on Apr 24^th, 2015 at 7:14am:

orien isnt any better.

are the devs really going to make things that cant be done alone at this stage of the game? with no players, trying to force coop is a loss.

So, how long till some sandy vagina.. I mean forum paladin starts whining that rogues are too OP?

CanadianCurseword wrote on Apr 24^th, 2015 at 10:17am:

sighted already on threads. monkey-boy and few others. let it sink in until tomorrow night. you will have much sandy vag pallies

Nice so now we see just how fucking clueless you are bitch.

Mr Reilly wrote on Apr 24^th, 2015 at 9:44am:

Horse hockey.

Lethality sucked because it didn't scale at all into Epic levels. The Vorpal attack only worked on things with fewer than 1000 HPs and EVERY mob in Epic content has well over 1000 HPs.

Lethality was Gay & Retarded. Now it scales and works very well with Rapiers and Kukris.

Quote:


What exactly do you call Critical Rage, then?

5 Foot Step wrote on Apr 25^th, 2015 at 6:14am:


lol this old thing from module 9 is new to you ?

Again for the retarded.

Barbarian Critical Rage I and II can no longer be trained. Characters that currently possess these enhancements will retain them until they reset their enhancements, and these enhancements count as their "Barbarian Specialty". (Module 9 Release Notes)

http://ddowiki.com/page/Barbarian_Critical_Rage_%28history%29

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