Hope following Kensei enhancement change that Dev mentioned before will be included in Update 31 Patch 1...


There are several changes that will not be included when the update 31 goes live, but will be added in a future patch, coming soon.

These changes include:

Tier 4: Added the following 2 Enhancements
• Opportunity Attack: 2 Charges, Melee Attack: Deals +1/2/3[W] Damage. Your Melee Power is boosted by 10 for 6 seconds. Each time you damage an opponent, but no more than once per second, you have a 10% chance to add a charge up to a maximum of 2.
• Liquid Courage: After drinking a potion or drink, increases Positive Healing Amplification 50 for 30 seconds

Core Skills:
• Change Core Level 18 "One Cut" skill to the following: On Activate, Crit Multiplier Increase (Unique Bonus for 15 seconds, 60 second cooldown)

Dibs at that fact that they wont be able to code potions and spells different for encha purpose and that it will work on "being healed" and will work with all positive based spells that have a healing portion as well.

I'm wondering if there's anything that doesn't have a cooldown that could work to trigger it. People have rightly pointed out that potions have a long enough cooldown as to make this a dps reduction but if there's something that qualifies as a 'drink' that can be hit without interrupting the attack sequence that could be handy.

Usually the first potion is the one you need the most!

Rubbinns wrote on May 19^th, 2016 at 12:09pm:

And as a bonus, if it's a pure Artie, almost no DPS will be lost from them being a dedicated potion thrower.   

Metal-Beast wrote on May 19^th, 2016 at 2:23pm:

I'm pretty sure I said something to the effect that pausing DPS to drink a pot for the effect was a non-starter.

Did that stop the guy who wanted to put "Improved Fighter mechanics" on their resume, despite the fact that he hadn't?  No.  They fail at math, and that leads to other failures which math could have predicted for them.

A character standing at a practice kobold will never see this interruption in DPS.  So, all is well.

Camaro1k95 wrote on May 19^th, 2016 at 4:38pm:


Do tavern drinks work in non-tavern areas?

Problem: Barbarians can heal themselves while fighters can't. Almost every class has a better option than "drink a potion". By "better", I mean faster.

Solution: Drink two potions!

Looks like the standard Turbine Fuck You.

Frank wrote on May 20^th, 2016 at 4:58am:



Wouldn't it have been great if they had an independent group of players who could provide honest feedback about this before it was developed or put live......

Blue bar or DIE.

Sailias wrote on May 20^th, 2016 at 2:33pm:

I'm not really sure what "that 1 last level of druid" means when you're only talking about 9 druid levels, but whatever.

I'm looking at the test dummy work Rubbins did.  Which might would be a bit higher for Fighters with the u31.1 changes, but since fighters were at the bottom of the DPS list I don't think it was enough to allow them to compete.  A fighter should deliver higher DPS than a paladin to be even considered viable, given that the paladin is a whole lot harder to kill due to huge saving throws over the fighter and a lot of self healing.

As for multi-classing, the fighter is very viable.  But that's not the point of the class, or any other class.  I've run many builds with a few levels of fighter.  Even 1 fighter level gives you a feat, and if you're using a shield anyway 2 feats since tower proficiency.  Fighters have the fairly classic front loaded advantages of providing a lot of feats for a small dip, but then the advantages go away as the good feats are all taken and you get feats from leveling anyway as any class, and other classes also provide class feats or the equivalent.

But being a good dip class does not mean that the fighter is a good class.