You'll still want to necro (or wail) archers unless you're acid spec'd because of their low fort saves and evasion.

The magister debuff is really only useful on bosses.

I dislike they making game more far and far away from dnd.
Yet I like they giving some love for nukers. I can see ice sorc as top single target dps after update but I bet noone will mess to get all the gear to build it on live.

Good news after u41 we may roll evocatos and farm some lifes on lower skulls on sorcs and wizards as easy and fast as we used to do so on warlocks.

Rubbinns wrote on Nov 27^th, 2018 at 8:57pm:

Did they? Well, no matter. Breathes, burst and niac rays are workhorses ^^

SSG has fucked up here. Tripling the cooldowns on the very spells that were added to fix the complete lack of arcane dps just shows they have no clue how to build, gear, use rotations, or even math the game they work on. Cooldowns going from 4 and 3.5 to 12 and 9 absolutely guts the dps because the new level 9 spells were the pillars that rotations would have been built around.

Pseudo and I mathed out the damage, crit values, crit multiplier, and rotations the night before the first lama preview came up. He deciphered their blurry image using his DEA skills, and we spent some time going through the changes. If 2 guys in the middle of the night, off of a blurry image could estimate what the damage was going to be, then how could ssg fail so hard at it.

We guessed the dps would be around 20-30 seconds. Where 20 was for bursts and 30 for more consistent non-bursting times. And when lama came up, that is exactly what we were getting on the test dummies. The new times are probably going to be around 50 seconds on burst mode to kill the test dummy. 

They need to lower the cooldowns to something acceptable like 6 seconds for sorc and 8 seconds for wizards. This way casters have a chance to burst up to around 30 seconds and non-burst times at around 40.

The current cooldowns are so bad that it renders the entire change null. Why would they waste so much time and money on something that will have no appreciable effect in its current form. A fix that doesn't fix anything in any difficulty is a waste of time for everyone involved, both players and devs.

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Justanotherlurker wrote on Nov 28^th, 2018 at 12:35pm:

Someone probably splashed 2 levels of Monk on an Evo sorc and soloed LH without dying using the new spells.

Rubbinns wrote on Nov 28^th, 2018 at 11:52am:

There's a right way, a wrong way, and the army way.

This is the SSG way.

Revaulting wrote on Nov 28^th, 2018 at 5:20pm:


Oh you have this joke in english too? ^^ In Russia we call it "army method"

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I think they might’ve realized something which was obvious to everyone.  This is a balance pass aimed directly at improving a class in reaper, and specifically r7+.  They buffed the damage such that it would actually work for reaper, but then realized it’s gonna be stupid OP for anything below r3.  And since they don’t run content above r3, and neither do players on the mobos; they nerfed it so that we won’t see a million threads complaining about it the way the mobos cried about warlocks when reaper was first released.

DnD wrote on Dec 1^st, 2018 at 8:38pm:

Disclaimer: I know SFA about casters, I don't usually roll them and I'm not big on the playstyle. That much being said:

I will throw my hat in the ring here...

There isn't a good EK build. In PnP, the idea was to make a pure caster slightly less useless in melee once their spells ran dry. You weren't going to make "Erdrick" from Dragon Warrior, it wasn't going to work and it wasn't supposed to.

As someone stated earlier, there alread is a "gish" tree, and it's called Swashbuckler. How this fact escaped them is beyond me, and I'm sure many other people feel the same.

They could have literally just copy/pasta'd the entire Swash tree, maybe tweaked a few things for INT based characters (which Swash already does), added a few EK-unique icons and called it a day.  Hell, they might have even found a use for Arcane Marauder or Cannoneer  enhancements (swashbuckling with rune arm or an orb off-hand). Any remaining gaps could be filled using enhancements copy/pasta'd from Arty Battle Engineer.

But NOPE.

This steaming coil of an enhancement tree offers nothing innovative, gimps some of the things that previously worked, and makes a hateful, frenzied mess of button mashing to maintain short duration buffs.

Fail. Fail. Fail.

Maybe this tree still has some merits for the LOLnoDPS tank builds, but for anything else, it's hot garbage.

So be prepared, Ye Faithful! The Arrogant SpergNation at SSG will roll this rubbish out and give each other congratulatory reach-arounds for how awesome their design was and everyone actually playing the game  will just click "Unset" on the enhancement tree panels.

To the SSG peeps creeping this forum: Cowboy Up, and speak truth to power. Tell whoever greenlit this tomfuckery to get a clue.

Feel free to point to this post (I don't play the game enough anymore to care if I get banned, and I'm not exactly hiding).

You can sell it to them by reciting what I said above: Just copy/pasta Swashbuckler and Battle Engineer and tweak it. Forget all this touch-range only casting and gimped Tenser's Transformation nonsense. If they did that, an intern could have this entire pass done in a week, new icons and all. Everyone is happy. Reframe the dev time already spent as "in house skills development and concept testing". You're Welcome.

Also, make sure that Rune Arm proficiency is selectable as an enhancement somewhere in this tree (it's not too OP to grant since most Rune Arms are gimp AF but they WOULD be of some small help to a melee caster).

Snu Snu wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2018 at 8:53pm:

Wasted dev time that could have been spent actually making the game better by doing QoL bug fixes instead.