KotC revamp:
* favored weapons revamp similar to Warpriest
* ranged weapons fully supported including ranged smite
* Knight's Training feat free
* Knight's Training weapons all treated as favored weapons
* another free feat (not specified)
* greatsword favored weapon for all level 3 paladins
* dwarven axe for dwarves now favored weapon in T3 or T4 of racial tree
* deity feats revamped -- now grants hit/dmg with all favored weapons not just the deity weapon
* lots of number/DC tweaking

Alchemist details not covered, but will be on Lam. 

Inquis is overperforming and is getting nerfed.

THF changes, but no details released.

No new filigrees.

Misc stuff:

4k UI scaling not coming anytime soon. It requires rebuilding the UI from the ground up, and that's not a priority.

Slavelords is the last time you'll see Resistance items.  Devs don't want toons to have max saves from one item.

Carpone wrote on Jan 9^th, 2020 at 9:53am:

Seems fair, after seeing clerics and favored souls with crossbows, let's give it to pallies too. JFK on a bicycle, do they really fucking jerk off with goddamn corssbows?

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This has me a bit concerned, some NPC saves are really way off in certain quests and difficulties. I hope they don't mess this up...who am I kidding, they are so going to mess this up

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Huuuu, have a bad feeling considering that

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Nooooooo, for real? All cows have already been milked and out of the fence, yeah you can close the gate now.

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Can't wait to get an extra 1% of proccing glancing blows, will totally make me OP

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Meh

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Expected as much

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Yeah well, they're gay and retarded because they should have thought about this before, like way before.

Guess I better get ready to run 3x alchemist lives soon

Toke wrote on Jan 9^th, 2020 at 12:18pm:

Eh, only if the free past life passive is any good -- maybe something like +3 USP per PL.  If it's lame like +1 Transmutation passive DC per PL, triple Alchemist can fuck off.

Not holding my breath that the purchasable Alchemist PL feat will be any good.  The active component will probably be something flavorful like conjuring a concoction 5x/rest, where the concoction will have negligent gameplay value like most other active PL feats and dragonmarks. 

Carpone wrote on Jan 9^th, 2020 at 1:04pm:

Good point. Lynn's probably the only one that plays it more than once a week.

You know what makes loot fun? Having the item feel impactful.
That happens when the item does something different from what came before it.
We get "new" items that don't feel new. Why?

They're the same shit we got before with stat inflation.

The last time we got a new an interesting item was like Haunted Halls.

Yep, stat inflation is boring.

Null/Hope from Strahd was cool, changing stats based on which hand it was wielded.  Perfect Pinnacle ring had combat bonuses based on stance, which was neat.  Also, Duality to a much lesser extent.  Dunno why SSG never applied the same tech to elemental forms.  Look at a raid item like The Eclipse Iteself.  Would have been cool to have combustion stats in fire elemental form (savant/druid), magnetism in air savant form, nullification in undead form, etc so it promoted trying different caster builds.  Crafting specific spellpower on raid loot is so 2012 (Twilight, Element of Magic I'm looking at you). 

The original Piston Boots were theoretically cool, gaining MP buff after you jumped.  But devs couldn't ever make the tech work, so it turned into a boring passive.

Also, requiring 850 threads to upgrade raid weapons can fuck off too.  I've got more PN/THTH raid weapons than I could ever dream of upgrading.  Reminds me of using tomes before they were persistent through TRs.  You better be sure you're going to play that toon for a while.  At least Strahd/Baba weapons are still relevant and don't require more timesink upgrades.

Wow
Ol girl flamed herself

Ha, had a three king talking to her
Fools have no ears

Save the whales!

C Troll wrote on Jan 10^th, 2020 at 11:59am:

Toke wrote on Jan 10^th, 2020 at 6:42pm:

Let’s see what the nerf is. Hopefully it’s just dialing back the highest end damage at cap (make the law damage scale less perhaps) and Inq will still be solid without causing the whinefest.

Players: Make melee great again!

TurbinSSG: Make pally ranged? OK!

Players: No, we mean like make THW attack fast enough that you can at least maintain a blitz, instead of this slow-ass shit they do now.

TurbinSSG: Ah, make Greatsword a favored weapon for Pally. Got it!

Carpone wrote on Jan 12^th, 2020 at 8:03am:


I'd keep the feat personally. Just make the feat grant something like 50SP and make the entire dragonmark line use SP on the SLAs. Boom, you've mildly kept the arbitrary use per rest but made them universally more useful and less limited as anyone can slot wizardry items.

Hot off the presses:


This preview is expected to contain the following features:

    New Class: Alchemist
        Base Class and New Spells
        Bombardier Enhancement Tree
        Apothecary Enhancement Tree
        Vile Chemist Enhancement Tree
    Revamped "Catacombs" and "Delara's Graveyard" Adventure Packs
        New Epic versions of both Adventure Packs
        Named Loot Pass (Including changes to the Heroic loot, as well as entirely new Epic Loot)
    Quality of Life Additions to the Shared Bank
    Balance Changes
        Two Handed Fighting Changes
        Ranged Combat Changes
        Knight of the Chalice Enhancement Tree Changes
        Other Balance Changes
    Miscellaneous Bugfixes and Changes