Will there be a Preview 2 for the Melee/Caster/Ranged Combat changes? :D

Justfungus

Justfungus

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Nah, it will likely be what it always is.
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Lotoc

Lotoc

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No, the Preview 1 in every single thread title was written as an indication that only one person was meant to read each thread and because we have collectively broken that covenant the game will get no more previews and no more patches except to turn all terrain into horizontal ladders you have to climb to get anywhere.
 
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Stein

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There will probably be one more preview, but most everything you see there is happening with some minor changes to numbers. They didn't spend the better part of the last six months prepping for this balance pass only to pull a bunch of their work
 
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Jaspar

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Stein said:
There will probably be one more preview, but most everything you see there is happening with some minor changes to numbers. They didn't spend the better part of the last six months prepping for this balance pass only to pull a bunch of their work
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They changed 50% DR penalty to 25% ina matter of hours.

Though maybe 25% was always the plan but they said 50% to make us outraged then "ooopsied" it down to 25%.

Thing is, if they went 10% for N H E and 20% for R1+ people probably would have been onboard.
 
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mikarddo

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They do not seem to want to buff casters rather it seems to be a Nerf with aoe getting worse, lower crit rate and even more feat tax.

Not a single reply from a dev about those concerns so it appears they have no desire to buff casters.

But we will see if they add another preview. Their replies do not not indicate a need for one but seeing we get 81.3 with mediocre raid loot first they do have time for one.
 
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Sarandra

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Do they even have to bother? The exodus has already begun and will get worse. Is what you get when you nerf the fun out of things.
 
Jack Jarvis Esquire

Jack Jarvis Esquire

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I think there might be some file tuning for P2.

Anyone expecting significant roll backs on nerfs are likely to be disappointed though I reckon.

The purpose of this update was rebalancing, not buffing, and whilst there is natural diversity in what that should mean, that premise isn't going to change much: generally buffs and nerfs all round.
 
nicholas

nicholas

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I second the notion on getting +20 lesser heart my melee is gonna be hurting after this :(
 
Lotoc

Lotoc

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Jaspar said:
Melee are getting massive buffs. What is your build ??
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Every melee build is built around not going over 100% doublestrike right now, every melee is basically going to entirely rebuild aiming for as much doublestrike as possible.
Indirectly this is a big nerf to barbarian because barbarian trees have no doublestrike at all.
Overall, removing the doublestrike cap is mostly a buff to monks and handwraps.
Regular TWF using two weapons scales worst with DS because of how offhands work.

Also lock in is incredibly unlikely to make up the differences between swf, twf and 2hf, we're really just getting SWF put further ahead
 
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