Patch notes 22/12/2018

[hogun]

Tanks are a hell of a lot harder to kill than melee-heal WP/DoK, and have a much lower risk to reward ratio.

i think you dont play vs DOK mélée

https://www.returnofreckoning.com/armor ... ame=Rydiak

I understand better why you liked this wp mélée up ... but i dont said its bad , i juste ask about a same solution for a same problem

[Rydiak]

i think you dont play vs DOK mélée

https://www.returnofreckoning.com/armor ... ame=Rydiak

I understand better why you liked this wp mélée up ... but i dont said its bad , i juste ask about a same solution for a same problem

Grace/Sacrifice needed help. It got it. Fortunately, class balance isn't zero-sum. Grace/Sacrifice getting QoL buffs doesn't diminish the efficacy of Ironbreakers. If devs feel IB/BGs need help I am sure they will provide it, but until that happens any further discussion about it is way off-topic to this patch feedback thread.

[mikke]

2) Sentinel gear bonuses for tanks - 5th bonus - this immunity for root and snare I find really useless in PvE, where this gear should be used and is farmed for. Why such a change? To make it more PvE RvR mix? Conq seems still better.

This. All new tank sets are not even compared to conq and domi. Why do we need them??

And big thanks for ".bag" command! Dreamed abot it for long time.

[DanielWinner]

...until that happens any further discussion about it is way off-topic to this patch feedback thread.

This.

All directly unrelated class discussions go to the Community Proposals in the Balance Discussion part of the forum.

[Hargrim]

Yea lets all do it so the pop gonna 80% vs 20%
Great idea!

Please dial down this, em... attitude? Two stealthers were listed, WH and WH, order and destro, so what kind of argument are you pushing here?

[Collateral]

2) Sentinel gear bonuses for tanks - 5th bonus - this immunity for root and snare I find really useless in PvE, where this gear should be used and is farmed for. Why such a change? To make it more PvE RvR mix? Conq seems still better.

This. All new tank sets are not even compared to conq and domi. Why do we need them??

Don't know about you, but I find oppressor and sentinel quite nice. Vanq not so much compared to conq. If you get a set in pve, why would it mean it's a pve only set? You get conq in pvp, does it mean you shouldn't be able to use it in pve? If you don't want to do pve, you won't get the set, same as redeye. Sentinel is for 2h offensive tanks mostly. The 5th bonus proc together with subjugator 2h proc can be a deadly combination.

I don't understand all the fuss about pve sets. Why complain if you don't even want to do pve. It's a good change of pace compared to rvr/pvp, a little bit less stressful and you can get good gear at the same time, or farm mats. And saying that pve gear is "a must have for everyone now" is far from being true. No wb tank ever wants to use sentinel gear over conq. There are more and more sets, which means everyone will have something they can use, depending on their playstyle. Even if you hate pve so much for some reason, you have sc gear and rvr gear. So I don't understand why you would get so upset.

[Stagart]

After maxing the influence of Keg End event the Elite item reward is selectable but can not be obtained. Tried only with the lvl 40 purple one, on my engie.

Hello, same, reward Keg Tapper level 40 does not work. Cordially.

[Morf]

- Toughness mitigation will now be capped at 75% damage. If this was not the case then someone could easily be almost immune to damage with just stacking one stat. Remember that Resistances or Armor is also applied after the toughness.

May i ask what the thinking is behind this, is it a consequence of changing the toughness formula from how it was on live ? maybe just change it back to how it was initially and correctly done on ROR mirroring live because even blackguards with 1400+toughness never took 1 damage on live so clearly something (after you changed the toughness formula) has gone wrong.

Anyone care to comment ? possibly share some of the ss of the hits for 1 damage or even just tell us how much toughness was needed to allow hits of 1 damage ? because if 2 crossguarding def tanks with distracting bellow on enemies and immaculate defense up take hits greater then 1 damage this appears to either be a fake report or a bug/problem after you changed the toughness formula from how it was initially and correctly coded.

[Stinkyweed]

Big hit to heal shaman. All offensive spells made worthless save puddle and maybe ere we go. AP drain no longer reliable makes resto burst mandatory. Lifetap heal burst with ain't done yet was the one thing that made heal shaman really fun. Now its spamming group heals and quit bleedin. 3rd tier boring healer. Oh well, it was fun for awhile.

It was fun and a nice balance to the heal spec portion of the class. Perhaps it should have been tweaked to find the right balance rather than scrapped while they look for alternate solution.
...shelving and back to gearing the zealot I guess.

[JohnnyWayne]

is it intentional that we also lost the healing component of balance essence? Nothing in the patch notes, gone when i logged in today. This is a real setback to the conditions we had on live: group heal afk. If you do that, also revert the changes to AP saving again to 50% please. Don't know why you dailed back beyond the state we were already the worst heal class before.