Patch Notes 06/02/2024

[diegomess]

.......... now that 13 points abilities of class are changing for the better can we look at Rending blade for chosen? the most underwhelming 13pnt ability of any tank? a plain low dmg boring aoe that should be core anyways......

Skeletor will return with more chad tips.

[Qwack]

Spoiler:

Reason to get choppa in a warband are now gone completely. 0 utility for group, with damage buff and new AOE skill they can now reach melee squig damage outpoot.

Choppa is "Supposed to be brought for damage alone" they should do more damage than other classes then. In your same way of thinking why take an AOE WL? What utility do they bring?

When you have AOE marauder with morale drain, AOE KD, AOE initiate/ws debuff and okay ish damage and Melee squig with damage outpoot of choppa, with shattered limb like CD increaser, AOE morale snare, self punt with AOE snare, mass AOE knockback (kaboom) and much higher survivability (High armor, more avoidance)would you take squishy class with just raw damage outpoot? I mean every warband wanted 4 choppas just for chop fasta, not beacause of theyr damage.

The loss of Chop Fasta! is huge. While Choppas can do more damage now, healers will not be able to spam Group Heals. The increase of the Choppa's damage definitely does not offset the loss of short duration, spamable group heal. A marauder would absolutely be preferred now with all of its utility and near-parity in damage.

[shoelessHN]

Character naming policy is very odd ? With these rules you can ban everyone in the server:

You may not use names from popular culture or media.
You may not use names that are religiously or historically significant.
You may not use proper names of NPCs within the game.
You may not use names containing titles or ranks within them.
You may not use misspellings or alternative spellings of names that violate any of the above rules.

Objectively like 50% of my chars violate that policy. Subjectively maybe 90%. Haha.

[hogun]

I understand that you don't like dwarves, you've nerfed the Engineer many times, nerfed the IB for incomprehensible reasons and nerfed the Slayers...

maybe the influences in your balancing reflections aren't impartial. probably a lot of elves and greenskins in your advisors. THAT'S GOING IN THE BOOK !

beyond , its "Blood of Grimnir" cumulates with "stubborne as stone" for auto-attack or not? or ist juste usless buff for IB ?

[Detangler]

Interesting changes, for sure. Some thoughts.

Choppa:

GtdC still pulls? If so then they will still have a place for farming pug order. Organized wb v wb....maybe. Hard to take more marauder/mSH utility/survivability over pure damage.

Slayer

Rampage change makes sense. I'd advocate for a damage component being added, but the lack of GCD activation is nice. It might be worth revisiting the numbers and adjusting it up or down depending. 100% bypass was OP as all heck (especially combined with aoe cooldown increaser or cooldown powered Inevitable Doom), but 20% seems pretty low for not getting anything else adjusted up.

IB

Heavy blow nerf? really?

IB/BG

the 60 sec cooldown activating after the effect ends effectively doubled the cooldown to 1 minute, making it pretty trash for the few that ran solo in the lakes. This wont be missed, especially for IBs. You could activate it, sure, but you'll still die to the OP witchbrew WE defensive regen builds and be endlessly kited by shamans.

Core abilities having reduced minimum levels before you gain them:

ABOUT TIME. THANK YOU.

[Shima]

Nice patch! In the moment we're having a big lack of Order players, Slayer is nerfed!
This must be a joke, a bad one!

[Nameless]

What about zealot/rp iniative increase of their marks/runnes to be in line with iniative change

[Jeliel80]

That's it I guess.
Good bye order

[Omegus]

What about zealot/rp iniative increase of their marks/runnes to be in line with iniative change

All of the Zealot primary stat buffs are 80 so Initiative is not the odd one out. On other classes debffs for most stats would be 120 but Initiative was lower and that is what is now being rectified.

[Gessian]

so many cries on this thread... but after playing for 6+ months on Destro, and 2 weeks on order now, noticing how easy it's to play order's classes, I want to say thank you for the update
you guys are great!
became even more interesting to play!