Patch Notes 18/04/2025

[illumius]

- Empowered Lores now triggers when you consume 5 Force/Tranquility points instead of when using any ability while at 5 Force/Tranquility points.

This tactic dead now. 3,5 sec duration with GCD

[derKleineKerl]

RIP Zeal/Rp but luckly i can just switch to the other heal classes.

[Minisynn]

Goodbye Rune of Battle and another one of the fun aspects of RoR being buried, can't wait to see how sterile this game is in another few years

[Wam]

I haven't posted in forever but this one takes the cake...

To the balance team

really bad optics and bad prioritising with these changes

its beyond absurd that you waste your time over nerfing a class that is very niche and barely used in the larger community as a whole

whilst you know the elephant in the room is okay to stack and every warband brings 6 out of 8 dps slots to use that class and its got all the tools required and needed and thats why other classes are obsolete and almost extinct in orvr on order side and you think this is okay balance and everything is fine? please open your eyes and see the bigger issues

knee jerk reactions to some outrage because people dont use tools already available to combat meme classes which are already undertuned is hilarious but again bad optics and lazy balancing you can do so much better... you don't even know what it takes to make that niche stack viable and how much exposed it was, you just react to pug outrage who are okay with being farmed by certain elves with axes daily.

you don't even fix the issues with that skill in the process as a trade off, pretty poor change NGL... so much for class diversity

slayers nerfed, engis cant stack, dps rp cant stack, wh's not wanted... this is fine yes?

[Jeliel80]

You took another month to carry out RP / Zealot changes that were terrible and came up with ever worse changes.
Convoluted, half range nerf, requires to spec all 3 trees.
Get out of town.

[nocturnalguest]

Rune of Battle can only be used on a non-stealthed player and a player can only be affected by one Rune of Battle at a time.

Pretty solid proof that besides alot of efforts put into organazing a balance system exact observable end result is very pity to put it mildly.

Out of numerous possible options and ways to "optimize/balance" either spec, class or abilities (that may i note objectively dont even need to be adjusted) the decision made is most lazy as* one, lowest effort, lowest effect. You guys struggle to even follow a more or less general direction, do you even recall why your predecessors made it stackable? I can bet none even thought about bringing us all in this case back into 2017. And same could be mentioned in regards to proc era

Guys. Seriously. Its not flying...

P.S. Also noting that for years "balance" is killing diversity and complicity this (and previous, AoR) game has been offering and each step making gameplay dumber and duller hence the situation with retention and replayability we are currently in. Its killing fun out of the game.
#NoFunAllowed

[BluIzLucky]

RIP Zeal/Rp but luckly i can just switch to the other heal classes.

Here lie
Rune Priest and Zealot
2008-2025
RIP

I think you are all smoking something strong if you think this is a nerf.
This is a pretty big buff to RP to both heal (and a bit to AoE dps if you ignore meme stacking BR).
You now have the old MRA effect as a core and can choose 3 new Master runes with improved effects (not sharing cooldowns) on top.


WP got buffed previous patch(?).
And AM got recked in large scale for some small scale buff.

So not much choice if you don't like new RP

[BluIzLucky]

- Empowered Lores now triggers when you consume 5 Force/Tranquility points instead of when using any ability while at 5 Force/Tranquility points.

This tactic dead now. 3,5 sec duration with GCD

On top of Radiant Burst fix, RIP fun, literally worse than Discipline

[derKleineKerl]

yeah sure you are the pro.

50 feet range you have to waste gcd to get it all up and working and you will have less ap reg during the time conduit is up.

Yeah i am pretty sure during heavy incoming dmg it will be no problem at all for the wb to stay inside the 50 feet and it will be no problem for you at all to reset the conduit and start buffing with your master runes.

WP got buffed previous patch(?).
And AM got recked in large scale for some small scale buff.

So not much choice if you don't like new RP

I will have no problem to get into any wb with my am/shamy at all if i want to.

[Glorian]

Stacking:
Stacking everything Except WLs as DPS on Order is not wanted it seems.

As some others have pointed out:
There are some basic counters for back in the day the engi mortar squad and the Rune of Battle group.

Get a champion challenge chosen simply stop the RoB Tank, or just sneak in a solo Silence Chosen going in from the side to stop the damage of the Warband for 5 seconds. Or simply charge in from the side.
BUT that is all to complicated for ungabunga-Destro Warbands.

Destro wants to play mdps warbands, so order does also need to play mdps.
#NoFunAllowed