- Dec 2, 2005
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Hi all,
As you were aware we have been working hard behind the scenes testing spell damage, which may seem a nice quick fix, but with over 200 spells in game and each spell calling different variables for mobs/players/ac/amc/health etc, it takes time. We appreciate first and foremost your patience whilst we have been working on this and we hope you are pleased with some of the changes below:
Warrior:
Wizards:
Taoist:
Hunter:
Assassin:
General:
There may be some teething problems and we have the ability to change spells ingame IF we feel they are needed. so no more reboots for spell damage.
Please make sure you test everything before letting us know how you feel, as we may have lowered one area of your class but balanced it by buffing another area.
We hope you are happy with the changes.
-Apocalypse Team
As you were aware we have been working hard behind the scenes testing spell damage, which may seem a nice quick fix, but with over 200 spells in game and each spell calling different variables for mobs/players/ac/amc/health etc, it takes time. We appreciate first and foremost your patience whilst we have been working on this and we hope you are pleased with some of the changes below:
Warrior:
- We have balanced and increased a warriors Basic hit damage.Warrior should now have less worries before hitting 32, although getting TDB will still greatly increase a warriors Damage.
- TDB has had a damage increase of 25%, however this rolled out today as we had changed before the server crashed, so people have already felt the benefits and we have had positive feedback from warriors.
- Blade Avalanche has had an increase in damage by 20% just to make sure it does its job of flinching monsters and gaining aggro where needed.
- Crosshalfmoon has been increased by 45% as we feel this was a little under-powered as it was.
- FlamingSword has had a 15% buff so that this is ready for warriors once they hit 35. REMEMBER Flamingsword is not great at level 0-1 but does get very good as it levels. Please do not worry its weak when you first get it, we have tested and at level 2/3, its very much worth its weight.
- With all of the above changes we have lowered slaying back to its original state and this is over compensated by thew new base damage, so warriors will level faster without TDB.
- Thrusting has had a minor nerf also with these changes but only by 10%, we still want to reward players who manage to get these hits off!
Wizards:
- ThunderStorm has been buffed by 45% and been tested in the undead areas. We tested as two wizards and now feel at level 35-38ish with level 3 TS we are comfortably killing mobs with this.
- Firewall was unfortunately effected by the recent change of mobs seeming to only call AC as their defense, since we changed this caused a problem with firewall, this has now been negated by the fact we lowered most mobs AMC to ensure firewall is viable and strong whilst leveling. This has also had a minor buff to ensure its strength is valued in line with the new AMC changes.
- FlameDisruptor: despite no 1 being 38 yet we wanted to make sure this was strong and viable. This has been buffed by 12% and feels quite strong in game.
- Other than these wizards have not been changed much as we and wizards feel are quite strong just behind the Assassin.
Taoist:
- SoulFireball has been given a 25% increase in damage. We want taos to have their role solo, but not be too strong, we have tested and feel combined with red poison and the skele pet this will now feel a little smoother but nothing too strong.
- MassHealing: We have reduced the mana cost considerably to ensure this is a viable spell
- Shinsu: has had its health buffed quite a bit to ensure the tankyness of this is as is descirbed. Unfortunately there was an issue with the spell damage file for Shinsu and this damage will need to be increased on the next reboot.
- UltimateEnhancer: We have corrected UE accordingly and now scales with SC.
Hunter:
- ElectricShot - New skill, level 26, not rare. This is an AOE spell that will be hit onto one mob and bounce off several times onto others. The amount of mobs it hits will increase with skill level: Level0- 3mobs. Level1 - 4mobs. Level2 - 5mobs. Level3 - 6mobs. Each bounce however will reduce damage by 10%.
- Explosive trap has been significantly increased as this is hard to land every time and requires a high drop out time of damage, this is reflected in the new damage output.
- Auto attack for hunters has been buffed by 40%. This is still a working progress, however will need feedback.
- Delayed explosion has had its damage reduced by 15% due to the powerful nature of cutting through shields and almost 1 hitting other classes when 2 hunters attack together. We are going to watch this closely and may still increase the stats once again, but we need to see pvp gameplay to be confident this is not too strong.
- HunterPet5 - The hog has had its hp Pool increased by 100%.
Assassin:
- LightBody has had its time increased exactly the same as we did for Haste to ensure less downtime and more swing time!
- FlashDash/PoisonSword: FlashDash procs were set to 1/3 in the code, however it was rather weak. This is the same for poison sword. We had poisonsword 100% instead and had FD at 50%, but it felt too strong, so we changed equation twice and on the test server it worked perfectly. As we have just been told ingame now, its not working properly again. This has already been resolved and will be straight onto the server once we reboot. Our mistake, but soon rectified.
General:
- Changed cooleye of a good amount of mobs to 1/5 chance of seeing you in hiding/stealth. We originally made all mobs 50% chance for a random effect, but after communicating with Taoists and Assassins we agree that this spell became silly and lost its place a little. This change should now mix both together and still add a little randomness but keep the spell actually in line with the class.
- PickAxe has been added correctly to BW/CastleG and Tao village
- BW Mines and insect cave are now mineable for BIO
- We have adjusted most mobs AMC as there was an error in the code suggesting all Classes pull the mobs AC and not the AMC. Since changing it effected a few spells quite badly so we have reduced the AMC and balanced spells accordingly.
- We have adjusted some simple drops such as bugbats droping gold. (this was an error we put in place during a test period and forgot to revert).
- Autopickup gold is now in place for anything under 1k.
- Group share gold is now in place.
- Bug cave reverted to its original status
- Wizard pet regen has been increased by 30%
There may be some teething problems and we have the ability to change spells ingame IF we feel they are needed. so no more reboots for spell damage.
Please make sure you test everything before letting us know how you feel, as we may have lowered one area of your class but balanced it by buffing another area.
We hope you are happy with the changes.
-Apocalypse Team
