2023-07-05 Content Update (304005)

[Cinco]

These most recent changes are meant to restore a modicum of strategy and challenge to the game, to shave off a tiny bit of inflation, apply a limit to how easy it is to level-up from max level to the new cap, and evaluate the general player base's preparedness for the Arcane Catacombs and the upcoming Level 86 expansion.

Potion changes are meant to restore a bit of strategy and provide a little headroom for future difficulty. I'm sure you are well aware of this already: monsters' damage abilities and decision-making speed have to account for auto-potions and potion effectiveness. Highly effective potions / auto-potion shrink the space we have to manage difficulty and yield monsters that aren't fun. They're either super tanky and not dangerous (i.e. 'boring'), or they're super tanky and able to insta-kill you (i.e. 'frustrating'). Adjusting the potions makes the game a tiny bit more interesting and gives us space for more challenging content in the Arcane Catacombs and the upcoming Level 86 campaign.

Difficulty changes to elite Zodias content were applied to make a minor adjustment to inflation and to encourage class cooperation. On the first point: we prepared another 'gold loot nerf' - but decided against releasing it because gold loot nerfs tend to be seen as unmitigated catastrophes. We decided that it would be more fun to adjust difficulty so that you could still get that gold if you had the gear, the team and the time to spend chasing after it. And on that second point: making endgame monsters more dangerous encourages groups to include Warriors. I do realize that it's not you here on the forums who exclude the ever-useful Warrior, but the general sense among more casual endgame players is that monster HP is the big focus and thus DPS and only DPS should be your party makeup. As an alternative to difficulty we considered making the portals require three players, one of each class - but this is also one of those things that (at least our forum) players tend to hate. Thus the difficulty change.

Quest XP changes were made to ensure that the race to the Level 86 cap is a tiny bit less cheesy than previous caps. It's not everything, of course but disallowing 100% XP reward from quests that are way, way below your level is going to trim off some of the cheese and add a little tiny bit of competition for those who want to collect the exclusive Level 86 'fast cap' rewards. This change also adds a lot of value (and potentially excitement) back to the "Levlar" event.

"What about new players (who farm elite endgame content)?"
I say this: if you stick with it, you will eventually max out all of your gear on every toon in every account you own. You'll have all the Arcanes you want, with all the best Awakes and Jewels, and more gold than you could ever spend on wildly overpriced vanities if you keep after it. And yeah, I realize that making any adjustments to the game will risk your disappointment and possible departure... but I assert that these changes come from a place of optimism and respect for your capabilities.

Best wishes!

[Tekila]

These most recent changes are meant to restore a modicum of strategy and challenge to the game, to shave off a tiny bit of inflation, apply a limit to how easy it is to level-up from max level to the new cap, and evaluate the general player base's preparedness for the Arcane Catacombs and the upcoming Level 86 expansion.

Potion changes are meant to restore a bit of strategy and provide a little headroom for future difficulty. I'm sure you are well aware of this already: monsters' damage abilities and decision-making speed have to account for auto-potions and potion effectiveness. Highly effective potions / auto-potion shrink the space we have to manage difficulty and yield monsters that aren't fun. They're either super tanky and not dangerous (i.e. 'boring'), or they're super tanky and able to insta-kill you (i.e. 'frustrating'). Adjusting the potions makes the game a tiny bit more interesting and gives us space for more challenging content in the Arcane Catacombs and the upcoming Level 86 campaign.

Difficulty changes to elite Zodias content were applied to make a minor adjustment to inflation and to encourage class cooperation. On the first point: we prepared another 'gold loot nerf' - but decided against releasing it because gold loot nerfs tend to be seen as unmitigated catastrophes. We decided that it would be more fun to adjust difficulty so that you could still get that gold if you had the gear, the team and the time to spend chasing after it. And on that second point: making endgame monsters more dangerous encourages groups to include Warriors. I do realize that it's not you here on the forums who exclude the ever-useful Warrior, but the general sense among more casual endgame players is that monster HP is the big focus and thus DPS and only DPS should be your party makeup. As an alternative to difficulty we considered making the portals require three players, one of each class - but this is also one of those things that (at least our forum) players tend to hate. Thus the difficulty change.

Quest XP changes were made to ensure that the race to the Level 86 cap is a tiny bit less cheesy than previous caps. It's not everything, of course but disallowing 100% XP reward from quests that are way, way below your level is going to trim off some of the cheese and add a little tiny bit of competition for those who want to collect the exclusive Level 86 'fast cap' rewards. This change also adds a lot of value (and potentially excitement) back to the "Levlar" event.

"What about new players (who farm elite endgame content)?"
I say this: if you stick with it, you will eventually max out all of your gear on every toon in every account you own. You'll have all the Arcanes you want, with all the best Awakes and Jewels, and more gold than you could ever spend on wildly overpriced vanities if you keep after it. And yeah, I realize that making any adjustments to the game will risk your disappointment and possible departure... but I assert that these changes come from a place of optimism and respect for your capabilities.

Best wishes!

I don’t dislike the difficulty improvement but in fact it is just about more HP.
They didn’t get any new mechanics that target or idk. So it is again about only dealing more damage to the portal bosses… I finally managed to get enough gear and find new combos to permit warrior to at least do enough for 1st phase (with a little buff it would be decent) and a new HP buff destroys all this efforts. Moreover now that the boss has more HP we can see that rogue/mage with equal gear to warrior in terms of based stats do x2/x3 times more damage so we really feel the damage gap that became more meaningful in elite and LB maps cause now they are really needed to complete the boss now and war did not gain any utility change in the famous « tanking » every people contradicting the dmg need on war. I talked about it in another thread but idk if you saw it. It is the same with LB bosses.


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[Roguemaybe]

These most recent changes are meant to restore a modicum of strategy and challenge to the game, to shave off a tiny bit of inflation, apply a limit to how easy it is to level-up from max level to the new cap, and evaluate the general player base's preparedness for the Arcane Catacombs and the upcoming Level 86 expansion.

Potion changes are meant to restore a bit of strategy and provide a little headroom for future difficulty. I'm sure you are well aware of this already: monsters' damage abilities and decision-making speed have to account for auto-potions and potion effectiveness. Highly effective potions / auto-potion shrink the space we have to manage difficulty and yield monsters that aren't fun. They're either super tanky and not dangerous (i.e. 'boring'), or they're super tanky and able to insta-kill you (i.e. 'frustrating'). Adjusting the potions makes the game a tiny bit more interesting and gives us space for more challenging content in the Arcane Catacombs and the upcoming Level 86 campaign.

Difficulty changes to elite Zodias content were applied to make a minor adjustment to inflation and to encourage class cooperation. On the first point: we prepared another 'gold loot nerf' - but decided against releasing it because gold loot nerfs tend to be seen as unmitigated catastrophes. We decided that it would be more fun to adjust difficulty so that you could still get that gold if you had the gear, the team and the time to spend chasing after it. And on that second point: making endgame monsters more dangerous encourages groups to include Warriors. I do realize that it's not you here on the forums who exclude the ever-useful Warrior, but the general sense among more casual endgame players is that monster HP is the big focus and thus DPS and only DPS should be your party makeup. As an alternative to difficulty we considered making the portals require three players, one of each class - but this is also one of those things that (at least our forum) players tend to hate. Thus the difficulty change.

Quest XP changes were made to ensure that the race to the Level 86 cap is a tiny bit less cheesy than previous caps. It's not everything, of course but disallowing 100% XP reward from quests that are way, way below your level is going to trim off some of the cheese and add a little tiny bit of competition for those who want to collect the exclusive Level 86 'fast cap' rewards. This change also adds a lot of value (and potentially excitement) back to the "Levlar" event.

"What about new players (who farm elite endgame content)?"
I say this: if you stick with it, you will eventually max out all of your gear on every toon in every account you own. You'll have all the Arcanes you want, with all the best Awakes and Jewels, and more gold than you could ever spend on wildly overpriced vanities if you keep after it. And yeah, I realize that making any adjustments to the game will risk your disappointment and possible departure... but I assert that these changes come from a place of optimism and respect for your capabilities.

Best wishes!

Thanks for detailed explanations. It really helps put some of the changes into perspective.

Just don't make the normal maps too hard, as it really does take awhile to reach end game.

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[Vrazicak]

These most recent changes are meant to restore a modicum of strategy and challenge to the game, to shave off a tiny bit of inflation, apply a limit to how easy it is to level-up from max level to the new cap, and evaluate the general player base's preparedness for the Arcane Catacombs and the upcoming Level 86 expansion.

Potion changes are meant to restore a bit of strategy and provide a little headroom for future difficulty. I'm sure you are well aware of this already: monsters' damage abilities and decision-making speed have to account for auto-potions and potion effectiveness. Highly effective potions / auto-potion shrink the space we have to manage difficulty and yield monsters that aren't fun. They're either super tanky and not dangerous (i.e. 'boring'), or they're super tanky and able to insta-kill you (i.e. 'frustrating'). Adjusting the potions makes the game a tiny bit more interesting and gives us space for more challenging content in the Arcane Catacombs and the upcoming Level 86 campaign.

Difficulty changes to elite Zodias content were applied to make a minor adjustment to inflation and to encourage class cooperation. On the first point: we prepared another 'gold loot nerf' - but decided against releasing it because gold loot nerfs tend to be seen as unmitigated catastrophes. We decided that it would be more fun to adjust difficulty so that you could still get that gold if you had the gear, the team and the time to spend chasing after it. And on that second point: making endgame monsters more dangerous encourages groups to include Warriors. I do realize that it's not you here on the forums who exclude the ever-useful Warrior, but the general sense among more casual endgame players is that monster HP is the big focus and thus DPS and only DPS should be your party makeup. As an alternative to difficulty we considered making the portals require three players, one of each class - but this is also one of those things that (at least our forum) players tend to hate. Thus the difficulty change.

Quest XP changes were made to ensure that the race to the Level 86 cap is a tiny bit less cheesy than previous caps. It's not everything, of course but disallowing 100% XP reward from quests that are way, way below your level is going to trim off some of the cheese and add a little tiny bit of competition for those who want to collect the exclusive Level 86 'fast cap' rewards. This change also adds a lot of value (and potentially excitement) back to the "Levlar" event.

"What about new players (who farm elite endgame content)?"
I say this: if you stick with it, you will eventually max out all of your gear on every toon in every account you own. You'll have all the Arcanes you want, with all the best Awakes and Jewels, and more gold than you could ever spend on wildly overpriced vanities if you keep after it. And yeah, I realize that making any adjustments to the game will risk your disappointment and possible departure... but I assert that these changes come from a place of optimism and respect for your capabilities.

Best wishes!

The problem is; you can't expect cooperation from mages and rogues. Once again, warriors have been completely trashed.
After I spent nearly a billion gold to be competent enough in e rahab as a warrior, you come and decide to buff the elite rahab, that's simply not ok. Seems like I'll have to make yet another switch to rogue/mage.