AOC - General Discussion II

[Lonin]

Originally Posted by Kobalt

There wouldn't be the damage and heal nerf if it wasn't a nerf for tos imo(passive hots and stormfield/stormcrown). They used active blocking the most because they needed it to lvl.

Needed it to level? More like abused it to level. Active block is one of the big reasons (among many) that make casters superior to melee in many aspects of the game. Hopefully this will help bring them back into line.

# Javelins have been revamped based on player feedback. The length of all current javelins will now be of decent length. All javelins have also received some adjustments to the throwing and holding animations, as well adjusted so all characters correctly hold the javelin by the shaft.
# Polearms have been revamped based on player feedback. All polearms have been standardized to a new larger size.

Size queens.

Solo monsters, minibosses and bosses have been adjusted to be more of a challenge than what they had been previously for level 70 and up. The adjustments will not affect grouped and raid monsters in any way as this will only affect solo monsters. The change will ensure that the game is both entertaining and challenging at higher levels.

This could be brutal. I already have a hard time taking on more than 2 at once. I'm guessing this is to help curtail AE groups like DM, but this seems like it will hurt melee just as much if not more.

[Clericnon2boxed]

first testing of 'new' active blocking:

its utter crap now
drain your sta in a couple seconds for marginal +blocking benefit and heavy penalties on top of the sta loss? I rather sprint away / kite mobs now

with mobs hitting like trucks (hi to you dead in in 3-4 hits vs elites), the only redeeming quality with the current aggrosystem was active blocking

anyone got anything positive to say about the new 'active blocking'

[Falmer]

So after today's whooping 39mb patch, kheshetta keeps crashing every like 3 minutes...

OHSHI- reading comprehension... what the fuck does "33 shielding" mean?

[Inconsiderable]

Awesome Patch! Funcom's QA strikes again. Zonecrash everytime someone kills a castermob!

[Kobalt]

I have a feeling casters will be dying a lot more in groups. The amount of times I have seen dumb casters die in seconds after getting aggro since they didnt use active blocking has me worried.

[Cybsled]

Undocumented changes...

Trader:

- Silks and other previously unsearchable tradeskill resources will now appear when searched for.

Classes

Barbarian:

- The Level 40 talent in the Barbarian Tree "Cyclone of Razors" has been changed from 5-points for 28% Damage to 5-points for 10% Damage.

Necromancers:

- Necromancers can no longer attack with their pet whilst in the safety of the shadows. (No hiding!)

Herald of Xotli:

- The spell "Hellfire Breath" now has a new animation.

Rangers

- Characters effected by the Ranger's "Trap" ability, now have a blue glow around them.

from: Undocumented Changes - 26th June! - Age of Conan Europe Forums

[Lonin]

- Casting while Mounted. In the latest patch, certain spells were made castable if your character was mounted on a stationary horse. This works fine. If you move after you begin the cast, however, it does not get interuppted. This allows casters to permanently kite meleers from the back of their horse.

- Server instability. There is something very wrong with the servers. I have had 15 disconnects in an hour.

GG. I guess Vanguard's QA tester found a new job!

[painbringer]

The patch hit the test server like 24 hours before live and there were emergency fixes on test as well since some classes literally couldn't solo even con mobs in the 70s.

You might blame the devs, but don't blame the 3 QA guys when they have less than one day to test a build before it is live.

[TwiNCannoN]

^^^ Oh god please don't tell me those fucking idiots let the "lol we're going to double kheshatta's mobs health for NO GOOD REASON" change go live

Oh AND the server disconnect thing... wow... aka the one thing that beta testers actually said "this is broken do not push out" and they did? I wonder if private instances are giving ridiculous fps drops still too. (edit: well apparently they're keeping downtime going until they figure that out which is pretty obvious but you never know anymore...)

wow what the fuck is wrong with this company. well at least they fixed the no friends list/group panel chat server bug supposedly

* Mages and Priest mobs will now drop an Alchemists Cache randomly, which contains random resources for the level-range where it was found. This will make it possible to obtain the resources that have not been dropping for alchemy.

bandaid much?

[Ailu]

Noticed the CoS nerf as soon as I logged in. There is definitely no point in playing anything other than 2-H in PvP now. Guess it was expected though.

[Sneaky]

Are there Test-Server boards?

And was this disconnect-issue realy happening there, too?

[KianwanCT]

Great, lets nerf Active Block from OverPowered to worthless, knee jerk reactions are always fun ...

Gonna get alot more wipes now from adds since they always go for the healers and its damn near impossible to get mobs off of the target they initially agroed.

[Vehn]

oh and GG puppet ToS'. Puppets now turns the target friendly with your buffs/heals working on them. Pretty much worthless in PvP now...

Puppets of Set got fixed... - Age of Conan Europe Forums

[Bristlebane]

HA. There's a working hack for this game that allows you to kill mobs without getting hit. I've confirmed it to work. It's pure shitty programming that allows this kind of thing to happen. The more people that know, the faster it gets fixed.

Here's a video:

This is a password protected video on Vimeo

The password is "nograv."

This smells a lot like ghostkill in Everquest, without the fast killing.

[TwiNCannoN]

Originally Posted by Sneaky

Are there Test-Server boards?

And was this disconnect-issue realy happening there, too?

Yes, and sadly, yes. They had also done the kheshatta mob change to which testers begged GMs to come watch as certain classes were officially unable to grind. Along with no quests... A+ game design.

Puppets may not be fixed, I have a feeling the guy is just an idiot and didn't realize that it has always made mobs go blue. Given that euro zones are crashing every 3 minutes due to the awesome bug I doubt he did more than log in and charm the nearest rabbit. If it is fixed, oh well, had it coming.