Patch Notes, Monday June 13, 2011

[SpartanEQ]

Originally Posted by Mebryn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Completely agree, still at 23 (on the verge of 24) but iirc way back in the day, at the low levels like 20, you usually didn't need to recast snare of a blue con (and yes, i'm stacking the same dots I did before patch) usually darkness would wear off around 15%-20% IF it did wear off, now it's more around 40% on average. Understandable for white and higher.

I don't dispute that pets probably were a little hard hitting and Necro's can adapt to the Dot and FD changes, but it's just discouraging to see the pet be whittled down to something that it's own master could probably out-melee.

Just made lvl 16 with my necro and got my new pet! 4, 4, miss, 4, 4, miss, miss, miss, 6, miss, 4 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm not used to having a powerful pet except when I summoned a yellow con one at lvl 12 or so. I never played a necro past this lvl before, but it seems pretty weak at the moment. I'll keep trying and see if I was just having a bad string of luck.

The above was <i>was</i> against an even con mob, but it was at like 3% health and walking away. It took my pet about 30 seconds to finally off the thing.

I know you know that the minimum damage may be occurring too often; I'm just weighing in. No complaints.

[fishingme]

Originally Posted by SpartanEQ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just made lvl 16 with my necro and got my new pet! 4, 4, miss, 4, 4, miss, miss, miss, 6, miss, 4 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm not used to having a powerful pet except when I summoned a yellow con one at lvl 12 or so. I never played a necro past this lvl before, but it seems pretty weak at the moment. I'll keep trying and see if I was just having a bad string of luck.

The above was <i>was</i> against an even con mob, but it was at like 3% health and walking away. It took my pet about 30 seconds to finally off the thing.

I know you know that the minimum damage may be occurring too often; I'm just weighing in. No complaints.

I'd suggest making an alt until they fix pets. Trust me, a necro pet should never die against a dark blue with a full load out of druid buffs = / 8, 8, 14, 8
lvl 34 necro pet
<3

[Mebryn]

Originally Posted by fishingme [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'd suggest making an alt until they fix pets. Trust me, a necro pet should never die against a dark blue with a full load out of druid buffs = / 8, 8, 14, 8
lvl 34 necro pet
<3

Couldn't agree more, pets were great back in Classic (that's partially what made Necro's and Mage's so fun to play) Right now levelling my main is slowing down to a halt with this change.

Then again I suppose I could always make an Enchanter and work on getting my own stein of moggok (i'm newish to the server, so not filthy rich to twink out any toons, lol)

But seriously, at this rate I wouldn't be surprised if pets started reverse lifetapping and healing the mob [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[fishingme]

Originally Posted by Mebryn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Couldn't agree more, pets were great back in Classic (that's partially what made Necro's and Mage's so fun to play) Right now levelling my main is slowing down to a halt with this change.

Then again I suppose I could always make an Enchanter and work on getting my own stein of moggok (i'm newish to the server, so not filthy rich to twink out any toons, lol)

But seriously, at this rate I wouldn't be surprised if pets started reverse lifetapping and healing the mob [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, so far it's pretty damn ridiculous. Necro pet shouldnt need to be healed for 700hp when vs a blue. Think I may just switch to spending time with my gf instead of playing lol

[fuark]

Just wanted to add as well that hopefully pets are fixed soon, because at the moment they are definitely limiting the abilities of these classes.

http://s827.photobucket.com/albums/z...rtstarepet.jpg

I could post many more screenshots that are exactly the same as this one. (Hell this one went much longer, I couldn't stretch the screen that far.)

[fishingme]

Originally Posted by fuark [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just wanted to add as well that hopefully pets are fixed soon, because at the moment they are definitely limiting the abilities of these classes.

http://s827.photobucket.com/albums/z...rtstarepet.jpg

I could post many more screenshots that are exactly the same as this one. (Hell this one went much longer, I couldn't stretch the screen that far.)

Wow dude, you're a darkelf and a necro, you're even more fucked than the rest of us

[Mebryn]

Originally Posted by fuark [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just wanted to add as well that hopefully pets are fixed soon, because at the moment they are definitely limiting the abilities of these classes.

http://s827.photobucket.com/albums/z...rtstarepet.jpg

I could post many more screenshots that are exactly the same as this one. (Hell this one went much longer, I couldn't stretch the screen that far.)

Had you posted this image before the changes, i'd give you mad props for soloing so well with your lvl4 pet.

[Sethius]

My 44 mage didn't get too hurt from the pet nerf, fire pet's DS is still awesomely powerful, and even though he hits for the low end of melee quite often, he still gets quite a lot of high hits too. Either way, I can see how this would hurt necros more than mages as their pets melee damage is much more important.

Regardless, Kanras admitted pets are hitting on the low end of the scale too often right now, and that this will be fixed when they have the fix and patch ready, so that is good news.

Also, I totally understand that the dev's on this server don't have the resources to test changes super thoroughly in their quest to replicate classic (Free Server so we should be thankful they do what they do at all), so sometimes changes can have unintended consequences. It's not like they had much help with testing on the kunark beta server when they tried that method out, so don't blame them for when things go wrong, they are doing their best given what they have to work with (and trust me, programming is very challenging on something this complicated).

I applaud the P99 devs and even if a class gets hit a little hard sometimes, they fix it when they can and try their best, which frankly is more than what you get from most of the current major mmo's that are not free.

[Mebryn]

Originally Posted by fishingme [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, so far it's pretty damn ridiculous. Necro pet shouldnt need to be healed for 700hp when vs a blue. Think I may just switch to spending time with my gf instead of playing lol

Well to be more practical, you could always just get her to level up a new toon for you on your account :P Nothing says "bonding" like the mutual hatred of Corpse Runs and De-levelling.

[fishingme]

Originally Posted by Mebryn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well to be more practical, you could always just get her to level up a new toon for you on your account :P Nothing says "bonding" like the mutual hatred of Corpse Runs and De-levelling.

Or ya know, there could be less drastic changes. For example instead of say, nerfing damage of pets by 40%, you could nerf the damage by 20% and see if that's better. A lot easier on the population than saying "hey, imma steal all your fucking candy, son" It's "hey, Imma steal a quarter of yo candy, now go make me a sammich"