Patch Notes, Sunday April 17th, 2011

[Daldaen]

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

Hi. I don't usually post on these sort of things, but I'm wondering if the charm nerf was intentionally as drastic as it was? I remember following the initial thread regarding Druid Charm being broken and that it should last on average around the length of ensnare: http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ht=Druid+Charm and you guys seemed to confirm that by the second page.

Since the recent patch, my charm on 'a Vicious Raptor' (level 43-45) as a 54 -55 druid, while using Call of Karana and Glamour of Tunare, has been lucky to last more than a couple minutes, usually breaking every minute or so if not more frequently.

While the only post I was able to find regarding charm being 'too good' was http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=33223 and didn't apply to druid charm.

(druid)Charm Duration before the patch, at least for myself, was certainly not cruise control for exp, and I already was constantly on my toes and playing with the risk of being raped by my pet on a charm break (which happened a little too much in sol B...). I'll look into it more, but mainly I just don't understand what happened and why.

EDIT: also, I recognize it could all just be an unlucky string of RNG. I don't mean to sound whiny and you guys doing an amazing job with this server! Like I said I'll keep looking into it.. I don't get to see or chat with that many other druids at my level to compare the experience with it though

PRE PATCH
75 Cha

[Wed Apr 06 18:05:41 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Wed Apr 06 18:05:46 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Wed Apr 06 18:18:25 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
759 second duration
[Wed Apr 06 18:18:39 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Wed Apr 06 18:18:44 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Wed Apr 06 18:22:14 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
210 second duration
[Wed Apr 06 18:23:04 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana..
[Wed Apr 06 18:23:09 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Wed Apr 06 18:31:03 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off
474 second duration
[Wed Apr 06 18:31:31 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Wed Apr 06 18:31:36 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Wed Apr 06 18:32:15 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
39 second duration
[Wed Apr 06 18:32:22 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Wed Apr 06 18:32:27 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Wed Apr 06 18:33:21 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
54 second duration


POST PATCH
75 Cha

[Mon Apr 18 16:55:45 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Mon Apr 18 16:55:50 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Mon Apr 18 16:56:55 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
65 second duration
[Mon Apr 18 16:57:01 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Mon Apr 18 16:57:06 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Mon Apr 18 16:57:13 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
7 second duration
[Mon Apr 18 16:57:21 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Mon Apr 18 16:57:26 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Mon Apr 18 16:58:07 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
41 second duration
[Mon Apr 18 16:58:09 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Mon Apr 18 16:58:14 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Mon Apr 18 16:58:31 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
17 second duration
[Mon Apr 18 16:58:34 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Mon Apr 18 16:58:39 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Mon Apr 18 17:00:26 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
107 second duration

Put on Charisma gear (152 Cha)

[Mon Apr 18 17:00:39 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Mon Apr 18 17:00:44 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Mon Apr 18 17:01:44 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
60 second duration
[Mon Apr 18 17:02:06 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Mon Apr 18 17:02:11 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Mon Apr 18 17:02:14 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
63 second duration
[Mon Apr 18 17:02:24 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Mon Apr 18 17:02:29 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Mon Apr 18 17:04:08 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
39 second duration
[Mon Apr 18 17:04:14 2011] You begin casting Call of Karana.
[Mon Apr 18 17:04:19 2011] Dinus blinks.
[Mon Apr 18 17:05:26 2011] Your Call of Karana spell has worn off.
67 second duration


tl;dr Druids became a lot less fun to play [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

PS Did the math in my head so it may be off a little.

PPS all of these are with a 54 druid and a Glamour of Tunare'd Dinus.

[Goryani]

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

Getting Started thread updated with v8

The forum descriptive text says v8, but the actual link still points to v7. Users have to manually change the 7 to an 8 in the address bar to reach the correct download.

[Rogean]

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

Getting Started thread updated with v8

Fail.

Fixed for reals now.

[Meeks741]

yea druid charm is horrible breaking extremely fast 99% of the time

[ooantipostoo]

Originally Posted by Meeks741 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

yea druid charm is horrible breaking extremely fast 99% of the time

Does this server check CHA for Druid charm? If so if your cha is low it should break within 30-60 seconds. I remember on live you need full CHA gear to hold a raptors for approximately 3-5mins. Now I have almost every charm piece you can get currently and it puts me around 175CHA. At the moment quading is more efficient if you have the mana for it 2400+

[Xadion]

As for the variance on server patch etc- there should be a "patch note" from live that explains it and puts it in, it was not existant forever.

As for respawn, I always remebered Trak and VS being 3days...but honestly I did not raid super hard core in Kunark- so I will let the e-detectives fight this fight! not my shitty memory.

As for taunt- I am in the position that it was a "Fix" not a new ability type thing- much like many fixes are standard in p99 even though they where 'fixed' later- I see taunt as one of them- and yeah warriors could tank stuff with lammys etc just fine during kunark.

[Truheart]

thank you!

[Popt]

Kanras: Pets will no longer automatically dual wield at a certain level.


My understanding was that this was directed at Player pets, however it currently affects charmed pets as well. Before the patch, my charmed pets(mobs in Chardok and Sebilis) would innately dual wield and now they do not. I was just wondering if this was intended or not because it is hard to tell from the patch notes.

[twinkiegod]

I like to think myself as a bright individual and I haven't looked through every post to this thread but when i click the V8 link to download the changes i get a lovely "404 file not found page" I also seen the v8 links in a couple replies and I clicked those as well and got the same result.

so...whats up?

*update* I wasn't as smart as i initially thought, i noticed the v8 link was taking me to v7 file so i had to take out the 7 and replace it with and an 8 and *poof* it worked.

persistence never fails.

[Jadian]

Messed Kedge up again. Was finally getting better about targeting things and being able to actually send your pet on stuff, but nope worse than ever now.