Patch Notes, February 18th, 2010

[Morfnblorsh]

I'm really upset at this pet xp nerf. It's ridiculous. It's completely without base and totally unfair. Did you even THINK about how this might affect Beastlords?! I will never be able to out-damage my Warder!

That's it, you jerks just forced me to reroll Berserker.

[Kutles]

Regarding the damage shield changes: so they are being changed to have an increased duration of 10 minutes? The level 49 spells for druids and mages had a maximum of 5 minutes on live servers in eq classic. Just curious why they are being changed.

[Haynar]

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

Regarding the damage shield changes: so they are being changed to have an increased duration of 10 minutes? The level 49 spells for druids and mages had a maximum of 5 minutes on live servers in eq classic. Just curious why they are being changed.

Because the way damage shields were working, it was causing sync issues between the client and server. They were put back to the original formulas, because they were allowing people to just zone, and have their timers reset. And that is much more of a problem, than having the duration be off. When we have more time, we can look into working out those sync issues, and then we'll see about nerfing the damage shields for ya.

Haynar

[Haynar]

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

Regarding the damage shield changes: so they are being changed to have an increased duration of 10 minutes? The level 49 spells for druids and mages had a maximum of 5 minutes on live servers in eq classic. Just curious why they are being changed.

Just so you know, I figured out why the duration was not working as originally planned. When the spells were set up to be like classic, the spell duration formula was set to the one it was historically. Unfortunately, that equation has changed. So a different formula should have been used. I know how to fix it now. Thats what a few extra hours of work does for you. Just make the checks out to "Haynar".

kk thx

bubye

[Kutles]

Sweet, thanks for responding so quickly. Appreciate the work.

[Zanti]

I agree with the 50% hate. This would have made my leveling a huge agony as a necro. I'm lvl 18 and wearing the same plain cloth gear I looted at level 3 and I'm not expecting anything else for a very long time. I cant afford to cast more than darkness and a dot per mob solo unless I want huge down time. I'd say my pet is doing 50-70% of the damage.

I have never afk killed a thing and I think this is unjust for the rest of us. If you could please reduce the percentage of damage you have to contribute solo it would at least be a bit more reasonable.

Why not Live's rule of having to do at least some damage to the mob yourself or you get a massive penalty?

[Kadie]

well, it's the age old story, the few ruin it for the many. I guess we'll just have to 'deal' with it (not that those classes who can't solo will mind :P).

It's just a shame for those newbie pet classes starting out, and those who can only play a few hours here and there and want to solo a bit.

[WyldGunz]

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

well, it's the age old story, the few ruin it for the many. I guess we'll just have to 'deal' with it (not that those classes who can't solo will mind :P).

It's just a shame for those newbie pet classes starting out, and those who can only play a few hours here and there and want to solo a bit.

It is not the few who ruin it for the many , Its the people that cant over look those that are causing the problem or just take care of them rather than hruting everyone in the wake.

It is better to over look a handful of people than to punish a thousand in my opion. And honestly the main goal is gear in EQ not lvl , everyone gets to max lvl if they are worth anything. How about nerfing plvling ?!?! Isnt that unfair as well ?

I'm a lil upset cause i took a 4 day break from eq and come back to being shut down and unable to play now. I like to solo over grouping so YES im done unless there's solo friendly solution.

[drplump]

Druid supremacy!

[coldsilnc]

Why not just require the pet owner to do at least 1 point of damage to get exp? (or reduce it by 99% if no damage done).