Patch Notes, Sunday April 17th, 2011

[Trimm]

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

if you go through the LOS archives, they killed trak almost like clockwork every 3 days as well for a few months.

TR is already going to be the first guild into VP. Relax dude.

[daddysport]

Anyone else having issues logging in? When I get the server select screen there isn't a list of servers to select from. Ok what am I missing?

[Marcq]

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

Anyone else having issues logging in? When I get the server select screen there isn't a list of servers to select from. Ok what am I missing?

That the server is still down?

[Ardenya]

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

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

Can any of you master mages give any ore insight on this? If pets wont DW automatically, how to get them to DW? Does that mean without weapons only or will pets dont DW at all?

[Lloen]

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

Can any of you master mages give any ore insight on this? If pets wont DW automatically, how to get them to DW? Does that mean without weapons only or will pets dont DW at all?

I believe that it might have cloned weapons at some point to dual wield, but now you have to actually provide two weapons. Not sure on this, but it's possible.

[Shizzam]

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

Can any of you master mages give any ore insight on this? If pets wont DW automatically, how to get them to DW? Does that mean without weapons only or will pets dont DW at all?

Its not that big of a deal for us mages, since we can summon or own weapons to give to the pet, necros on the other hand wont have this advantage

[Qwinny]

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

Its not that big of a deal for us mages, since we can summon or own weapons to give to the pet, necros on the other hand wont have this advantage

Or early to mid level enchanters before charm becomes even close to a reasonable idea.

[Daeminff7]

Well before this patch - at least according to the p1999 wiki - mage pets began dual wielding innately at 39, thus before you gave them weapons. This was helpful because you could chain summon pets mana efficiently without having to resummon weps ever time to get your elemental to DW.
So, we'll have to see how this change effects soloing tactics on the mage, I doubt it matters much for the necro as they generally are agro/fear kiting in which the pet does not take damage/have to be chain summoned.

[Slave]

Originally Posted by Daeminff7 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well before this patch - at least according to the p1999 wiki - mage pets began dual wielding innately at 39, thus before you gave them weapons. This was helpful because you could chain summon pets mana efficiently without having to resummon weps ever time to get your elemental to DW.
So, we'll have to see how this change effects soloing tactics on the mage, I doubt it matters much for the necro as they generally are agro/fear kiting in which the pet does not take damage/have to be chain summoned.

This change basically takes down a mage's dps by about 40% while chain summoning, something that is pretty much essential on high-hp and damage kunark mobs. It's a gigantic nerf.

[Uthgaard]

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

This change basically takes down a mage's dps by about 40% while chain summoning, something that is pretty much essential on high-hp and damage kunark mobs. It's a gigantic nerf.

Too bad so sad. Chain petting was extremely overpowered.