| samismallz |
10-17-2013 04:29 PM |
Known issues:
1) Mob accuracy is EXTREMELY high - Mobs are (almost) never missing and hitting for max damage at a much higher rate than before. Trash mobs in Tipt are *easily* killing some of the best geared players. Example of this: My rogue with ~9k AC was killed by Maestro of Rancor. He swung at me 38 times, 26 were hits for about 3k, 7 were parries, 4 ripostes, 1 dodge, 0 misses, and a partridge in a pear tree. He had an accuracy of 100%, it's just that I was able to dance around him for 12 of those 38 hits.
2) Flag mobs are bugged - An attempt on Avatar of War was made last night and he becomes invulnerable at 0% (1 hp to be more accurate). You can swing at him all you want at 0%, he just won't die. He'll still attack you though. Strange thing is, he still spawns gatekeepers. Yes, plural gatekeepers... like a LOT of them all on top of each other and all wielding scythes. Hailing one of them will still flag you, but hailing is pretty difficult with the AOW still alive at 0%. This was tough to do... so imagine how difficult it will be for say Overking in Chardok or even for Ikkinz flag. Those have not been tested to have similar "symptoms", but surely Battlemaster and Rikabi will be tested tonight.
3) Rogue backstabs capped at <1k damage - Those of you that know me know that this is a MAJOR issue for me... Prior to 0.8.0, my rogue was doing in the upwards of 40k backstabs sin crits. After the update, my backstabs are hitting for ~1k WITH crits. This is even after I use Daggerfall (rogue disc that ensures 100% accuracy of backstab and almost guarantees a high damage from it). I have tried this on multiple mobs trash, midtier, raid mobs, you name it. Not cool. Just... not... cool...
Some good things though from update:
1) New AAs! - All those AAs you guys had "banked" can now be used on about 5-10 new AAs that mostly help with damage mitigation and some other class specific things. There is however one AA that shows database error which is kind of weird.
2) Sorry paladins, but your cleanse-on-every-mob ability is now gone. This was one of the biggest complaints on the server for a very long time and lucky (for most of us) it has been addressed. As much as you hate it, even paladins have to admit that this is a good fix. A server is never right if the paladin is hands down the top DPS, and it usually wasn't close with all those donor 2hs. They still do a fair amount of damage and there have recently been improvements in knight (Pal/SK) gear that add abilities like hate generation and defensive ability to make them more playable. The plan is to incorporate more of these kinds of items for knights so that they can (hopefully, one day) join in tank rotations along with warriors. The cleanse ability made pally a DPS machine. Now that that's gone, let's make pallies what they're meant to do, which is be a tanking machine.
3) BOTS!!! - The new bot system is actually really awesome. The commands are totally different so it will take some time getting used to them, but the bots are much better at what they do (clerics actually HEAL instead of DD!) and they have much higher AIs and act much more like PCs. Right now, creation of bots are "free". However, this is gonna cause problems. As anyone knows, bots cause a LOT of lag. Already you can tell cause even though only 9-10 people are on, because each of those people can have up to 5 bots up at a time, that lags down the server a lot... Either we're going to have to take away the bots or the server computer needs to be upgraded, big-time. Sadly, it will most-likely be the 1st choice before the latter. Who wants a server full of a bunch of bots anyway, right?
Anyways, I have to say, 100% of the credit for update to 0.8.0 HAS to go to Rencro, who out of the kindness of his heart (or because he just loves doing this) took it upon himself to get this server up to date. Are there bugs? Sure. But the server runs a LOT smoother than I expected and he was able to do it in such a short time. Really amazing work. Please give him praise where praise is due.
If you haven't taken the dive and tried the server out, I recommend giving it a try. Keep in mind though, as I said, the server is pretty laggy, especially past 11pm EST. Some, if not all, is attributed to multiple bots... so if you're a bot user, try to keep it to buffing and then put them suckas down. Please? Cherry on top? Of your nipple? Thanks!
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