Saw a complaint about the nerf of DPS casters

[Xoetep]

Read the Lammania stuff, saw a couple videos on Youtube.

A few people out there were crying about DPS casters getting the nerf stick and tbh.. I don't see what they are crying about. Sure the general dropping on stat items and prr/mrr items might cause a bit of an issue, but are they game killers?

Personally, I think that people are waving the "DooOOOOM" stick again.. am I right or did I miss something?

[rabidfox]

You missed something. The stated goal of u50 is a stat squish (of both endgame gear and monsters) where the end result should be the same relative performance as pre-u50 which is why there's lot of posts/discord chatter about kill speed/dps casting/heal & heal amp issues/tank & non-tank survivability/etc. So all the posts about nerfs/not being up to par aren't about "doooooommmmm" (well except for the doomsayers and they'll say the same things no matter what); it's about giving lots of feedback so when u50 launches the devs get things are close as possible balance-wise. They got closer to getting things right with preview 2, have acknowledged things that need to be fixed more, and hopefully preview 3/live will be fairly close to how we play now; it won't be perfect, but the hopefully good enough.

[Xoetep]

You missed something. The stated goal of u50 is a stat squish (of both endgame gear and monsters) where the end result should be the same relative performance as pre-u50 which is why there's lot of posts/discord chatter about kill speed/dps casting/heal & heal amp issues/tank & non-tank survivability/etc. So all the posts about nerfs/not being up to par aren't about "doooooommmmm" (well except for the doomsayers and they'll say the same things no matter what); it's about giving lots of feedback so when u50 launches the devs get things are close as possible balance-wise. They got closer to getting things right with preview 2, have acknowledged things that need to be fixed more, and hopefully preview 3/live will be fairly close to how we play now; it won't be perfect, but the hopefully good enough.

cool.. yeah thought the stat chgs were no biggee, good to hear that that is the general consensus.

Since I won't have time to lvl Xoe again I'll just keep her as a Zombie 2 hander for a while :)

[Alrik_Fassbauer]

Players care about power.
Any thing that reduces their power is heavily battled against.

[Xoetep]

Well Update 51..

Gotta say folkes.. I was wrong.. definitely a nerf for the build I was running. LOL..

I can see where many folkes will be happy with Magus but for me it doesn't work for me and how I want to play the game.

But.. I have a new question..

Draconic Rage.. the new tier 2 ability in the tree..

Draconic Rage: You may now cast spells while Raging.


Does this enhancement work for barbs and clickies? If so I might have to dump points there.. ty for answering in advance

[TFerguson]

Players care about power.
Any thing that reduces their power is heavily battled against.

It's not just power, some of us just hate change.

[Xoetep]

ok.. so..

Draconic Feat allows my barbarian to use Mass Heal, and other caster spell clickies while raging, haven't tested scrolls yet but will shortly.. I do like this change