U27 Enlightened Spirit Adjustments

[Steelstar]

Hey, all.

We have a pair of adjustments for Enlightened Spirit abilities planned for Update 27, and we're not sure whether or not they'll make it into a Lamannia build, so we wanted to let you know about them ahead of time. Currently, they are:

• The Spell Power scaling of Eldritch Burst and Spirit Blast is now 120% (was 150%).
• Shining Through now grants Temporary Hit Points equal to 12x your Constitution Score (was 15x).

These two abilities on Live are a bit stronger than intended, and we believe these adjustments will put them a little closer to where they should be while still remaining powerful.

Thanks!

-Steel

[Lonnbeimnech]

[*]Break Forth now grants Temporary Hit Points equal to 12x your Constitution Score (was 15x).
-Steel

Shining through???

[Steelstar]

Shining through???

Yep. Fixed! Clearly I need another cup of coffee today.

[cru121]

looks like u27 is going live very soon. interesting

[Steve_Howe]

Hey, all.

We have a pair of adjustments for Enlightened Spirit abilities planned for Update 27, and we're not sure whether or not they'll make it into a Lamannia build, so we wanted to let you know about them ahead of time. Currently, they are:

• The Spell Power scaling of Eldritch Burst and Spirit Blast is now 120% (was 150%).
• Shining Through now grants Temporary Hit Points equal to 12x your Constitution Score (was 15x).

These two abilities on Live are a bit stronger than intended, and we believe these adjustments will put them a little closer to where they should be while still remaining powerful.

:sigh:

Really?

I'm getting tired of this. I spend money on four +5 Hearts to convert my 20th level Horc fighter to a 20th level Horc melee Warlock because I found a build I liked through testing on Lamannia only to have it nerfed a week later.

I know I'm not the only one this has happened to and I know this certainly isn't the first time such a thing has happened. Nonetheless, I am getting tired of the same thing happening to builds over and over and over again.

It's quite demoralizing really.

[Propane]

Yep. Fixed! Clearly I need another cup of coffee today.

Agreeded... for me as well....


Anyways... I always prefer that new stuff comes out weak then gets turned up...

If you give me 7 bacon strips and take 2 way I am mad....

If you give me 3 bacon strips and then give me 2 more I am happy...

Have 5 bacon strips both ways...

Food for thought....

[Lonnbeimnech]

:sigh:

Really?

I'm getting tired of this. I spend money on four +5 Hearts to convert my 20th level Horc fighter to a 20th level Horc melee Warlock because I found a build I liked through testing on Lamannia only to have it nerfed a week later.

I know I'm not the only one this has happened to and I know this certainly isn't the first time such a thing has happened. Nonetheless, I am getting tired of the same thing happening to builds over and over and over again.

It's quite demoralizing really.

You can say the same thing about every build, ever. It's the nature of mmo's to change over time.

[HastyPudding]

:sigh:

Really?

I'm getting tired of this. I spend money on four +5 Hearts to convert my 20th level Horc fighter to a 20th level Horc melee Warlock because I found a build I liked through testing on Lamannia only to have it nerfed a week later.

I know I'm not the only one this has happened to and I know this certainly isn't the first time such a thing has happened. Nonetheless, I am getting tired of the same thing happening to builds over and over and over again.

It's quite demoralizing really.

Maybe because that particular build was dominating almost all content? The first week warlock came out, there were tons of blastlocks and melee locks running around. How many warlocks you see running around right now doing that? The vast majority of them do nothing but turn on their aura, run into a pack of mobs, hit their massive temp HP button and then spam 2 cleave attacks until things are dead. Then they just move on and do it again and again. I tried it for 4 levels and it got boring as hell because it trivialized most content.

Those cleaves are currently the most broken thing in the game, right now. I stopped playing my warlock and went to other projects because I was asked several times why I didn't use the cleave attacks (he's a tainted scholar fey pact enchanter build). Broken things get fixed, otherwise they wouldn't be called broken.

[donblas]

Hey, all.

We have a pair of adjustments for Enlightened Spirit abilities planned for Update 27, and we're not sure whether or not they'll make it into a Lamannia build, so we wanted to let you know about them ahead of time. Currently, they are:

• The Spell Power scaling of Eldritch Burst and Spirit Blast is now 120% (was 150%).
• Shining Through now grants Temporary Hit Points equal to 12x your Constitution Score (was 15x).

These two abilities on Live are a bit stronger than intended, and we believe these adjustments will put them a little closer to where they should be while still remaining powerful.

Thanks!

-Steel

Booooo! Booooo I say!

OK maybe they were a bit OP, but I was really enjoying them!



I suspect I'll still enjoy my warlocks though so thanks for making the class!

[valarmorghuliis]

It honestly could probably use a bit harder of a nerf... they are being pretty cautious.

[Kza]

This is perfect from my Point of view.

Start to love my warlock but... A tad nonchallenging right now on everything except most brutal quests.

I will definately continue to play a warlock in this enhancement tree (having fun and love concept). This will still be really strong but now not over the top probably.
Thanks for "fine tuning" and not brutally slay the tree. This is about perfect i think.

Keep up the great job and nice you tune down and not just tune up all other!!

[donblas]

This is one of the few "nerf announcement" threads where there hasn't been any whining!

Amazing!

[Faltout]

Don't forget enervating shadow neg leveling red names...

[Alternative]

thanks for the heads up

[Tilomere]

del

[Xerio]

Eh, I can attest to it being a touch over the top in heroics. In epics (well EE atleast) the damage slows down. I did a slaughter race with a barbarian using LD (myself in draconic), he won fairly easily.

eitherway, appreciate the small adjustments before lobbing off our heads.

Now then, can you get the blasted shield enhancement to work properly while you are at it?!

[Dalsheel]

Oooook... So introduce some of the most exciting abilities to use on a melee (a "burst" attack) and then nerf it like 2 weeks later? You guys know us players spent money on this right?

I'll just point you to the direction the "Recon SLA" discussion went... If you nerf this, it's bait and switch!

The damage it's doing is not even close to the damage a Barbarian is doing with his Cleaves, at least not if you're playing a melee Warlock and not some kind of Uber crit chance/damage caster warlock (no clue what an end game caster warlock's burst hits for).

Just keep in mind, if you ever change the aura scaling to anything less than 150% then melee Warlock is dead. And idc if you want to kill a specific build or not as long ppl don't need to spend money to build it. This one cost money...

Blatant Bait and Switch.

Edit: Btw, if there's anything about the Warlock that needs a nerf, these are definately Consume and Stricken. They hit for way more than any Wiz/Sorc or Clr/FvS spell does. I just finished a "Souleater" Warlock life on my FvS and these two combined made boss fights as trivial as killing trash with Wail of the Banshee.

[Loromir]

Hey, all.

We have a pair of adjustments for Enlightened Spirit abilities planned for Update 27, and we're not sure whether or not they'll make it into a Lamannia build, so we wanted to let you know about them ahead of time. Currently, they are:

• The Spell Power scaling of Eldritch Burst and Spirit Blast is now 120% (was 150%).
• Shining Through now grants Temporary Hit Points equal to 12x your Constitution Score (was 15x).

These two abilities on Live are a bit stronger than intended, and we believe these adjustments will put them a little closer to where they should be while still remaining powerful.

Thanks!

-Steel

I'm wondering it that is enough of an adjustment. Maybe still too strong.

[Xyy]

Apparently anything that makes you buy and use a lesser heart is totally acceptable now, and encouraged by Turbine mate. Turbine and Varg's decision to force us to use one for pacts instead of making it a fred ability is a perfect example, it's all about driving revenue with the Warlock and he by his own words was the one to make it that way. Thanks for treating us like walking ATMs again, so great to be treated like a gullible piece of garbage by a Turbine... not.

Would you prefer to be treated like a cry baby? How do you treat people that can't express themselves in a mature manner?

[Krumm]

The damage it's doing is not even close to the damage a Barbarian is doing with his Cleaves, at least not if you're playing a melee Warlock and not some kind of Uber crit chance/damage caster warlock (no clue what an end game caster warlock's burst hits for).

I am currently leveling up a PDK 18Warlock/2 Pally build (used a +1 heart of wood, ouch!).

I TR-ed into above build after I tested a morninglord 18warlock/1fighter/1cleric build.

On the test morningloard build, at level 28, I was able to hit some where around 440 - 460 spell power for light damage.
with about 42 - 46% crit chance & +10% crit damage.

This is on a "melee" warlock with full SWF line, IC slash, precision. (no OWC though).
MAx/Emp/quicken taken also.

Crit chance (5% base + 22% thunderforged + 5% SE core 5, +10% from Empyrean Magic (easy to upkeep with aura), +1% from interrogation + any optional insightful spell lore items)


I did EE ToEE solo, I was able to gather mobs until red alert then burst em to death. It take a few rounds but with shining through & displacement, it's not that tough to stay alive. (archers are pain though)

Full disclosure, I do have tons of past lives, at 28, I was somewhere around 140+prr & 100+mrr (can't remember exactly #).


I'm not sure if this is OP (compared to barbs or Pallies) but it sure was fun for a bit...