Winners and losers in the expansion

[Forzah]

-Ucanny dodge (vs casters and traps as the +6 reflex was nerfed)

Nooooooooooo . Uncanny dodge was my favourite ability on my trap skills barb. Now it's a lot harder to hit 50 reflex vs traps.

Then again, we get something nice in return

[Shade]

Your post makes no sense. Where is the real Shade?

I took care of him. He seems to use a shield according to you. All barbarian who wear a shield deserve the same fate

Anyways, screenshot or didnt happen. All barbarians get hit 95% of the time (via ac, the dodge thingy does seem to work). It's hardcoded into the game engine.

[donblas]

All barbarians get hit 95% of the time. It's hardcoded into the game engine.

LOL my first laugh of the morning.

[Faent]

I took care of him. He seems to use a shield according to you. All barbarian who wear a shield deserve the same fate Anyways, screenshot or didnt happen. All barbarians get hit 95% of the time (via ac, the dodge thingy does seem to work). It's hardcoded into the game engine.

Oh god, pop on your shield when you steal aggro if you're running with gimp tanks who let you take aggro. =) Or just tank yourself with your shield. Come on, you're much better off than all the PJ folks who just got flipped the bird. I know it's not so "barbarian like", but you have to admit that barbs got seriously buffed (except for the cleave changes---yeah, that hurts). You have incredible damage reduction options now that you never had before, and you can acquire those with a simple gear swap or action boost. You're still near max DPS (well, sorcs, but yeah), you can self-heal endlessly with SF pots while maintaing insane DPS output, and guess what... you now have awesome mischance open to you as well via AC! Oh, and PRR. (I assume you'll eschew Dodge. Less DPS, of course. Thus suck.)

Also, I might like the new Shade more than the old Shade. =) But I miss the old Shade! Grrr. Either way, I enjoy agreeing and disagreeing with you.

[nivarch]

which is nice is that everybody seems to have its own opinion on who are the winners and losers, and these opinions vary greatly.
Maybe it means they achieved some sort of balance?

[donblas]

which is nice is that everybody seems to have its own opinion on who are the winners and losers, and these opinions vary greatly.
Maybe it means they achieved some sort of balance?

Nah! Everyone else is wrong!

[Cade_Wells]

More to be added to the losers:

People with ToD rings.....
+1 = comp
+2 = Insight

no more exceptional...........

[Forzah]

More to be added to the losers:

People with ToD rings.....
+1 = comp
+2 = Insight

no more exceptional...........

Hmmmmm. But there are no other competence and insight bonusses to the 6 main stats in the game, are there? So it's just a name change? Or was the stuff on LoB gear insight bonus?

[Cade_Wells]

the SD stances are Comp bonus
intially the power surge from kensai was insight (think they are changing that to psoinic)

[barecm]

For the expansion:

Winners: Me (and all my toons)
Losers: You

[JOTMON]

Winner - DDO - Huge influx of cashflow from preorders to fund mechanic changes under the guise of releasing a huge expansion.

Loser - Players who quicly pre-ordered in anticipation of a great expansion, purchase large lots of Turbine points to purchase XP pots,Tomes, Hearts of wood and anything that would help them TR several times to prepare for the expansion.(poor necro casters who tr'd several caster lives to max their spell pen to have a chance of effectively insta-killing Drow).

[destiny4405]

winners:

-pure builds or 2 lvl splashes

loosers:

-deep splashes

[legendlore]

Hmmmmm. But there are no other competence and insight bonusses to the 6 main stats in the game, are there? So it's just a name change? Or was the stuff on LoB gear insight bonus?

Inspire excellence, the new epic bard feat is an competence bonus to stats. Which makes it about 50% less effective, since most will have their gear set up to have even stats Inspire excellence will only add one more +1 modifier.