U56 Preview 3 Release Notes

[Kmnh]

Will Arcane Augmentation work on sonic blast now? It doesn't work on live.

[DRoark]

Yeah, this won't end well. There's ample enough changes to abandon certain builds entirely now.

[PedXing20]

The reason for the sonic blast nerf is quite simple. Far too many people were enjoying it so it needed to be 'adjusted' This adjusts it quite nicely and as per SSG MO, by Friday no one will be having fun with it any more.

Balanced!

[Kalaxia]

Disable Full Character Effect Overlays: (default False) while true, full character effect overlays on your character will be disabled. Affected visuals:
Stoneskin
Barkskin
Goldskin
Fire Shield (Cold)
Fire Shield (Hot)
Elemental Forms (Both Sorcerer and Druid) <-------------

Why?

The whole point to a feature like this, would be to stop annoying effects like stoneskin and other things from ruining your elemental form graphic. Why would you add the form itself to this list?

Elemental forms would be nice if they would simply block ALL visual effects entirely. Some debuffs cause the form to look ugly and discolored, and some buffs outright remove the elemental form (which is annoying.)

Reaper wings are completely uneffected by buffs/debuffs (and always look nice).. please make elemental forms behave exactly the same way!

[ahpook]

Why?

The whole point to a feature like this, would be to stop annoying effects like stoneskin and other things from ruining your elemental form graphic. Why would you add the form itself to this list?

I don't think that is the whole point. I would like to turn them off because I find them distracting and I prefer the look of the armor without those effects. But to answer "why?", someone asked and that one (or two) requests seemed to be enough to add them to the list. It would have been ideal if each effect was individually toggle-able.

[DRoark]

The reason for the sonic blast nerf is quite simple. Far too many people were enjoying it so it needed to be 'adjusted' This adjusts it quite nicely and as per SSG MO, by Friday no one will be having fun with it any more.

Balanced!

I have to give SSG credit though, they've mastered saying "But you ASKED us to!" with a straight face. That's some quality Level-32 denial.

[Jinxx]

As others have articulated, the change to Sonic Blast is a terrible idea. Leave it alone please.

[Kalaxia]

I don't think that is the whole point. I would like to turn them off because I find them distracting and I prefer the look of the armor without those effects. But to answer "why?", someone asked and that one (or two) requests seemed to be enough to add them to the list. It would have been ideal if each effect was individually toggle-able.

For elemental form, there's already a toggle for that in the game.. or at least for druids (I can't say for certain if sorcs get it.) It's in your feats tab. And if you're talking about non-elemental character, that's besides the point and doesn't really effect my point at all.

Thus, having the elemental form on the gameplay toggle doesn't make sense, and just ruins the use of this feature for elemental forms.

Like I said though, the real answer is to just hardcode elemental form to never be effected by any graphical effects, period. Just like reaper wings. The problem would be solved then.

[Nugaot]

For elemental form, there's already a toggle for that in the game.. or at least for druids (I can't say for certain if sorcs get it.) It's in your feats tab. And if you're talking about non-elemental character, that's besides the point and doesn't really effect my point at all.

Thus, having the elemental form on the gameplay toggle doesn't make sense, and just ruins the use of this feature for elemental forms.

Like I said though, the real answer is to just hardcode elemental form to never be effected by any graphical effects, period. Just like reaper wings. The problem would be solved then.

Sorcerers don't have that.