1.85e Increased Buff Time.....

[illu]

http://www.camelotherald.com/more/2511.shtml


1.85E in Testing

Posted By: Missy Hatch 2006-08-30 16:32:50



Here are the notes for version 1.85e. Enjoy!




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Dark Age of Camelot
Test Version 1.85e Release Notes
Tradeskills, Quest System, and Class Changes
August 30, 2006

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NEW THINGS AND BUG FIXES

- Clockwork Cat - As a token of appreciation, Royal Escorts located outside the throne room of each Realm will gift players who pre-ordered Labyrinth of the Minotaur with a special clockwork cat.


Buff Changes

In an effort to reduce downtime, buffs with durations based on timers have been normalized across the realms. We will be monitoring the effects of this change and make adjustments as necessary.

- The duration of many buffs (self, pet-cast, group, and realm) have been increased. Most were increased to have one-hour durations, with the exception of the group-based resist buffs. These were set to have 30-minute durations.

- Many buffs (self, pet-cast, group, and realm) are now uninterruptible and may be cast while moving. This change does not apply to self-only bladeturn buffs.



TRADESKILL CHANGES


Specialty Armor Updates

- All Specialty Armor Recipes will share a single dropped pattern.

- Gloves, Boots and Sleeves will consume one pattern.
- Leggings and Helms will consume two patterns.
- Vests will consume three patterns

- The drop rates for patterns have been increased.


Ranged Weapon Updates

- Material Level 9 bows with predefined weapon effects have been added to the game.




DARKNESS RISING WORLD NOTES


- The Legion guardians in the Chapter Three dungeons will now spawn less frequently.


Quests - All Realms

- A Gift for the Consul - The Royal Escorts outside each throne room will tell players a bit about the Minotaur visitors as well as give the player the opportunity to present the High Consul with a gift from their Realm.


COOPERATIVE SERVER

- Soldier Carenza, Soldat Gyrid, Saighdear Creag have been added to Oceanus Haven.


PVP SERVER

- Soldier Carenza, Soldat Gyrid, Saighdear Creag have been added to Oceanus Haven.

 

[illu]

So maybe 30 min buff bot resistances . Now let's have end buff without range again please :>

And looks like someone will have to farm patterns and then make armour as necessary.....

Oli - Illu

 

[Melachi]

brilliant, no need to beg around for haste now

 

[Aiteal]

brilliant, no need to beg around for haste now

hehe
Its a double edged sword, read the alb stealther forums on VN
Everyone rolling friar bots for the new 1 hour heal proc buff that has a 25% chance to go off everytime you hit someone.

Less leggy users thanks to 1 hour resist buffs means more malice users which aint good for mid stealthers, hunters especially.

 

[charmangle]

To be honest...

Hmm...to be honest it feels to me like they are just trying to keep as many subs payed as long as possible until warhammer is here. Why else would they make bbs even better than they are ? Just doenst make any other sense in my opinion...

/Charmangle

 

[Dr_Evil]

They've also increased timers of charges in one of the previous 1.85 patches (if I weren't dreaming that I read it), so I guess it's in relation to that. All timered buffs will last longer, so there will be less timers to wait for and fights will last longer because all the defensive buffs will be up more often. We won't have to recharge so often anymore then, rvr won't be that expensive.

 

[Solari]

From a stealth PoV the increased duration could lead to some horrible incidents, as mentioned above the friar healproc is riddicioulos. Also more people running with buffed resists would be another serious "nerf" to leggie wielders.
Personally my stealther class has acces to PD but I don't think mythic needs to encourage people to stop using leggies, they're a good challenging twist to this game.

From my warden PoV I like the idea very very much, I've had so many good fights in my favour when my buffs starts to drop after 5 mins fight and it costs valueable time and fuckloads of power to rebuff.

 

[Ubba]

tru on the warden cba most of time to redo them ^^
so all timer buffs will be castable on the move, except bt ?

 

[Ging]

tru on the warden cba most of time to redo them ^^
so all timer buffs will be castable on the move, except bt ?

dunno, but reading this

"- Many buffs (self, pet-cast, group, and realm) are now uninterruptible and may be cast while moving. This change does not apply to self-only bladeturn buffs."

looks like wardens, theurgs etc can run whilst spamming grp blade turn?

even more death to tanks?

 

[Bondoila]

So maybe 30 min buff bot resistances . Now let's have end buff without range again please :>

And looks like someone will have to farm patterns and then make armour as necessary.....

Oli - Illu

I guess mids like it since they got all 6 resists(healer+shammy bb). Seems you need to get a warden bot to be able to compete on same level and thats abit silly. With this change I think they should increase cl sists to 20% and increase so the lw's will debuff 45%.

 

[Belomar]

Heh. So now it is an advantage that Mid stealthers have to have 2 BBs instead of one? Gee, I like your reasoning.

 

[Vladamir]

Woot, more sbs running with 6 resist buffs

 

[censi]

- The duration of many buffs (self, pet-cast, group, and realm) have been increased. Most were increased to have one-hour durations, with the exception of the group-based resist buffs. These were set to have 30-minute durations.

Lol that is ridiculous. Another reason to not use leggies.

what are they on. Now 6 pack doorsteppers aint even gonna have to go back to BB every 10 mins.

 

[Calmin]

Lol that is ridiculous. Another reason to not use leggies.

what are they on. Now 6 pack doorsteppers aint even gonna have to go back to BB every 10 mins.

Yeah but for those of us that travel to other realms its good news too....although being a Friar im totally self buffed anyways but atleast im not going to have to blow 75% of my power bar every 20 minutes reapplying my 9 self buffs whilst trying to hide somewhere near DC bridge.

And they're less likely to run out mid fight against tanks (like last night Moeha or whatever your name is, thats why i ran away!!! to try and rebuff!)

 

[Vodkafairy]

death of legendary weapons, woot.

and the special bows thing, i wonder if this is just a very sick joke - how cruel can they be to archers

 

[anioal]

and the special bows thing, i wonder if this is just a very sick joke - how cruel can they be to archers

actually i may test it for a laugh... 50rb, 46pf rest in stealth and all ra's specced in archery related things

 

[Vodkafairy]

archery has a lot of issues and adding procs on bows is about the lowest priority fix they can come up with - thats the point kinda

 

[anioal]

archery has a lot of issues and adding procs on bows is about the lowest priority fix they can come up with - thats the point kinda

hehe, i know that... my ranger is speced 50blades 48cd 32stealth atm, but been melee ranger too much already

 

[Fatload BoysDoCry]

actually i may test it for a laugh... 50rb, 46pf rest in stealth and all ra's specced in archery related things

46pf isn't worth it imho, i respecced out of it last week.

As for the resist buff changes, it will be the end of lgm weps since most people will be running 40-60% magic resists and alb stealthers will have the friar heal proc which is extremely powerful. I don't usually bother with sending feedback, but i did on these two issues.

 

[kivik]

where is the charge to savages!

going to send some feedback aswell!

 

[illu]

So basically they let us SC Leggies, and now with the buffs up it's not worth using them - typical :>

It does pretty much sound like Energy weaps and Champ Weaps are the only ones really worth using and malice or maybe malice mainhand and a fast off hand?

Add in celerity charges, end regen charges, and you could get end up with a fight where you have a zillion charges up!

Also I don't think fights will necessarily last longer, you will still die the same as everyone will have more stuff up. And it might be worth respeccing CL Resistance Lines to something more useful after this.
It just seems that fights are just becoming more and more timer based as opposed to nice fighting technique.

Oli - Illu

 

[Javai]

No more dying at drop offs while clerics cast resists - they'll be able to do it on the boat

 

[bigchief]

so er with 1hr theurg buffs and 1hr heal proc and end reduction from friar its time to finish off friar and theurg on bb acc? ><

can log theurg, do haste and dmg add, log friar, do 30min resists and the 1hr heal proc/end reduc, then log on cleric, buff and do resists. Yes its a faf but jesus its going to be stupid.

And its same for other realms ofc, mid have it slightly easier as they already have the 2 bots leveled and in use

 

[Farek]

so er with 1hr theurg buffs and 1hr heal proc and end reduction from friar its time to finish off friar and theurg on bb acc? ><

can log theurg, do haste and dmg add, log friar, do 30min resists and the 1hr heal proc/end reduc, then log on cleric, buff and do resists. Yes its a faf but jesus its going to be stupid.

you need a necro for abs buff too

 

[Rub]

well u all saying 1hr/30mins but what if u give your buff toons 25% duration? then u get 1hr and 25mins/42mins :eek2:

 

[illu]

I'd better start levelling up a Runey for the damage add
a Supp BD for the ABS Buff
a Valk for the DD Proc Buff?
If it's possible to log them in, buff, log out, rinse repeat hehe.

Apparently a lot of buff charges have gone up to an hour too on pend.

See what happens :>

Oli - Illu

 

[Bondoila]

well u all saying 1hr/30mins but what if u give your buff toons 25% duration? then u get 1hr and 25mins/42mins :eek2:

1h = 60 min (not 100)
60 * 1.25 = 75
1h 15 min
30*1.25= 37,5
37 min 30 sec.

 

[anioal]

i really dont see the point of those increased duration buffs besides transforming some fanatics into someting like buffed necro pets with 50% magic resists and heal procs and celerity and god knows what

 

[GrIrcSpammer]

i find it funny that illu made the post about the 30 min resist buffs !




i love u illu /poke

 

[Divinia]

ohes, all players dont play the addi.. solo game :x