Dat realm balance tho

HtGeist wrote: ↑

Tue 12 Mar 2019 9:09 AM

I feel what needs to happen is alot of things...specially stripping Hibernia of alot the extra sauce they so halfassedly got launched with ,cover up excuse was but they underpopulated...pfff aint gonna stick in court!
Well i could whine for days...but if i were to create a private server of DAoC...heres what would be changed for sake of balance..the basic,from where things can be tweaked.
1. bard gets casteable amnesia gone is insta amnesia
2. bard looses spec heals.(heal song will be tied to nurt spec..regrowth removed for bard.
3.hib casters gets root no stun,druid gets stun looses root gains insta pbaoe snare..
4.chanter pets caster version can now be interupted like any other pet,no more cos hibernia heal pet will only buff and heal chanter(they already have 4 classes with access to spec heal same as other 2 realms combined..this sauce on top gone)
5.mentalist and spiritmaster demez moved down to 18 spec..free up spec choices.
6.midgard hammer side chain upped to 5 sec..as is fitting for 2nd in chain stun +5 to hit on both styles +5 to hit on conqueror.
7.celtic dual 1st hit side stun appropiately reduced to 3 sec duration,or alternately put 2nd in a chain and can remain 5 sec.
8.good hard look at LA mechanics..find a way to balance dmg cd/dw levels without hurting lowbies who are miles away from 50 comp spec.
9. hunter pets selfbuff str/con on summoning..32 pet 5% chance to proc a garrotte no disease too op.
10. move block before parry check in defensive line.
11. max block in rvr 60% BUT mastery of block can go above.
12.the thid bug with cs backstab2 hitting harder then perforate artery would be looked at,same as archer dmg in the lower tier..atm seems way too high also archery dmg cap on greys would be lovered..critshot for more then a spec nuker could ever do..bye bye,dmg on 50 vs 50 adjusted upwards abit..atm seems like it goes bad when it meets 50 af and spec af buffed..still with caution would need a lucky max crit to exceed 700 dmg on critshot.
13. animist would get a lvl 40 pet that can follow..basic nukes dmg according to spec no snare nuking fungoid etc. to improove rvr experience abit.
14. immunity on 2min nearsight would be full 1 min..
15.might give spiritmaster a charm similar to mentalist.

thats 15 things on top of my head,i would do to the current phoenix setup...and then adjust from there..its mindboggling how hibs with a bard,druid,chanter,mentalis warden 5 core have 4 spec healers and a heal assist pet available when mid and albs have 2...no heal assist pets what so ever..bdøs sure bd only. albs..didnt cabbypet in some alternation recieve heals? dunno..but hibs too strong atm,i dont want to have to roll the easy train just to get rid of bull in rvr.

now flame on.

Castable amnesia on Bard.. To make it more balanced?

What about giving castable amnesia to bard and eld or menta (which will be by far overpowered to instant amnesia with 5 sec and 10 sec cooldown), and then call it balanced because removing insta amnesia on bards will just make it so that hibernia doesn't get that spell effect at all. If you don't get it from me ask any bard mains because that spell is so vital to be instant for them that you need to play the class to understand how much pressure they have during their play. Just do the math and you'll see that bards amnesia is by far the most underrated of them all, however it has the biggest impact because it is the "easiest" to time. Bards can't spam amnesia, their single target amnesia has a 5 second cooldown, while the group amnesia has a 10 second cooldown. Just for the sake of it, calculate how many castable group amnesias a sorc or a healer can do in the same time a bard can use 1 group amnesia and you'll see that it is by far overrated. A good bard can make one amnesia per 10 seconds impact a lot harder due to efficient timing. If you were to give bards castable amnesia, they will have to do the following tasks: Mezz / interrupt, peel, cure status including mezz, and occasionally offheal. Even druid/healer/cleric get instant spells due to the sheer pressure they're under so what gimp the bard? Learn to spread, and stop clumping.

Bards are not considered as primary healers, and they will never play the healsong regardless if it is in Regrowth or in Nurture. They will only off heal if they really really have to, and if they do they will more or less always use single target heal because of the power cost a group heal has. They will in all cases have a worse spec heal then a Warden because no bard will ever spec 42 regrowth. Without even having a bard, just looking over the abilities and spec my guess is their spec is 33 reg, 42 nurt 37 music 10 blades and they go higher music they will remove spec points from regrowth in any case since 42 music is mandatory for purple speed. They are a nature archtype, and heal is their off-spec.

No need to give hib casters root, they have a 9 sec castable stun, and with so many DET classes now that means it will effectively last beteen 2 - 4 seconds. It is only full time if it's on a caster but if your casters or healers get caught by enemy hib caster you are already dead. Nature druids are very hard to play efficient, why give them gimped out versions of their niche? They have instant root that again... if casted on tank trains doesn't last the entire time, and also has to run between the front and the mid line of their own group. Nature spec is a high risk high reward spec and should have their niche role as it is when they sacrifice nurt spec for CC.

I really don't understand why ench pets aren't interruptable and I agree they should be changed to be so.

No need to move menty demez to 18. They go 45 light because of the 45 spec nuke, if demez was 18 their spec would be 45 18 23. There is nothing attractive over 45 light or at 23 or below mana for rvr. They get green pom, which is utter useless. Blue HoT which is straight up crap for RvR, and.... dots a HUGE no-no when they can spend their time dealing insanely more effective damage with their spec heat nuke. I can't speak for SM though.

Animists aren't poor for RvR, it's just that most groups and players utilize them wrong. It's like an eldritch, you don't play that class to do mad deepz, because Elds are a caster support that focus on NS/Disease first and foremost while animists in group focus on creating barriers for the team to fall back to, clear pets and push/pull before they help bombing anyone down. If you want to play a DPS, go mentalist or enchanter if you want to MA. Not animist. Moveable pet is a no go from my side as it just makes them a regular pet class with no real stationary purpose (which is the whole idea behind the class)

Can't disagree with longer timers against NS. It's a pain to be NS'ed and a pain to cure it. (the 3 second hard cast I get from 40 reg remedies it a bit).

Midgard has two primary pet classes that is very offensive damage dealers for groups. It is not even remotely needed to have charmed pets in Mid as both their bonedancers and spiritmasters has high usage and high utility that neither of the realms has. Giving them pet charm just to have pet charm on every realm isn't balancing, it is giving away abilities for free just to make the realms even on mechanics, but making things even is not the same as balancing. And notice that I say offensive, animists in groups aren't considered as offensive but as support (offensive support at best) and are very unreliable as a source of damage because of how FnF acts. Even Theurgs are better at it, and they are classified as an offensive support themselves. And you might think that those classifications doesn't mean anything because the "player makes the choices" but you need to look at it from a group perspective, and balance it out from a group perspective. It's 8 man team work, that means balance should be related to the classes in conjunction and performance with others. If a class works too good in a group setup it needs to be balanced. If it works too good in solo, you need to learn to play better.