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Hmm, the increased damage rate also makes my bleed weapons less effective than before. They're no longer doing enough damage enough to be significant.

Now that you do more damage to Stunned targets, is there even any point in having Rapiers?
Or do they stack? That is, 50% and whatever bonus Penetrated Armor gives.

What I mean is, if you use Dual Wield and have a mainhand Club and offhand Rapier, if you get both PA and Stun, do the effects stack?

yes they do stack

Hmm, the increased damage rate also makes my bleed weapons less effective than before. They're no longer doing enough damage enough to be significant.

The bleed effect used to be less than damage.
Depended on the enemy. Sir Spaghetti died fastest with bleeding.
Wi the custom monsters now... There's just no telling what does most damage unless you do some long term testing....
Which is rendered useless by the next patch.
It's all a screwy mess of balancing.

This post has been edited by Bunko: Sep 3 2011, 17:44

Does the reduction of levels in IW start at 100? It might be helpful to people stuck in the 30-70 rough patch to be able to complete IW sometimes. I know I never could unless I had the difficulty sub-normal.
Also, no link to this on the News page.

Does the reduction of levels in IW start at 100? It might be helpful to people stuck in the 30-70 rough patch to be able to complete IW sometimes. I know I never could unless I had the difficulty sub-normal.
Also, no link to this on the News page.

Only normal difficulty guarantees level up by +1.
As for the rest, doesn't much matter to me.
Before this patch, getting fragged started at about round 270.

Agility now does nothing for melee defense ? Instead it now only exists for speed ?

Agility adds to evasion. Evasion is good.

What I mean is, if you use Dual Wield and have a mainhand Club and offhand Rapier, if you get both PA and Stun, do the effects stack?

Yes, but they work in different ways. Stun simply doubles the damage, but PA halves the mitigation of the target - which means it gets more efficient the more heavily armored the target is. For example, PA on a target with 80% mitigation would triple the actual damage.

The bleed effect used to be less than damage.
It's all a screwy mess of balancing.

Previously, I was doing damage in the 100-200s (maybe 300) with a bleed of approx. 60. Now, I'm doing 500-700 damage on mainhand, with a bleed of about 70. The bleed doesn't help much anymore. It takes too long for it to work.

On another note, I just noticed this:

8 1 You crit Amphibious Sperm Whale for 665 slashing damage.
7 1 You hit Amphibious Sperm Whale for 737 slashing damage.

Just how is crit calculated?! It can't be doing less damage than normal attacks can it? Not sure if this is due to the update or not though, I've probably start paying more attention to the values just after updates.

This post has been edited by stealthfire: Sep 3 2011, 17:51

Also experience seems to be cut by half. I used to get up to 700-800k exp per 2,5x arena round vs Eila (3 enemies) and now I only receive 350-380k. Strange, you didnt mention anything about experience.

I found my experience cut too..
Tenboro you did sth on the experience gain?

This post has been edited by Loli connnnn: Sep 3 2011, 17:53

My Evade went from ~31.4% to 32%, for some reason.

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For reference, how long does it take to generate 1 million equipment drops?

Changes are good. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) No forge - sad. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) And...it's just for me, or the game is lagging like hell now? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

This post has been edited by Evil Scorpio: Sep 3 2011, 18:12

And...it's just for me, or the game is lagging like hell now? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Yeah, me too. The loading between turns is quite laggy. I had thought it was due to my internet uploading/downloading, but... Well, it's not.

I am a tank with high END and this used to work well. I used to receive little damage in the earlier rounds of everything. Now, I feel like a glass cannon. I OHKO most monsters now but I just feel really flimsy even with high END.

This post has been edited by oumi11: Sep 3 2011, 18:18

Toddlerguro crits you for 1501 elec damage. @ Normal
Two crits in one round and I'm toast.

So much for Arena grinding on higher difficulties. At least until I get spirit shield.

Fleeing from a Crystfest restores all the HP (but not the MP), while dying in a Crystfest doesn't.

And I agree: monsters do too much damages now (and I don't seem to kill them faster).

Toddlerguro crits you for 1501 elec damage. @ Normal
Two crits in one round and I'm toast.

So much for Arena grinding on higher difficulties. At least until I get spirit shield.

That looks pretty normal to me, actually. I usually take 1.8k crits from Mind Rapers on Heroic mode. I'll have to see during tonight's arena runs to make sure, because my magical mitigations suddenly got boosted to 26.2%, almost double what I usually have.

Fleeing from a Crystfest restores all the HP (but not the MP), while dying in a Crystfest doesn't.

Are you sure you didn't idle for a bit before fleeing?

Does the higher drop rate for Magnificents and Legendaries mean the loot bonus for stronger monsters was fixed, or is giving IWBTH a higher bonus simply covering for it?


Most of the update looks pretty great, especially the part about crystarium boosting artifacts. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)

I'm not sure how all these damage changes and high quality equipment bonuses are going to mix together, damage-wise, but I suppose I'll reserve judgement until after I've played awhile.

Hmmpf. Meleeing Legendarys is back to snail pace again. Doing about 70% less damage with my Void Rapier (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Good. As it should be. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I'm a bit confused about the crystal hath perk affecting artifact drop rates. As in, I don't understand a single thing about it. Can anyone explain?

new patch seems fine to me. was surprised that the exp adjustments weren't mentioned though

Are you sure you didn't idle for a bit before fleeing?

Yes: I waited for my HP bar to be half filled, I fled, came back to my character page, and my HP bar was full. Try (in normal), and you'll see.

This post has been edited by Hairs' Fan: Sep 3 2011, 18:50