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He refers to farming mana. Ether Theft, not an alien. And E.T. is no friend towards us pervs, the prude. I mean, zero tentacles!

Eh, I was critted for 100k damage before , which is 20 times my hp.

Also, Tenboro. Is this intentional?

http://hentaiverse.org/pages/showequip.php...;key=6ffaeea279

This thing has no PAB!

I found the problem. Leather Armor can potentially *not* have a bonus Strength, Agility, or Dexterity stat. This might mean that the minimum PAB roll is 0.

You might have rolled the "lucky" triple 0 on the PAB slot machine for leather armor.

Kevlar and Shade doesn't have this "quirk" fortunately.

He must be really lucky to get 0 roll on all three PABs (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/heh.gif)

That means that legendary ethereal estoc is right around the corner.

Wait, so Weaken is now better than Nerf? okay.jpg

To add to that, the new curse-weaving mechanism is a huge mana sink. I was used to just casting Silence, Poison, and Nerf on FSM. Silence missing once in a blue moon is okay, since I start re-casting with 1 turn left. Missing twice almost never happens, but now with Nerf and Poison active I'm lucky if Silence gets cast on the 3rd or 4th try. I would understand if curse-weaving only kicked in on spells that used to cancel each other (Silence and Weaken). But all deprecating spells lumped into one? This forces me to only cast Silence to avoid casting Spark of Life to save on mana or try to cast my usual spells and use all my mana potions while doing so.

Both of these make me want to re-do my abilities. But it's not like I screwed up, the game changed.

This post has been edited by handabanana: May 7 2012, 22:24

As a mage I find it hard to believe that this update is good for us, sure we can nuke monsters better, but they seem to be doing mush more damage as well. This is from my latest encounter on round 6 of Dreamfall Arena on Normal:

2 4 Sandy is agitated!
2 3 Razzia hits you for 2429 piercing damage.
2 2 Sandy uses Razzia
2 1 You hit Sandy for 1015 crushing damage.

That attack nearly killed me and is more than half my life total of 4308 and it was from only one custom monster on NORMAL. This update seems to be high risk - high reward, with both monsters and players dealing more damage.

HV 0.6.7: 2fast2furious

HV 0.6.7: 2fast2furious

We have no cars to steal. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

HV 0.6.7: 2fast2furious

Isn't that what you guys have been lobbying for? ... (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Pretty much 8)

Wait what?

Try activating Spirit Channeling and Heart Seeker with Bleeding. Easily went 6x a much as my old bleed. I guess this compensates for the change that we can't slow ourselves down anymore.

Not sure if someone's brought this up, but consider the following situation:

FSM currently has Silence and Weaken deprecations on it. I cast Silence on FSM because it's almost worn off. Curse-weaving kicks in, considers Silence as a third deprecation, and does the math to see if Silence lands or not.

Either the wording of curse-weaving needs to be changed or the actual code needs to consider that a re-cast of the same deprecation should not trigger curse-weaving since casting Silence in this case only serves to renew the same deprecation and not add a third deprecation to the target.

Either the wording of curse-weaving needs to be changed or the actual code needs to consider that a re-cast of the same deprecation should not trigger curse-weaving since casting Silence in this case only serves to renew the same deprecation and not add a third deprecation to the target.

I can get behind that.

I can get behind that.

I just noticed it. I'm gonna try to replicate the same situation a few more times. Does Stun count towards the number of deprecations that trigger curse weaving? If so, oops. But wait, that kind of sucks. So if weapon procs count, I would then want to not have it proc or have one less deprecation on my target because my whole kill FSM plan hinges on me being able to keep Silence on it at all times. If poor timing has Silence about to wear off, Weaken, and Stun shortly wearing off, I'll either waste some mana having to recast Silence until it sticks or risk having Silence wear off while I futily fight the curse weaving mechanism only to have FSM 1-hit me.

So there's 3 solutions depending on some more research:

1. If a spell will renew a deprecation to the target, curse weaving will not kick in.

2. Deprecating effects not originating from a user-cast spell will not count towards the 2 deprecating effects required for curse weaving to kick in.

3. Reword the concept of curse weaving clearly stating that recasts and non-spell effects (weapon procs) count towards the 2 deprecating effects required for curse weaving to kick in.

1 will please all players in general, 2 will please players who don't use weapons that have procs (what?), but 3 is probably just plain easier for Tenboro.

This post has been edited by handabanana: May 8 2012, 03:17

45 8 Bleeding Wound hits Flying Spaghetti Monster for 1504 damage.
45 7 Spreading Poison hits Flying Spaghetti Monster for 345 damage.
45 6 Flying Spaghetti Monster hits you for 689 dark damage.
45 5 Flying Spaghetti Monster gains the effect Bleeding Wound.
45 4 Flying Spaghetti Monster gains the effect Penetrated Armor.
45 3 Your offhand crits Flying Spaghetti Monster for 4630 void damage.
45 2 Elemental Strike crits Flying Spaghetti Monster for 4476 holy damage.
45 1 You crit Flying Spaghetti Monster for 12821 void damage.

Nice the elemental dmg criticals as well =)

I assume offhand hits do not proc infusion elemental strikes?
Teeeeenb~?

@ Tenboro is the off hand still not getting elemental dmg normal?

Wish that skills would proc it (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

That means that legendary ethereal estoc is right around the corner.

If by legendary estoc you mean 2 exquisite leather drops when I only had 4 total exquisite drops before yesterday then sure.

And if by exquisite leather I mean with only middling rolls on every stat.

Upping all my item trainings by several levels in the past week or so sure has helped (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

If by legendary estoc you mean 2 exquisite leather drops when I only had 4 total exquisite drops before yesterday then sure.

And if by exquisite leather I mean with only middling rolls on every stat.

Upping all my item trainings by several levels in the past week or so sure has helped (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Don't worry, after some more trainings you'll start receiving Magnificent Leather instead of Exquisite Leather. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Don't worry, after some more trainings you'll start receiving Magnificent Leather instead of Exquisite Leather. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Well at least that's worth selling for Mag IW. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

As a mage I find it hard to believe that this update is good for us, sure we can nuke monsters better, but they seem to be doing mush more damage as well.

It's good for us because you are more probably to make a one-turn-kill.

Just play in difficulties you can kill all monsters (except for resistance monsters) in first turn so you almost won't take any damage.

In high difficulties (IWBHT encounter, grindfest), use weaken on every single monster then you can be very safe, and the mana using is still lower than 0.6.6 .

the average player's expectation of each HV patch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJmKLzmPMso