Tanatus
09-16-2005, 01:59 AM
<DIV>Lets start from good part ...</DIV> <DIV>We got best escape spell ever - VI - no cast time 4.5s duration and only 20s recast</DIV> <DIV>Frozen Manacle actually snare spell for 10s (after root brakes) </DIV> <DIV>Deter and Dark Nebula became more or less decent stuns </DIV> <DIV>Devastation got 4s stun on termination (priceless)</DIV> <DIV>Nihilism been changed into somethat decent damage shield</DIV> <DIV>No more resistance check</DIV> <DIV>Amount HP of mob that normal and below somethat lowered</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bad part</DIV> <DIV>Casting time for most of the spells</DIV> <DIV>Roots = 3s</DIV> <DIV>Nukes = primary 4s and secondary 3s</DIV> <DIV>Range of spells</DIV> <DIV>Well subjectively we lost about 20% range for most of spells (from 30m to 25m) only DP and Torment kept 35m distance, some spells lost range down to 20m</DIV> <DIV>AE radius ... OUCH it been greatly reduced. I got use to in SP that even spreaded formation of gnolls would affected by Devastation .... not anymore. Ppl be VERY carefull its very easy now miss mob or 2 with AE if you do wrong targeting (aka not something in the middle of crowd)</DIV> <DIV>Abysimal Fury is PBAE now so use is with causion - sometime agro radius is smaller then radius of AE for this spell so its insanely easy to pick up adds. Regardless of what spell said (interupt) this spell DO NOT interupt AT ALL</DIV> <DIV>We lost most if not all our single target DD spells - you wont find yourself often using Distortion or Soul Flay - on countary vs. single target you still have to use AE spells - Devastation (~2.2K damage per single target at Adept 3), Nil Abs (~1.5K damage at Master 1), Dark Nebula (~700 damage at Master 1) and Deter (~1K damage average at M1). Well you might use time to time Soul Flay if you got it to master 2 thou (~650 average damage)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ugly part ....</DIV> <DIV>Roots ... say that they sucks its say nothing ... Look the ONLY root that work more or less as good as use to (or as bad better say lol) is Frozen Manacle. Let me emphasys this Adept 1 Frozen Managle MORE relaible root then Master 1 Cower. Dont let me even start about Bony Grasp.... <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />. First of all chance that it will resist on 1 or 2 mob from group is high, second thing Devastation WILL brake Bony Grasp no matter what (wont brake Frozen Manacles). Lol ppl you would not believe but I withness then Curse of Emptiness broke Bony Grasp (I have casted - Bony - Chaotic Mael - Aura of Emptiness - Curse of Emptiness ... and it BROKE Bony)</DIV> <DIV>RNG (random number generator) - our spells resently been nerfed even more, ALL of em, thanks to RNG. Devastation Adept 3 342-732 per tic damage ... do you need any more comments? It do LESS per tic on average then it was before revamp... Nil Absolution on paper great spell at Master 1 listed damage is 1302-2203 or so in reality it usually score around 1500-1600, once in a blue moon I can see numbers over 1900. I understand its not only warlocks problems but every caster but it IS a problem</DIV>