Decrease or Increase in damage/ debuffing ability ? - Combat changes d)

[prince_sd]

<DIV>Did the combat changes d) just deliver another blow to our damage and debuffing ability</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><EM>- Increasing your Intelligence now acts as a spell damage bonus and is no longer compared to the target's Wisdom.<BR>- Increasing your Wisdom improves your resistances to arcane damage types (Heat, Cold, Poison, Disease, Magic, Divine, and Mental) and no longer mitigates your opponent's Intelligence bonus.</EM></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We already had our Str and Agi debuffing ability removed from death's coil line and now Horiific mark line has its debuffing utility reduced since Wis debuffing no longer increases spell damage.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Lets say -40 wis debuffing earlier gave us 10% extra damage (assume -wis works same as +int )<A href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=comtest&message.id=2270" target=_blank>http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=comtest&message.id=2270</A> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Now wis just reduces damage resistance, so that say -40 wisdom decreases damage resistances by 10% each.</DIV> <DIV>A 10% decrease in resistances would probably increase the damage by only 2-3% (assuming similar to darathar, a 10% reduction in our heat/cold resistance from 4000 to 3600 only increased the damage by a small amount)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This definitely needs more testing especially if someone can find how wisdom is correlating to heat resistance and hence damage recieved.</DIV> <DIV> <DIV>But, I don't like this from the looks of it. It looks like our damage and debuffing ability got decreased by a quite an amount. And if this is true we need to raise a combined and loud voice against this.</DIV></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=time_text></SPAN> </DIV> <P>Message Edited by prince_sd on <SPAN class=date_text>08-20-2005</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>10:14 AM</SPAN></P><p>Message Edited by prince_sd on <span class=date_text>08-20-2005</span> <span class=time_text>10:21 AM</span>

[Handleba]

<div></div>That is not the case at all.  Before this change, on any group mobs, the siphon life would do only about 550-600 dmg at adept 3 with about 250 INT.  The description says it will do like 880-980.  This is the case on white con solo mobs after debuffing, but not nearly the case when there are group mobs.  With this change, we can now do our full damage on the group mobs, so this was beneficial to us, not a nerf. <div></div><p>Message Edited by Handlebars on <span class=date_text>08-20-2005</span> <span class=time_text>10:17 AM</span>

[prince_sd]

<DIV>That is definitely good news if we are doing more damage:smileyhappy:</DIV> <DIV>But that implies every class damage just jumped up. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And our horrific line had been reduced in utility by half.:smileysad:</DIV> <DIV>I think we should petition to get wis debuffing changed to int debuffing since decreased int would decrease mob spell damage and it would give us back int increasing our damage</DIV><p>Message Edited by prince_sd on <span class=date_text>08-20-2005</span> <span class=time_text>10:24 AM</span>

[quamdar]

it decreases the mobs resists to all arcane and increases our resists which is pretty nice, though would be alot nicer i would bet if it were int <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <div></div>