Balance Update: official thread (stage 1)

[doppelapfel]

I fear that this is a too hard nerf for locks (the changes on amun are perfect ime, only cd for cancelled spells is missing) and players will get a too big benefit from cs items again:

Sultars Terror
Old casting time: 3s
New casting time: 3s*0,6=1,8s

Casting time with 21%cs boni=1,8s/1,21=1,48 seconds
so 0,32 seconds less than without cs gear

Old benefit from 21% cs with 1,8s castingtime:
1,8*0,79=1,422
0,378 seconds less with uber gear

This would mean CS gear gives locks nearly the same bonus over players with normal gear as in the current version on the live servers.

NGDs decision to change the cs system is awesome in my eyes, leave arcane devotion and the normal castspeed as they are.

The only good point i can see is that locks dont have to rely on a single spell so much (which can be taken away by ms or not casted again cause of confuse or darkness) and the reduction of casting times would help conjus a lot, because many of them dont use arcane devotion and would have a great improvement without losing sth. I dont like this anyway.


Edit: I have decided to also write down the benefit you get from 21% cs with lvl 5 devotion, to show how much gear gives now (in the current version on amun locks will still use devotion, most at lvl 5):

Without cs gear:
1,8/2=0,9

with cs gear:
1,8/2,21=0,814...
so only 0,086... anything

With the 3 seconds casting time:
Without uber gear:
3/2=1,5

With:
3/2,21=1,357...
so 0,143... difference (compare that with 0,32).