New Balance Update: Hits/Criticals/Evasion (Stage 6)

[chilko]

Originally Posted by Mattdoesrock

All the resists etc stuff sounds great, I'll have to test it.

However, can you explain how Critical hits are calculated? What effect Concentration has on them? etc. That would be great.

I can say that it's based on concentration, your level and your weapon's quality.

previous formula had too much to do with level... now it has more to do with attributes and your weapon.

also, this is a real % of chance of your hits... this desnt mean that if you had 50% of critical chance you will have 1 critical every one round.
Random is random... a coin toss can be heads thousands of times in a row.

[Hamster_of_sorrow]

most of the changes in this stage arent actually half bad. that said, im still disappointed in the way that onslaught was changed.

ill chuck my idea out there again:

a compromise between the current onslaught and the new one:

onslaught ONLY affects the caster IF it also affects someone else.

FOR INSTANCE:

a barbarian casts onslaught with no one around, there is no effect.


a barbarian casts onslaught with 1 or more people in the area of effect, the barbarian receives the full benefits from the onslaught.

also WOW, u killed the SHIT out of mobility

[chilko]

Originally Posted by Hamster_of_sorrow

most of the changes in this stage arent actually half bad. that said, im still disappointed in the way that onslaught was changed.

ill chuck my idea out there again:

a compromise between the current onslaught and the new one:

onslaught ONLY affects the caster IF it also affects someone else.

FOR INSTANCE:

a barbarian casts onslaught with no one around, there is no effect.

a barbarian casts onslaught with 1 or more people in the area of effect, the barbarian receives the full benefits from the onslaught.

Objection overruled. you would still get the effect of both spring and onslaught by yourself.

[TheMessenger]

Originally Posted by chilko

Objection overruled. you would still get the effect of both spring and onslaught by yourself.

Like the updates, so nice job

But could you at least make onsl dmg bonus still apply to caster? :/

also the new DS for marks is it -20% AS each lvl or at lvl 5 is it -20% AS?

[Gideon_Slack]

Thoughts on Death Sentence:

Could someone with a better grip of the math compare Death Sentence to Sudden Strike?

Sudden Strike at level 5 gives 40 seconds of -50% protection.

Death Sentence at Level 5 gives 30 seconds of +20% melee damage.

Will using Death Sentence allow allies to inflict more damage on a target than Sudden Strike? (Sudden Strike is also a more versatile spell, and applies to all forms of damage).

Also, I'm not sure a spell called "Death Sentence" fits in the Scouting tree. A new name that is Head of the Pack-ish would be nice.

Note: The last Spell in the Scouting tree is a mystery right now, it only says "Label"

[TheMessenger]

Also I feel bad for the idiots that deleted their chars

I wonder how many people will be whining to NGD to get their account back or trying to get an inactive/coplay an account

[Hamster_of_sorrow]

Originally Posted by chilko

Objection overruled. you would still get the effect of both spring and onslaught by yourself.

not really, if you are alone, chasing or running, onslaught would not affect you.

my idea would ONLY affect the caster if it affects another ally, so if you are alone, its useless.

[_Enio_]

From some tests on low monsters, the new DS replacement spell for marks boosts my 400s (recharged lvl5) normals to 450s (roughly 10%) for the cost of 20% speed.

Does that new spell take *all* damage into account or just the damage from bows,rings and arrows (like recharged)?

If so i dont quite see the use of it with current damage increase (no dps increase on normal armor for me)

[New_barb]

ok new compromise?

IF you have any other speed buff activated you can't cast onslaught. after 10 seconds that the speed buff ended you will be able to cast onslaught and you can't cast another speed buff spell withing 10 seconds after onslaught ended? BUT it will effects the caster? like getting a global cooldown on your speed buffs after archieved another speed buff,

and of course there has to be a ally next to you or it won't effect you

[Kyrottimus]

Originally Posted by chilko

Objection overruled. you would still get the effect of both spring and onslaught by yourself.

Then why not increase Spring5 to 35% movement speed or reduce Onslaught to 25% (max spring5) so a barb can use spring to keep up with the charge? Or better yet, meet in the middle. Both at +30% at level 5...

That's all we want, is to be able to charge along with those we buff.