New PoP debuffs

Mobs have 'celestial guard', debuffs double cast, flurry, multi-attack and ability double cast.

So when reforging 100% double cast is no longer a cap.

I don't tend to read every buff on every mob so this kind of surprised me, so in case any one else was missing it, and a lot of wiki stuff is wrong now.

 

This would be more funny if it were less true...
Like the hidden 'potency mitigation' all mobs seem to have. It's especially noticable in PoM... go in with less then 30k potency and you can't damage anything, get to 30, 31k and things melt...
Swapping into harvesting gear makes that clear. The difference waaaaay to steep to be just 1k or so potency.

 

I think you need to be either 120% double cast for some heroics and maybe 200% for raids for cap. Would need a raider to confirm that later.

 

Roughly 150% T1 Heroic, 170 T2 Heroic, 180 T1 Raid, 200 T2 Raid from my understanding.

 

Just remove tooltips. You'll only have to change them in 6 months anyway.

 

Or on the 13'th, with the new "Update"

 

They mobs don't actually debuff players. Our stats don't change. The mobs just 'avoid' a portion of our stats... so a mob may have say '45% DC avoidance'.. which means until a toon has 145 DC that doesn't doesn't DC 100% of the time.

 

I love how players resort to a "understanding" instead of facts when talking about the EQ2 stats system.

Can we expect them to listen and redo stats? WoW did, and will do again next expansion. I understand the people working at DBG isnt the most talented bunch, but surely it should be possible to do an item squish or go back to +heal/+damage or just do something to stop the inflation.

 

They don't have enough resources to do it. At least I wouldn't expect it.

 

No, nope, never. Updating all of the AAs, spells, buffs, gear, templates used to generate gear, etc. and making sure everything is still relatively balanced throughout all of the levels (within reason... obviously people don't care *too* much about old content on live servers and the progression has been pretty busted there for a while due to all of the previous gear revamps) is way too much effort.

 

My take is that they will only do it as a last resort. Eventually the current technique they are using of adding new layers and ignoring old stats/mechanics will cause a major problem in the game which they will be unable to patch around.

Their technical debt in game mechanics must be huge currently and growing at an alarming rate.

 

It already is a major problem. But they will continue the only way they know, IF there is another expansion, player HP will go up 10 times, probably Potency will no longer matter, and they will just add a new idiotic mechanic (Aim? Anyone?) Or, maybe just give up, make all spells worthless, and add 10 more levels of ascension as the only thing that can do any damage.

The dev team is simply clueless at this point.