v11.1.1 Suggestions/Predictions

kevkj

This came to me in a dream.

The following passives granting unique forms of Critical Damage and Penetration when meeting their conditions have been converted to grant Major and Minor Force to prevent them from stacking with one another. The total amount of Critical Damage and Penetration granted will be similar but will not stack with additional sources.

• Fated Fortune: Now grants Minor Force for 8 seconds.
• Hemorrhage: Now grants Major Force.
• Piercing Spear: Now grants Minor Force.
• Advanced Species: Now grants Minor Force with an Animal Companions ability slotted.

• Splintered Secrets: Enemies damaged by a Herald of the Tome ability now have Minor Breach applied to them for 5 seconds.
• Dismember: Enemies damaged by a Grave Lord ability now have Minor Breach applied to them for 3 seconds.

[Developer Comment]

Over time, Critical Damage and Penetration has become more and more accessible to players, greatly increasing the damage output. We're going through many sources of Critical Damage and Penetration, converting effects over to the Major and Minor system so they still offer powerful bonuses but with a much more controlled ceiling. We've started with class passives in efforts to make it harder to stack their effects with subclassing in mind, while also trying to mitigate the need to gain these effects from other sources.

Class Abilities

• Sorcerer
  • Dark Magic
    • Crystal Shard
      • Crystal Weapon: This morph now applies Minor Breach instead of a unique armor reduction.
    • Dark Exchange
      • Dark Deal: This morph now grants Minor Force, but no longer grants Minor Berserk.
  • Storm Calling
    • Lightning Form: This ability and its morphs now no longer grant Minor Force.
  
  [Developer Comment]
  We heard feedback from players opposing the movement of Minor Force between Sorcerer abilities, and have adjusted Dark Deal to compensate for the powerful Minor Force buff it now grants. We also decided to improve the Crystal Weapon morph, increasing the armor reduced by this ability by 197.4%.

YandereGirlfriend

This would be so gross.

Alaztor91

I actually wouldn't be surprised if these end up being the exact Patch Notes for one of the updates in the next 12 months or so. Unique flat +Ultimate Class passives are already being gutted and changed into Heroism ''due to Subclassing'', so it's logical to assume that unique flat +Crit Dmg, +Crit Chance, +Pen, +Weapon/Spell Dmg, etc will also be gutted and turned into Major/Minor Buffs that can't be stacked.

randconfig

If they don't reverse the gutting of Arcanist class mastery, I will quit the game.

If the problem is the beam, you change the beam. Not the entire class's ability to use scribing or subclassing by removing the crux generating script.

People defending it refuse to engage with my arguments, I suspect because they don't want the spam beam meta playstyle to be nerfed, or they're parroting talking points from a content creator instead of actually using critical thinking skills to understand that all of Arcanist passives rely on crux generation and consumption, thus without the class mastery script to generate crux, Arcanist cannot make use of any subclassed or non-class abilities.

The obvious solution is to remove crux generation during the beam channel.

Vaqual

Your dream seems so coherent. Mine would be like:

Minor Force now applies Minor Breach to targets that have Crystal Weapon slotted.

MashmalloMan

I know this is a joke, but I've been requesting for years that Crystal Weapon gives free Sundered like Surprise Attack instead of the pitiful 1k penetration. JUST Minor Breach would be such a middle finger to that idea... kinda like finally giving us Major Prophecy, just to attach it to the ugly step cousin of Grim Focus that eliminates the classes access to Major Resolve.

Malyore

Prophetic, it wouldn't surprise me.

Just add three more sources of minor heroism for the cherry on top.

Navaac223

Unrealisitc, necro didn't get nerfed right after getting a redundant buff