Energy and Mystic Orbs only returning 1% magicka on synergy now :(

Shazgob · September 2016

Why ZoS? =( The rift between stam and magicka isn't too great already, now you need to nerf BOTH all regen in the game a patch ago, and now also Orb returns to offset that a bit. Even with a good chunk of orbs being cast, the broken synergies don't allow for them actually be utilized to their full potential (same with shards with this argument, synergies are busted everywhere) as it is. It's a painful day to wear Kena on a Magicka build that isn't Mageblade or Magsorc (and Lightning Staff just got neutered as well, so damn), I can't imagine trying to sustain on Magicka DK now, with a full fleshed out rotation. Also, increased mob resistance means trash is going to take a LOT longer, I believe @Gilliamtherogue said 12% more clear time? As if trash wasn't boring enough, first pull in Sanctum I'm looking at you.

Goodbye Orbs, welcome to the nerf club, everyone's invited, as long as you use a staff or some swords.

Shazgob · September 2016

As an aside and hopefully*: It's a tooltip error, I HAVE NOT had the time to test it yet, it's like.. 4:30 in the morning or something? Too tired to handle the possible death of orbs, c'mon tooltip error. =(

Also, I'm really tired, I meant to put this in the Public Test Server forum, Orbs on live are functioning as normal, orbs on PTS are only returning 1%, apologies for putting this in the wrong forum.

Pinja · September 2016

So it's scaling off 1% of the receivers max magic pool is what your finding out on the PTS?

Shazgob · September 2016

@Pinja Yeah, which with a 39,000 point magicka pool is 390 magicka, and with 45,000 it's 450, which is a much much lower value than it is on live.

Pinja · September 2016

Yeah then for sure that's a bug send in a support ticket as a bug report just to make sure they notice.

Gilliamtherogue · September 2016

ZoS already commented that this is unintended and will be getting fixed.
Also the mitigation streamline was already snuck into instanced PvE (Dungeon Entities tier) in update 11, with no record of it in patch notes. Trials thankfully won't be getting any worse, since they've been like this since they were updated. It explains why trash has been such a drag though.

Shazgob · September 2016

Gilliamtherogue wrote: »

ZoS already commented that this is unintended and will be getting fixed.
Also the mitigation streamline was already snuck into instanced PvE (Dungeon Entities tier) in update 11, with no record of it in patch notes. Trials thankfully won't be getting any worse, since they've been like this since they were updated. It explains why trash has been such a drag though.

@Gilliamtherogue Ah very nice, thank you for the information sir, and yes, a drag it has been. And also, thank god it's unintended, but with their track record that doesn't mean it won't stick =(

Also, as they are on Live: Blue orbs (Necrotic and Mysitc) return 10% of Magicka (tested on at least 3 builds, varying between stamina and mag) with Energy Orbs returning 5% (all adjusted based on targets.) It's possible they changed the tooltips to reflect % value returns but never wanted to change it from say 10% to 1%, which could be where the error came from in the first place. Who knows. I hope it was unintended and doesn't make it live, if it does, will be a sad sad day.