[1.3] White Lion Patch Note Preview

[AdamG_EAMythic]

Greetings,

As many of you are aware, WAR's 1.3 patch is rapidly approaching! Before we open up the Public Test Server and release the patch notes, we wanted to sit down with each career's community and give them a rough idea of what to expect from 1.3.

Patch 1.3's major balance changes focus on the balancing of direct damage vs. area-of-effect abilities. All careers should expect to see AoE effectiveness reduced across the board. This reduction can come in a change to damage/healing, AP cost, or effect radius, and will vary from ability to ability.

MDPS careers will gain some additional focus in 1.3, revolving around the relationship between direct damage, situational damage, and area-of-effect damage. While many of the more potent AoE abilities have been reduced, many of the situational damage and direct damage abilities have been improved. This should greatly improve the MDPS careers' ability to rapidly overcome a single target when they set themselves up properly.

White Lions continue to be the focus of ongoing changes based on pet reliability, and overall utility. Below is a list of some of the items included in 1.3.

• Bonus damage from Strength will now have a much greater effect on abilities with high base damage, but a reduced effect on abilities with low base damage.

• Pets will no longer de-summon when mounted; instead, they will automatically go passive and follow the player until they dismount

• Pets (as well as all NPCs and monsters) will now "stick" to their target so long as they have the same or greater movement speed. This will resolve many issues where players were using pathing exploits to "shake" a pet.

• Baiting Strike, Sundering Chop, and Hack have had had their primary and secondary effects tuned so that they are much more effective in specific Scenerios.

• Numerous positional and situational abilities have had their effects greatly increased.

• We have adjusted or improved the effect of some underused Tactics, such as Stalker.

White Lions will also see a number of AoE adjustments including, but not limited to, the following:

• Many AoE abilities have had their effective radius reduced, returning their radius to pre-1.2.1 patch values.

• A number of conical-area-of-effect melee abilities have been adjusted to a new standard melee CAoE. Range has been reduced, but the arc of effect has been greatly increased. This will allow the character to more easily lash out at nearby targets without granting the career excessive range.

• A number of AoE abilities have been reduced in effectiveness through reductions in damage, or increase in AP cost/cooldown.

Finally, we are investigating the following items that will potentially be added into 1.3 during the PTS phase, or in a patch soon after.

• Adjusting stats granted to pet via "Training" buffs to be effected by opposing stats on the player. For example, Trained to Threaten would increase Toughness /Wound based on the players Strength/Weapon Skill.

• Minor ability shuffles between Mastery Paths to better define the role of each path.

Adam Gershowitz
Producer - Character Systems
Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning

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[AdamG_EAMythic]

Originally Posted by Sardus

Adam, any word on adjusting our pet based CC abilities (the silence and the stun)so they fire off immediately rather than wait until the pet's next attack? Or any word on adjusting fetch! so it fires correctly when the pet is moving or attacking (it will cycle, but it does not fire off if the pet is using an ability at the same time). This is terribly frusterating and the ability rarely works as intended.

Those types of changes will not be included in the inital 1.3 PTS or the first update... Like I said before we are still looking at a number of those types of items for later in 1.3 PTS or the patch after

Alot of the1ff8 stick fixes will help with fetch as well btw.

-Adam

Adam Gershowitz
Producer - Character Systems
Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning

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