nerfing

Lumpy Pickle · Post by **Lumpy Pickle** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:47 pm

any chance you will nerf stuff to grow population
with so few people playing right now its hard to do much so lower things until the population grows

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Post by **Death** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 1:59 pm

You'd have to be more specific on what needs nerfing. You mean like bosses and mobiles? If so thats already planned for peerless and champ spawns so that they can be done by smaller groups

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 3:49 pm

Are new people joining Valor? It would be intimidating to start Valor because of how different it is from the UO they are used to.

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Lumpy Pickle · Post by **Lumpy Pickle** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 5:58 pm

i think one of the big things is tamers getting agroed while pet is killing the mob they are to agressive on tamers makes vet a useless skill except for ressing the pet

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Post by **Death** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 6:08 pm

Lumpy Pickle wrote:i think one of the big things is tamers getting agroed while pet is killing the mob they are to agressive on tamers makes vet a useless skill except for ressing the pet

Okay, we'll take a look at that as there's code that will periodically switch target aggro to another target so maybe needs to be looked at and reduced on tamers using vet. I agree that it makes vet hard to use and there should be more incentive to healing your pet close range with bandages and vet skill.

However, keep in mind that some mobs have abilities such as area attacks or retarget on movement which can cause the monster to switch targets (Such as paragons and possibly supremes).

Anyways, we'll see what we can do about tweaking the code and the retargeting so it's more viable for tamers.

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ggkthx · Post by **ggkthx** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 6:55 pm

Do think things were made overly hard on tamers. I mean, I could live with it but a lot of people fall back on a tamer when they don't know what else to do and they would potentially get wrecked here.
My main, at least starting out, on other shards was often a tamer, but here I barely ever play the 2 I have.

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 21, 2015 7:14 pm

Yeah I can definitely look at that. I recall at one point tamers were overly powerful but think now they may be disadvantaged as there was lot of nerfs added on top of nerfs. Lot of this stuff was also added when we had some pets that were ridiculously powerful and we toned that down afterwards.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 4:01 pm

Just because I could solo almost anything with Altar doesn't mean you had to nerf it for everyone else

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ggkthx · Post by **ggkthx** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:10 am

Death wrote:You'd have to be more specific on what needs nerfing. You mean like bosses and mobiles? If so thats already planned for peerless and champ spawns so that they can be done by smaller groups

*cough* Oaks *cough*

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Post by **Death** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 12:11 pm

ggkthx wrote:
Death wrote:You'd have to be more specific on what needs nerfing. You mean like bosses and mobiles? If so thats already planned for peerless and champ spawns so that they can be done by smaller groups
*cough* Oaks *cough*

Ya Oaks actually doesnt work correctly because of the ai alignment. Most stuff isnt supposed to aggro you unless you have low karma. Also, a lot of mobs should be neutral karma but currently give you a loss when killed (wisps i believe). So there's definitely something to be done about that champ.

I will be revising champ spawns to bring in stuff that's missing such as the transcedence scroll drops and the champ artifact replicas. Also turning down the time limit the candles reset so that it isnt as big of a time constraint and a person with enough dedication can summon the champ.

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ggkthx · Post by **ggkthx** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 4:58 pm

The time limit was the only problem we ever experienced with Oaks.
We'd move it along np and then in the 4th level it kept resetting no matter what we did. And this was with chars that could 1 or 2 man most any Champ. Oaks always was a karma suck but thats fine, working as intended was my understanding.

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Post by **Death** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:21 pm

ggkthx wrote:The time limit was the only problem we ever experienced with Oaks.
We'd move it along np and then in the 4th level it kept resetting no matter what we did. And this was with chars that could 1 or 2 man most any Champ. Oaks always was a karma suck but thats fine, working as intended was my understanding.

I will be changing the reset to 1 hour instead of 10 minutes in a future update which should make things a lot more manageable and allow players to pick up a champ and finish it. With enough dedication players can finish the champs but they are still a challenge depending on which spawn you do.

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Shanks · Post by **Shanks** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 5:26 pm

I would LOVE to see that 10m change to 1hr or something on oaks. I could actually finish one for once.

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