Lots of Bard news from yesterday's patch. Of course as usual none of the
changes were listed in the patch message (Gordon if you read this put a big
yellow post-it note on your computer monitor that reads: 'ANY BARD CHANGES?'
*grin*). Anyway here is the good, bad, and the ugly:
The Good
-Piercing weapon skill cap has been raised to be in-line with our other
weapon skills.
-Psalm of Purity & Psalm of Vitality now cure poison and disease. The
drawback is on a cure pulse you lose the resist bonus. Seems a fair trade
off.
The Bad
-Selo's Consonant Chain was stealth nerfed hard last night. In an effort to
balance Selo's Assonait Strane VI put a hard limit on movement speed debuffs
server side. Unfortunately the hard limit was based of the spell line with
the worst movement speed debuff, the necromancer Darkness line. This nerf
not only affected our three movement debuffs (Chains, Strane, & Largo's
Absonant Binding) it also hit the druid/ranger Snare line. It testing last
night Chains did not stop feared or fleeing (non-feared) mobs till about 25%
health at 52nd level, it used to stop them cold at 50%.
The Ugly
-Gordon posted the following to the Bard Issues thread on the Sony Gameplay
forum, my notes are proceeded by *:
Abashi
Station Member posted 06-06-2000 06:11 PM   This thread will need to
be closed due to its size soon. When someone reposts the issue, I'd prefer
it if you could remove the items that we've commented on, or at least
indicate its status.I've gotten word on many of the issues from various
members of the team:
Purity and Vitality are fixed in code. It should be live now. If it isn't,
it is on test and will be live at the next client patch.
*This is live, yeah!
Kellin's has been referred to our testing department.
*About time, lets hope they fix lullaby this time.
Lyssa's Concord is confirmed and agreed as bug. The client programmer has it
now.
*This should also fix the problem with Psalm of Warmth & Cooling as well.
Selo's Constant Chain is in testing.
*Grrrrr, lets hope they fix the movement debuff on this fast the testing
referred to is about early breaks.
Angstlich's Appauling Screech: Fear spells do not cause NPCs to stop
casting. Works as intended.
Solidarity of Vision: Works as intended.
Johthan's Provocation: We've reduced the fizzle rate and added the message.
Remainder works as intended. Changes are live.
*These changes did not go live. It still fizzle way too much and has no
added message.
Niv's: Works as intended.
Song of Travel: Opinions requested and placed on the board. I believe the
consensus was to remove the invis component, yes?
*To quote Gordon 'Ack!', a thread has already started to keep Song of Travel
as is.
Largo's: Range has been increased. Changes are live. Still looking into PvP
behavior.
*No feedback or testing on this yet.
Nillipus': Works as intended currently. We're open to removing the damage
shield component if you wish. Thoughts?
*To quote Gordon again, 'Ack!' This is a specialized song that has some
great uses. I personally hope they leave it alone.
Song of Twilight: Works as intended.
Assonant Strain: fixed as requested.
*Fixed and nerfed
Bombastic Bellow: Fixed and live.
The "Broken Quest Issues" are not broken quests. They are preexisting
stories for future expansion.
*Not sure if this applies to Fabian or not.
"Kunark Armor": Well my list says "fixed" but I don't have what they ment by
that. If any changes have been made they would be live.
That's it for this installment
-Gordon
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