Updated June 20th, 1:30PM EST
Balancing Changes
Obviously, with the implementation of Precision, we have made a big change to the gameplay. Precision is only the first of a series of big changes coming in the next few weeks. We need to implement some offsets to keep the game from becoming boring.
The first is that we are lowering the total cap on damage by a bit. The changed formula can be found here: http://www.sanctuaryshard.com/index.php?title=Weapon_damage ...
The only thing changing is this: "{New Base Damage} * 3" which was "{New Base Damage} * 4". This change does not affect the damage calculated by weapons, magical weapons, tactics, strength or dexterity. What it does do is lower the total cap on additional bonuses from things like precision, EoO, slayer weapon bonus, etc.
Secondly, we are changing the availability of slayer weapons. Currently, slayer weapons for everything but Juka bows is very hard to get, its actually harder to get then magic items, while Juka bows which can be made into slayer weapons are easy to acquire. We are removing the crafting of Juka slayer bows, and increasing the drop of all slayer weapons for everyone dramatically. We are removing the mob specific slayer weapons and just keeping the mob type slayers. If it's not actually as dramatic as we like we'll tweak it up more. However, the damage is being tweaked down on all new dropped slayer weapons down to a 50% damage bonus instead of double.
This is an intermediary solution as we will review all magic items and slayer weapons as part of the eventual legendary hunting system.
Third, we are tweaking the hit points of all mobs up by 25% to keep the gameplay challenging. This will negatively affect some other play styles in the short term, but it's never a good idea to tweak AFTER everyone is used to their new mechs. Changes to taming, barding, and magic are all in the works.
Please keep in mind, NO ONE likes balancing changes. Not players, not developers. Mith, Lyrrin, and I are asking everyone to be patient and work with us as we try and keep gameplay challenging and avoid any downward slide that keeps gameplay from being fun at all levels. It is very important to keep the upper level from going too high, or there is a never-ending request for harder and harder mobs, more and more loot, etc etc. We don't have the resources to chase that kind of high-end content creep. Our content focus is and shall ever be about role-play. That means keeping hunting/combat mechs within established parameters.
Server Updates
Balancing Changes
Obviously, with the implementation of Precision, we have made a big change to the gameplay. Precision is only the first of a series of big changes coming in the next few weeks. We need to implement some offsets to keep the game from becoming boring.
The first is that we are lowering the total cap on damage by a bit. The changed formula can be found here: http://www.sanctuaryshard.com/index.php?title=Weapon_damage ...
The only thing changing is this: "{New Base Damage} * 3" which was "{New Base Damage} * 4". This change does not affect the damage calculated by weapons, magical weapons, tactics, strength or dexterity. What it does do is lower the total cap on additional bonuses from things like precision, EoO, slayer weapon bonus, etc.
Secondly, we are changing the availability of slayer weapons. Currently, slayer weapons for everything but Juka bows is very hard to get, its actually harder to get then magic items, while Juka bows which can be made into slayer weapons are easy to acquire. We are removing the crafting of Juka slayer bows, and increasing the drop of all slayer weapons for everyone dramatically. We are removing the mob specific slayer weapons and just keeping the mob type slayers. If it's not actually as dramatic as we like we'll tweak it up more. However, the damage is being tweaked down on all new dropped slayer weapons down to a 50% damage bonus instead of double.
This is an intermediary solution as we will review all magic items and slayer weapons as part of the eventual legendary hunting system.
Third, we are tweaking the hit points of all mobs up by 25% to keep the gameplay challenging. This will negatively affect some other play styles in the short term, but it's never a good idea to tweak AFTER everyone is used to their new mechs. Changes to taming, barding, and magic are all in the works.
Please keep in mind, NO ONE likes balancing changes. Not players, not developers. Mith, Lyrrin, and I are asking everyone to be patient and work with us as we try and keep gameplay challenging and avoid any downward slide that keeps gameplay from being fun at all levels. It is very important to keep the upper level from going too high, or there is a never-ending request for harder and harder mobs, more and more loot, etc etc. We don't have the resources to chase that kind of high-end content creep. Our content focus is and shall ever be about role-play. That means keeping hunting/combat mechs within established parameters.
Server Updates
- Implementing a new "random number generator" which is less streaky then what we have now. This should fix all the huge runs of misses, but will also fix the huge runs of hits.
- Implementing gold for skill gain, details to follow.
- Fixing the damage calculators which allowed for numbers to reach outside of established ranges, this will go INTO TESTING for tweeks later.
- New regeneration system for meditation, focus and camping, this will go INTO TESTING for tweeks later.
- Increased player backpack weight capacity to account for increased player carry capacity
- Fixed issue with leg armor sometimes being ignored if you have a piece of clothing on a leg layer as well
- Fixed an issue with COD payments where if the seller does not have enough room in their bank box, the gold is still taken from the buyer
- You will now get messages about being hungry
- Fixed the color of seared fire ant goo and arch daemons
- Some of the newer mobs that are being used were still set to award artifacts. They have been fixed to no longer give them out as we want to redesign artifacts.
- Juka bows can no longer be converted into slayer bows. This was a bit unfair.
- The overall chance of getting any kind of slayer weapon as loot has been increased
- The damage bonus from Slayers has been reduced from 100% to 50%
- Hit points for all mobs has been increased by 25%
- Individual slayer types will no longer be generated, instead the loot system will always generate the "super" version of the slayer