Thread: Caster Changes in 4.2 (RIP Casters)

Originally Posted by NovaBismarck

I'm going to reiterate what several others said, I see the AOE nerf on smn being applicable. I am not so sure why both WW and R3 got the nerf. I'd have expected them to at least left WW intact since it seems like they moved towards big burst damage on smn.

I think its a try to push smn between rdm and blm in numbers - but I bet there will be readjustments for sure... ruin lll will have a major impact on our overall dmg, like it got with sb were it was nerfed in pot as well, it appeared totally weak compared to HW and now its pot is nerfed even more – im not sure if they know what they've done with that adjustment. Since Blm got a de-nerf on F4 (nerf -> re-buffed), Ruin lll on smn got multiply nerfs in pot... which is kinda funny somehow being a ruin-mage with a 120 pot main-rota skill on its 3rd lvl... ^^'

this will change a lot : /

Originally Posted by Llugen

I'm amazed that instead of buffing Wyrmwave and removing its usability with actions that do no damage (Addle in particular), they did not address this issue at all and instead just nerfed it. Such facepalm.

it would have been enough to just take addle from the ww trigger-list leaving Ruin lll as it is. That would have been resulted in a slight burst nerf while we actually could use addle in its intended function as a def-utility. Would had been way easier than this pot-adjustments... but well we will see how this will work out.

Summoner
We made adjustments to decrease the potency of their area of effect and single target attacks. Because summoners are able to continuously damage over time, and this being one of the main aspects, we believe they will continue to perform well in content that require a lot of movement.

out of the live letter summary.... this statement can't be for real... our dots doesn't have any kind of advantage compared to other cls. not anymore. we lost our 3rd dot, the remaining ones got pot adjustments several times, bane got a drop-off effect, we can't extend their duration anymore cause of the con adjust and shadow flare got a salty long cd which made it way less flexible. how can that still be called "one of the main aspects" of this cls... even if f.e. Brds have two dots as well with an even easier way for 100% uptime or Sam who has a 1 minute dot which can be buffed by themselves as well? so u wanna give us back M2 and take off the dropdown from bane again?... but in the current situation this is just flat & laughable to point on our dots... #lameexplaination #facepalm

Sorry but this argument is pure bullshit and absolutely doesn't fit any kind of their actions to this cls since the early HW when all the buff burst, nerf dots BS started : /

Originally Posted by Neela

it would have been enough to just take addle from the ww trigger-list leaving Ruin lll as it is. That would have been resulted in a slight burst nerf while we actually could use addle in its intended function as a def-utility. Would had been way easier than this pot-adjustments... but well we will see how this will work out.



out of the live letter summary.... this statement can't be for real... our dots doesn't have any kind of advantage compared to other cls. not anymore. we lost our 3rd dot, the remaining ones got pot adjustments several times, bane got a drop-off effect, we can't extend their duration anymore cause of the con adjust and shadow flare got a salty long cd which made it way less flexible. how can that still be called "one of the main aspects" of this cls... even if f.e. Brds have two dots as well with an even easier way for 100% uptime or Sam who has a 1 minute dot which can be buffed by themselves as well? so u wanna give us back M2 and take off the dropdown from bane again?... but in the current situation this is just flat & laughable to point on our dots... #lameexplaination #facepalm

Sorry but this argument is pure bullshit and absolutely doesn't fit any kind of their actions to this cls since the early HW when all the buff burst, nerf dots BS started : /

Continously damage over time doesn't just mean DoTs, it's also referring to the Pet, easy access to standard attack spells that hit rather decently without being slower than the GCD, and powerful oGCDs, which is on top of their 100 potency total of actual dots. This SHOULD lead to AT LEAST 200-300 potency per 3s. (Ruin III, pets and then the dots proper).!!!!!