Seriously, when will they fix SHELL & PROTECT?

[Evangela]

ok, it's not broken but it's unbalanced

[Sinzfeldt]

It's already been mentioned that all the algorithms regarding damage reduction and shit is going to be re-done as part of the battle changes.

Seriously, when will people LEARN TO READ?

[MagicofGaia]

it's not a minor issue but I never seen the dev team mention about it anywhere

Several, several problems with this.

1) Use THE DEVELOPMENT TAGS. You can't make threads and just complain complain complain about every little detail, and not leave breadcrumbs so the 'developers' know you have a proposal or an issue. It's even in a sticky at the top of the general discussion board titled.. oh my holy god 'PLEASE USE DEV TAGS'!!!!

2) As many others here have said, it will probably be reworked along with 'EVERYTHING else' that is going to be changed with battle and skill issues.

3)Yes, I preferred the ffxi standard where duration was based on level + level of protect / shell up to 30 minutes.

4) If you haven't noticed, or are just stubborn then you would know that they are 'going' to be doing a lot of damn work to this game. It's people like you with constant negativity that are bringing this general discussion board into a very deep dark hole.

[MagicofGaia]

ok, it's not broken but it's unbalanced

To add, it's been said on 'several' threads it takes around 200 responses to a thread (im not sure if there's a factor for how many times it has been viewed if not responded to) just to get a developer response.

[Grimm]

It's not broken it was over powered before.

[Evangela]

which article they talk about this damage reduction?

[Keftenk]

it's not as good as it was before the November patch, seem they only cut the damage around 10%

mages die a lot from Devilet or another mobs spell during the behest or levequest

Uh, the Protect and Shell nerf (as I like to call it) after that update was needed. Before they were changed, you could cast Shell and cut Grass Raptor's flame breath by some ridiculous amount, like 50% or something. There was absolutely no fear of death when you had it up. When you got Shell 2 and Protect 2, the changes between tier 1 and tier 2 were insignificant.

It seems when they nerfed Protect 1 and Shell 1, they just made Protect 2 and Shell 2 the power that Shell 1 and Protect 1 were at prior.

So, what's wrong with it? Nothing. It got balanced, that's all.

[Zenaku]

Where is your parse data, Evangela? People keep saying it's broken but they aren't posting their parses to prove it. They'll rebalance it and probably add tiers like in XI but as of now it's not "broken", it does last a fairly short time though.

it seem the tier one version of both spell would later be a spell used around 10 So for now use what they give you. Seem they also going to add new raise 1-3 from the new dev post they made today. Please stop using the word "Broken" if you don't know how to use the word.

[Evangela]

Shell 2 isn't as good as Shell 1 was before that patch

[Malakhim]

To add, it's been said on 'several' threads it takes around 200 responses to a thread (im not sure if there's a factor for how many times it has been viewed if not responded to) just to get a developer response.

Then we should be hearing something soon from the devs on the Triple Triad thread. :P


...No I'm nowhere close to being done, people.