Slight DPS buff is irrelevent because Juggernaut is defensively weak and the first kill target in arenas. Cant DPS when youre dead in 15 seconds.

 

..lol..

Another pointless change, now we have to wait months for the next possibility to have balance.

 

S9 RIP.

Still no info about a buff for Enraged Defense ? It is useless since the start of 5.0 :/

Hey folks,

 

Below you will find the changes coming to Rage and Focus in Game Update 5.5.

 

 

-eric

So is the piercing chill utility being nerfed or the actual chilling scream abilities damage cos if you guys are nerfing the dot I will get mad.

So is the piercing chill utility being nerfed or the actual chilling scream abilities damage cos if you guys are nerfing the dot I will get mad.

 

It's the dot that is nerfed. I don't see how nerfing 60% of only 80 damage would do anything

Seems pretty good change and the buffs to the critical chance on furious strike will add a bit more burst to it. Edited September 21, 2017 by FerkWork

That 100% more dmg on Force Lash is a joke, it deals only 0,3% dmg in a fight...

 

But 60% less dmg on Chilling Scream?? That's a really hard dps drop. It deals round about 13% of the dmg in a fight and what now? Kind of useless now...

Any update for when you'll start tackling utilities?

 

Because it sort of looks like you've started.

If the issue is that an AoE attack has been found beneficial in a single target rotation, why not give Focus spec a viable single target attack? Replacing 8k elemental damage with 800 energy damage is not an appropriate response. In addition you have greatly reduced our group/mob/multi-target attack. Focus/Rage spec already struggle to be a relevant build in comparison to Vig, look at parse distributions to prove I'm wrong (http://parsely.io/parser/leaderboard/guardian/all/2500000/all/live/0/) and see how many Focus spec are in that listing.

 

Thank you for crippling an already under performing build.

 

Sincerely,

Adote, The Ebon Hawk

Good question!

 

Game Update 5.5 will mark the end of the primary balance changes to DPS and HPS as we outlined in the original post around balance targets. I will be posting the remaining 5.5 Class changes over the next few days (into next week).

 

Game Update 5.6 will be where we begin adjusting utilities. This is also where we would begin making any additional tweaks to balance as needed for Classes that are over // underperforming. Hope that answers your question.

 

Thanks.

 

-eric

 

Can we hope that you'll be working on the most urgent one first ? There have been several post since the release of 5.0 (more than ten months already ! ) where peoples asked to rework utility for some specific class like Merc or Sniper. These issues have pretty much ruined PvE and PvP (S8 Ranked). I think peoples would be more than happy to see these matters taken seriously and quickly.

Hope that answers your question.

 

Thanks.

 

-eric

 

That does answer my question, thank you.

 

Speaking of utilities; is there anything a player can do to help with the upcoming utility changes, specifically, there are a handful of utilities which don't work correctly or not exactly as the tool tips describe...

 

...is there a place we can post screens or videos or anything related to our experiences with utilities? With regard to this, will 5.6 also be addressing some bug fixes? If you have that information available.

Good question!

 

Game Update 5.5 will mark the end of the primary balance changes to DPS and HPS as we outlined in the original post around balance targets. I will be posting the remaining 5.5 Class changes over the next few days (into next week).

 

Game Update 5.6 will be where we begin adjusting utilities. This is also where we would begin making any additional tweaks to balance as needed for Classes that are over // underperforming. Hope that answers your question.

 

Thanks.

 

-eric

 

so you'll change utilities in november. after 11months and 6.0 surely 2 month after max.

 

so amazing.. a full year totally ruined.

 

yeah..thanks.

Edited September 21, 2017 by Thaladan

I think peoples would be more than happy to see these matters taken seriously and quickly.

 

Whoever is in charge of combat seriously needs to be fired. The quality and cadence of this work is what I would expect from a ramshackle noname game studio, not a big name like Bioware or Star Wars.

 

Hang your head in shame combat "team" the game would have been better in maintence mode than this dumpster fire called 5.0

Absolutely! I would make a new thread in the bug reports forum that compiles any of those issues. I will make sure the team is aware.

 

-eric

 

Does this also apply to translation issue ? I've seen numerous times some bad translation for the French client, not only with utility but also with some lines and ability tooltip.

Good question!

 

Game Update 5.5 will mark the end of the primary balance changes to DPS and HPS as we outlined in the original post around balance targets. I will be posting the remaining 5.5 Class changes over the next few days (into next week).

 

Game Update 5.6 will be where we begin adjusting utilities. This is also where we would begin making any additional tweaks to balance as needed for Classes that are over // underperforming. Hope that answers your question.

 

Thanks.

 

-eric

 

Eric,

 

To a humble software engineer such as myself, there appears to be an excessively long waiting time to make seemingly small changes around DPS/HPS balancing. Can you shed some light on what's going on behind the scenes that has led to these changes being spread across multiple patches?

 

Since you mentioned tweaking utilities, are there any concerns that utility changes might unbalance the DPS/HPS targets again?

 

-J

Good question!

 

Game Update 5.5 will mark the end of the primary balance changes to DPS and HPS as we outlined in the original post around balance targets. I will be posting the remaining 5.5 Class changes over the next few days (into next week).

 

Game Update 5.6 will be where we begin adjusting utilities. This is also where we would begin making any additional tweaks to balance as needed for Classes that are over // underperforming. Hope that answers your question.

 

Thanks.

 

-eric

 

Trauma Regulators and DPS builds with Guard

Absolutely! I would make a new thread in the bug reports forum that compiles any of those issues. I will make sure the team is aware.

 

-eric

Be sure to take a look at the leap bugs, that is, leaps either

• Fail to move the player at all
  
• Only move the player after a significant time delay (several seconds or more)
  
• Only move the player partway to the target
  
• If the target is at the top of a ledge facing the player, the player is moved to just in front of the ledge - i.e. midair, which just causes them to fall down again
  

This stuff is much more likely to happen if there are obstacles or raised terrain between the player and the target.

Absolutely! I would make a new thread in the bug reports forum that compiles any of those issues. I will make sure the team is aware.

 

-eric

 

Consider pls creating a special thread where players can provide their feedback specifically about specs which became pretty useless (esp in pvp) after new class changes appeared. Some of them such as carnage mara,viru sniper,concealment agent are NOT being played by player today since other specs are outperforming them....

Well they've ruined Rage I'm afraid. We lacked AOE to start off with (after the nerf to Smash) and chilling Scream somewhat changed that but now we're stuck with the pathetic sweeping slash that does nothing.

 

I guess my friends was right I doubt I'll renew my subscription because this game is starting to suck... I held on because of faith in Keith but it just seems like a backhand shuffle talk about kill the joy out of a class.

 

I do understand change but honestly I'm not going to keep slashing to kill off multiple enemies I could do it quicker by hitting each target individually.

I'm not going to state chilling Scream was a joy because it just felt like a half baked idea!

Although you hit once and let it tick while you do your rotation which was ideal when it compares to sweeping slash you've actually got to waste resources and time.

But if you was to then compare used resources and time with another ability including the damage it leaves sweeping slash where it has always been a wasted utility and ability that has gathered dust.

 

Should of changed the utility to an AOE Force Choke and/or make the Force Crush (Kinect dmg ^3 seconds) spread with Smash.

At least you could actually see obvious numbers in which an ability outputs/spreads.

Edited September 22, 2017 by DarthSealth

Thanks for nothing, Bioware. AGAIN.

Where are the Guardian Tank changes to offset for the lack of single target and aoe dps ?! Do you really want to kill jugs in ranked?