Age of Conan

From http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=159579

Lvl |         Name                    |     Stat on Live   | Stat on Test-Live  | 
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80 | Vicious Cabochon Star Ruby       | +8.9 1HE dmg       | +0.5 1HE dmg       | 
80 | Scything Cabochon Star Ruby      | +8.9 2HE dmg       | +0.5 2HE dmg       | 
80 | Thrusting Cabochon Emerald       | +8.9 Dagger dmg    | +0.5 Dagger dmg    | 
60 | Brutal Teardrop Peridot          | +4% Fatality       | +1% Fatality       | 
80 | Sacred Cabochon Golden Bery      | +14.3 Holy mgc dmg | +2 Holy mgc dmg | 
80 | Evasive Oblique Emerald          | +0.5% Evade Chance | +0.2% Evade Chance | 
80 | Inviolate Cabochon Star Ruby     | 0.4% Melee Invulns | 0.2% Melee Invulns | 
80 | Immutable Cabochon Tyrian Sapph  | 0.3% Magic Invulns | 0.1% Magic Invulns |
80 | Unyielding Cabochon Emerald      | 1.6% Crushing Invn | 0.3% Crushing Invn | 
80 | Tenacious Cabochon Emerald       | 1.6% Slashing Invn | 0.3% Slashing Invn | 
80 | Quenching Cabochon Star Sapphire | 1.4% Fire Invuln   | 0.3% Fire Invuln   |

This is a serious serious nerf, but tbh something major was needed.

Of course, now crafting seems rather pointless.

The sensibke thing woul dhave been simply to change the way plus damage worked - ie not add it into the base dps from which combos were multiplied - but there you are. Nerfing invulnerabilities even more is bizarre.

Sadly this may be too late, and upset too many people, but at least it was a way to deal with the rampant duping - just make the duped gems worthless.

On the other hand, those who paid for all their gems are likely to be miffed - although it was clear that some kind of nerf was going to happen.

It's funny though - from +8.9 to +0.5. Funcom sure don't nerf by halves do they.

Everything they do seems to involve major major swings. Makes everything so unpredictable. People know that mechanics change in an MMO, it's essential. But these swings sure test the patience.

I'm not really in the know reguarding how duping works in AoC so this may be out of line but... it seems to me that nerfing a feature of their game because it could be exploited, rather than actually fixing the exploit, was the wrong way to handle the situation. Yeah, it screws the people who were doing the duping but it also seems to screw everyone else to.

Its like if your going to lose at a game of chess because the other guy was cheating, so you set the room on fire and run away.

Why nerf..holy..damage?

God the guys working @ AoC are idiots. PoMs can't even DPS, now they nerf them even more. (PoM is the only class that deals holy damage)

Originally posted by TasTY

Why nerf..holy..damage?

 

God the guys working @ AoC are idiots. PoMs can't even DPS, now they nerf them even more. (PoM is the only class that deals holy damage)

Cause the only people that had sets with these were the gem dupers, and they'll be using it in the future for easy raiding of Epic gear on Holy damage mobs.

Better idea would have been to ban them all but at this point I doubt Failcom can afford to ban anyone.

This looks like an attempt to make current gems worthless so they can introduce new ones in the future.

Originally posted by Raltar

I'm not really in the know reguarding how duping works in AoC so this may be out of line but... it seems to me that nerfing a feature of their game because it could be exploited, rather than actually fixing the exploit, was the wrong way to handle the situation. Yeah, it screws the people who were doing the duping but it also seems to screw everyone else to.

Its like if your going to lose at a game of chess because the other guy was cheating, so you set the room on fire and run away.

The dupe was fixed before this.

Two basic problems with the original post.

The numbers are meaningless out of context.  How do these changes effect the burst DPS which was screwing with the balance?  Just looking at some %'s on the gems doesn't tell you that.

The other problem is that this is the test server.  You use a test server for testing things.  It doesn't necessarily mean these changes will be promoted to Live.

I think that this will ultimately just annoy even more players.

Yes, the damage has been done with the duping. But the legitimate players who worked to get their own gems will now be nerfed. That's not even tweaking or balancing, that's a blatant killing of an in-game feature.

Thinking back to the days of Diablo 2, it's like when the expansion pack for that game came out. All of a sudden, gems (which had been extremely useful before then) became worthless, due to runes and runeword combinations.

Plus... itemization already sucks rather horribly in Age of Conan. Destroying people's gear because duping was allowed to run rampant for such a long time seems like adding gas to an already quick-burning fire of hatred.

>< funcom dev

They seem to just be lost. Thier philosophy seems to be just keep changing stuff, we'll eventually get something right

It's about time, the 1 hit 1 kill pvp is one of the things that sent me away from AoC. Now all they need to do is work on content, itemization and fix the god damn end game content (crafting, battlekeeps, citys, raids etc.) PLUS a LotRO/EQII vanity slot system.