Public Test Server Announcement (February ~ March)

This patch sucks.

Group buffs guttered, several stronger debuffs as well, all for added diversity on said debuffs to target atk and matk at the same time?

Ya know which skill had that? Heavy Field, it got nerfed, made magical only and still costs 300mp on a class with NO good mp/s regen.

They made the game terrible and overreliant on supports and now throw a hissy fit at players for figuring out a new meta for an easier time.

Can… can we go back to a more pleasant time? I really don’t like the present and luring future…

Could you help me find an image for each raid that includes the "(BOSS RAID)" text shown when connecting?

Additionally, when can we expect to see information on the dungeons that have been added and changed in recent updates?

Kind of late for this but, hell i just noticed the nerf on Eternity Winner like why the hell? they changed her mighthy laby pasive effect and what they gave her? a way to nerf herself… not only she now has to chug even more potions if you use that “V” command key you will now have to use more as you will not get to doble cast.More or less she ended with one less pasive than all the other characters. At this point im not sure how this are given green light by the Devs and players…

After looking through the balance changes…..first off, seems like they want to not have a party just buff the hell out of each other to just steamroll dungeons with how much they seem to have gutted support. However it would make more sense to then buff everyone so they can stand on their own two feet rather than the rather mixed balancing being shown (the classes I have for the most part got off alright)

It will be interesting to see how Combat Power actually changes. It will be nice if it’s something meaningful in terms of being able to actually progress when otherwise some players are stagnating. Adaptation has become a very tiring thing, though.

oh they better be paying attention to their temporary playgrounds, because their barely-functioning data wankery certainly isn’t doing anyone any favor, not if this balance patch is what comes from that farce passed off as assessment.

waitholup i might be parsing that wrong, but that patch is for the test server or for the live servers or both?

still applies either way but at least it’ll be happening where they can see how jank their decisions are. i’m sure that this is walking back a lot of their earlier statements and decisions, but what stands out is the de-relevancy of the phys-mag split and the healer dunking.

oh also those instances of lowering atk power increases in favor of skill damage increases are entirely festering septic spillage and i will verbally trash on them.

excess offense power from anyone

is effectively based on rng-wrung gear stonking, and otherwise even with the disparity in offense between classes, it was never sufficient and at this point all nerfs are a bad decision.

which would be observable in the live gameplay of most players and not in the result screen navel-gazing that would make even ai-generated attempts at observation look passable. maybe.

perhaps they can spare one of their current dev staff to play in the test server as though they were a regular player.

combat power mystery sorcery

is… actually that i’ll have to see what happens, especially with the hp adjustments.

directx11 no color-blind help mode

one of the things i could compliment these people on implementing and it’s not going into the place that’s supposed to be “moving forward”. of course.

so i recently found myself taking a look into the namu-wiki rabbit hole.

they’re the sort of pseudo-intellectual dupes who buy into the pretentious swill that the story and a lot of the character lore has been for a while now, and the sheer lack of self awareness on those editors is… standard idiocy for internet encyclopedic content, but normalized stupid is still stupid.

but, they’ve also pretty much said much of what i’ve whined about in regards to the gameplay and how things have been handled. like, almost point for point what i’ve been going on a tirade about, but with actual insight into home-region details. and though i take it with a boulder of salt, i saw some fascinating info on homeland drama that i was only vaguely aware of.

… but there’s no reason to go for the director’s physical appearance. there’s other wilting fruit that hangs lower, c’mon. yeah these are defo the people who let fake-deep let them feel smarter than they are.

overall, the attempts at math depth aren’t helping the gameplay, because try as they might, this is not the usual mmorpg gameplay and trying to treat it like one is only making things up-the-ass-convoluted, but it seems on some level that might be because at this point, the staff might effectively see the game’s engine as a black-box from ancient tech that they have to feign understanding and insight with.

… huh.

This is just…wow. So many classes got royally screwed over with nerfs for no reason. Look at ES: she’s practically dead at this point. Meanwhile, classes that are considered the best are power boosted further or are left completely untouched (TP’s Twitter Whistle still has the same percentage of debuff, yet CC’s Pande/Iron Howling (which didn’t get a compensation in damage for losing its shred in Iron Howling’s case, Pande going back to 12% once again). This was supposed to make up for that insane wonder wall nerf? (50%→30% PVE 25%→15% PVP) This is just doing the bare quality of life, which CC should’ve been gotten after his support was gutted. Also, why haven’t we changed his Metabolic Boost passive from getting more MP from potions when it is completely useless at endgame? It’s been like this for an entire four years now. just change that to MP reduction or something. It’s better than just having a passive that doesn’t do anything for you. Otherwise, the quality of life is appreciated on CC to help him actually cast skills more often: it just should’ve came way earlier.

It’s just the same thing over and over: the top tier biased classes/Chars(Eve, Laby, Ara to a lesser extent) are given more stuff, while the weaker classes are gutted further or left in limbo. I pray this test server actually does get a revision so classes like ES isn’t left completely dead.

Removing CDRs but giving out Cooldown Acceleration like candies on Halloween is a pretty funny decision KoG.

i hope this patch doesnt go live

What did AV do to deserve such a brutal nerf rape? 💔🥀

Adaptation: Stat limit increased to 60%.

You serious? Just a 5% increase? Bro, we've got 90%+ debuffs now, 60 ain't good enough. And why is it even capped at anything below 100% in the first place if they’re gonna make demon realm debuffs eat up almost all of your stats anyway?!

I like that the defense decrease debuffs and attack increase party buffs now apply to both Phys and Mag... but wth is with the inconsistent values?! Especially since they’re changed to not overlap?! Power Aura is now an objectively worse version of Wisdom Aura! Hell, even Acceleration Aura is objectively slightly better than Power Aura now since, despite having the exact same attack increase as Power Aura, it also gives All Speed Increase. Or at least I think it still does, since I saw no mention of said speed increase on Acceleration Aura's change notes. And keep in mind that all three Skills HAVE THE EXACT SAME MP COST!!

And yeah, I'm stopping at Antithese's changes. Can’t be bothered to read past that.

if this goes through live the NA server would feel this so much since that servers party compo has always been slave x5 whale 1

Some of the balance changes are… questionable, at best, honestly.

In some cases, dungeons that were previously accessible may temporarily become inaccessible. Therefore, on the Test Server, the entry Combat Power tolerance range has been widened.

This is just kind of crazy though. I know they’re trying to balance some things but to this extent? Just… weird.

Just hoping they actually take the feedback they get from the test server.

I love how little by little they’re gutting the MP-management of all the characters that could avoid potion spam.

First it was the Luciels with the absurd change of combination skills, now it’s Shakti.

They really want to absolutely make you spend as much money as possible for consumable (so you have much less money to get stronger)+begging for events with consumable as rewards (so you don’t ask for proper events with proper rewards)

We got Elsword Support Lobotomy before GTA 6.

Jokes aside, glad we managed to tackle this beast of a patch.