Discussion: Patch Notes: January 28th, 2016

A number of the planned IS nerfs requires more coding, such as Brews. Last patch a number of IS things did get nerfed already, including Storm Field and Terraformer (yes, I know you think it should be nerfed more).

Note that indirect damage is slated for some adjustments down the line in general, so I am going to leave Terraformer for now.

Keep in mind this patch was mostly an ability costing and non-champion rune patch (the big patch was with the mid-term launch itself).

 

Have you not been following this game? I have been making incremental changes to non-champion runes recently. I am continuing to do so. Go back and look at some patches and see see staples being nerfed (like Font Eruption a few patches ago, and Superiority, Witching Hour, etc., this patch).

If you are going to criticize, at least do it with the correct information.

Now, if you think some good staples that need nerfs haven't been hit, that's certainly valid. But remember that at the end of the day I have to make the determination and you and I will ALWAYS make different choices

I buffed it, it should be much more useful instead of considered sandbag now. I might be wrong, of course, but I gave my argument above.

Escapes again? They got nerfed a bunch just with the mid-terms. And there are code change coming for them as you can see in the Crate.

Heck, look at the patches, IS gets nerfed a ton. It is probably the most nerfed faction since I came back.

Here is the stuff that was nerfed just 8 days ago with the mid-terms in IS:

• Barbarian Commander
• Terraformer
• Siege Engine
• Brewmaster
• Wild Chieftain
• Jangar Arcanis
• Bastion
• Griffin Perch
• Forge Hammer

Now, you may not agree with how they were nerfed, and you may think other stuff also needs nerfs, etc, and that's certainly fine - that's always going to be the case - we won't make the same choice, but it's not as though I am ignoring stuff in IS as you claim.

As if you haven't been saying stuff like this at various points since I've come back.

This patch was also relatively small (we had the big one with mid-terms, this was just left over stuff that didn't make it in), so I am sort of unsure as to why THIS is the one that "ruined Pox" when most of this stuff is pretty minor.

I'd actually be very interested in you going thru all the major patches in 2015 and letting me know what you liked or didn't like. Because I feel like you tend to focus on a couple specific changes you don't like in patches and ignore/forget the rest. But if you actually looked at the collective changes over the past year, I think you will actually like the direction the game is going. For example, Ice Storm being nerfed here didn't come out of nowhere, it's part of the continuing review of non-champion runes, and many other staple spells have been nerfed (despite your claim to the contrary). And then there's the Channeled Violence thing, which was nerfed in part to your feedback months ago, but you didn't seem to have noticed until I nerfed it a second time, and now you claim I didn't care at all - which is just patently false.

So I don't know why you say things that, from my perspective, are just plain wrong. But it makes it hard to evaluate your feedback when you don't give a lot of it, and then when you do, the assumptions seem incorrect or lack specifics.

 

Yea, because preventing people from casting Mobilization, dropping a Slipstream Fulcrum, triggering Warcry, triggering Expliots, dropping a Polar Ant in your face to swarm 2 champs, etc. near your champs is terrible...

You are right though, let me just move my Warcry champ away 9 spaces away so I can attack and... wait, that doesn't work.

 

Again, you really need to actually pay attention to the game if you are going to complain about it. Half the stuff you say sounds like nonsensical rants at this point.

Channeled Violence was given +5 nora... 10 months ago on March 16th, 2015, not long after you talked about it, in fact.

I decided to give it another +5 nora now.

So when you go and say I ignored it while you complained about it a year ago... that's just silly.

Of course, you simultaneously complain about players having too much influence while also complain that you don't get listened to, as usual.

Again, criticism is fine... but at least do it without just making stuff up and assuming things.

 

Future patches will focus on:

• RNG champs adjustments
  • Most likely most will see nora increase of around 4 (or stat adjustments equivalent to 4 nora reduction)
  • I'll start with champs with 5+ range and work down
• Indirect damage ability adjustments
  • Most likely to be just cost adjustments
  • But may also involve some number tweaks on the damage values
• Passive champ adjustments
  • Starting with non-support champs, giving them attacks so their cost is more reflective of their damage potential
  • Support champs to be reviewed later
• DOTs
  • DOTs will be limited to Rank 1 on champions with 4+ range
    
  • DOTs will have secondary effects removed