OK, I have talked to Stephen about this thoroughly however i am not getting the result i was hoping for.

Dark Connipion-"Overpowered" "Broken" "Un-stoppable"

Those are only cries from a few members of the PvP server. I understand that Dark Conniption was made to even out the pvp matches, mainly between Fighter and Mage. However this skill is all of the above qutations. Stephen you have given me a few solutions and improvements in order to defend myself of DC however none of them work to high standards.

I was suggested to use stun attacks such as shaddow word smackdown, and rightgeous stomp. I have used these skills however still i can not take down pvpers who use DC.

I was secondly suggested to use resists. I bought Shaddow resist + + Shaddow ward, still very slight improvements.

Third and final suggestion was to use "kiting". Now kiting is a good tactic and requires skill, however is it fair if when i try it the opposition are using a shazam!, an rb not even made for fighters. With its 8% movement speed it is extremely hard to kite, and i to be honest am not prepared to give a fighter an advanatge. And those who dont fall for the kite and retreat back to base, what an earth am i supposed to do?

I will suggest you first of all either decrease damage(drastically), or decrease the time the skill goes on for(drastcially). Many players complain about DC, it is simply a poorly designed skill.

Thanks for hopefully listening developers
BlackMagicX

I'm not familiar enough with the intricacies of pvp balance to be certain, but it does seem to me that it's overpowered. I have also used shdw resist gear plus the resistance buff with little effect.

In situations where I might get killed in 15 secs. (if I were to stand toe to toe), I'm getting killed in half that time, regardless of resists. I think another adjustment should be to reduce the amount of stacking it can do- 9 times?

I agree it needs to be nerfed or other words dropped. It is way overpowered and ppl who use it kill ppl in one strike.

OK i have talked with Stephen about this matter and he will forward this whole post to the developers or degign group. He suggested that perhaps the increase of mana cost miight help end fighters using it less. He is also going to take into consideration any suggestions we give so keep them coming!

I've forwarded this post with my comments / suggestion off to the lead designer. He'll do something wonderful with it.

The great thing about DC is how it increases the DPS of fighters in PvE. It really helps even the playing field for DPS output between figther and mages / rangers with their AoE attacks.

Whatever we do will need to keep the DPS output high, but give a significant tradeoff for PvP.

Stay tuned!

steve

nerf mages and up fighters woohoo. Now you will see everyone being a fighter.. most people lvl 100s have gear for all 3 classes.. for instance most lvl 100s have either ranger or fighter gear for abby as mages are the weakest for him but have good gear in other classes.

I will use bitburger as an example. Sergio will start pvp as a mage but then switch to ranger and he is very good and fast switching gear so if you go in pvp thinking you fighting a mage so have all resists but poison up he will own ya.

I was looking at the DC skill description and noticed something-

How about, in addition to def rtg, lowering resistances as the conniptions activate? ...for a start.

Fixing mana will not solve anything either, fighters will grab another mage item just for intell and mana. They are already using shazams for run speed now. Lvl 15 rangers using mage armor as well for the run speed.

I laugh my a22 off when stephen says they need to keep fighter dps. Are you SERIOUSLY kidden me. I know of atleast 3 fighters then can crit for atleast 25k+. Sure its only single mob but that is also what rangers do as well.

Rangers use to be the best for abby and still are good but hands down are second to a very well geared fighter and now fighters even stronger. You nerfed rangers and Triger should go back to the old days and not the gimp 15 seconds now.

Reason alot of twink rangers are good is cause of those 15 seconds of glory, any noneducated pvper would lose to them in those 15 seconds because of that. The old way where it lasts longer but not as strong was much better for both pve and pvp.

What I dont like is you fix stuff that doesnt need to be fixed or change. Heres and example. When PvP first started and there was only 1 bank page i traded or gave away all my intell gear cause i was an END mage and used a ranger for abby. You then nerfed end mages hardcore with very little notice on doing so. Your exact words were "you will feel the burn". So basically I wasted over a month farming end gear and given or selling all my intell gear for nothing.

Game will be 2nd rate to others unless there is more end content, guilds, crafting, better balance issues. We been promised more end content for well over a year now and what has happened... Screwed up Abby (bit better now), new dungeon and boss which is was a complete waste of devolper time as nobody goes there much, made shadow queen a waste, countless other encounters you made horrible besides fixing the real issues.

I might and probably will get banned for this post but truth hurts and this is bottom line the truth.

Edited by xorekle (05/28/08 08:27 PM)

Great idea. Resistances are annoying.