Pinned NDA Balance Playtests

The changes listed here are intended to improve the corrupted dungeon meta. These changes will probably be released in Call to Arms - Patch 6.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.

Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch

Quarter Staffs
Since Soul Shaker was too strong of a tool to stop any enemy engages, it's root duration is now not a fixed duration anymore, but can instead be shorted by diminishing returns and the target's crowd control resistance. The root duration now scales with Item Power and CC modifier, BUT it can never exceed the area duration.

• Soul Shaker (Grailseeker):
  
  • The Root Duration can now be shorter than the area duration
    
  • Entering the area now applies a 3.5 second root which scales with Item Power and Duration Modifiers, but is reduced by CC Resistance and Diminishing Returns
    
  • The root effect is still removed when the area ends or the player leaves the area
    

Armors
Normalized all Out of Combat Regenration for all armors, so that resetting a fight for a short duration doesn't favor any armor type. Reduced the Wind Wall duration, to reduce it's possibility to reset fights in Corrupted Dungeons. It can still be used to create space, but with the shorter up-time the enemy has a better chance at chasing the target. The Wind Wall change is postponed to a later patch and will likely be a rework into a channeled ability wiht a longer duration, AND each enemy player that hits the wall will stack up a buff that increases the caster's resistances and CCR. This way it will be not a strong tool for running away, but still have the potential to work as a support tank in group fights.

• Wind Wall (Knight Armor)
  
  • Wind Wall Duration: 4s -> 2s
    
• All Combat Armors now have the same Health Regeneration Bonus: 150%
  
  • Scholar Robe, Royal Robe, Druid Robe: 80% -> 150%
    
  • Cleric Robe, Fiend Robe: 70% -> 150%
    
  • Mage Robe, Cultist Robe, Robe of Purity: 60% -> 150%
    
  • Mercenary Jacket, Royal Jacket, Stalker Jacket: 150% -> 150%
    
  • Hunter Jacket, Hellion Jacket: 140% -> 150%
    
  • Assassin Jacket, Specter Jacket, Jacket of Tenacity: 130% -> 150%
    
  • Soldier Armor, Royal Armor, Graveguard Armor : 200% -> 150%
    
  • Knight Armor, Demon Armor: 210% -> 150%
    
  • Guardian Armor, Judicator Armor, Armor of Valor: 220% -> 150%
    

Corrupted Dungeons
All Healing Cast inside Corrupted Dungeons will now be reduced by 10%. This change should give healer builds less sustain in a 1v1, if Healers decide to fight we would rather encourage them to go for a DPS Q, then a full outsustaining build in 1v1. Life Steal abilities are not affected by this. However this Healding Debuff does weaken zhe Mercenary Jacket / Specter Hood combo, because Bloodlust is a Heal and not a Life Steal.

• Inside Corrupted Dungeons all Healing Cast is reduced by 10%
  

Misc
Currently DoTs do only put the caster in combat at the point, when the DoT is applied on an enemy, but doesn't refresh the combat timer on each tick for the aggressor. But since the enemy takes damage, the enemy's in combat passive timer is refreshed on each tick. This leads to the caster of the DoT getting out of combat before the player that got hit by the DoT. This will be changed so both players will stay for the same time in combat

• Each tick of a DoT now puts the original caster into combat again (currently they only get into combat on the first application of the DoT)
  

Before Call to Arms hit live we started working on improving and overhauling some older abilities and there will be more changes added over time.These overhauled abilities and improvements of older abilities will be part of a bigger balance patch, which is intended to go live around the middle of Season 12. As soon as Call to Arms hits the live server we will closely observe how the new changes affect the game. If we don't like certain meta-developments after the update, we will release individual adjustments earlier.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.

Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch

Arcane Staffs

• Black Hole (Witchwork Staff)
  
  • Cast Range: 11m -> 14m
    
• Dark Sphere (Evensong)
  
  • Max Enemy targets to get an Aura: 5 -> 3
    
  • Healing Received Reduction: 20% -> 25%
    
  • Damage Reduction vs players: 20% -> 25%
    
  • Damage Reduction vs mobs: 8% -> 12%
    

Axes

• Battle Axe Normal Attacks
  
  • Attacks per second: 0.9 -> 1.1
    
  • Damage per attack: 50 -> 41
    
• Rending Spin (all Axes)
  
  • Range: 6m -> 5m
    
  • Minimum distance for max Damage: 3m -> 2.5m
    
  • The Rending Bleed stack is now only applied on the max distance effect (i.e. 2.5m or further away)
    
• Rending Rage (all Axes)
  
  • Damage: 62 -> 50
    
• Rending Bleed Stacks (all Axes)
  
  • Damage per Tick: 5.4 -> 4.2
    
  • Healing Reduction on Max Stacks: 20% -> 12%
    
• Adrenaline Boost (all Axes)
  
  • Movement Speed Bonus: 50% -> 40%
    
  • Now also increases Attack Speed by 40%
    
  • Max Duration: 5s -> 7s
    
  • But if the caster doesn't hit an enemy with a Normal Attack for 2.5s the Adrenaline Boost will now end early
    
  • Energycost: 11 -> 9
    
• Internal Bleeding (all Axes)
  
  • Improved detection of moving and standing still on affected enemies
    
  • Tick Interval: 1s -> 0.5s
    
  • Damage per Tick: 21.97 -> 11
    
• Raging Blades (all Axes)
  
  • Now hits in a ring around the caster, instead of a circle. (Inner Radius: 2.5m / Outer Radius 6m)
    
• Vampiric Strike (Battleaxe)
  
  • Reworked the ability it is now called: Blood Bandit
    
  • Throw your axe in the tagreted direction, deals physical damage to all enemies hit and Slows by 20% for 2s. Steal a percentage of the Health the enemies have lost based on the Rending Bleed Charges on the targets.
    
  • Throw Range: 22m -> 17m
    
• Whirlwind (Great Axe)
  
  • Channeling time: 4.5s -> 2.5s
    
  • Damage per tick vs Players: 50 -> 75 (Damage per tick vs Mobs stays unchanged)
    
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 25s
    
  • The channel is now uninterruptible and immune to slows
    
  • Energycost on activation = 21 -> 0
    
  • Instead the ability no consumes 4 energy per tick while channeling (a total of 24 energy for the full channel duration)
    
• Razor Cut (Bear Paws)
  
  • Standtime: 0s -> 0.3s
    

Bows

• Multishot (all Bows)
  
  • Cooldown: 4s -> 5s
    
• Enchanted Quiver (regular Bows)
  
  • Resistance Reduction on max stacks: 0.15 -> 0.13
    
  • The Resstance Reducetion debuff can't be stacked from multiple sources anymore (so two bows focusing the same target will override each other's debuffs)
    
• Undead Arrows (Whispering Bow)
  
  • Additional Magic Damage: 45 -> 50
    

Crossbows

• Noise Eraser (all Crossbows)
  
  • Reduced the size of the hitbox of the projectile, and adjusted the projectile position better match it's actual hitbox
    
• Knockback Shot (all Crossbows)
  
  • Reduced the size of the hitbox of the projectile, and adjusted the projectile position better match it's actual hitbox
    
  • slightly increased the projectile speed
    

Cursed Staffs

• Vile Curse (all Cursed Staffs)
  
  • Cast Range: 9m -> 11m
    
• Armor Piercer (all Cursed Staffs)
  
  • Resistance Reduction: 0.2 -> 0.17
    
  • Debuff Duration: 5s -> 4s
    
• Cursed Beam (all Cursed Staffs)
  
  • Now consumes Vile Curse stacks for additional AoE damage per tick.
    
  • Every tick a stack is consumed the beam deals 72 magic damage in a 4m radius, (instead of the base tick damage of 36 to only the beam target)
    
  • Tick Interval: 1s -> 0.5s
    
  • Number of total Ticks: 5 -> 10
    
  
  
  • Damage per Tick: 72 -> 36
    
• Dark Matter (all Cursed Staffs)
  
  • Damage vs Players: 65.88 -> 78
    
  • Damage vs Mobs: 32.94 -> 36.7
    
  • Cast Time: 1s -> 0.5s
    
  • Cast Range: 11m -> 13m
    
  • Max Jump Distance to next enemy: 8m -> 9m
    
• Haunting Screams (Cursed Skull)
  
  • The damage can't be reflected anymore
    
  • Magic Damage per tick: 25 -> 33 -> 28
    

Daggers

• Slit Throat (Dagger Pair)
  
  • Cast Time: 0.3s -> 0.4s
    
  • Reduced all direct and bleed damage by 7%
    
• Lunging Stabs (Bloodletter)
  
  • Standtime: 0s -> 0.35s
    

Fire Staffs

• Fire Wave (all Fire Staffs)
  
  • The Cone area is now quickly swiping from left to right, covering more horizontal space
    
  • Enemies hit, now receive an additional 75 magic damage if any Q-Spell DoT is active on the enemy
    

Frost Staffs

• Hoarfrost (all Frost Staffs)
  
  • Cast Time: 2s -> 1.8s
    
  • Damage to the main target: 150
    
  • Splash Damage to other enemies in the AoE 150 -> 110
    
  • Radius: 4m -> 6m
    
  • Cast Range: 14m -> 12m
    
• Freezing Wind (one-handed Frost Staff)
  
  • The area size is increased
    
  • Getting hit by the area doesn't root instantly anymore, but instead applies 3 cc stacks in quick succession.Stacks: 1 / 2 / 3
    
  • Effect: Slows by 15% / Slows by 30% / Roots by 2.5s
    
  • Stack up Interval: 0.2s -> 0.4s
    
  • Area Duration: 1.2s -> 1s
    
  • Area has made a bit slimmer, (it is still bigger than on live)
    

Hammers

• one handed Hammer Normal Attacks per Second: 0.8 -> 1
  
  • Damage per Attack: 49 -> 39
    
• Iron Breaker (all Hammers)
  
  • Resistance Reduction: 0.17 -> 0.14
    
• Heavy Cleave (all Hammers)
  
  • The Area is increased slighty, so it reaches out further, but the cone is also a bit slimmer
    
  • Cast Time: 1s -> 1.4s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.5s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.5s
    
  • The ability does now more damage directly at the hammer impact area
    
  • Damage at the center of the impact: 271.95 -> 290
    
  • Damage in the rest of the cone: 271.95 -> 266
    
  • The ability is now called Heavy Smash
    
• Ground Pound (Grovekeeper)
  
  • Jump time: 0.5s -> 0.66s
    
  • Radius: 6m -> 5.5m
    
  • Now it displays an indication for the impact area during the jump
    

Holy Staffs

• Holy Explosion (Great Holy Staff)
  
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 15s
    
  • Tick Count: 6 -> 5
    
  • Heal per Tick: 40.67 -> 50
    
  • Energycost: 18 -> 0
    
  • Instead the ability consumes 3.6 energy per tick while channeling (a total of 18 energy for the full channel duration)
    
• Holy Touch (Lifetouch Staff)
  
  • Tick Interval: 0.5s -> 0.6s (the amount of ticks stays the same, so the total channel time increased)
    
• Celestial Sphere (Redemption Staff)
  
  • Cast Time: 1s -> 0.5s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0s -> 0.4s
    
• Divine Intervention (Hallowfall)
  
  • Cooldown Reduction when healing at least one ally: 40% -> 20%
    
  • Removed the Resistance Increase Buff
    
  • Jump Range: 14m -> 11m
    

Maces

• Vendetta (Camlann Mace)
  
  • Projectile Range 26m -> 18m
    
  • Pull Radius: 9m -> 8m
    

Nature Staffs

• Rejuvenation (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Heal per Tick: 7.6 -> 8.2
    
  • Cooldown: 1.3s -> 1s
    
  • Cast Range: 9m -> 11m
    
• Cleanse Heal (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Now has an instant heal effect instead of heal over time
    
  • Heal amount is dependent on Rejuvenation Stacks on each target
    
  • Removes one Rejuvenation Stack of each ally healed
    
  • Stacks: 0 / 1 / 2 / 3
    
  • Heal Value: 80 / 100 / 130 / 170
    
• Spiritual Seed (Druidic Staff)
  
  • The spell can now be recast again within 2.5s
    
  • But stacking it twice on the same target will just override the first cast
    
  • Energycost per cast: 18 -> 9
    
• Spirit Animal (Rampant Staff)
  
  • Touching the Spirit Animal itself now instantly heals 30 -> 60
    
  • Base Heal Value of the Area per Tick: 8 -> 12
    
  • Healing Increase per additional Ally: 50% -> 30%
    

Quarter Staffs

• Cartwheel (all Quarterstaffs)
  
  • Move Speed Bonus: 30% -> 20%
    
  • Buff Duration: 5s -> 3s
    
• Heavy Cleave (all Quarterstaffs)
  
  • Adjusted the hit area into a rectangular shape that hits a bit further
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.5s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.5s
    
  • Damage: 271 -> 240
    
• Stun Run (all Quarterstaffs)
  
  • Duration: 5s -> 4s
    
• Vault Attack (regular Quarterstaff)
  
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0.6s
    
  • Enemies knocked into air duration: 1s -> 0.7s
    
  • Cast Range: 15m -> 13m
    
  • Jump End Position is now offset by 3 meters
    
  • Visual fixes for the jump animation on high ping
    

Spears

• Corrupting Steel (Spirit Hunter)
  
  • Area Damage per Tick: 36 -> 32
    

Swords

• Broadsword Normal Attacks
  
  • Attacks per Second: 1 -> 1.35
    
  • Damage per Attack: 45 -> 33
    
• Dual Swords Normal Attacks
  
  • Attacks per Second: 1.4 -> 1.5
    
  • Damage per Attack: 32 -> 30
    
• Clarent Blade Normal Attacks
  
  • Normal Attacks per Second: 1 -> 1.35
    
  • Damage per Normal Attack: 45 -> 33
    
• Galatine Pair Normal Attacks
  
  • Attacks per Second: 1.4 -> 1.5
    
  • Damage per Attack: 32 -> 30
    

Offhands

• Sacred Scepter
  
  • Crowd Control Resistance Factor: 2.5 -> 1.2
    
• Astral Aegis
  
  • Defense Factor: 0.25 -> 0.2
    

Helmets

• Energy Shield (Scholar Cowl)
  
  • Duration: 5s -> 4s
    
• Emergency Shield (Guardian Helmet)
  
  • The Shield value now depends on the ally's remaining health
    
  • Health Below 40%: 300 -> 300
    
  • Health Above 40%: 300 -> 150
    

Armors

• Life Steal Aura (Hellion Jacket)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.2s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0s
    
• Self Ignition (Specter Jacket)
  
  • The area is now limited to up to 5 enemies
    
  • The area now keeps damaging enemies, even if the caster is invulnerable or shielded
    
  • Burn Damage vs Players: 66 (true damage) 2% of the enemy's max health
    
  • Burn Damage vs mounted players is now the same as against mobs (no % based damage)
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0.3s
    
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0.5s
    
• Protection of the Fiends (Demon Armor)
  
  • The effet can't be stacked anymore
    
• Force Shield (Judicator Armor)
  
  • Resistance Increase: 0.28 -> 0.25
    

Mounts

• Toxic Reaction / Toxic Cloud (Pest Lizard):
  
  • Enemies hit by the Toxic Cloud will be 6s immune to Toxic Clouds of the Pest Lizards
    
  • The cloud now affects a maximum of 5 enemy targets
    
  • Becoming feared by the ability now triggers (and is properly reduced by) Diminishing Returns
    

Battle Mounts:

• Pierce Through (Siege Ballista)
  
  • The Damage is not reflectable anymore
    

The changes in here are intended to go live for the next content update. Some of the changes have been pushed back if we want to further evaluate on them or if they are related to the Faction Warfare Rework. Some of the smaller changes are just QoL improvments, polishing and general improvements in the combat mechanics. But as more time passes we will also make more adjustments to the meta that evloves after patch 13 goes live and improve some items that are underused at the moment. If we find anything too unhealthy in the meta developing in the live game individual changes will be patched in earlier.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.

Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch

Arcane Staffs

• Magic Shock
  
  • Cooldown: 4s -> 6s -> 5s
    

Axes

• Rending Strike (all Axes)
  
  • Damage: 60.33 -> 54
    
• Rending Rage (all Axes)
  
  • Time Window until the combo resets: 3s -> 2.5s
    
  • Damage: 50 -> 62
    

Bows

• Magic Arrow (Warbow)
  
  • Reduced the size of the hitbox of the projectile, and adjusted the projectile position better match it's actual hitbox
    
  • Projectile Speed: 16.1 m/s -> 17.7 m/s
    
• Rain of Arrows (Longbow)
  
  • Damage per Tick: 50 -> 60
    

Daggers

• Slit Throat (Dagger Pair)
  
  • Cast Time: 0.4s -> 0.3s
    
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.4s
    
  • Now also reduces the enemy's Healing Received by 20% while the bleed is active
    

Holy Staffs

• Holy Blessing (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Physical Resistance: 0.4 -> 0.3
    
• Divine Intervention (Hallowfall)
  
  • Resistance Buff Duration: 4s -> 2s
    
  • Resistance Increase per Stack: 0.18 -> 0.09
    

Nature Staffs

• Ruthless Nature (Blight Staff)
  
  • Caster's move speed is now increased by 15% during the channel
    
  • Max Ticks: 6 -> 8 (Heal value per tick stays unchanged)
    
  • Tick Interval: 1s -> 0.8s
    
  • Total Channel Duration: 6s -> 5.6s
    
  • Max Healing Targets: 5 -> 10
    
• Soul Link (Ironroot Staff)
  
  • Link Duration: 10s -> 7s
    
  • Changed the targeting so it works now with casting on different targets via shortcuts
    

Quarterstaffs

• Vault Leap (new E-slot ability on regular Quarterstaffs)
  
• Vault leap to the targeted position, dealing 175 physical damage in a 5m radius. Throws all enemies for 1s into the air.
  
  • Cast Time: 0.7s (uninterruptible) / Cooldown: 20s / Cast Range: 15m
    
  • Damage: 148 -> 175
    
  • Knocked into air duration: 0.8s -> 1s
    
  • Energycost: 21 -> 15
    
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 15s
    
  • Removed the invincibility buff at the end
    
• Empowered Slam (all Quarterstaffs)
  
  • Now also purges any shields available on the target
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
• Separator (all Quarterstaffs)
  
  • The ability is moved to the W-slot and now available on all Quarter Staffs
    
  • Cooldown: 15s -> 20s
    
  • Root Duration: 2.5s -> 1.6s
    
  • Damage: 149.18 -> 75
    

Spears

• Reckless Charge (one handed Spear)
  
  • Minimum Jump Distance: 0m -> 9m
    
• Spear Throw (Heron Spear)
  
  • Damage: 148 -> 186
    
  • Energycost: 17 -> 18
    
  • Hitdelay: 0s -> 0.2s
    
  • Standtime: 0.8s -> 0.6s
    
  • Projectile Speed: 16 m/s -> 20 m/s
    

Armors

• Energy Emission (Robe of Purity)
  
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 40s
    
• Self Ignition (Specter Jacket)
  
  • The True damage to enemies now ignores any damage modifiers
    
  • True Damage to enemies: 45 -> 66
    
• Requite (Armor of Valor)
  
  • Channel Duration: 3s -> 2s
    

Helmets

• Emergency Shield (Guardian Helmet)
  
  • Shield Value: 400 -> 300
    
• Motivating Worker's Song (Miner Cap)
  
  • Now also makes immune to silence
    
  • Removed CC Resistance Increase
    

Shoes

• Shield Charge (Knight Boots)
  
  • Shield Value: 350 -> 250
    
• Evasive Jump (Royal Shoes)Range: 9m -> 12m
  
  • Jump Time: 0.9s -> 0.86s
    
• Flee (Miner Workboots)
  
  • The abiltiy will now always silence the caster even if he is immune to silence by another effect
    
  • While silenced from Flee the caster will also be unable to use potions
    
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 120s
    

Potions

• Invisibility Potions
  
  • Invisiblity now ends when changing a cluster
    

Mounts

• Morgana Nightmare
  
  • Flaming Trail
    
    • The fear now doesn't affect enemies on mounts anymore
      
• Saddled Moabird
  
  • Time to Gallopp: 4s -> 2.5s
    
• Saddled Winter Bear
  
  • Direabear skins can be applied now
    
  • Mount Health: 2365 -> 3379
    
  • Armor: 253 -> 304
    
  • Magical Resistance: 253 -> 304
    
  • CC Resistance: 505 -> 404
    
• Saddled Wild Boar
  
  • Direboar skins can be applied now
    
• Saddled Bighorn Ram
  
  • Mount Health: 1352 -> 1689
    
  • Base Move Speed: 45% -> 60%
    
• Saddled Swamp Salamander
  
  • Swamp Dragon skins can be applied now
    
  • Mount Health: 676 -> 1014
    
• Saddled Direwolf
  
  • Mount Health: 405 -> 681
    
  • Gallop Move Speed Bonus: 130% -> 132%
    
• Saddled Swamp Dragon
  
  • Move Speed Bonus: 90% -> 103%
    
• Saddled Direbear
  
  • Mount Health: 2847 -> 3797
    
  • CC Resistance: 394 -> 526
    
• Grizzly Bear
  
  • Mount Health: 2686 -> 3582
    
• Saddled Terrorbird
  
  • Time to Gallopp: 4s -> 2.5s
    
  • Flash
    
    • Movespeed Bonus during Flash: 300% -> 125%
      
  
  
  

Battle Mounts

• Rhino
  
  • Cracked Earth
    
    • Cast Time: 1s -> 0.7s
      
    • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.2s
      
  • Breakthrough
    
    • Cast Time: 1.2s -> 0.8s
      
    • Cooldown: 50s -> 30s
      
  
  
  

Misc

• Reflected Damage is not affected by any Damage Modifiers anymore
  
  • To accomoadte the changed mechanic the reflect values of individual abilities have no these values:
    
    • Deflecting Spin: 80% -> 100%
      
    • Parry Strike: 100% (unchanged)
      
    • Frost Shield: 10% -> 15%
      
    • Inferno Shield: 30% -> 38%
      
    • Protection of the Fiends: 50% (unchanged)
      
    • Retaliate: 70% (unchanged)
      
• Reflecting True Damage will now cause the reflected damage to also act as true damage
  
• Healing Debuffs can't be stacked to nullify all Healing Output anymore, there is no a cap on the maximum debuff value
  
  • Minimum Value - Healing Recieved Bonus: -70%
    
  • Minimum Value - Cast Bonus: -70%
    

Hello and Happy New Year, everyone,
we are planning on a balance patch in a couple of weeks with various adjustments to improve the meta in various content. Over the next weeks this thread will fill up with various changes, once we start looking a bit more into the current item meta for various types of content. Some other changes, for instance anything related to Faction Warfare, will be released later together with the next big content update.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.

Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch


Axes

• Rending Spin (all Axes)
  
  • Max Damage: 75 -> 68
    
• Morgana Raven (Carrioncaller)
  
  • Cooldown: 16s -> 18s
    
• Razor Cut (Bearpaws)
  
  • Jump Range: 15m -> 10m -> 12m
    
  • Jump Time: 0.83s -> 0.55s
    
  • Instant Damage: 160 -> 140
    
  • If you hit at least one enemy player, this ability's cooldown is decreased by 30% -> 40%
    

Bows

• Lucent Hawk (Mistpiercer)
  
  • Cast Range: 30m -> 24m
    

Frost Staffs

• Frost Nova (all Frost Staffs)
  
  • Damage: 85.80 -> 70
    
  • Stun Duration: 1.26s -> 1s
    
  • Reworked the Frost Nova hit detection, it is now an instant explosion and it won't freeze enemies anymore which touch the area after the intitial teleportation.
    

Hammers

• Iron Breaker (all Hammers)
  
  • Resistance Reduction: 0.2 -> 0.17
    
• Groundbreaker (Polehammer)
  
  • Stun Duration: 2.85s -> 2.5s
    
• Grasp of the Undead (Tombhammer)
  
  • Stun Duration: 2.9s -> 2.48s
    
  • Cast Range: 16m -> 12m
    

Holy Staffs

• Divine Intervention (Hallowfall)
  
  • Resistance Buff Duration: 7s -> 4s
    

Maces

• Removed the Ability Interrupt (all Maces)
  
• Added the new Ability Guard Rune:
  
  • Creates a Guard Rune on the ground. It increases resistances by 0.2 and healing received by 25% for up to 5 allies. The rune has a 5m radius and lasts for 5s.
    
  • Cast Time: 0.4s / Cast Range: 14m
    
  • Healing Received Bonus: 35% -> 25%
    
  • The cast is now interruptible
    
• Snare Charge (all Maces)
  
  • Jump Time: 0.55s -> 0.44s (this means the jump is faster)
    
  • Standtime: 0.5s -> 0.4s
    
• Heavy Slam (all Maces)
  
  • Reworked the ability it is now called Shield Breaker -> Ground Shaker
    
  • Now it also reduces resistances by 0.21 and removes enemy damage shields
    
  • Now knocks enemies into the air
    
  • The area is now a 5m -> 4m circle in front of the caster
    
  • Cooldown: 15s -> 10s
    
  • Damage: 271.95 -> 177 -> 200
    
  • Casttime: 1s -> 0.7s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.5s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.4s
    
  • Energycost: 14 -> 10
    

Nature Staffs

• Thorns (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Additional Auto Attack Damage vs Players: 56 -> 40
    
  • Additional Auto Attack Damage vs Mobs: 56 -> 64
    
  • Reflected Damage: 8 -> 6
    
  • Removed the Reflect Damage
    
• Spiritual Seed (Druidic Staff)
  
  • Cooldown: 25s -> 18s -> 20s
    
• Ruthless Nature (Blight Staff)
  
  • Delay before the first tick of the channel: 0.5s -> 0s
    
  • The slow is now applied as long as enemies inside the aura (independent of their CC resistance)
    
  • Heal per Second: 33 -> 39
    

Quarter Staffs

• Mystic Rocks (Staff of Balance)
  
  • Resistance Increase: 0.10 -> 0.20
    
• Soul Shaker (Grailseeker)
  
  • Removed the delay before the rooting effect. The root area is now instantly active after the hit.
    

Swords

• Splitting Slash (all Swords)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.6s -> 0.3s
    
  • Standtime: 0.8s -> 0.5s
    
• Mighty Blow (Broadsword)
  
  • Standtime: 0.8s -> 0.3s
    
  • Jump Time: 0.43s -> 0.3s (this means the jump is faster)
    
  • Resistance Increase: 0.24 -> 0.12 -> 0.18
    

Armors

• Force Shield (Judicator Armor)
  
  • Resistance increase: 0.32 -> 0.28
    
• Requite (Armor of Valor)
  
  • Reflected Damage: 50 -> 46
    

Helmets

• Energy Shield (Scholar Cowl)
  
  • Duration: 8s -> 5s
    
  • Energy Gain on hit: 13.14 -> 21 -> 16
    
• Emergency Heal (Guardian Helmet)
  
  • Reworked the ability, it is now called Emergency Shield
    
  • Removed the Healing
    
  • Instead it now applies a shield for up to 5 allies that absorbs 400 base damage and lasts for 3s
    
  • It still removes Dots
    
  • Radius: 4m -> 5m
    
  • Cooldown: 40s -> 30s
    

Shoes

• Shield Charge (Knight Boots)
  
  • Doesn't apply a shield in a small AoE radius anymore
    
  • Instead the shield is now applied to the caster and the target (if it is an ally)
    
  • Shield Strength: 200 -> 350
    
  • Dash Speed: 25 m/s -> 35 m/s
    

Capes

• Opening to Hell (Demon Cape)
  
  • Damage vs Players: 60 -> 50
    

Battle Mounts

• Tower Chariot
  
  • Toxic Crystal Waste
    
    • Cooldown: 25s -> 15s
      
• Behemoth
  
  • Artillery Fire
    
    • Cooldown: 3s -> 2s
      
    • Hit Delay: 2s -> 1.5s
      
• Goliath Horseeater
  
  • Spider's Web
    
    • Cooldown: 8s -> 6s
      
    • Energycost: 12 -> 10
      
  
  

The changes listed here will primarily go live for the start of Season 11, so this includes all new abilities, reworks or overhauls of underused abilities / items. Changes that are made to fix more problematic interactions, or what we consider unfun gameplay or things that are straight up way too strong will be patched earlier.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.

Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.

Arcane Staffs

• Magic Shock (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Damage: 125 -> 150
    
• Mimic (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Energycost to mimic the ability: 3 -> 0
    
  • Time Window to cast the mimiced ability: 8s -> 20s
    
  • Casting on self (or Arcane Staff) now mimics the ability Magic Shock on the W-slot (allows to have Magic Shock on Q and W with seperate cooldowns)
    

Axes

• Bearpaws
  
  • Auto Attacks per second: 0.8 -> 1.4
    
  • Damage per Auto Attack: 56 -> 32
    
• Rending Strike (all Axes)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.2s -> 0.15s
    
  • Standtime: 0.3s -> 0.2s
    
• Rending Spin (all Axes)
  
  • Reworked the animation and visual effect
    
• Added a new Q-Slot Ability: Rending Rage (all Axes)
  
  • A series of attacks hitting enemies up to 3 times in in a cone in front of you. Each hit deals 50 physical damage. On the third hit you will leap up to 9m forward and additionally enemies hit will be rooted for 1s. After the third hit the ability will go on cooldown, If you wait for 3s between attacks the Rage times out and begins with the first hit again, in this case the ability doesn't go on cooldown.
    
  • Each hit also inflicts a Rending Bleed. / Cooldown: 7s / Energycost: 2 (per hit)
    
  • Reduced the width of the cone area of first two hits
    
  • Radius of the last hit: 4m -> 5m
    
• Vampiric Strike (Battleaxe)
  
  • Cooldown: 15s -> 10s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0.3s
    
  • Standtime: 0.8s -> 0.4s
    
  • Energycost: 18 -> 12
    
  • Damage: 136.01 -> 150
    
• Morgana Raven (Carrioncaller)
  
  • Healing Reduction: 40% -> 30%
    
• Aftershock (Realmbreaker)
  
  • The cone area now doesn't reduce Max Energy anymore
    
  • The cone instead now reduces enemy max health by 20% for 5s
    

Crossbows

• Caltrops (all Crossbows)
  
  • Replaced the DoT (was 4 ticks, each dealing 14.38 damage)
    
  • Instead it now deals instantly 34 physical damage
    

Frost Staffs

• Frozen Crystal (Chillhowl)
  
  • Cast Range: 15m -> 12m
    

Hammers

• Forge Hammers
  
  • Auto Attacks per second: 0.8 -> 1.4
    
  • Damage per Auto Attack: 49 -> 28
    

Holy Staffs

• Sacred Pulse (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Cooldown: 8s -> 12s
    
  • Heal Value: 56 -> 40
    
• Divine Intervention (Hallowfall)
  
  • Cooldown: 18s -> 25s
    
  • If you heal at least one other ally the cooldown of the ability decreases by 40%
    

Nature Staffs

• Rejuvenating Breeze (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Cast Range: 12m -> 9m
    

Quarterstaffs

• Seperator (Quarter Staff)
  
  • Root Duration: 3s -> 2.5s
    
  • Mobs in 6m radius around the main target, will now get knocked up for 0.9s
    
  • Removed the aggro switch effect vs mobs
    
• Mystic Rocks (Staff of Balance)
  
  • Heal Reduction: 30% -> 35%
    

Spears

• Spirit Spear Charge (all Spears)
  
  • Auto Attack Damage Increase: 35% -> 40%
    
• Spirit Spear (all Spears)
  
  • Auto Attack Range Increase: 30% -> 35%
    
• Impaler (all Spears)
  
  • Damage: 140 -> 155
    

Swords

• Heroic Stack (all Swords)
  
  • Movement Speed & Attack Speed Increase: 12% -> 9%
    
• Heroic Strike (all Swords)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.2s -> 0.15s
    
  • Standtime: 0.3s -> 0.2s
    
• Majestic Smash (Kingmaker)
  
  • The initial swing now also deals 44 physical damage
    

Helmets

• Force Field (all cloth helmets)
  
  • The knockback doesn't scale with IP anymore
    
  • The ability now knocks enemies always 16m -> 14m away (ignoring crowd control resistance)
    
  • Knockback distance: 16m -> 14m
    

Armors

• Magic Rune (Royal Robe)
  
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 40s
    
  • Buff Duration after leaving the area: 2s -> 5s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0s
    
• Energy Drain (Royal Armor)
  
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 30s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0s
    
  • Duration: 8s -> 6s
    
  • Enemy Energy loss per second: 3.6 -> 2.5
    
  • Ally Enegy gain per second: 3.6 -> 5
    
  • The stolen energy is now distributed to allies in a 15m radius
    
• Self Igniton (Spectre Jacket)
  
  • True Damage vs Players: 50 -> 45
    

Shoes

• Motivating Pain (Quarrier Workboots)
  
  • Cooldown: 50s -> 150s
    

Misc

• AoE Escalation
  
  • 2 Targets = 8% -> 5%
    
  • 3 Targets = 16% -> 10%
    
  • 4 Targets = 24% -> 15%
    
  • 5 Targets = 32% -> 20%
    
  • 6 Targets = 40% -> 25%
    
  • 7 Targets = 40% -> 30%
    
  • 8 Targets = 40% -> 35%
    
  • 9+ Targets = 40% -> 40%
    

Most changes listed here are intended for a bigger combat balance patch to go live in the middle of Seasom 10. Some changes might be patched in earlier. Especially changes that are aiming to adjust new content like the Corrupted Dungeons.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.

Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.


Arcane Staffs

• Magic Shock (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Range: 12m -> 13m
    
  • Cooldown: 5s -> 3s -> 4s
    
  • Damage: 150 -> 125
    
  • Silence Duration: 1s -> 0.85s
    
• Empowering Beam (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Damage Increase per stack: 10% -> 8%
    
• Dark Sphere (Evensong)
  
  • Healing Reduction: 15% - 20%
    
  • Damage Reduction vs Players: 15% -> 20%
    

Axes

• Rending Swing (all Axes)
  
  • The ability is now called Rending Spin and deals more damage to enemies further away
    
  • Damage against Enemies closer than 3m: 50.02 -> 45
    
  • Damage against Enemies 3m+ away: 50.02 -> 75
    
• The new abiltiy Rending Rage will be released in a later patch
  
  • Added a new Q-Slot Ability: Rending Rage (all Axes)
    
    • A series of attacks hitting enemies up to 3 times in in a cone in front of you. Each hit deals 50 physical damage. On the third hit you will leap up to 9m forward and additionally enemies hit will be rooted for 1s. After the third hit the ability will go on cooldown, If you wait for 3s between attacks the Rage times out and begins with the first hit again, in this case the ability doesn't go on cooldown.
      
    • Each hit also inflicts a Rending Bleed. / Cooldown: 7s / Energycost: 2 (per hit)
      
• Rending Bleed Duration: 5s -> 6s
  
• Morgana Raven (Carrioncaller)
  
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 16s
    

Bows

• Multishot (all Bows)
  
  • Casttime: 0s -> 0.3s
    
  • Cooldown: 3s -> 4s
    
  • Damage: 66.30 -> 105 -> 115
    
  • Cone Arc: 55° -> 40°
    
  • The Shot now also knocks enemies 5m -> 4m away
    
• Rain of Arrows (Longbow)
  
  • Delay for each wave of arrows: 0.75s -> 0.5s
    
  • Damage: 46.53 -> 50.00
    
• Undead Arrows (Whispering Bow)
  
  • Is now a Toggle ability, which means it can't be purged anymore
    
  • Now also increases Attack Speed by 20%
    
  • But while active the caster's defense is now reduced by 25%
    
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 12s
    
  • Magic Damage each Auto Attack: 50 -> 45
    
• Demon Arrow (Wailing Bow)
  
  • Projectile Speed: 15m/s -> 21m/s
    
• Lucent Hawk (Mistpiercer)
  
  • Damage per hit: 145 -> 130 -> 145
    
  • The shot now doesn't count as a physical arrow and won't trigger Explosive Arrows anymore
    

Crossbows

• Explosive Bolt (all Crossbows)
  
  • Range: 15m -> 13m
    
• Explosive Mine (Weeping Repeater)
  
  • Damage: 270 -> 230
    

Daggers

• Deadly Swipe (all Daggers)
  
  • You now restore 2 energy, If the ability hits at least one enemy player
    
• Ghost Strike (Deathgivers)
  
  • Invisibility Duration: 2s -> 1s
    

Frost Staffs

• Ice Storm (Glacial Staff)
  
  • The slow is now doesn't ramp up over timem instead all are always slowed by 30% while in the area (ignoring crowd control resistance)
    
  • Damage vs Players: 45 -> 52 -> 60
    
  • Cast Time: 1.5s -> 1s
    
• Frozen Hell (Icicle Staff)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.7s -> 0.3s -> 0.7s
    
  • Cast Range: 11m -> 14m
    
  • The slow is now applied independent of CC reduction. All enemies stay slowed while in the area
    

Hammers

• Iron Breaker (all Hammers)
  
  • Resistance Reduction: 0.15 -> 0.20
    
  • Debuff Duration: 5s -> 4s
    
  • Damage: 77.08 -> 120.00
    
  • Cooldown: 5s -> 6s
    
  • Hit Delay: 0.35s -> 0.4s
    
  • Standtime: 0.45s -> 0.5s
    
• Slowing Charge (all Hammers)
  
  • Slow Duration: 3s -> 4s
    
• Onslaught (Hand of Justice)
  
  • Cooldown: 40s -> 30s
    

Holy Staffs

• Generous Heal (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Cast Range: 13m -> 14m
    
  • Cast Time: 1s -> 0.7s
    
  • Heal: 126.69 -> 132.00
    
• Holy Flash (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Radius: 4m -> 5m
    
  • Heal: 34 -> 40 -> 34
    

Maces

• Defensive Slam (all Maces)
  
  • Buff Radius: 5m -> 8m
    
• Battle Howl (Heavy Mace)
  
  • Radius: 4.5m -> 5m
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0.25s
    
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0.35
    

Quarterstaffs

• Hurricane (Iron-Clad Staff)
  
  • The knockback does not scale with Item Power anymore, instead it always knocks enemies 10m -> 12m away.
    
  • Knockback fly speed: 15m/s -> 18m/s
    

Spears

• Lunging Stab (all Spears)
  
  • Damage: 70.61 -> 78.00
    
• Harpoon (now available on all spears)
  
  • Moved to the W-slot
    
  • Removed the purge
    
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 15s
    
  • Energycost: 16 -> 13
    
  • Damage: 92.14 -> 75
    
  • Root Duration 1 stack: 1.39s -> 1.04s
    
  • Root Duration 2 stacks: 2.08s -> 1.55s
    
  • Root Duration 3 stacks: 2.95s -> 2.20s
    
  • Doesn't consume the Spirit Spear stacks anymore
    
  • Projectile Speed: 16.6 m/s -> 20 m/s
    
  • Distance to caster after getting pulled: 2m -> 4m
    
  • Standtime: 0.8s -> 0.6s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0s -> 0.15s
    
  • Range: 22m -> 16m
    
• Removed Harpoon from Spirithunter's E-Slot
  
• Added new E-slot Ability Corrupting Steel to replace it
  
  • Throws your spear which pierces through enemies dealing 80 physical damage and reducing thier resistances by 0.12 for 4s. The thrown spear will leave a trail behind, corrupting the area below it. This area lasts for 4.2s and deals deals 36 magic damage every 0.5s.
    
  • Cooldown: 30s / Energycost: 20
    
  • Fixed a bug with it's AoE Escalation. (The AoE Escalation was not working correctly on the version of staging and would amplify the damage way too much)
    
• Resilience Penetration:
  
  • One-handed Spear: 15% -> 40%
    
  • Pike: 15% -> 30%
    
  • Heron Spear: 15% -> 40%
    
  • Spirithunter: 15% -> 30%
    
  • Trinity Spear: 15% -> 30%
    
  • Daybreaker: 15% -> 40%
    

Swords

• Iron Will (all Swords)
  
  • Duration: 4s -> 3s
    
• Charge (Claymore)
  
  • Range: 15m -> 13m
    
• Soulless Stream (Galatine Pair)
  
  • 0 Stack Damage: 84 -> 75
    
  • 1 Stack Damage: 134 -> 119
    
  • 2 Stack Damage: 201 -> 179
    
  • 3 Stack Damage: 285 -> 254
    

Armors

• Mend Wounds (all armors)
  
  • Healing value is now independet of any heal modifiers
    
  • Heal per tick: 5% -> 6%
    
• Levitate (Cultist Robe)
  
  • Healing value is now independet of any heal modifiers
    
  • Heal per tick: 5% -> 7.5%
    
• Life Steal Aura (Hellion Jacket)
  
  • Now limited to hit a maximum 5 enemies at once per tick
    

Helmets

• Circle of Inspiration (Druid Cowl)
  
  • Cooldown: 45s -> 30s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0s
    
• Purifying Smoke (Helmet of Valor)
  
  • Cooldown: 40s -> 45s
    
  • Cast Range: 12m -> 9m
    

Food

• Roasts (all types)
  
  • Life Steal now has a limit how much it can heal per second
    
  • This limit depends on the strength of the food:
    
    • T3 Roast Pork: Can heal up to 4% of the caster's max health per second
      
    • T7.3 Roast Pork: Can heal up to 14% of the caster's max health per second
      
  • Reflected damage doesn't trigger life steal anymore
    
  • Life Steal value depends on the health a target has: i.e if a mob has only 1 HP, you can steal only 1 HP independent of the strength of your attack
    

Misc

• AoE Escalation
  
  • The Escalation now increases by 8% for each additional target hit and caps at 40% extra damage
    
    • 2 Targets hit = 8%
      
    • 3 Targets hit = 16%
      
    • 4 Targets hit = 24%
      
    • 5 Targets hit = 32%
      
    • 6+ Targets hit = 40%
      
  
  

• Eating Food
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.8s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 0.8s -> 0s
    
  • Casttime: 0s -> 0.8
    

The changes listed here are intended to go live with a patch soon to improve the meta in the corrupted dungeons.


This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.


Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.



Crossbows

• Knockback Shot (all Crossbows)
  
  • Is now a skillshot, instead of a direct enemy targeted cast.
    
  • Range: 8m -> 14m
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.1s -> 0.2s
    
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0.4s
    
  • Cooldown: 8s -> 12s
    
• Exploding Shot (Light Crossbow)
  
  • Doesn't count as a DoT anymore, thus it can't be removed by Emergency Heal
    
  • Explosion Damage: 201.96 -> 180.00
    

Daggers

• Deadly Swipe (all Daggers)
  
  • Energycost: 3 -> 6
    
• Shadow Edge (all Daggers)
  
  • Stun Duration: 1.47s -> 1s
    
• Bloodthirsty Blade (one-handed Dagger)
  
  • Additional magic damage vs players: 60 -> 50
    

Armors

• Everlasting Spirit (Cleric Robe)
  
  • The activation phase doesn't count as a buff anymore and thus can't be purged
    
• Purging Shield (Mage Robe)
  
  • The purge now is only activated by direct damage, either by an ability or auto attack. DoTs or Reflected damage do not trigger the purge anymore
    

Helmets

• Emergency Heal (Guardian Helmet)
  
  • The Healing value now doesn't scale with healing modifiers anymore
    
  • Replaced the percentage healing with a flat 150 healing, independent of the caster's max health (this also doesn't scale with healing modifiers)
    
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 40s
    

Offhands

• Taproot
  
  • Max Health and Health Regen Factor: 0.42 -> 0.3
    

Potions

• Healing Potions
  
  • The Healing value now doesn't scale with healing modifiers anymore
    
  • Healing Duration: 15s -> 10s (Heal Value per second stays unchanged, so the total healing output is reduced)
    

The changes listed here are mainly intended to go live with the next big content update. However we will likely patch some changes earlier into the live game, whenever we think we need to adress specific problems on live.


This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.


Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.


Arcane Staffs

• Removed the ability Arcane Purge
  
• Added new W-slot ability: Mimic (all Arcane Staffs
  
  • Temporarily get access to a W-Slot ability of another player. The ability you can mimic depends on the target's equipped weapon.
    
  • List of abilities:
    
    • Arcane Staffs: Mimic
      
    • Axes: Raging Blades
      
    • Bows: Ray of Light
      
    • Crossbows: Noise Eraser
      
    • Cursed Staffs: Armor Piercer
      
    • Daggers: Chain Slash
      
    • Fire Staffs: Wall of Flames
      
    • Frost Staffs: Frost Nova
      
    • Hammers: Inertia Ring
      
    • Holy Staffs: Holy Orb
      
    • Maces: Snare Charge
      
    • Nature Staffs: Protection of Nature
      
    • Quarter Staffs: Forceful Swing
      
    • Deflecting Spin
      
    • Swords: Splitting Slash
      
  
  
  
  

Bows

• Frost Shot (all Bows)
  
  • Added a 0.3s cast time
    
• Ray of Light (all Bows)
  
  • Cooldown: 10s -> 14s
    
• Magic Arrow (Warbow)
  
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0.4s
    
  • Damage vs Mobs (close range): 156.11 -> 184.00
    
  • Damage vs Mobs (maxrange): 211.21 -> 257.00
    

Daggers

• Chain Slash (all Daggers)
  
  • Damage: 150 -> 120
    
• Bloodthirsty Blade (Dagger)
  
  • Lifesteal vs Mobs: 100% -> 50%
    
• Lunging Stabs (Bloodletter)
  
  • Range: 13m -> 11m
    
  • The cooldown reduction is now only applied when hitting an enemy player below 40% (can't be triggered by a mob anymore)
    
• Ghost Strike (Deathgivers)
  
  • Invisibility: 3s -> 2s
    
  • Invisibility is now canceled when activating any ability
    

Fire Staffs

• Ignite (all Fire Staffs)
  
  • Enemy Health Threshhold for the buff: 20% -> 40%
    
• Pyroblast (one handed Fire Staff)
  
  • Cast Time: 2s -> 1.5s
    

Hammers

• Iron Breaker (all Hammers)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0.35s
    
  • Standtime: 0.5s -> 0.45s
    
• Power Geyser (all Hammers)
  
  • Cooldown: 9s -> 8s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.45s -> 0.4s
    
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0.5s
    
• Grasp of the Undead (Tombhamer)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.5s -> 0.35s
    
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0.5s
    

Holy Staffs

• Removed Flash Heal (all Holy Staffs)
  
• Added a new Q-slot ability: Holy Flash
  
  • Heals 40 to 5 allies in a 4m radius. The healing gets stronger the more allies are healed. Each additional ally increases the healing by 10%
    
  • Cast Time: 0.8s
    
  • Cooldown: 0s
    
• Moved Smite from the W-slot to the Q-slot (all Holy Staffs)
  
• Sacred Pulse (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Removed the Heal over Time
    
  • The area now instantly heals up to 5 allies for 56 and also deals 112 magic damage to enemies
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.2s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0.5s
    
• Adjusted spell unlock order
  
  • Always Unlocked:
    
    • Generous Heal
      
    • Smite
      
    • Sacred Pulse
      
  • Level 3: Holy Beam
    
  • Level 15: Holy Flash
    
  • Level 40: Holy Blessing
    
  • Level 70: Holy Orb
    
  • Level 100: Resurrection
    
• Self Healing Sickness
  
  • It now requires less casts to activate
    
  • Debuff Duration: 10s -> 18s
    
  • Healing Reduction: 25% -> 40%
    

Nature Staffs

• Thorns (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Damage on normal attacks: 52 -> 56
    
  • Reflected damage: 12 -> 8
    
• Revitalize (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Added a 0.5s delay before the first tick
    
  • Damage now decreases the channel time stronger (Disruptionfactor: 5 -> 10)
    
• Circle of Life (one handed Nature Staff)
  
  • Cast Time: 1s -> 0.7s
    
• Well of Life (Wild Staff)
  
  • Area Duration: 10s → 6s
    
  • Heal per tick: 26.89 → 46.00
    
  • Energy cost: 20 → 18
    
• Self Healing Sickness
  
  • It now requires less casts to activate
    
  • Healing Reduction: 25% -> 40%
    

Quarter Staffs

• Fatal Blade (Black Monk Staff)
  
  • Hit Interval: every 0.5s -> every 0.75s (this means the debuff stacks up slower on enemies)
    

Spears

• Harpoon (Spirit Hunter)
  
  • Cooldown: 25s -> 20s
    

Helmets

• Obsessive Burst (Royal Hood)
  
  • Damage increase per stack: 6% -> 5%
    
• Retaliate (Hunter Hood)
  
  • Reflected Damage: 100% -> 70%
    

Armors

• Purging Shield (Mage Robe)
  
  • Duration: 5s -> 4s
    
• Obsessive Brust (Druid Robe)
  
  • Max Stack: 8 -> 6
    
  • Buff strength per stack: 7% -6%
    
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 45s
    
• Levitate (Cultist Robe)
  
  • Removed the physical damage immunity
    
  • Instead now physical & magic resistance are increased by 0.50 during the channel
    
  • The channel duration is now also reduced when taking damage
    
  • Added a 0.5s delay before the first tick
    
  • Tick Interval: 0.5s -> 1s
    
  • Heal & energy per tick: 3% -> 5%
    
  • Number of ticks: 10 -> 5
    
• Self Ignition (Specter Jacket)
  
  • Self Damage per tick: 50 true Damage -> 2% of max health
    
  • The auras can't be stacked anymore. If multiple auras hit the same target, they override each other)
    
• Taunt (all Plate Armors)
  
  • Bonus Damage when used on players: 30% -> 10%
    
  • Bonus Defense when used on players: -20% -> -10%
    
• Requite (Armor of Valor)
  
  • The effect doesn't stack up anymore
    
  • Removed the Healing Reduction debuff
    
  • Instead the reflect now silences enemies for 2s and slows them by 20% for 3s
    
  • Removed the DoT, instead every reflect deals directly 50 damage
    
  • Channel Duration: 7s -> 3s
    

Shoes

• Vengeful Sprint (Demon Boots)
  
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 60s
    

Capes

• Vanisher (Undead Cape)
  
  • Activation Health Treshhold: 25% -> 15%
    

Potions

• Sticky Potions
  
  • Cooldown: 120s -> 100s
    
  • Projectile Speed: 25 -> 40
    
  • Removed the indication area before the impact
    
• Invisibility Potions
  
  • Now also reduces damage by 50%, which lasts two seconds longer than the invisibility
    
  • Invisibility Duration increased by 1s
    

Mounts

• Raven Scream and Reactive Scream (Morgana Raven):
  
  • No longer inflict Fear on mounted enemies
    

Misc

• Bonus AoE Escalation per player: 10% -> 7%
  
• AoE Escalation max bonus: 100% -> 70%
  
• Maximum Ability Damage Increase from buffs: 150% -> 100%
  

Currently started to prepare some more balance changes, which are intended for a patch in the Off-Season. So will probably go live between Season 8 and before the start of Season 9.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.


Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.


Arcane Staffs

• Added new Ability: Magic Shock (Q-slot / all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • A Magic Shock in a 3m radius ground target. Enemies hit receive 150 magic damage and are silenced for 0.85s
    
  • Cooldown 5s
    
  • Cast Time: 0.5s
    
  • Range: 14m -> 12m
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.1s -> 0.15s
    
• Motivating Cleanse (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Can now be cast on the ground (can still be cast when stunned)
    
  • The movement speed increase is now applied to up to 5 allies in the area
    
  • Range: 9m -> 11m
    
  • Energycost: 10 -> 10% of Max Energy
    
  • MoveSpeed Increase: 20% -> 40%
    
  • MoveSpeed Duration: 5s -> 3s
    
• Void (Malevolent Locus)
  
  • Cooldown Scaling:
    
    • 900 Item Power = 48.6s -> 46s
      
    • 1200 Item Power = 45s -> 40s
      
    • 1700 Item Power = 39s -> 30s
      
  
  
  

Axes

• Rending Strike (all Axes)
  
  • Energycost: 2 -> 1.6
    
• Raging Blades (all axes)
  
  • Energycost: 15 -> 11
    
• Morgana Raven (Carrioncaller)
  
  • Projectile Range: 15m -> 20m
    
  • Projectile Speed: 13.68m/s -> 20.00m/s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.2 -> 0.3
    
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.6s
    
  • Healing Reduction: 35% -> 40%
    

Crossbows

• Sunder Shot (all Crossbows)
  
  • Armor Reduction per stack: 0.03-> 0.027
    

Cursed Staffs

• Armor Piercer (all Cursed Staffs)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.7s
    
  • Damage: 77.11 -> 130.00
    
  • Armor reduction: 0.15 -> 0.20
    
  • Debuff Duration: 8s -> 5s
    

Daggers

• Deadly Swipe (all Daggers)
  
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0.1s
    
• Chain Slash: (all Daggers)
  
  • Max Range for dashing to the next target: 8m -> 6m
    
  • Now the caster is invulnerable while dashing between targets
    
  • Damage: 106 -> 150
    
  • Cooldown: 12s -> 15s
    

Fire Staffs

• Fire Bolt (all Fire Staffs)
  
  • Cast Time: 1s -> 0.7s
    
  • Impact Damage: 87.52 -> 70.00
    
  • DoT Damage: 5.72 -> 5.50
    
  • Energy Cost: 4 -> 3
    
• Ignite (all Fire Staffs)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.3s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Instant Damage: 96.23 -> 140.00
    
  • Removed the Dot
    
  • Now, Hitting a target below 20% Health gives a 40% Move- and Cast Speed buff for 3 seconds.
    

Hammers

• Power Geyser (all Hammers)
  
  • Cooldown: 10s -> 9s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.5s -> 0.45s
    
  • Standtime: 0.8s -> 0.6s
    
• Earth Shatter (one handed Hammer)
  
  • Standtime: 1.2s -> 0.8s
    
    
• Groundbreaker (Polehammer)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.5s -> 0.3s
    
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.6s
    

Holy Staffs

• Holy Blessing (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Duration: 5s -> 4s
    
  • Physical Armor Increase: 0.85 -> 0.40
    

Maces

• Deap Leap (one handed Mace)
  
  • The ability now always deals the same amount of damage: The current mid range damage
    
  • The 2m -> 3m center now stuns enemies for 2.2s
    
  • The 5m area slows enemies by 30% for 3s
    

Quarter Staffs

• Separator (regular Quarter Staff)
  
  • Root Duration: 3.83s -> 3.00s
    
  • Damage: 149.18 -> 180.00 -> 149.18
    
  • Knockback Area: 7m -> 6m
    
  • Slow Duration: 5s -> 3s
    

Nature Staffs

• Cleanse Heal (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Can now be cast at the ground (can still be cast when stunned)
    
  • The Heal over Time and Cleanse is applied to up to 5 allies in the area
    

Spears

• Lunging Strike (all spears)
  
  • Hitbox range extended by 1m
    
• Fling (Glaive)
  
  • Range: 3m -> 5m
    
  • Doesn't consume the Spirit Spear Charges anymore
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.85s
    
• Spectral Trident (Trinity Spear)
  
  • Maximum Allies Affected: 5 -> 10
    

Swords

• Parry Strike (all Swords)
  
  • Cooldown: 15s -> 18s
    

Helmets

• Iceblock (Cleric Cowl)
  
  • While in Iceblock, incoming Healing is reduced by 50%
    
• Purifying Smoke (Helmet of Valor)
  
  • Hitdelay: 1s -> 0.7s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0s
    

Shoes

• Premonition (Boots of Valor)
  
  • Triggering the cleanse now also grants 4s immunity to stun, root and slow
    

Mounts

• Command Mammoth
  
  • Bonus Move Speed: 10% -> 0%
    
• Tower Chariot
  
  • Armor Factor: 0.8 -> 1.6
    
  • Magic Resist Factor: 0.8 -> 1.4
    
  • Tower Shield
    
    • Cast Time: 1s -> 0.6s
      
    • Cooldown: 60s -> 30s
      
• Collosus Beetle
  
  • BonusMove Speed: 30% -> 10% -> 0%
    
  • Beetle Fly
    
    • Increased Speed Bonus by 20%
      
    • Cast Time: 0.5s -> 0.8s
      
  
  
  
  
  

Misc

• Crystal GvG Orb Claim Time: 10s -> 5 -> 7.5s
  

Over the coming weeks we will gather more changes and release them as a bigger Mid-Season Balance patch later. However some of the changes might also be pushed to live earlier, if we want to adress any pressing issues earlier.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.


Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.


Arcane Staffs

• Void (Malevolent Locus)
  
  • Energycost: 21 base energy -> 20% of Max Energy (independent of Item Power)
    
  • Cooldown now scales with Item Power
    
    • 1200 Item Power: 48s -> 45s
      
    • 1700 Item Power: 42s -> 39s
      
  
  
  
  
  
  

Bows:

• Normal Attacks (all Bows)
  
  • Increased projectile speed of all normal attacks (This doesn't change Attack Inteval or DPS. it is only how much time it takes for the projectile to hit the target once it has been shot)
    

Crossbows:

• Normal Attacks (all Crossbows)
  
  • Increased projectile speed of all normal attacks (This doesn't change Attack Interval or DPS. it is only how much time it takes for the projectile to hit the target once it has been shot)
    
• Explosive Mine (Weeping Repeater)
  
  • Added an indication area, which shows where the mine is deployed
    
  • Projectile Speed of the mine: 30 -> 50
    

Daggers

• Normal Attacks
  
  • One handed Dagger:
    
    • Attack Interval: every 0.91s -> every 0.5s
      
    • Damage per Attack: 1.31 -> 0.72
      
  • Dual Daggers & Deathgivers:
    
    • Attack Interval: every 0.91s -> every 0.4s
      
    • Damage per Attack: 43 -> 19
      
    • Attack Range: 2m -> 1.5m
      
  • Claws & Black Hands:
    
    • Attack Interval: every 0.91s -> every 0.5s
      
    • Damage per Attack: 43 -> 23
      
  • Bloodletter Auto Attack:
    
    • Attack Interval: every 0.83s -> every 0.6s
      
    • Attack DPS stays unchanged
      
    • Damage per Attack: 1.15 -> 0.83
      
  
  

• Removed Ability: Infiltration (W-slot / all Daggers)
  
• Added new Ability: Deadly Swipe (Q-slot / all Daggers)
  
  • Leap towards the targeted area and deals 75 physical damage to all enemies in a 3m radius. Applies one stack of Assassin Spirit on yourself per enemy hit.
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Cooldown: 4s
    
• Dash
  
  • Cooldown: 14s -> 18s (The cooldown doesn't scale with Item Power anymore)
    
  • Reintroduced the Cooldown scaling with Item Power
    
  • Cooldown:
    
    • 1200 IP: 12.5s -> 17.5s
      
    • 1700 IP: 10s -> 15s
      
  • Energycost: 5 base energy-> 5% max energy
    
  • Range: 11m -> 8m
    
  • At the end of the Dash the player now gets a 15% damage increase, which lasts for 4s
    
• Forbidden Stab: (All Daggers)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.2s -> 0.1s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.2
    
• Throwing Blades (all Daggers)
  
• Damage per Blade: 21.21 -> 35.00
  
• Chain Slash (all Daggers)
  
  • Cooldown: 15s -> 12s
    
• Poison Coating (one Handed Dagger)
  
• Reworked the ability, it is now called 'Bloodthirsty Blade'
  
  • While active every normal attack deals an additional 60 magic damage. You receive 100% of this inflicetd damage as Life Steal. Addtitionally your move speed is also increased by 30%,But as long as the ability is active you also lose 4% of your max health every second. The ability can last up to 6s, but you can deactivate it earlier.
    
    • Max Duration: 10s -> 6s
      
    • Removed the Max HP Redution
      
    • Now every second you lose 4% of your max health
      
    • Added a 30% Move Speed Bonus
      
    • Damage per Hit: 50 -> 60
      
    • Lifesteal: 40% -> 100%
      
    • Cooldown: 15s -> 20s
      
• Lunging Stabs (Bloodletter)
  
  • Range: 13m -> 9m -> 13m
    

Frost Staffs

• Hoarfrost Bolt (all Frost Staffs)
  
  • Damage: 103.41 -> 150
    
  • Cast Time: 1.5s -> 1.8s -> 2s
    
  • Radius: 3m -> 4m
    
  • Hit Delay: 0.2s -> 0.1s
    
  • Cast Range: 11m -> 14m
    
• Ice Shard (all Frost Staffs)
  
  • Damage vs Mobs: 125 -> 90
    

Hammers

• Ground Pound (Grovekeeper)
  
  • Stun Duration: 3.25 -> 2.5
    

Holy Staffs

• Holy Explosion (Great Holy Staff)
  
  • Now only the first hit knocks back
    
  • Knockback Distance: 6.36 -> 15.00
    
  • Knockback speed: 8m per s -> 10m per s -> 15m per s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.1s -> 0s -> 0.4s
    

Nature Staves

• Revitalize (all Nature Staffs)
  
• Disruption Factor: 0 -> 5
  (This means the channel gets reduced by incoming damage)
  

Quarter Staves

• Fatal Blade (Black Monk Staff)
  
  • Removed the Channel. It is now an instant ability which leaves the swinginging blade on the ground, while the player can keep moving
    
  
  
  • Area duration: 3s -> 5s
    

Spears

• Inner Focus (all Spears)
  
  • Move Speed Bonus per stack: 8% -> 5%
    

Swords

• Soulless Stream (Galatine Pair)
  
  • Increased the gaps in the hitbox
    
  • Hitbox Range: 13m -> 12m
    
  • Hitbox is now visible in game
    

Helmets

• Nasty Wounds (Hood of Tenacity)
  
  • Now also reduces Healing Output by 50%
    

Armors

• Fear Aura (Fiend Robe)
  
  • Channel Duration: 4s -> 3s
    
• Levitate (Cultist Robe)
  
  • Heal per Tick 4% -> 3%
    
  • Eneryge per Tick 4% -> 3%
    
• Energy Emission (Robe of Purity)
  
  • Duration: 7s -> 5s
    
• Requite (Armor of Valor)
  
  • The channel is now uninterruptible
    

Gathering Gear

• Flee (Miner Workboots)
  
  • Buff Duration: 7s -> 10s
    
  • Silence Duration: 12s -> 13s
    
• Ethereal Path (Harvester Workboots)
  
  • Now cleanses yourself upon activation
    
  • Cast Range: 14m -> 16m
    
  • Sprint Duration: 4s -> 7s
    
• Sprint Shield (Lumberjack Workboots)
  
  • Shield Strength: 131.51 -> 250 -> 300
    
  • The ability is now a channel (this means it can't be purged anymore)
    
• Motivating Pain (Quarrier Workboots)
  
  • Duration: 8s -> 10s
    

Mounts

• All regular mounts now give their carry weight bonus, just by beeing equipped, even outside of the mount circle.
  This means, players keep the load bonus after getting dismounted, or when entering a dungeon, etc.
  
• This effect is achieved by a new passive on the mount which scales with Item Power. This new system also adjusts the load progression over tiers.
  

Affected Mounts:



Mount Abilities

• Ballista - Large Multishot
  
  • Cast Time: 1s -> 0.6s
    
• Frost Ram - Leap
  
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 15s
    
• Colossus Beetle - Beetle Buzz
  
  • Cast Time: 0.5s -> 1s
    
  • Radius: 10m -> 9m
    

Disarray
We are currently testing a different version of the Debuff. The reason we want to change it is, the current iteration makes large fight very much focused on one shots. Also if two zergs fight each other the current iteration allows you to deal more than 100% damage against your opponent if you split a group to get rid of the debuff. So we will remove the defense reduction and replace it with reduced CC duration and reduced Received Healing. However to keep the debuff effective we increased the speed in which the debuff escalates. (This is still in testing and might go live with different values)




Debuffed Attributes:

• Bonus Damage vs Players
  
• CC Duration vs Players
  
• Received Healing
  

These balance changes are intended for some adjustments in an upcoming patch, will launch soon.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.


Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.


Arcane Staffs:

• Arcane Protection (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Duration: 4s -> 2s
    
  • Shield Strength: 169.59 -> 280.00 -> 300.00
    

Axes:

• Rending Bleed Stacks (all Axes)
  
  • Multiple players can now stack the bleed on the same target
    
  • Healing Reduction per stack: 5% -> 4%
    
    
  • Damage per Tick: 5.2 -> 5.4
    
    

Crossbows:

• Exploding Bolt (all Crossbows)
  
  • Damage: 102.73 -> 120 -> 130
    
  • Hit Delay: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.3s
    

Hammers:

• Giant Steps (Forge Hammers)
  
  • Physical Resistance: 0.59 -> 0.35
    

Holy Staffs:

• Sacred Pulse (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Cooldown: 10s -> 8s
    
  • Knockback Distance: 8m -> 12m
    

• Flash Heal (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Max Stacks: 2 -> 3
    
  • Healing a target on Max Stacks don't give energy anymore
    
  • Instead Max Stacks triggers an AoE Heal on the target; healing up to 5 allies for 50 in a 5m radius
    
  • Base Heal: 48 -> 45
    

Nature Staffs:

• Thorns (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • You won't lose stacks when attacked by enemy players anymore
    

• Spiritual Seed (Druid Staff)
  
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 25s
    

Swords:

• Iron Will (all swords)
  
  • Now you directly gain a Heroic Charge on you, upon activation
    
• Parry Strike (all Swords)
  
  • Parry Strike now doesn't silence enemies anymore
    
  • Cooldown: 15s -> 20s
    
• Spinning Blades (Dual Swords)
  
  • Max Healh Damage vs Players now only hits unmounted players
    
• Soulless Stream (Galatine Pair)
  
  • Cast Time: 0.9s -> 1.1s
    

Shoes:

• Focused Run (Scholar Sandals)
  
  • Movement Speed Increase: 100% -> 70%
    
• Mark of Sacrifice (Hellion Shoes)
  
  • Cast Range: 15m -> 12m
    

Mounts:

• Pierce Through (Siege Ballista)
  
  • Damage vs Players per tick: 1.5% -> 2%
    
  • Damage vs Mounts: 3% -> 5%
    
  • Cooldown: 10s -> 20s
    

Misc:

• Healing Sickness for 2 Healers: 25.9% -> 30%
  
• Healing Sickness for 2 Healers or more
  
  
  • Debuff Duration: 2s -> 5s
    

These balance changes are intended for a mid season patch during Season 7. However the new spells are still early prototypes and might probably go into the game at later point, like the next content update.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.


Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.


This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.

Arcane Staffs:

• Arcane Protection (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Range: 9m -> 11m
    
• Arcane Purge (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Range: 9m -> 11m
    
  • Cast Time: 0.7s -> 0.5s
    
  • Hit Delay: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
• Time Freeze (Great Arcane Staff)
  
  • Hit Delay: 0.8s -> 1.1s
    
• Void (Malevolent Locus)
  
  • Resistance Increase: 0.78 -> 0.45 -> 0.30
    

Cursed Staffs:

• Death Curse (one handed Cursed Staff)
  
  • The damage can't be reflected anymore
    
  • Removed the small instant Damage at the start
    
  • Fixed the delay before the Death Curse activated at the end
    
• Cataclysm (Damnation Staff)
  
  • Armor Reduction: 0.17 -> 0.24
    
  • Damage: 160 -> 120
    

Fire Staffs:

• Added new W-Spell: Fire Artillery
  
  • After 1.5s become stationary for up to 6s and start to fire a projectile on target enemy every 2s. The projectile deals 55 magical impact damage and leaves a burning area on the ground for 6s. Every second this applies an Ignite Stack on enemies inside of it that lasts 3s. (Stacks up to 4 times)
    
• Pyroblast (one handed Fire Staff)
  
  • Range: 12m -> 13m
    
  • Cooldown: 15s -> 14s
    
  • Instant Damage: 284.31 -> 300.00
    

Frost Staffs:

• Ice Shard (all Ice Staffs)
  
  • Damage: 140 -> 125
    

Holy Staffs:

• Flash Heal (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Heal: 46 -> 48
    
  • Range: 12m -> 13m
    
• Generois Heal (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Range: 12m -> 13m
    
• Holy Blessing (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Range: 12m -> 13m
    
• Sacred Pulse (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Now, The spell knocks all enemies in a 5m radius around the target for 8m away, happens once after activation
    
  • Now: The healing affects only a single target
    
  • Cast Time: 1s -> 0s
    
  • Cooldown: 15s -> 10s
    
  • Heal per Tick: 15.8 -> 40.0 -> 35.00
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Range: 11m -> 13m
    
• Holy Orb (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Adjusted Holy Orb projectile, to make it hit close targets more reliable
    
• Desperate Prayer (One Handed Holy Staff)
  
  • Range: 12m -> 13m
    
• Holy Explosion (Great Holy Staff)
  
  • Cooldown: 25s -> 20s
    
• Divine Protection (Divine Staff)
  
  • Range: 12m -> 13m
    

Quarter Staffs:

• Concussive Blow (all Quarter Staffs)
  
  • Reworked the spell:
    
  • Damage: 77.81 -> 90.00
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.3s
    
  • Hit Delay: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Now creates Threat on mobs
    
• Cartwheel (all Quarter Staffs)
  
  • Cooldown: 7s -> 8s
    
• Rising Blow (all Quarter Staffs)
  
  • Knock Up Duration: 1.25s -> 1s
    
• Tornado (Soul Scythe)
  
  • Knock Up Duration: 2s -> 1.4s
    

Nature Staffs:

• Rejuvenation (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Heal per Second: 7.9 -> 7.8 -> 7.6
    
• Reworked Poison Thorns, (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • The spell is now called Thorns
    
  • Upon activation you imbue yourself with 5 Thorns Stacks for 10s.
    
  • Thorns Stack consumption: If you hit an enemy with your autoattack, you deal an additional 60 magical damage in a 3m radius (consuming 1 stack)
    
  • If an enemy hits you, you deal 30 magical damage to them (consuming 1 stack)
    
    • The spell is now moved to the Q-slot
      
    • Cast Time: 0.6s
      
    • Cooldown: 5s
      
    • Damage on Attack: 45 -> 60 -> 52
      
    • Damage on Reflect: 30 -> 12
      
    • Getting hit by mobs, doesn't remove stacks anymore. (only getting hit by other players)
      
• Rejuvenating Breeze (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Cooldown: 16s -> 20s
    
• Circle of Life (one handed Nature Staff)
  
  • If the caster has at least 3 Thorns stack active, the spell also roots and damages enemies in the 11m radius
    

Spears:

• Impaler (all Spears)
  
  • Damage: 170 -> 140
    

Swords:

• Parry Strike (all Swords)
  
  • Cooldown: 12s -> 15s
    
  • Damage: 104 -> 80
    
• Fearless Strike (Carving Sword)
  
  • Range: 13m -> 11m
    
• Soulless Stream (Galatine Pair)
  
  • 0 Stack Damage: 88.89 -> 84.00
    
  • 1 Stack Damage: 142.22 -> 134.00
    
  • 2 Stack Damage: 213.34 -> 201.00
    
  • 3 Stack Damage: 302.22 -> 285.00
    
  • Bugfix: The debuff can now be cleansed
    

Armors:

• Crowd Control Resistance Factor:
  
  • Scholar Robe 0.00 -> 0.24
    
  • Cleric Robe 0.00 -> 0.22
    
  • Mage Robe 0.00 -> 0.20
    
  • Mercenary Jacket 0.20 -> 0.30
    
  • Hunter Jacket 0.15 -> 0.28
    
  • Assassin Jacket 0.10 -> 0.26
    
  • Soldier Armor 0.40 -> 0.40
    
  • Knight Armor 0.45 -> 0.45
    
  • Guardian Armor 0.50
    
• Everlasting Spirit (Cleric Robe)
  
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 40s -> 50s
    
• Taunt (all Plate Armors)
  
  • Reworked the spell:
    
    • When used against Creatures: Makes you the target of that creature
      
    • When used against Players: Increases your Damage by 30% and reduces your defense by 20% for 3s
      
• Tenacity (Passive on all Plate Armors)
  
  • CC Resistance Increase -> 0.1 -> 0.2
    
• Tenacity (Passive on all Plate Shoes & Helmets)
  
  • CC Resistance Increase -> 0.05 -> 0.1
    

Helmets:

• Iceblock (Cleric Cowl)
  
  • Can now be used after beeing stunned or silenced
    
  • Cooldown: 40s -> 60s
    
• Circle of Inspiration (Druid Cowl)
  
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 45s
    
• Mortal Agony (Stalker Hood)
  
  • Resistance Reduction: 0.5 -> 0.35
    
• Growing Rage (Royal Hood)
  
  • Damage Increase per stack: 8% -> 6%
    
• Emergency Heal (Guardian Helmet)
  
  • Heal Value: 10% -> 15%
    
• Sacrifice (Graveguard Helmet)
  
  • Heal Value: 25% -> 20%
    
  • Can't be cast on self anymore
    
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 40s -> 50s
    
  • Cast Range: 9m -> 11m
    

Shoes:

• Blink (Cleric Sandals)
  
  • Range: 9m -> 10m
    
• Raging Blink (Stalker Shoes)
  
  • Range: 7m -> 10m
    
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 25s
    
• Battle Frenzy (Graveguard Boots)
  
  • Move Speed Increase: 80% -> 30% -> 40%
    
• Elbow Smash (Judicator Boots)
  
  • Knock Up Duration: 1s -> 0.8s
    

Misc:

• If healers are constantly healing themselves they get a Self Healing Sickness. Which reduces all incoming healing by 25%
  
• Healing Sickness is not triggered if the Healer heals any other target with a Q ability (should only impact solo Healers)
  
• Healing Sickness is removed, as soon as another ally is healed with a Q ability
  

Changes in a patch afterwards:

Cursed Staffs:

• Cataclysm (Damnation Staff)
  
  • The damage is now applied as a damage over time effect, which can't be stacked and can't be relfected anymore
    
  • Damage per tick: 27 -> 18
    
  • DoT Interval: 0.5s -> 1s
    

Nature Staffs:

• Thorns (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Cooldown: 6s -> 5s
    
  • Cast Time: 0.6s -> 0.4s
    
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0s
    
  • Can't be accidentally canceled by holding mouse button while casting
    

Helmets:

• Emergency Heal (Guardian Helmet)
  
  • Heal Value: 15% -> 10%
    

Shoes:

• Motivating Pain (Quarrier Workboots)
  
  • Can now only triggered by enemy damage (ally damage doesn't count anymore)
    

These changes are intended for the next content update. Since there is more time until these changes hit live, I want to try out various prototypes for completely new spells to spice up the variety in the meta, These spells may change quite a bit during the testing process.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.


Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.


This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.

Arcane Staffs:

• Arcane Purge (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Cast Time: 1s -> 0.7s
    
• Void (Malevolent Locus)
  
  • Cast Time: 0s -> 0.5s
    

Axes:

• Added new W-Spell: Spinning Blades
  
  • The caster gets surrounded by magic blades for 2.5s. Every 0.5s the blades deal magic damage to all enemies in a 6m radius. Each hit also increases the caster's damage by 4% for 3se. (stacks up to 10 times)
    
  • Damage per Tick: 27.82 -> 27.00 -> 24.00
    
• Life Leach (Passive)
  
  • 15% Life Steal on all your auto attack damage (for more details see life steal changes at the bottom)
    
• Vampiric Strike (one-handed Axe)
  
  • Removed the self Heal, instead the ability now uses the new life steal mechanics
    
  • One Rending Strike: Life Steals 30% of the damage dealt
    
  • Two Rending Strikes: Life Steals 60% of the damage dealt
    
  • Three Rending Strikes: Life Steals 100% of the damage dealt
    

Cursed Staffs:

• Enfeeble Blades (Lifecurse Staff)
  
  • Cast Time: 1.5s -> 1s
    
  • Hit Delay: 0.4s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0s
    
  • Damage per tick: 31.3 -> 33.0
    

Daggers:

• Life Leach (Passive)
  
  • 15% Life Steal on all your auto attack damage (for more details see life steal changes at the bottom)
    

Fire Staffs:

• Magma Sphere (Wildfire Staff)
  
  • Cast Time: 1s -> 0.6s
    

Frost Staffs:

• Added new Q-Spell: Ice Shard
  
  • Drop a big Ice Shard at a ground target. The impact deals magic damage to all enemies in a 3m radius.
    
  • Cast Time: 1.2s
    
  • Damage: 130 -> 140
    
• Shatter (all Frost Staffs)
  
  • First Area Damage: 93.60 -> 80.00
    
  • Second Area Damage: 93.60 -> 100.00
    
  • Third Area Damage: 93.60 -> 120.00
    
• Avalanche (Hoarfrost Staff)
  
  • Cast Time: 0.7s -> 0s
    
  • Hit Delay: 0s -> 0.2s
    
  • Standtime: 0s -> 0.4s
    

Hammers:

• Added new W-Spell: Ring of Tar
  
  • Cracks the earth open and creates a ring of tar in a 8m around the caster. This ring lasts for 4s and has a 2.5m width. When enemies are inside the ring their movespeed is reduced by 90% (ignores crowd control resistance)
    
  • Cast Time: 0.5s
    
  • Area Duration: 2.5s -> 4s
    
  • Area Width: 2m -> 2.5m
    
  • Reworked the visual effect (because it was hurting the visibillity of a battle)
    
• Life Leach (Passive)
  
  • 15% Life Steal on all your auto attack damage (for more details see life steal changes at the bottom)
    
• Bash Knee (all Hammers)
  
  • Slow Strength: 32% -> 30%
    
  • Slow Duration: 3s -> 4s
    
• Giant Steps (Forge Hammers)
  
  • Now also increases attack range by 50%
    

Holy Staffs:

• Holy Blessing (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Removed the Heal Over Time Effect
    
  • Added a Physical Armor increase by 0.85
    
  • The Buff now makes immune to any displacement effects
    
  • Duration: 8s -> 5s
    
  • Cooldown: 10s -> 15s
    
• Desperate Prayer (one-handed Holy Staff)
  
  • Cooldown: 15s -> 12s -> 10s
    

Maces:

• Life Leach (Passive)
  
  • 15% Life Steal on all your auto attack damage (for more details see life steal changes at the bottom)
    
• Deep Leap (normal Mace)
  
  • Close Range Damage: 147
    
  • Mid Range Damage: 184 -> 203
    
  • Max Range Damage: 258 -> 275
    
• Vendetta (Camlann Mace)
  
  • Stun Duration: 1s -> 0.8s
    

Nature Staffs:

• Added new W-Spell: Rejuvenating Breeze
  
  • Increases the resistances of an ally by 0.44 for 2s and spreads Rejuvenating stacks to up to 10 allies in a 15m radius. The amount of Rejuvenation stacks depends on the amount of stacks active on the targeted ally.
    
  • Cooldown: 10s -> 16s
    
  • Energycost: 11 -> 15
    
  • Fixed the spell now working on 10 targets
    
• Protection of Nature (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Healing Increase: 50% -> 40%
    

Quarter Staffs:

• Added new W-Spell: Rising Blow
  
  • Hit enemies in a frontal cone, knocking them in the air for 0.9s and dealing physical damage
    
  • Knocked up duration: 0.9s -> 1.25s
    
  • Damage: 35 -> 50
    
• Life Leach (Passive)
  
  • 15% Life Steal on all your auto attack damage (for more details see life steal changes at the bottom)
    
• Cartwheel (all Quarter Staffs)
  
  • Armor Increase: 0.2 -> 0.1
    
• Separator (Quarter Staff)
  
  • Removed the knock up.
    
  • Now enemy players are knocked back 14m instead (not applied to creatures). And a 40% slow is applied, which lasts for 5s
    
  • Radius: 5m -> 7m
    
• Hurricane (Iron-Claded Staff)
  
  • Channel Duration: 3.5s -> 3s
    

Spears:

• Added new W Spell: Impaler
  
  • After 0.4s a giant spear will pierce through the ground. Dealing 170 physical damage and slowing enemies by 50% for 3s within the 2.5m radius impact area.
    
  • Damage: 170
    
  • Slow Duration: 40% -> 50%
    
• Life Leach (Passive)
  
  • 15% Life Steal on all your auto attack damage (for more details see life steal changes at the bottom)
    
  • Life Steal: 10% -> 15%
    
• Rooting Smash (Pike)
  
  • Doesn't consume the Spirit Spear charges anymore
    
  • Cast Range: 4m -> 5.5m
    
  • Standtime: 1.4s -> 0.7s
    
  • Energycost: 16 -> 14
    

Swords:

• Added new W-Spell: Parry
  
  • For 0.8s you become immune to damage and reflect all incoming damage back at the attacker. At the end of the channel you hit all enemies around you in a 6m radius, dealing 104 physical damage and silencing for 0.80s
    
  • The caster now can't accidently cancel the channel anymore
    
  • Silence Duration: 0.94 -> 0.80
    
• Heroic Charge:
  
  • Move Speed Increase: 10% -> 12%
    
  • Attack Speed Increase: 10% -> 12%
    

Armors:

• Frost Shield (all Cloth Armors)
  
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 40s
    
• Inferno Shield (all Leather Armors)
  
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 40s
    
• Life Steal Aura (Hellion Jacket)
  
  • Now the lower the health of the caster, the more damage the aura deals to enemies. The caster now directly steals all the damage dealt. (see also life steal changes below)
    
  • Min Damage: 20 -> 20
    
  • Max Damage: 60 -> 40
    
• Fury (Soldier Armor)
  
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 40s
    

Shoes:

• Wanderlust (Soldier Boots)
  
  • Duration after Max Stack: 9s -> 7s
    
• Spectral Run (Specter Shoes)
  
  • Now IF the caster moves 20 meters or more, he can't attack other players for 3s after getting out of invisibility.
    

Misc:

• Reworked Life Steal Mechanics:
  
  • Life Steal now steals a percentage of the damage dealt.
    
  • Life Steal now doesn't count as healing. i.e. is unaffected by Heal Modifier or Healing Sickness.
    

Current changes are intended to go live with a patch early May. These Balance Changes are not finished and might change before the final version goes live.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.


Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.


This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.


Arcane Staffs:

• Time Freeze (Great Arcane Staff)
  
  • Freeze Duration: 3s -> 4s
    
  • Cooldown 1200 IP: 34s -> 30s
    
  • Cooldown 1700 IP: 30s -> 26s
    

Axes:

• Life Leech (Passive)
  
  • Heal per Attack: 5.10 -> 6.10
    

Bows:

• Poisoned Arrow (all Bows)
  
  • Range: 11m -> 13m
    
• Speedshot (all Bows)
  
  • Range: 11m -> 13m
    

Crossbows:

• Auto Fire (all Crossbows)
  
  • Damage per Tick: 37.00 -> 30.00
    
  • Explosion Damage: 89.00 -> 82.00
    

Cursed Staffs:

• Cataclysm (Damnation Staff)
  
  • Damage: 120 -> 160
    
  • Debuff Duration: 8s -> 6s
    
  • Cast Range: 10m -> 12m
    
  • Cooldown: 45s -> 30s
    

Daggers:

• Life Leech (Passive)
  
  • Heal per Attack: 3.73 -> 4.50
    

Fire Staffs:

• Flame Tornado (Blazing Staff)
  
  • Tick Damage vs Players: 51.00 -> 60.00
    

Frost Staffs:

• Freezing Wind (one handed Frost Staff)
  
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0.2s
    
  • Damage: 160 -> 174
    
  • Root Duration: 1.57s -> 2.00s
    
• Ice Storm (Glacial Staff)
  
  • Damage vs Mobs: 16.70 -> 20.00
    
  • Damage vs Players: 35.00 -> 45.00
    
• Ice Crystal (Permafrost Prism)
  
  • Cooldown: 45s -> 30s
    

Hammers:

• Life Leech (Passive)
  
  • Heal per Attack: 5.86 -> 7.00
    
• Iron Breaker: (all Hammers)
  
  • Hit Delay: 0.5s -> 0.4s
    
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0.5s
    
  • Resistance Reduction: 0.12 -> 0.15
    
• Ground Breaker (Polehammer)
  
  • Stun Area Width: 1.5m -> 2m
    

Maces:

• Life Leech (Passive)
  
  • Heal per Attack: 5.86 -> 7.00
    
• Removed the spell Stalling Slam
  
• Added the new Spell: Sacred Ground instead
  
  • Creates a 3m radius area in front of you. The area lasts for 6s and silences all enemy players in the area (ignoring crowd control resistance). Creatures in the area are silenced for up to 2.8s
    
  • Cast Time: 0.8s, Cooldown: 7s, Energycost: 6% of max energy
    
• Threatening Smash (all Maces)
  
  • Hit Delay: 0.6s -> 0.5s
    
  • Standtime: 0.7s -> 0.6s
    
• Vendetta (Camlann Mace)
  
  • Now also stuns all pulled enemies.
    
  • Damage: 113.96 -> 62.00
    

Nature Staffs:

• Revitalize (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Energycost per tick: 8 -> 6
    
  • Energy Gain per tick: 10 -> 8
    
  • Health per Tick: 60 -> 80
    

Quarter Staffs:

• Life Leech (Passive)
  
  • Heal per Attack: 4.17 -> 5.00
    
• Separator (base Quarter Staff)
  
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.6s
    

Spears:

• Life Leech (Passive)
  
  • Heal per Attack: 4.81 -> 5.80
    

Armors:

• Fury (Soldier Armor)
  
  • CC Duration Increase per stack: 7% -> 4%
    
• Haste (Hunter Jacket)
  
  • Damage Increase: 10% -> 20%
    
• Electric Field (Stalker Jacket)
  
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 45s
    
• Life Steal Aura (Hellion Jacket)
  
  • Minimum Heal: 7.02 -> 8.80
    
  • Maximum Heal: 23.09 -> 29.09
    

Helmets:

• Emergency Heal (Guardian Helmet)
  
  • The effect is now applied to up to 5 allies in a 4m radius
    

Current changes are intended to go live with the Patch on the 10th April. These Balance Changes are not finished and might change before the final version goes live.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.


Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.


This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.


Bows:

• Auto Attacks (all Bows)
  
  • Attack Range: 11m -> 13m
    
  • Auto Attacks per Second: 1 -> 1.3
    
  • Damage per Auto Attack: 29 -> 23
    
• Piercing Arrows (Passive)
  
  • Damage Reduction per Stack: 1% -> 2%
    
• Attack Speed (Passive)
  
  • Buff Duration: 3s -> 5s
    
• Frost Shot (all Bows)
  
  • Hit Delay: 0.2s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0s
    
• Enchanted Quiver (regular Bow)
  
  • Number of Arrows: 15 -> 18
    
• Undead Arrows (Whispering Bow)
  
  • Damage per Hit: 39.31 -> 55.00 -> 50.00
    
  • Duration: 10s -> 8s
    
  • Range Increase: 50% -> 35%
    

Crossbows:

• Removed the Passive 'Aggressive Caster'
  
• Added the New Passive 'Well Prepared'
  
  • Every 4 activated spells, your Q-slot spell cooldown is instantly reseted
    
• Auto Fire (all Crossbows)
  
  • Shot interval: 0.5s -> 0.3s
    
  • Damage per Tick: 28.01 -> 37.00
    
  • Explosion Damage: 67.22 -> 89.00
    
  • Range: 11m -> 13m
    
• Explosive Bolt (all Crossbows)
  
  • Energycost: 4 -> 3.5
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.5s -> 0.4
    
  • Standtime: 0.5s -> 0.4
    
• Knockback Shot (all Crossbows)
  
  • Now also increases Atttack- and Cast Speed by 50% for 4s
    
  • Cooldown: 10s -> 8s
    
  • Knockback Distance: 5.27 -> 10.00
    
  • Damage: 41.13 -> 62.00
    
  • Hit Delay: 0.2s -> 0.1s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
• Snipeshot (regular Crossbow)
  
  • Damage: 380.25 -> 418.00
    
  • Range: 15m -> 16m
    
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0.4s
    
• Sweeping Bolt (Heavy Crossbow)
  
  • Hit Delay: 0.4s -> 0.3s
    
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.7s
    
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 18s
    

Daggers:

• Rapier Stabs (Bloodletter)
  
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 30s
    
  • Hitting an enemy below 40% now also reduces all your cooldowns by 10s
    

Fire Staffs:

• Contagious Fire (Infernal Staff)
  
  • Damage per tick: 65.00 -> 60.00
    

Holy Staffs:

• Holy Beam (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Cooldown: 10s -> 16s
    
• Celestial Sphere (Redemption Staff)
  
  • Heal per tick: 80.00 -> 90.00
    

Nature Staffs:

• Reanimate (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Is now a channel instead of a cast ability:
    Revitalizes an ally, restoring 60 health and 10 energy per second. The ability can be channeled up to 5 times. (15s Cooldown, each tick consumes 8 energy)
    
• Well of Life (Wild Staff)
  
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 25s
    

Quarter Staffs:

• Forceful Swing (all Quarter Staffs)
  
  • Cooldown: 15s -> 18s
    
• Hurricane (Iron-Clad Staff)
  
  • Cooldown increased by 4s
    

Swords:

• Mighty Blow (Broadsword)
  
  • Damage: 276 -> 287
    
• Spinning Blades (Dual Swords)
  
  • Max Health Damage: 8% -> 6%
    

Helmets:

• Emergency Heal (Guardian Helmet)
  
  • Cooldown: 40s -> 30s
    
• Displacement Immunity (Knight Helmet)
  
  • Buff Duration: 10s -> 6s
    

Current changes are for a bigger Balance Patch early 2019, within Nimue. These Balance Changes are not finished and you can expect more balance changes before the final version goes live.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.

Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.

Arcane Staffs:

• Frazzle (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Damage Taken Increased: 40% -> 30%
    
• Time Freeze (Great Arcane Staff)
  
  • The freeze can't be cleansed anymore
    
  • Duration: 3.5s -> 3s
    

Axes:

• Rending Strike (all Axes)
  
  • Energycost: 3 -> 2
    
  • Healing Reduction per stack: 7% -> 5%
    
  • Hit Delay: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.3s
    
• Rending Swing (all Axes)
  
  • Hit Delay: 0.2s -> 0.3s
    
  • Energycost: 2 -> 3
    
  • Healing Reduction per stack: 7% -> 5%
    
• Deadly Chop (all Axes)
  
  • Damage: 174.04 -> 152.00
    
• Adrenaline Boost (all Axes)
  
  • Movement Speed Increase: 40% -> 50%
    
  • Damage Increase: 20% -> 25%
    
• Removed the ability Battle Frenzy (all Axes)
  
• Added the new ability: Battle Rush
  
  • Charge toward a target (ally or enemy). Enemy Healing Received is reduced 20% for 4s in a 5m radius. Ally Healing Received is increased by 20% for 4s in a 5m radius.
    
  • Buff & Debuff Duration: 3s -> 4s
    
  • Area Size: 4m -> 5m
    

Bows:

• Enchanted Quiver (Bow)
  
  • Auto Attack Damage Increase per stack: 25% -> 35%
    
• Magic Arrow (Warbow)
  
  • Projectile Speed: 15.33 m/s -> 16.08 m/s
    

Cursed Staffs:

• Cursed Sickle (all Cursed Staffs)
  
  • Is now a skillshot with a boomerang-like trajectory.
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.5s -> 0.2s
    
  • Standtime: 0.3s -> 0.4s
    
  • Range: 21m -> 16m
    
  • Cooldown: 3.5s -> 5s
    

Daggers:

• Sunder Armor (all Daggers)
  
  • Hit Delay: 0.2s -> 0.1s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
• Slit Throat (Dagger Pair)
  
  • Damage: 430.74 -> 443.05
    
• Lunging Stabs (Bloodletter)
  
  • Damage for targets below 40%: 306.63 -> 330.00
    

Fire Staffs:

• Replaced the spell Fire Bomb (Q-Slot)
  
• Added new spell Burning Field (Q-Slot)
  
  • Sets the ground in a 3m radius for 4s on Fire. Dealing magic damage on ignition and additional damage for enemies inside the area. This is a ranged spell, which you can cast on the ground.
    
  • Cooldown: 5s -> 4s
    
  • Cast Time: 0.8s -> 0.7s -> 0.5s
    
  • Range: 11m -> 15m
    
  • First Damage Tick of the area happens now earlier
    
  • Damage per Tick vs Mobs: 18 -> 20
    
  • Damage per Tick vs Players: 50 -> 55
    
  • Energycost: 4.5 -> 6
    

Hammers:

• Power Geyser (all Hammers)
  
  • Hit Delay: 0.6s -> 0.45s
    
• Grasp of the Undead (Tomb Hammer)
  
  • Reworked the ability: A giant Undead Hand comes out of the ground, hitting enemies in a 2.5m radius. Dealing 110 physical damage and stunning for 2.9s.
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.6s -> 0.4s
    
  • Standtime: 0.8s -> 0.6s
    
  • Cooldown: 15s -> 14s
    

Holy Staffs:

• Desperate Prayer (Holy Staff)
  
  • Max Heal Value: 177.69 -> 200.00
    
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 17s -> 15s
    
• Salvation (Fallen Staff)
  
  • Radius: 6m -> 5.5m
    
• Celestial Sphere (Redemption Staff)
  
  • Max Number of Jumps: 14 -> 10
    
  • Heal per Jump: 51.5 -> 80.00
    

Nature Staffs:

• Rejuvenation (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Heal per tick: 7.75 -> 7.9
    
• Revitalize (all Nature Staffs)
  
  • Instant Heal: 57.59 -> 75.00
    
  • Removed the Heal Over Time effect, instead it now instantly restores 15 energy of the target
    
  • Cooldown: 7s -> 10s
    
  • Energycost: 9 -> 10
    
• Circle of Life (Nature Staff)
  
  • Zero Charge Heal: 56.62 -> 91.00
    
  • One Charge Heal: 90.60 -> 114.00
    
  • Two Charge Heal: 135.89 -> 148.00
    
  • Three Charge Heal: 192.52 -> 193.00
    
• Ruthless Nature (Blight Staff)
  
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 25s
    
  • Heal per Tick: 29.50 -> 33.00
    
  • Energycost: 18 -> 15
    

Quarter Staffs:

• Separator (Quarter Staff)
  
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 15s
    
  • Energycost: 17 -> 13
    
• Hurricane (Iron-Clad Staff)
  
  • Doesn't knock mobs away anymore
    
  • It interrupts Mob spell casts instead
    
  • Damage per tick: 23.20 -> 32.00
    
  • Cooldown 100 IP: 23.8s -> 36s
    
  • Cooldown 1700 IP: 19s -> 20s
    
• Overpower (Double Bladed Staff)
  
  • Reworked the Overpower animation, it is now a jump with a fixed duration
    
  • Cast Range: 11m -> 15m
    
  • Standtime: 0s -> 0.3s
    
  • Damage: 69.64 -> 80.00
    
  • Radius: 5m -> 6m
    
  • The ability is now renamed to Crescent Slash
    

Spears:

• Inner Focus (all Spears)
  
  • Movement Speed Increase per stack: 6% -> 10% -> 8%
    
  • Buff Duration: 5s -> 6s
    
• Reckless Charge (one handed Spear)
  
  • Range: 11m -> 13m
    

Swords:

• Heroic Cleave (all Swords)
  
  • Reworked the ability: It doesn't require a target anymore. Instead it is now instead an AoE attack around the player.
    
  • If you hit at least one enemy, this ability also creates a Heroic Charge on you.
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0.3s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Radius 4m -> 5m -> 6m
    
  • If you hit 3 enemies or more, two Heroic Charges are created on you.
    
  • Now also gives a 10% Attack Speed bonus per stack
    
  • Energycost: 3 -> 3.5
    
• Heroic Strike (all Swords)
  
  • Now also gives a 10% Attack Speed bonus per stack
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.3s
    
• Iron Will (all Swords)
  
  • While the buff is active the caster becomes now immune to purges
    
  • Activating this ability doesn't give an extra Heroic Charge stack anymore
    
  • Resistance Increase: 25% -> 35%
    
  • Duration: 5s -> 4s
    
• Mighty Blow (Broadsword)
  
  • The ability now jumps towards the target.
    
  • Range: 3m -> 8m -> 10m
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0.3s
    
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.8s
    
  • Damage: 267.84 -> 276.00
    
  • Removed the Resistance Increase
    
  • Energycost: 14 -> 11
    
  • Resistance Increase: 0.36 -> 0.24
    
• Spinning Blades (Dual Swords)
  
  • Max Hitpoint Damage: 5% -> 8%
    
• Soulless Stream (Galatine Pair)
  
  • Max Hitpoint Reduction: 10% -> 6%
    

Armors:

• Purging Shield (Mage Robe)
  
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 45s
    
  • Duration: 6s -> 5s
    
  • Energycost: 12 -> 10
    
• Life Steal Aura (Hellion Jacket)
  
  • Now also increases Healing Received by 10%
    
  • Duration: 10s -> 8s
    
• Windwall (Knight Armor)
  
  • Cooldown: 40s -> 30s
    
• Force Shield (Judicator Armor)
  
  • Resistance Increase Factor: 0.35 -> 0.32
    

Helmets:

• Ice Block (Cleric Cowl)
  
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 40s
    
• Inner Corruption (Cultist Cowl)
  
  • Cooldown: 50s -> 30s
    
• Meditation (Assassin Hood)
  
  • Channel Duration: 2s -> 3s
    
  • Max Cooldown Reduction: 10s -> 15s
    
• Growing Rage (Royal Hood)
  
  • Damage Increase per stack: 10% -> 8%
    
• Stoneskin (now available on all Plate Helmets)
  
  • Removed the damage and healing penalty. It is now a straight resistance increase
    
  • Resistance Increase: 60% -> 50%
    
• Emergency Heal (Now only available on Guardian Helmets)
  
  • Reworked the ability:
    
  • Instantly heals 10% of your max health and removes any damage over time effects.
    
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 40s
    
  • Instant Heal: 5% -> 10%
    
• Electric Discharge (Judicator Helmet)
  
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 45s
    
  • You can now keep moving durating the activation of this skill
    

Shoes:

• Vengeful Sprint (Hellion Boots)
  
  • Damage Increase per stack: 5% -> 4%
    
• Defensive Sprint
  
  • Removed from Graveguard Boots
    
  • Added new ability Battle Frenzy instead:
    
    • Increases your movement speed by 80% and makes you immune to any movement impairing effects for 5s. Does not make you immune to forced movement effects like knockbacks.
      
  
  
  

Passives:

• Efficiency (Cloth Armors)
  
  • Energycost Reduction: 8% -> 12%
    
• Efficiency (Cloth Helmets & Shoes)
  
  • Energycost Reduction: 3.5% -> 6%
    

Offhands:

• Normal Shields:
  
  • Crowd Control Resistance Factor: 0.36 -> 0.60
    
• Mistcaller:
  
  • Cooldown Reduction: 15% -> 14% (on 1700 IP)
    
• Leering Cane:
  
  • Cooldown Reduction: 0% -> 6% (on 1700 IP)
    
• Eye of Secrets:
  
  • Max Energy Factor: 0.4 -> 0.5
    
• Muisak:
  
  • Bonus Damage: 0% -> 20% (on 1700 IP)
    
  • Bonus Healing: 0% -> 20% (on 1700 IP)
    
  • Energy Cost Increase: 0% -> 25% (on 1700 IP)
    
• Taproot:
  
  • Max Health Factor: 0.5 -> 0.42
    

Capes:

• Heretic Cape
  
  • Root Duration: 4s -> 6s
    
• Keeper Cape
  
  • Health Threshhold for activation: 60% -> 70%
    
  • Cooldown: 100s -> 80s (on 1300 IP)
    
• Lymhurst Cape
  
  • Cooldown: 120s -> 130s (on 1300 IP)
    
• Martlock Cape
  
  • Cooldown: 140s -> 160s (on 1300 IP)
    
  • Bonus Defense: 66.66% -> 50%
    
• Thetford Cape
  
  • Damage (80.44 -> 92.00)
    
• Undead Cape
  
  • Health Threshhold for activation: 20% -> 25%
    

Mounts:

• Ox:
  
  • Base Speed: 35% -> 40%
    
• Pest Lizard:
  
  • Base Speed: 120% -> 110%
    
• Morgana Nightmare / Spectral Bonehorse:
  
  • Gallop Bonus: 60% -> 58%
    
• Direwolf Mounts (includes special mounts with the same stats)
  
  • Gallop Bonus: 55% -> 45%
    
• Spectral Bat / Husky:
  
  • Gallop Bonus: 65% -> 57%
    
• Moabird Mounts:
  
  • Gallop Bonus: 65% -> 57%
    
• Cougar Mounts:
  
  • Gallop Bonus: 50% -> 45%
    
• Swiftclaw:
  
  • Gallop Bonus: 65% -> 52%
    
• Husky Sled:
  
  • Gallop Bonus: 55% -> 53%
    

Misc:

• Increased player hitpoint pool by 20%
  
• Increassed player energy pool by 20%
  
• Base Movement Speed: 4.8 m/s -> 5.5 m/s
  
• In Combat Duration: 30s -> 20s
  
• Cap for Auto Attack Max Damage Increase: 200% -> 300%
  

Disclaimer:The balance patch will not go on the live server before February, that is why we are currently testing some bigger changes. These are just being tested and if we don't like the results we might revert a lot of these changes.

Current changes are meant to go live in a small Balance patch in the middle of December.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.

Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.


Holy Staffs:

• Holy Orb (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Heal: 144.79 -> 135.00
    

Swords:

• Spinning Blades (Dual Swords)
  
  • Additional Damage vs players: 3% -> 5% of max health
    
• Fearless Strike (Carving Sword)
  
  • Range: 11m -> 13m
    
  • Now reduces resistances before the damage is dealt
    
  • Max resistance reduction: 0.20 -> 0.24
    
    

Capes:

• Devious Trap (Heretic Cape)
  
  • Cooldown 100 IP: 150.8s -> 110s
    
  • Cooldown 1300 IP: 110s -> 80s
    

Current changes for the next content update. These Balance Changes are not finished and you can expect more balance changes before the final version goes live.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.

Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.



New Items:

Mob Capes:
All Mob Capes have the same max energy and energy regeneration benefits from normal capes. And additionally a unique ability which gets automatically triggered by certain conidtions and then goes on cooldown.

• Devious Trap (Heretic Cape)
  
  • Condition: Activates when you cast a shoe slot spell
    
  • Effect: Drops a trap below your feet, which is activated once an enemy steps onto it. Roots and deals physical damage.
    
    • 100 IP = 150.8s -> 110s
      
    • 1300 IP = 110s -> 80s
      
  • Cooldown: scales with IP
    
    
• Vanisher (Undead Cape)
  
  • Condition: Activates when you take damage and your health is below 20%.
    
  • Effect: Turns you invisible for 6s
    
  • (you can still use abilities while invisible, but your damage and heal power is reduced by 50%)
    
  • Cooldown: scales with IP (100 IP = 164.3s, 1300 IP 120s)
    
• Berserk (Keeper Cape)
  
  • Condition: Activates when your health drops below 60%
    
  • Effect: Increases your damage by 40% for 6s.
    
  • Cooldown: scales with IP (100 IP = 137.2s, 1300 IP = 100s)
    
• Mark of the Raven (Morgana Cape)
  
  • Condition: Activates when you use an E-slot ability
    
  • Effect: Increases your cast- and attack speed by 50% for 8s.
    
  • Cooldown: scales with IP (100 IP = 150.8s, 1300 IP = 100s)
    
• Opening to Hell (Demon Cape)
  
  • Condition: Activated by normal attack
    
  • Effect: Creates a 3m radius lava area below the enemy. Deals magic damage every 0.5s.
    
  • Cooldown: 60s
    

Arcane Staffs;

• Removed the spell Magic Sphere (Great Arcane Staff)
  
• Added the new spell Time Freeze (Great Arcane Staff)
  
  • Freezes time for all enemies in a 5m radius for 3.5s. (ignoring crowd control resistance) Frozen enemies can't move or cast and are immune to all types of spells. Enemy players are also immune to damage.
    
  • Cooldown scales with Item Power: 1200 IP: 34s / 1700 IP: 30s
    
  • Targets can't be chain frozen (they are shortly immune to another freeze)
    
  • The freeze can be cleansed
    
  • Hit Delay: 0.6s -> 0.8s
    
• Arcane Orb (Arcane Staff)
  
  • Now purges only buffs, but no Heal Effects anymore.
    
• Protective Beam (Enigmatic Staff)
  
  • Shield Area: 4m -> 5m
    
  • Cast Range: 9m -> 12m
    

Bows:

• Reworked the Deadly Shot ability:
  It is now an instant skillshot with 3s cooldown: Shoots an arrow in a staright line, which pierces through all enemies in it's way, dealing physic damage.
  
  • Range: 22m -> 18m
    
  • Damage: 86.52 -> 80.00
    
  • Also reduces enemy resistances for 6s (stacks up to 3 times)
    
• Frost Shot (all Bows)
  
  • Hit Delay: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Jump Range: 9m -> 13m
    
  • Cooldown: 10s -> 15s
    

Frost Staffs:

• Avalanche (Hoarfrost Staff)
  
  • Freeze Duration: 2s -> 2.5s
    

Hammers:

• Giant Steps (Forge Hammers)
  
  • Now ignores Crowd Control Resistance
    

Holy Staffs:

• Salvation (Fallen Staff)
  
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 25s
    
• Celestial Sphere (Redemption Staff)
  
  • Jump Interval: 0.8s -> 0.6s
    
  • Max Number of Jumps: 12 -> 14
    

Maces:

• Removed the spell Threatening Strike (all Maces)
  
• Added the new spell Threatening Smash (all Maces)
  
  • After a 0.7s windup you swing your mace and hit every enemy in front of you. Dealing physic damage and also creating threat on all creatures hit. Cooldown: 5s
    
    • Adjusted area size
      
    • Damage: 225 -> 157
      
• Removed the spell Silencing Strike (Mace)
  
• Added the new spell Deep Leap (Mace)
  
• 
  
  • You jump to a ground target location, dealing physical damage to all enemies in a 5m radius. The furhter away the target was the more damage you deal.
    
    • Cooldown: 25s
      
    • Energycost: 14 -> 16
      
    • Flattened the damage escalation (Max Damage: 258.00)
      
    • Range: 14m
      
  
  
  
  

Nature Staffs:

• Circle of Life (Nature Staffs)
  
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 18s
    
• Spiritual Seed (Druidic Staff)
  
  • Doesn't count as Healing buff anymore and thus can't be purged anymore
    
• Ruthless Nature (Blight Staff)
  
  • Heal per Tick: 27.22 -> 29.50
    

Quarter Staffs:

• Seperator (Quarter Staff)
  
  • Now knocks enemies in the area into the air for 0.9s, instead of knocking them away.
    

Armors:

• Removed the spell Berserker (Mage Robe)
  
• Added the spell Purging Shield (Mage Robe)
  
  • Creates a purging shield on you. Increases your resistances for 6s. While the shield is active, enemies lose all buffs whenever they damage you. (Does not remove enemy heal effects)
    
    • (Cooldown: 60s)
      
• Electric Field (Stalker Jacket)
  
  • Damage: 24.42 -> 26.70
    
  • Hit Delay: 0.4s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0s
    
• Force Field (Judicator Armor)
  
  • Increased Healing: 35% -> 30%
    

Helmets:

• Electric Discharge (Judicator Helmet)
  
  • Cast Time: 1.2s -> 0.9s
    

Shoes:

• Removed the spell Inspiring Charge (Demon Boots)
  
• Added the new spell Vengeful Sprint (Demon Boots)
  
  • Your damage and move speed is increased for 6s. Each stack grants 5% addiotional damage and 20% speed increase. The less health you have upon activation, the more stacks you gain. (max 8 stacks) - Cooldown 30s
    
• Shield Charge (Knight Boots)
  
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 25s
    
  • Shield Strength: 188.74 -> 200.00
    
  • Range: 11m -> 15m
    

Potions:

• All Healing Potions
  
  • Cooldown: 120s -> 90s
    
• All Energy Potions
  
  • Cooldown: 120s -> 90s
    
• All Poison Potions
  
  • Does not trigger effects that are activated by damage dealt. (doesn't trigger Bloodlust healing for instance)
    
  • Number of Ticks: 15 -> 7
    
  • Tick Interval: 0.5s -> 1s
    
  • Debuff Duration: 7.5s -> 7s
    
  • Damage vs Players per tick: 0.5% -> 1%
    
  • Damage vs Mobs per tick: 75 -> 90
    

Misc:

• Strong Sip (Beer Mug)
  
  • Cooldown: 20s -> 5
    

Current changes for a Balance Patch planned for the start of season 4. These Balance Changes are not finished and you can expect more balance changes before the final version goes live.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.

Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.


Arcane Staffs:

• Energy Bolt (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0s
    
• Frazzle (all Arcane Staffs)
  
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0s
    
  • Cast Range: 9m -> 11m
    
• Arcane Orb (normal Arcane Staff)
  
  • Projectile Speed: 5.75 m/s -> 14.3 m/s
    

Axes:

• Rending Bleed (all Axes)
  
  • Multiple players can't stack the bleed on the same target. Instead they will now override each other's debuffs.
    
• Whirlwind (Great Axe)
  
  • Damage per tick: 40.10 -> 46.00
    
• Tear Apart (Halberd)
  
  • Damage: 137.37 -> 125.00
    

Bows:

• Deadly Shot (all Bows)
  
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0s
    
• Enchanted Quiver (normal Bow)
  
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 20s
    
  • Time for Arrows to expire: 20s -> 30s
    
  • Buff Duration per hit: 4s -> 5s
    
• Undead Arrows (Whispering Bow)
  
  • Duration: 8s -> 10s
    

Crossbows:

• Auto Fire (all Crossbows)
  
  • Channel Duration: 4s -> 3s
    
  • Damage per hit: 31.98 -> 28.01
    
  • The last hit now triggers an explosion on the target, dealing an additional 67.22 damage in a 5m radius
    
  • Energycost: 7 -> 5
    
• Snipeshot (Crossbow)
  
  • Cast Time: 3s -> 2.5s
    
  • Standtime: 1s -> 0.6s
    
• Explosive Mine (Weeping Repeater)
  
  • The mine is now inactive for the first 2 seconds
    
  • Damage: 142.56 -> 270
    
  • Cast Range: 13m -> 15m
    

Cursed Staffs:

• Desecrate (all Cursed Staffs)
  
  • Can now be cast in a 13m radius on the ground
    
  • Radius: 9m -> 4m
    
  • Root Duration: 1.84 -> 2.60
    
  • Removed the instant base damage (now only deals damage through the Vile Curse)
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.6s -> 0.4s
    
  • Standtime: 0.8s -> 0.6s
    
• Dark Matter (all Cursed Staffs)
  
  • Damage vs Mobs: 26.35 -> 32.94
    
• Area of Decay (Great Cursed Staff)
  
  • Radius: 4m -> 5m
    
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 25s
    
  • Tick interval: every 1s -> every 0.8s
    
• Field of Death (Demonic Staff)
  
  • Damage vs Mobs: 11.40 -> 25.53
    

Daggers:

• Added new W-Slot Spell: Chain Slash (all Daggers)
  
  • Quickly slash through multiple enemies. You keep jumping to the closest enemy in a 8m radius for up to 4 times, dealing physical damage to each enemy. While you are slashing though the enemies you are invisible to players.
    
• Assassin's Spirit (all Daggers)
  
  • Self Armor Reduction per stack: 0.09 -> 0.04
    
• Slit Throat (Dual Daggers)
  
  • Cast Time: 0.6s -> 0.4s
    

Fire Staffs:

• Fire Bolt (all Fire Staffs)
  
  • Standtime 0.2s -> 0s
    
• Fire Bomb (all Fire Staffs)
  
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0s
    

Frost Staffs:

• Frostbolt (all Frost Staffs)
  
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0s
    
• Hoarfrost (all Frost Staffs)
  
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0s
    
• Frost Beam (all Frost Staffs)
  
  • Cast Range: 11m -> 12m
    
  • Move- & Attack Speed Reduction per tick: 10% -> 15%
    
• Shatter (all Frost Staffs)
  
  • Damage: 86.91 -> 93.60
    
• Freezing Wind (normal Frost Staff)
  
  • Damage: 145.41 -> 160.00
    
• Ice Storm (Glacial Staff)
  
  • Slow Duration per tick: 1s -> 3s
    
  • Slot base strength: 30% -> 15%
    
  • Cast Range: 11m -> 5m
    
  • Damage against Players: 27.86 -> 35.0
    
  • Damage against Mobs: 15.60 -> 16.7
    

Hammers:

• Giant Steps (Forge Hammers)
  
  • Slow Strength: 35% -> 50%
    

Holy Staffs:

• Added a new E-slot Spell to Redemption Staff: Celestial Sphere
  
  • Can be cast on an ally, the Sphere will keep jumping to the closest ally in a 10m radius for up to 12 times. Healing every ally hit. The spell can't hit the same target twice in a row, but keeps jumping back and forth if at least two allies are in range.
    
• Removed the spell Enlightenment (all Holy Staffs)
  
• Moved Holy Orb to the W-slot (all Holy Staffs)
  
• Flash Heal (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0s
    
  • Heal Value: 42.18 -> 45.00
    
• Generous Heal (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0s
    
• Smite (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Standtime: 0.2s -> 0s
    
• Holy Beam (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • First Tick: 13.01 -> 30.00
    
  • The last hit now doesn't tick twice anymore
    
• Holy Orb (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Hitdelay: 0.3s -> 0s
    
  • Standtime: 0.8s -> 0.4s
    
  • Projectile Speed: 12.5 m/s -> 16.7 m/s
    
• Desperate Prayer (Holy Staff)
  
  • Health Threshhold for max heal: 30% -> 40%
    
• Salvation (Fallen Staff)
  
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 25s
    
  • Heal Value: 236.20 -> 270.00
    

Maces:

• Removed the spell Brute Force (Bedrock Mace)
  
• Added a new E-slot Spell to Bedrock Mace: Force of Nature
  
  • Cracks the earth open in a line in front of you, releasing an impregnable wind wall, which lasts for 4s. Enemies hit will be knocked 18m away (ignoring crowd control resistance) and taunts creatures.
    

Nature Staffs:

• Circle of Life (normal Nature Staff)
  
  • Cooldown: 25s -> 20s
    

Quarter Staffs:

• Entirely reworked the spell Fatal Blade (Black Monk Staff)
  
  • New Behavior: Throw your weapon to a ground target location. While you keep channeling the weapon will keep spinning at that position dealing physical damage every 0.5s in a 5m radius. Each hit also reduces enemy damage by 24% and movespeed by 8% for 6s. (stacks up to 4 times) - uninterruptible channel
    

Spears:

• Reckless Charge (normal Spear)
  
  • Range: 11m -> 13m
    
• Spear Throw (Heron Spear)
  
  • Stun Duration: 1.63 -> 1.75
    
  • Damage: 132.03 -> 148.00
    
• Harpoon (Spirit Hunter)
  
  • Now purges enemies on hit
    

Swords:

• Removed Passive: Life Leach
  
• Added new Passive: Heroic Fighting
  
  • Get a Heroic Charge every 4 normal attacks
    
• Weakening (Passive)
  
  • Effect Duration: 1s -> 2s
    
• Interrupt (all Swords)
  
  • Hit Delay: 0.2s -> 0s)
    
• Iron Will (all Swords)
  
  • Now also applies a Heroic Charge on activation
    
• Charge (Claymore)
  
  • Cast Time: 0.5s -> 0.4s
    
  • Range: 12m -> 15m
    

Armors:

• Royal Banner (Royal Jacket)
  
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0.2s
    
• Fury (Soldier Armor)
  
  • Damage Increase: 10% -> 6% -> 7%
    
  • CC Duration Increase: 6% -> 10% -> 7%
    
• Wind Wall (Knight Armor)
  
  • Cooldown: 50s -> 40s
    
• Protection of the Fiends (Demon Armor)
  
  • Max targets: unlimited -> 10
    
  • Reflected Damage: 60% -> 50%
    
• Force Shield (Judicator Armor)
  
  • Cooldown: 40s -> 50s
    
  • Resistance increase: 0.4 -> 0.35
    

Helmets:

• Circle of Inspiration (Druid Cowl)
  
  • Cooldown: 45s -> 60s
    
• Retaliate (Hunter Hood)
  
  • Duration: 5s -> 4s
    
• Ballista Support Fire (Royal Helmet)
  
  • Hit Delay: 1.5s -> 1s
    

Shoes:

• Focused Run (Scholar Sandals)
  
  • Now makes only immune to movement-impairing effects (can still be knocked back or silenced)
    

Potions:

• All Sticky Potions
  
  • Hit Delay: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
• All Gigantify Potions
  
  • Duration: 8s -> 6s
    

Current changes for the Merlyn Content Update. These Balance Changes are not finished and you can expect many more balance changes before the final version of Merlyn goes live.

This post gets regularly updated with the latest changes of our internal playtests.

Very Important:
All these changes are still in testing and may vastly differ in the final patch. Sometimes we just try out various things, which may get reverted. Also the balance changes are not neccessarily all complete. Just because a certain item is not adjusted in the changelogs so far, doesn't mean it isn't on our 'need to be adjusted'-list. These changes are simply a snapshot of the current development and everything in there needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

This thread is not meant to discuss these unfinished changes. It is just to give all players the same chance of guessing the direction of the next balance patch.


New Items:

Faction Capes:
All Faction Capes have the same max energy and energy regenration benefits from normal capes. And additionally a unique ability which gets automatically triggered by certain conidtions and then goes on cooldown.

• Sandstorm (Bridgewatch Cape)
  
  • Condition: Activates on auto attack
    
  • Creates a 4m radius sandstorm at the enemy position. Slows enemies by 50% and reduces their damage by 50%. (Sandstorm duration 5s)
    
  • Cooldown: scales with IP (100 IP = 73s, 1300 IP = 55s)
    
• Untouchable (Fort Sterling Cape)
  
  • Condition: Automatically activates when you get stunned or rooted
    
  • Effect: Removes any movement-impairing and debuff effects from you. (Doesn't remove damage over time spells)
    
  • Cooldown: scales with IP (100 IP = 136s, 1300 IP 100s)
    
• Energy Reserve (Lymhurst Cape)
  
  • Condition: Activates when you cast a spell and your energy drops below 40%
    
  • Effect: Restores 5% energy per second for 10 seconds.
    
  • Cooldown: scales with IP (100 IP = 162s, 1300 IP = 120s)
    
• Shield of Protection (Martlock Cape)
  
  • Condition: Activates when you take damage and your health is below 25%.
    
  • Effect: Increases your defense by 66% for 3s
    
  • Cooldown: scales with IP (100 IP = 188s, 1300 IP = 140s)
    
• Chain Lightning (Thetford Cape)
  
  • Condition: Activates on auto attack
    
  • Effect: Releases a Chain Lighting, dealing magic damage to up to 4 enemies. (The damage scales with Item Power)
    
  • Cooldown: 15s
    
  
  
  
  
  

Arcane Staffs:

• Added the Passive Aggressive Caster
  
• Removed the Passive Magic Force
  

Bows:

• Enchanted Quiver (Regular Bow)
  
• Cooldown: 30s -> 25s
  
• Max Buff Duration: 25s -> 20s
  

Cursed Staffs:

• Vile Curse
  
  • Cast Range: 8m -> 9m
    
  • Number of Ticks: 4 -> 5
    
  • Standtime: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
• Cursed Sickle
  
  • Cast Range: 12m -> 13m
    
  • Cooldown: 4s -> 3.5s
    
• Dark Matter (New W-slot spell)
  
  • Casts a Dark Matter onto an enemy target. This matter keeps jumping to the closest enemy in a 7m radius for up to 10 times. Dealing magic damage to every enemy it passes through. The spell can't hit the same enemy twice in a row, but keeps jumping back and forth if at least two enemies are in range.
    
  • Cast time: 1.2s -> 1s
    
  • Cast Range: 11m
    
  • Cooldown: 20s
    
  • Damage vs Players: 56.05 -> 65.88
    
    
  • Damage vs Mobs: 22.42 -> 26.35
    

Fire Staffs:

• Flame Pillar (Great Fire Staff)
  
• Damage: 169.12 -> 184
  

Frost Staffs:

• Shatter (New W-slot spell)
  
  • Creates three areas in a row in front of the caster, each dealing magic damage.
    
  • instant skillshot
    
  • Area Range: 16m
    
  • Cooldown: 8s
    
• Ice Storm (Glacial Staff)
  
  • Can now be cast in a 11m radius and then moves 23m forward from that position.
    
  • Cast Time: 2s -> 1.5s
    

Hammers:

• Iron Breaker (New Q-slot spell)
  
  • Slams the hammer in the ground in front of the caster. Reduces resistances for 5s and deals physical damage to all enemies in a 3m radius.
    
  • Hit Delay: 0.5s
    
  • Cooldown: 5s
    

Holy Staffs:

• Flash Heal (all Holy Staffs)
  
  • Cast Time: 1s -> 0.8s
    

Maces:

• Root Prison (Morning Star)
  
  • Cooldown now scales with Item Power (100 IP: 33s; 1700 IP: 25s)
    

Quarter Staffs:

• Cartwheel
  
  • Cooldown: 6s -> 7s
    
• Hurricane (Iron-Clad Staff)
  
  • Cooldown now scales with Item Power (100 IP: 23.8s; 1700 IP: 19s)
    
• Mystic Rocks (Staff of Balance)
  
  • Cooldown now scales with Item Power (100 IP: 37s; 1700 IP: 29s)
    

Spears:

• Spear Throw (Heron Spear)
  
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 25s
    
• Harpoon (Spirit Hunter)
  
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 25s
    

Swords:

• Dual Swords Normal Attacks
  
  • Attack Interval: every 0.91s -> every 0.71s (Attack DPS stays the same)
    
• Galatine Pair Normal Attacks
  
  • Attack Interval: every 0.91s -> every 0.71s (Attack DPS stays the same)
    
• Spinning Blades (Dual Swords)
  
  • Radius: 4m -> 5m
    

Armors:

• Bloodlust (Mercenary Jacket)
  
  • Heal per tick: 29.25 -> 26.00
    
• Life Steal Aura (Hellion Jacket)
  
  • Duration: 6s -> 10s
    
  • Cooldown: 60s -> 45s
    
  • Hitdelay: 0.4s -> 0.2s
    
  • Standtime: 0.6s -> 0.4s
    
• Protection of the Fiends (Demon Armor)
  
  • The caster can now move freely during the channel.
    
  • Reflected Damage: 45% -> 60%
    

Shoes:

• Focused Run (Cleric Sandal)
  
  • Makes now fully immune to Crowd Control Effects
    
• Mark of Sacrifice
  
  • Reworked the spell: Mark an enemy or ally and become invisible to players for 2s. After the 2s you dash to the marked target and your damage increases by 35% for 4s. You can cancel the channel at any time, which will leave you at your current position.
    
  • Cooldown: 30s -> 20s
    

Offhands:

• Regular Shields
  
  • Crowd Control Resistance Factor: 0.28 -> 0.36
    
• Tower Shields
  
  • Bonus Defense Factor: 0.16 -> 0.15
    
• Mistcallers
  
  • Cooldown Reduction Factor: 0.162 -> 0.15
    
• Leering Canes
  
  • Bonus CC Duration Factor: 0.3 -> 0.4
    
• Tome of Spells:
  
  • Now also increases Max Energy and energy regeneration (For Comparison, Tome of Spells energy factor: 0.15 / Eye of Secrets energy factor = 0.4)
    

Mounts:

• Direwolves
  
  • Health Factor: 0.3 -> 0.24