Make it so the red tape nanos can not be stacked with one another and Malaise overrides any red tape nano. There, I fixed PvM so its now more difficult. Discuss and flame, go!
Make it so the red tape nanos can not be stacked with one another and Malaise overrides any red tape nano. There, I fixed PvM so its now more difficult. Discuss and flame, go!
I think the plan is to combine all the red tapes into 1 uber buff, sorry
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Oh yes please I'd like my Crat to turn into an XP-Totem again! Just remove all debuffs and while you're at it remove those pets, too.
Honestly... since FC tends to introduce resistances against not resistable nanos (LMN anyone?) I would not be surprised when soon all bosses are immune to Malaise, which defeats the purpose of the nano, but well..
@Omut afaik they talked about "Collapsing Red Tape Lines into one" which could also mean that they just won't stack anymore and otherwise stay the same. I see no more ubar debuffs introduced in the future.. but the last rebalancing info is from Nov 2009 so... who knows..
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Indeed, thats been one of crat's wishlist thingies for quite some time afair, so my guess its that.
@ topic itself: since mods are being lolworthy, ill rephrase by posting an opinion-counter-suggestion:
Please make all red tapes have a lower defcheck and a special effect on enforcers and NT's (and maybe those pesky fixers) such as -3k nano init and -600 RS.
Would balance the difference between these professions a bit...
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Well, if all the red tape nanos get collapsed in to one nano (thus making a new nano) aimed at say tl5 and tl6 characters that wont be a problem as long as it cant be stacked with malaise.
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I dont really think disallowing stacking with malaise would be a good idea...
The combined red tapes plus the level locked malaise for certain tl arent really all that much different from UBT, and its still more than one single cast.
Lets not nerf pre-tl7 crats even more, they already are in the black hole of uselessness.
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Actually, valid points, so instead I will introduce a new one.
Leave things how they are now but make it so the mob, mainly boss mobs, init is at a set high value so that the mob isn't so slow a doc is useless save for a heal or two. For example:
The boss mob has 6k init, the weapon it uses is mathematically figured so that at certain tiers when it gets init debuffed, the mob does slow down, but not to the point where a doc is virtually unneeded and isn't considered a backup plan if the crat dies, LDs, or afks.
Also, I would like to see MP damage debuffs not overriding crat debuffs. Pretty much, I would like to see all support professions being used, and not the typical "enf, doc, sol crat +2 dd" teams. So like, if you loaded your team with a bunch of support professions that give a decent debuff to mobs, then yes PvM will be a lot easier and it should be that way because you are using multiple toolsets to pwn something. Right now its too generic and easy no matter what tricks the mob has.
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It will only change "enfo/doc/sold/crat+2dd" to "enfo/2doc/sold/crat+dd".Originally Posted by MachSchau
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Lets remove enfs from the game, with their high HP and great taunting ability it makes PVM too easy.
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Ok, then I guess my idea is complete suck then. Lets leave crats the way they are, mobs the way they are and not change a damn thing and leave things in easy mode. Lets have people who roll Traders and MPs not be included in any raid because their debuffs suck compared to a crats and hey, if a raid is too hard screw getting more support professions, just get another doc.
Locking this thread.
An init debuff threshold would be a typical bandaid solution for what is still a simple problem. As most bandaids are, it's not a complete solution to the problem and it itself creates other problems on it's own.
One obvious end result of huge init numbers on boss mobs is that init debuffing might go the way of the dodo (or the way of snares, roots,... See Ragerayden's post) as well. Having all possible sources of large init debuffing present is not always possible, resulting in init debuffs being mostly irrelevant again in most of those boss encounters. Further dumbing down the game to a tank, reflects, hpm and dps.
If more modest numbers were chosen for the init debuff threshold instead of your over the top 6k, other problems would still arise (which we are already seeing with init threshold the LoX instances imo). Because a huge amount of init debuffing is required to get over the threshold, professions that have the most are favored. Depending on where the numbers of the boss mob are set, it is very likely to result in init debuffing without crats being useless and additional init debuffing in the presence of a crat being unneeded overkill.
Some numbers:
Crat + doctor + a third random profession with -1k init debuff, debuffing a full def dualwielding mob with 1/1 weapons that has the exact skill required to fire 1/1.
The additional -1k init debuff of the added profession is irrelevant in the above case, but if there is only a doctor and no crat it suddenly becomes relevant again:Code:Initiative Remaining Mitigated Base 1/1 1050 100% 0% Muscular M 144 41% 59% M of Zeal -887 21% 79% Workplace -1487 17% 83% NART -1887 14% 86% NIRT -2137 13% 87% IRT -2387 12% 88% Random Prof X -3387 10% 90%
Code:Initiative Remaining Mitigated Base 1/1 1050 100% 0% Muscular M 144 41% 59% Random Prof X -856 21% 79%
Crat + doctor + a third random profession with -1k init debuff, debuffing a full def dualwielding mob with 1/1 weapons that 2k initiative skill over the requirement to fire 1/1:
And now the same case without a crat:Code:Initiative Remaining Mitigated 2k threshold 1/1 3050 100% 0% Muscular M 2144 100% 0% M of Zeal 1113 100% 0% Workplace 513 62% 38% NART 113 40% 60% NIRT -137 33% 67% IRT -387 28% 72% Random Prof X -1387 17% 83%
By adding in large init debuffs theshhold to indirectly nerf the huge init debuffing available to crats, the desirability of crats to teams has increased, while that of other professions with lesser init debuffing is very likely to further decrease: if there's no crat present their init debuffing is probably useless or underwhelming; if there is a crat present the init debuffing of the crat combined with other goodies that crats bring in pve is likely to be overkill already.Code:Initiative Remaining Mitigated 2k threshold 1/1 3050 100% 0% Muscular M 2144 100% 0% Random Prof X 1144 100% 0%
To make a long story short: if crats can debuff the initiatives too much within the current game mechanics, don't bandaid it, but fix it by lowering the total amount of initiative debuffs available to crats. Your first idea in this thread was a lot better than that 6k initiatives idea.
This is not leaving things as they are, a tiered init debuffing system depending on the type of mob would mean creating entirely new game mechanics to accommodate the overinflated init debuffing in game. Fixing the source of the problem within the existing system (ie: lower the amount of init debuffing available) would still be far easier to implement than overhauling the game mechanics so it compensate for past mistakes.
"Neutnet relay: [PvM] *220 bureaucrat*: Starting 12man, need Enfo, Doc, Keeper, reflects."
"Neutnet relay: [PvM] *220 doctor*: Looking for crat/keep/enf for 12m pst "
"Neutnet relay: [PvM] *220 soldier*: still need doc/enf for 12 man. pst
"Neutnet relay: [PvM] LF enfo , crat , doc and soldier's for ipande / pst [220 doctor]"
What many people don't seem to get is that debuffing is the MAIN PURPOSE of a bureaucrat.
I think we all agree that some professions are pretty useless in PvM, for example MP und Trader. But pls rather make those professions more valuable for teams than nerf those profs which have a clearly defined role in PvM atm...
Upping Inits of bossmobs would be a solution... although I don't know if it's a good one. 6k Init-mobs will REQUIRE crat debuffs then... or are probably only tankable by enf+2docs. What I like about crat debuffs is, that it opens the possibility to tank hard mobs for many classes... not only enf/sol.
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