Return of Reckoning

My sense is engi players far outnumber magi. Some of the strongest and most organized guild(s) are Dwarf focused. It's not uncommon to see organized dwarf groups with many engi working together. There are also many high renown players that are engi. If all that is correct, what is the sense of thos...

Martok wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:15 am “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”

I like Nietzsche too.

The Patch presents the halving of engi and magi bonus damage as a bug fix. This is demonstrably false. The evidence was presented in comments to the patch. Engi and magi had their pet bonus damage increased to 40% in the Oct patch of 2016. It was part of the classes' reworks, therefore intentional. ...

My sense is engi players far outnumber magi. Some of the strongest and most organized guild(s) are Dwarf focused. It's not uncommon to see organized dwarf groups with many engi working together. There are also many high renown players that are engi. If all that is correct, what is the sense of those...

This patch remains an absurdity based on a lie. - There were no large scale cries Engi or Magi were OP in city actions. -The bonus damage for both classes had existed at 40% for some 5 years due to class reworks to make them viable. -Reducing bonus damage by half and to Live levels undercuts reasons...

It's interesting there are no replies from any of the Powers, particularly the one responsible for the Patch. This means the charges laid by Cqengi about his class report to the Devs remains unchallenged, namely: -There was one engi and one magus ability under question: Napalm and Mist. -The Devs cu...

The March 18th Patch is a comic farce made tragic.  It is also a direct attack on two classes: engineers and magi.  It needs to be rolled back immediately.  What follows is an anatomy of two aspects from the Combat and Careers section of the absurdity.  -First, Trivial Blows (TB) has been reintroduc...

The rhetoric of an error: The Devs couched the halving of engi/magi bonus damage as a bug fix. Why? Clearly at some base level those with the power understood this nerf was unjustifiable on it's own terms, so the rationale was given it was a bug fix. This makes it appear the Devs were simply correct...

No, it was just maths. But sure, lets continue to pretend that 20 / 140 = 1 / 5. Reread my comment. You've not understood it. As stated: 40% damage bonus reduced to 20% is a 20% reduction of bonus damage. As also stated, the 20% damage bonus as it was on Live was universally understood as insuffici...

Reducing from 140% damage to 120% damage is a reduction by 1/7, not 1/5. So 14.2%, not 20%. And if you used for example Daemonic Contract and Bloodlord weapon it is a reduction from 160% damage to 140% damage, so 1/8 or 12.5%. And that is only assuming you were always on 8 stacks before. If you ave...