You Nerfed Weapons Damage

Using a rusty two handled sword with 5-16 damage even with +25% damage bonus from bladed combat, I am consistently seeing 3-5 damage per a hit on tier 1 mobs using auto attack. What? Do we now have to fully power up our weapon in free attack to get its listed damage potential?
As a mage I say to tin suits of the community, welcome to my nightmare.
To the developers I say, don't think you can do this sort of thing without us noticing.

 

Try using something other than a "rusty" weapon.

 

Note that damage output is subjected to the remaining durability as well.

 

Plus, enemies have defenses, as well your skill level having a factor. The number listed is unmodified.

 

Useful information and advice. Thank you.
Still concern it a nerf though....

 

Pretty sure they said that starting gear was being rebalanced. No surprise.

Why the concern that starting gear is nerfed? Do you plan on using it awhile?

 

Its early access, I think it may be more helpful to regard them as "adjustments" instead of "nerfs"

 

Only until I find or craft something better.

 

The Results of further study:
Having upgraded to a claymore I find little difference in damage.
An Auto Attack is doing about the same amount of damage as an unpowered up Free Attack.
To get full weapons damage you must use a fully powered up Free Attack.
I did not see my +25% weapons damage anywhere in the equation.
Test it yourselves if you doubt it.

 

+25% might be on the base damage on the weapon, like from 4-8 becomes 5-9. Try to compare it with someone else who don't have +25% damage from blade combat.

 

Not to be a fly in the ointment, but I have to agree with Xander. One day my crafted two handed mace was hitting as expected for the last (well 31 releases - whenever we could make two handed maces) and after patch my damage tanked to 5 or 6. However, tier one skeletons seem to die just as fast, so either the HP of skeletons was reduced, or the damage isn't reporting correctly in all cases. I have not tried full powerup, but I suspect it would be hard to calculate what the damage should be with weapon mods, skill mods, powerup, strength mod etc. etc. (Which I love btw) BUT, with all the bonuses, my displayed damage is well below minimum stated. So, I can understand why Xander may be concerned.

 

Weapons should list the "auto attack" damage on the tooltips. Charging an attack should just add an additional damage modifier. Instead it appears "auto-attack" is a percentage of the "fully powered" attack listed on the tooltip.

 

Interesting.
I can't see a difference in the TTK compared to the last release as an Archer.

 

Seems to be the case here, tool-tip damage seems to be the auto-attack to full charge range.

 

Ah ha. Now the shoe drops.
A developer apparently/evidently does not like auto attack, so auto attack is nerfed so everyone has to use free attack, and take longer to kill stuff. *cough*Chris*cough* Huzzah for more punitive stick.
And co-incidentally, the miss rate on using Free Attack on orange-con targets is at least 30%. Please sir, may I have another?

 

I'm supposed to kill orange-con mobs and I miss so often that it makes archery nearly useless. I even went town to get Eagle Eye (to increase accuracy) and even raising it to 30 doesn't seem to help at all with Free Attack hits.

 

That's because AdventureLevel vs. target level has more to do with hit/miss than any other stat.
And now, apparently, after build 451, we're supposed to grind greens, not yellow or oranges.
I wish I had taken greater advantage of "easy mode" up until build 450, by comparison. At least I could still hit yellows yesterday.
I don't know what Portalarium is trying to do, but what is happening is their game is being made entirely out of stick with no carrot. It's like they're trying to see just how much punishment the average customer can take before they leave the game forever.

 

The best way to force players to open their wallets for COTOs is to nerf starter gear.

Magic does considerably more damage than melee already, so nerfing melee damage just widens the game. And casting spells doesn't cause durability decay for the caster since they're using magic and not a weapon.

It seems like magic is the only viable play-style by design.

 

Wait, grind greens?!
With everything but one skill locked, I lose way too much to even consider that an option! Heck, I group up and take oranges on and still hurt for xp.

I'm simply confused and flabbergasted right now. :/

 

Interesting... For the longest time I felt the game favored melee over magic.