Brutal Nerf to Beserk Stance

I'm lvl 85 now and can't handle what a archer or mage can at 65... and I was doing great yesterday.

 

You're not alone.

Not fun.

 

Is it the berserker stance draining focus that is messing you guys up?

 

Not the stance in my case.. it's the ramped up hp of the monsters. I have to use all my glyphs (and therefore focus) to kill one or two yellows.. and if I'm unfortunate enough to get jumped by a third, I'm doomed. It's a jarring increase in monster difficulty. I don't know if they increased the lower level creatures or not - but if they did, I feel very bad for new players.

 

What's your Str/dex/int? Do you use heavy or light armor?

 

Well, I admit, that even though I thought my mediocre mage is doomed with the recent changes I feel quite superior in Blood River and High Vale I usually kil lthose mobs in three glyphs

Though when I try to fight yellows, it is tough and tedious and really unrewarding. I am deceent with wolvesm and finally I can kite when casting magic, it took only about 30 releases to allow me to cast speels on move Still, the only mine I can access is Owl's Nest. Release after release the skeletal archers are my bane. And the respawn rates in mines are insane compared to time to kill I have. With my attunements still low and not so great intelligence I burn through focus quickly and the mobs have way too much hp compared to daamge done by my spells. I know if I started grinding xp and levelling skills at gustball then I might get more effective, but surely that is not how the game should be played.

 

Heavy armor. I can't recall the exact stat numbers but around 80 strength and 70 dexterity, give or take. Using high level armor, weapon and shield. Most of my heavy armor/shield/bladed skills are around 80ish. Using card combat so I'm not suffering from any focus penalty of locked glyphs. Maybe I would have been better off with a 2 handed weapon after this dramatic change in difficulty. I don't know. I do know that combat seemed to be the right difficulty and pace to me before this release - but now it's feels out of balance.

 

I have always suggested that berserker stance should also remove moment impairing effects but Im pretty sure it's working as it always had

 

No matter what you play, if you don't have your deck setup for stacking glyphs then you'll run out of focus fast.

 

Mine is definitely setup for stacking - still running out of focus fast.

 

Whats your int at this point?

 

I have a problem with the conning logic. Yellow means near equal, maybe slightly less powerful than you... so how do you think that equates to taking on 3 or 4 yellows at once? I can understand 2, and a third being really tough (needs tactics), so that sounds balanced to me. I melee bludgeon and was fine last night so maybe this is a today patch... I will see if so later. (Or please let me know).

 

Minimum .. 10. Maybe that's my Achilles Heel?

Sure, I was taking on 4 yellows at once before this release. I can understand them wanting to do a little tweaking of the difficulty. But.. with the equipment I have, I think I should be able to handle 2 yellows and not have to hide behind a rock to let my focus/health regenerate. That's just my .02.

I haven't played today so I'm hoping the latest patch will show a little love to melee players.

 

Yes, 10 is too low. You would feel lots more comfortable at 40+. Try train the first innate of focus tree and the train int.

 

I'll do that. Thanks for the tip!

 

If you want to train it quickly. Try do the nostalgia run by lock all skills except the two skills. Started from 1 skull and move up to harder as you see your xp from the pool start to decrease due to these two skills using it to progress.

You should be back on track in no time

 

While this was yesterday's thread, we generally frown upon successive posts from the same person back-to-back... this thread is way overkill. Please consolidate your successive posts into one @Turin2. Thanks!

 

@Filter Bubble Algorithm I can tell you like death magic, not because you use corpse explosion, but because of the necro on this post! Holy cow, dude. This is several releases old, how did you even find it?

 

Berserkers stance is only really useful for PVP and boss fights where the boss hits less frequently but hard. I use berserkers all the time.

Wolves attack speed is very high so berserker is suicide as the damage on every hit you take isn't being mitigated.

 

The Devs realy have to Communicate the "adjustments".
Is it a bug or a feature? Hard to tell without knowing what is going on.