Patchnotes Patch 5.0.1 - Colorweave Festival

[maomiai]

Warden/Druid (don't know many people who play this combi but...) the level 20 elite skill has poofed (will also post this in bugs)

[tbaulksm]

I am furious over the changes to my class. That is all.

[rocky19]

Does anyone know if the zodiac pet thing still works? the NPC is still on Varaness bridge, but there is no elemental converter machine to use..Fail RoM.lol

[sertet]

Does anyone know if the zodiac pet thing still works? the NPC is still on Varaness bridge, but there is no elemental converter machine to use..Fail RoM.lol

Now its an hourly event 8am-11pm PST that you register for between :20 and :30 minute marks, lasts for about 3-5 minutes.

You have 2 skills, one meant for matching color, one meant for non-matching color. You have to target these tiny little orbs that float towards the center. Each one you hit gives you a point. If you use the wrong ability on an orb you lose a point. If you miss the orb nothing happens. It ==IS== a competition with all who are registered. You appear to get 1-3 water elements. If you score 0 you get nothing.

[GravesGhastly]

To the person saying warden players are whiny brats......try having your classes constantly messed with and skill points reset everytime someone at Runewaker gets a bug up their ass.Theyre prolly mad that we didnt go and instantly create a lame dwarf toon and abandon the wardens.

[SacredmagicMD]

Personally, I feel bad for my warden friends but.... OMG! I went from a high damage class to a high damage class with a pdef buff I can live with this.

[trav42073]

I also would like to clarify in regards to those calling wardens whiners. On first glance at the patch notes, possibly I overreacted. I just got home from work and am patching now. But the pdef buff from my spirit of the oak pet will definatley change the way warden/warr will have to tank. And make no mistake we are tanks, thus the ability to wear plate, why else would that have come down the line?

I am grateful they didnt take away that. Seeing as how most of the things they changed are things that were JUST implemented with chapter 4, or were broken from same time. Charged chop being one of them. Brair shield did need something extra. It was somewhat uselss except to repel noob pkers when i was afk. But frantic briar, will attack, will have to wait and see.

I do believe runewaker/gameforge have the enjoyment of the game in mind when they make these changes. At least I hope that is the plan. And that these changes are not just the result of some disgruntled siege rats. And p/s, my apologies, no class deserves a nerf. I will figure out how to use my class better to send you to the rez on your castle more often.

And people who main as Wrd/S, be happy they didnt nerf chiron. The only reason anyone rolls a Wrd/S to begin with.

Time to go see if my combo can be saved, done patching, done complaining. From now on i complain with my wallet, wich as i said elsewhere earlier, is on cooldown.

[Trasi]

Exactly what I was looking for!! Happy dance

[Gilderoi]

I have stated my warden/druid as a secondary healer... Why oh why would you guy change one of my heals, even though a useless heal, into a taunt???? You have made my pet worthless, While Nature Crystal is out, sure I am immune but I can no longer attack? I used that pet because of the buffs it gave, especially the attack and casting speed one, so that I could support my guild and use charged cleave as my main healing aspect. No I can no longer charge cleave with that pet out. This is going to force me into using another pet or just quitting my warden. You took the aggro away from Spirit of the Oak's punch? That was our tank pet.... Now it is nothing more than a pet to have out for a buff. Especially since you killed Heart of the Oak ....

All I ever wanted was Charged Chop and Crystal Heal to be fixed.... Now my entire class has been twisted, turned upside down, and beaten like a red headed step child. What's the point? Why should I keep playing? I loved the warden class. I play a warden/druid, a warden/warrior, and a warden/rogue. Now if I want the the buffs I used to be able to use I have to change which pets I use which renders my elites useless since they only work on certain pets.

I am very unhappy... Have you guys been reading the warden forums? We have only ever asked for our skills to get the same working formulas as the other classes, our heals getting heal bonus, our spells to get casting bonus, and instead, you took away casting times so nothing changes there, and you messed with everything else that we were all very content with. Warden has been the only reason I have been playing this game. I liked no other class. Now look what has happened. Just tell me why I should keep playing this game because all my stating and gearing has gone to waste. You have literally flushed a couple hundred dollars of mine down the toilet. You really think I am going to go rush off and buy more dias to restat and gear? Think again.... I might as well just hit delete on my wardens now and then uninstall this game.

[Aurarien]

I have a warden/warrior alt, and i was going to stat it like a tank... but now seeing the nerf they got from this latest patch, I'm having second thoughts on that. I tried out the new skills they have, and most of the mods to them (all warden classes) have just been a + to dps, not phsdef. however, i do like most of the modified skills, but I have some complaints about wd/w (as many others do) about them. In order from greatest to least:

1. Heart of the oak: I do agree, it made a wd/w OP in the sense of phsdef with a 120%+ on phsdef and a 8%+ hp buff, but i believe just a slight reduction on the phsdef and hp would've been a better change rather than transferring "some" of the phsdef to 2 different skills (briar shield 32.5% at lvl 50 and spirit of the oaks 20% phs def assist) and the hp buff to the former nature crystal pet buff.

2. Pet assists: in the past, the pets were practically useless to a wd/w except for the nature crystal, due to it's hp barrier and phs/magatk speed buff. however, having part of the wardens phsdef on the oak spirit makes it impossible to have added defense and the 10% hp barrier and atk/magatk speed at the same time. Thought I did think that was a little excessive, being able to have both the massive phsdef, and hp buff from HotO and the 10% hp barrior from the nature pet crystal, the fact that you now have to have a warden pet summoned to gain just 20% def and parry rate was something I never found appealing. Also, the pet draws aggro. I do not know if the nature crystal drew aggro or not before the patch, but now having a pet out to get a phsdef buff might be... fatal, in certain circumstances.

3. Will attack and Frantic briar: Before the patch, Will atk acted just like the knights spiraling shield (can't remember the exact name). With a 6 sec CD and aggro per level. That was something that i thoughly enjoyed on a wd/w. And as for frantic briar, having a 2sec cast time with no CD did make it fairly OP (especially in pvp) due to its high dmg and the caster's high phsdef (especially if wd/w). And in pve, i have heard that frantic briar holds insane aggro from enemies. This may be false, because i never ran endgame with my wd/w, but it is what i have heard. Now, after the patch, the skills have merged to form an instant cast frantic briar with a 12 sec CD (warden primary) and an added reduction in movement speed from will atk (wd/w elite). I do not have much of a problem from this very much, but i do believe that the CD is a little bit on the excessive side, seeing as knights have a 6sec CD aoe that, in effect, does something very similar. If the CD is reduced to somewhere in the range of 6-8sec, (or make the wd/w elite, will atk, reduce it's CD to 6sec or so), that will make the skill much more appeasing. However, now that Power of the wood spirit can hit 3 targets at once and is spammable, and that charge chop is now the new spammable single target skill for warden, that definately gives a warden more crowd control even with an aoe that has a decently long CD.

These are the 3 major complaints that i have about wd/w. I'm not too particularly fond of the usage of the former "pet transformation buffs" (especially HotO as i have already described) but, excluding HotO, I don't see anything really negative about them. I do happen to like the 5% hp and 15% + to heals from the nature pet crystal "former pet transformation" buff, but I do rather prefer the former HotO mix hp and phsdef buff. However, If I were given one choice from my 3 complaints to be fixed, it will definately have to be the HotO. Just as long as it gains somewhere like 60-80% phs def, lowerd to 5min buff, it will definately, in my opinion, bring the warden back to tanking levels. This is ofcourse the other skills, such as the former "nature pet crystal transformation" 5% hp buff (at level 50) and the briar shields 32.5% phsdef (alsl level 50) remain unchanged. However, with these complaints, i do have to say... I love the new "dpsing" skills the warden can preform now without being a wd/s.

Now, I definately do not think I am 100% correct, and suspect there to be many disagreements to what i have just typed, but it is my opinion.... and i live in the USA, freedom of speech, mates.