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Davairus Implementor
Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 10368 Location: 0x0000
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 12:33 am Post subject: |
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Ashlyn... I get that knowledge has been dispersed all over the logboard instead of in the patch threads. So I will give you the benefit of the doubt. There has been a snowball of inspiring presence/errantry/divine sacrifice/fencing/enhanced damage/divine might/elf "int to str" damroll. They are effectively hitting demolishes with just a one-handed holy avenger, with a 23/37 hit/dam reachable buck/naked. They are also hitting demolish with their condemn skill, because it deals the weapon damage. This is what is killing people's characters. It isnt because they dodged all 18 attacks. I'm happy to have a ferrari-like elf paladin but this is more like a metal gear at the moment. We have to address damage. |
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kento Emissary
Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 338
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:22 am Post subject: |
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Literally saw elf paladins demolishing in mithril, the damage must be addressed. Paladins damage and defense in general for both are somewhat insane right now, so it is going to be better to bring them down to a reasonable level and if needed bring some things back up afterwards, because right now there is nothing fun about fighting them in any way. |
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Davairus Implementor
Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 10368 Location: 0x0000
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:26 am Post subject: |
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Another thing I want to mention on the stacking affects is there is a legitimate performance concern, because they use lists. Every time somebody does anything, including moving a room, but also like frequent MSDP updates and even while just sitting around, we end up scanning everybodies affects (all of them) and doing computations. This is pretty substantial server load. We can get into a situation where we get backed up and slowing down. Its better in the long run to keep AR crisp and nippy by not having a bunch of effects that just do the same thing. Recently I had to recode some stuff in curse weapon because deletes were lagging the game doing a VERY long list of operations. Its just like this kind of issue. I found some mobs with 15 affects on them already just from fighting player. This is not good for game speed. We need to make some effort to keep these affect lists short and try to avoid excessive trivial crap. What we have right now is maintainable. |
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