Repair Crit SLA based on character level, subject to concentration checks.
It is still better than max caster level CSW but not 600+ hp uninterruptable bullshit without ANY feat investment.
Some repair amp gear in game.
Other stuff in racial tree would still be pretty strong.

Yellowsnow wrote on Apr 4^th, 2014 at 11:44am:


And in here, we have Rubbinns...

Can they balance nerf everything to look as ugly as Purple Dragon Knights?

Yellowsnow wrote on Apr 4^th, 2014 at 11:44am:

Don't you think something is off when 90% of good players are bladeforged?  Heck, even monkchers, which take penalty to Dex and Wis are going bladeforged. 

But the way I see it, turbine should look to buffing other iconics to roughly the same level instead of nerfing, since apparently DDO players can't handle nerfs.  All iconics should get some sort of reliable self-healing and some innate defensive mechanism on the same level as bladeforged fortification (e.g., extra PRR on PDK, extra dodge/dodge cap on shadar kai).

NOTSunnyshadow wrote on Apr 4^th, 2014 at 6:58am:


BFs start at lvl 15, WFs do not. Also, BFs don't have racial -2 to cha while WFs do.

Booooga wrote on Apr 4^th, 2014 at 3:55pm:


I hardly think starting at L15 is a compelling reason to choose BF.  The post you quote is correct - the
only compelling thing is Reconstruct because self-healing is king and the synergy with traditional
WF resistances works.  Without it they are WF with -10% healing amp - why would you play one as a
melee character for anything other than flavour? Because you get 20PRR for being hit 20 times? Please...

AngryKobold wrote on Apr 4^th, 2014 at 3:34pm:


Female half elves are awful, too.  The best one I've come up with so far looks like a 14 year old boy in drag.

Half Elf Creeper wrote on Apr 4^th, 2014 at 5:48pm:


Wat.

THE compelling reason to play BF is the Reconstruct SLA. It's why I converted 3 of my 4 WF toons to BF and why I chose to make my Sorc a BF. Sure I coulda got Reconstruct spell as a WF Sorc but it freed up a spell slot which I can now put to better use. My one remaining WF is an Artificer. The Reconstruct spell is less of a burden on spell slots for an Arti than it is for a Sorc.

kierg10 wrote on Apr 4^th, 2014 at 10:14pm:


100% agree.  Why piss off valuable resources.. erm, players, by reducing the effectiveness of characters that your customers have put time and money into for any reason?  Is reconstruct SLA not working as intended?  Does a Monkcher build rely on an exploit to work?  (FotW working w/ ranged is in patch notes as WAI.)

When your customers devote time and energy to learn to play your game as effectively as possible, the correct response is encouragement.  Where's the Monkcher T-Shirt?  Embrace the Shiradi Spammer and put something Shiradi Spammer centric on sale in the store w/ a clever advert in the launcher.

Why not greatly increase the power of bards, barbs, and pallys with the intent to de-throne the current FotM builds, sell more stuff in the store related to people transitioning to the new hot builds, and then cap it off with an event poking fun at the suddenly relevant paladin class?

TLDR; Turbine hates money more than their players.

I remember that they originally said the reconstruct would only work for pure pally. *shudders*

AngryKobold wrote on Apr 5^th, 2014 at 4:02am:



No one could play 50% of the builds that could exist...

I've played a lot though, and I think the game would be better off with some nerfs and monster re-adjustments.

They will have difficulty balancing a game they do not play.  Ideally they would listen to the players, but with so much bad info and suggestions being thrown around it's probably fruitless.