Mythic Entertainment's Mark Jacobs thanks players for their assistance on the Warhammer Online Public Test Server, and confirms that our testing helps drive the future of the game. Because of the feedback from those on the Test Server, the bulk of the class ability changes have been moved to a future patch. With the launch of Heavy Metal today, a preview version of 1.0.6 will soon hit Test, and will provide a sneak peek into the Blackguard and Knight of the Blazing Sun classes. Here is what Mark has to say about the class changes.
1. For our Ironbreakers, this means more time to assess the impact at our proposed changes to the Grudge mechanic to IBs in RvR. When patch 1.0.6 goes up on Deathsword, we will have an updated version of the grudge mechanic. As of now, this will result in IBs having decay beginning at 15 seconds as well a much slower loss of grudge per second than originally planned. Over the course of 1.0.6 on the PTS, we will continue to look at this mechanic and see if we have to add some additional time to the beginning of grudge decay.
2. For our healers, we are going to keep the decrease in cast time for the big heals but we are reverting the changes to the HOTs back to their current LIVE status. Given the changes and general increases to most careers DOTs, keeping healers HOTs where they are currently is the more prudent path. As we continue testing with 1.0.6, this may change but for now we want to spend some more time running the numbers before we make any additional changes to our healers.
3. Sorcs/BWs will not have any buffs to their DOTs until we can gather more data on the long-term impact of these DOTs.
4. We are looking at several interface changes geared to make target selection, spell-casting, etc. easier and more reliable especially in RvR.
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