Sept 30 Dev Diary: What's in Patch 0.9.3?

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radiatoren wrote:

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joss32 wrote:

More % and less base stats? WTF?! That adds to less than with base stats doesn't it? That seems incredibly stupid. This seems like it has hurt the passives a lot. The passive skill tree is the main reason I even like this game so much. I hope you guys don't over simplify the quest. The world needs less games that pander to their audience as if they were 12. The harder a game the better. Current online games are too easy. The world needs a challenge!

EDIT: Correct me if I understood something wrongly.

From the part about the skilltree:
"...We can have passive skills that don’t allocate any stats but do give additional core attributes (such as +5 Strength). These allow players to more easily specialise in desired attributes and let us connect skill clusters with low-impact nodes occasionally..."

1. As stated in the "quote" extra basic attributes can now be an extra incentive. At another part it tells that strenght, intelligence and dexterity now improve the characters statistics instead. No serious loss on that level as additional primary stat (strength, intelligence and dexterity) will do about the same as the base-statistics did in the old tree!
2. % might not be an advantage at lower levels, but is a lot more relevant in scaling lategame. In lategame in any game with these statistics it is almost a must to have percentage-improvements for the specific stat(s) you are specialising in to gain enough damage/damage mitigation/critical strike chance and so on.

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joss32 wrote:

Nonono I'm ok with the silly STR and DEX and INT update thingy. What I mean was that What use is +5% accuracy if your base accuracy is shite? None. That's what I meant to say. We need base stat(that aren't DEXSTRINT) additions as well to have the % even have anything to boost.

EDIT: Again. I may be understanding something wrong here. Correct me if I am but from my point of view you guys are saying we get more % additions and lase base additions to the % addition stats.

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sharkh20 wrote:

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joss32 wrote:

Nonono I'm ok with the silly STR and DEX and INT update thingy. What I mean was that What use is +5% accuracy if your base accuracy is shite? None. That's what I meant to say. We need base stat(that aren't DEXSTRINT) additions as well to have the % even have anything to boost.

EDIT: Again. I may be understanding something wrong here. Correct me if I am but from my point of view you guys are saying we get more % additions and lase base additions to the % addition stats.

He was trying to tell you that you now get higher base stats when you put points into intelligence/dexterity/strength. Since you now get base stats for just putting points into those things, the % passives will have more of an effect. It also (I assume) takes into account mods that are on your equipment as well. So, for instance, you put points into a dexterity passive. Even though it may not be a passive directly adding to attack rating, your attack rating will go up anyway because it is now based on your actual dexterity number and not passives.