Dreamworld has been released and Hyboria is now living under a new graphical shape and fighting against new bugs.
Even if the update was not "class" related once again there's something that is affecting the HoX adding problems to our apparently nearly-forgotten alter-ego. The game runs smoother and that's true and we've been showed some interest with the tweak of our Phoenix Cloak animation which has been sensibly modified and adapted, we're no more a traffic light in the middle of the fight, this change is purely aesthetical but better than nothing I would say, but... there's always a but.
Especially after the second patch which was aiming to sort out some bugs like the permanent fire dot from Jhebbal Sag and the absence of reward from some minigames there's an issue that is resulting to be very annoying not only for us but also for the other players that have the bad luck of ending up in group with us.
Sidenote: Missing tokens after winning a Minigame has not been fixed even though it's a random event, after winning a Jhebbal Sag yesterday i didn't get the update on the quest so I didn't get the 3 tokens, shame.
Back on the track of our topic, I will start saying that it is mostly graphical related and it provokes lag spikes to all the players joining a minigame, adding lag to the already known lag spikes that are randomly affecting the field with peaks of 4.800ms if you are lucky.
So be aware guys (and I hope, I sincerely hope that: 1) not all are experiencing this; 2) it will be fixed) that everytime we will use Desecrating Essence and most probably Avatar of Xotli (if there's any Avatar specced HoX around please do confirm this chance) we will be entirely frozen giving to all the minigame players a free lag spike, huge lag spike, it's common to hear your comrades on vent screaming out "Hell that HoX transformed again, i'm lagging badly".
In fact, as far as I've been told by a guildmate yesterday during the morphing transition there's a really small portion of time in which our character will lose its equipment staying naked before the new demonskin resulting from the DE skill is applied on the character, this transition is provoking huge amounts of lag, even if I can't understand the linke between this graphical transition and the related effect on the connection.
The result of it is that we stay frozen for the whole lenght of the Desecrating Essence form, ending up dead in 99% of the cases or if lucky below 40% of hp which will result in death soon after, wasting our chance to unleash our full power in the few seconds of our transformation, as well as ruining the game experience of many.
Try to wonder about a minigame with 3 hoxes using Desecrating Essence together, it will be a pain.
Desecrating Essence is our "top" skill it's fundamental for both Avatar/Poss, Poss/General, Poss/Avatar specs, we rely on it, there's a perk which is giving us an insane boost to the stats when under our demonic shape (RSoX), and being polymorphed it's the best solution to max out the damage output for both physical attacks as well as magical attacks.
This bugs is cutting our legs.
Herald of Xotli it's already hard enough to be played, with poor survivability and slowness to build up a proper dps output, we need a time we don't have to do a lot of damage so we must rely on kite and we NEED our Demonic Form to have a nice peak of damage, with this bug we are prevented to use one of our best skills.
Most probably it will be fixed and everything will be back on a "normal status" soon, but this brings up to a me a thought once again.
We need attention, we need a rework, we don't have any viable choice beside the striaght forward road that leades us to a Possession/General build, without the equip speccing differently it's pure fantasy and even though I have a great esteem for those brave HoXes that are running Avatar/Poss I'm also aware that I can't do that without having a good backup of gear, and for good backup I mean a full Wolves set from Khitai (due to protection) or a full minigame set (pvp 7 and a shitload of tokens), even with this requirements matched, living as an Avatar/poss it's a paing, it may work in a 1vs1 context, it will be a lot harder to be performing in group pvp contexts.
The Herald of Xotli needs attention. The Herald of Xotli needs a revamp.
When it will happen, or when they will realize it, it's entirely another thing.
In the meantime.. let's try to survive this issue like we did in the past and let's keep on spreading our hellish flames on the fields.
Till the next time.
Arcalimon
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Just the fact that maybe our most relyable cc is tied to our most beloved buff is bad.
ReplyDeleteyou dont really use it to do more dps now days, you use it to stun your opponent.
Toch
That's also true, anyway i find DE pretty lovely to boost ToX damage alongside with Tome of Elrik, also melee effectiveness will benefit from it. But yeah, I always believed that having the stun linked to DE it's silly, especially due to it's casting time!
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