armor change part 1 (in Changelog)

removed TSA; owners were compensated with CB's best guess at market value (estimated from auctions)

armor granting DX (EB, EG, EC) get 1% dx per enchantment point. AC is still
granted. EG's magic bonus removed.

armor granting ST (BoM, HG, TG) get 1% st per enchantment point. AC is still
granted. BoM changed to Power Shield; HG base to 4 (was 5) and gets 1.5 UC points per enchantment.

ToA no longer grants displacement; instead, grants 50% chance of extra hit
per round (melee + ranged). This is subject to negation by evasion.

Update unequipped BoMs that were equipped on a minion with a tattoo.
Update 2 ToA to-hit bonus now correctly takes appropriate penalty when using ranged weapon during melee rounds.

1st

whoa

Very cool changes Jon. Thanks!

wow, and this was only part 1....

awesome =)

I see I'm not the only one wondering how much more part II could bring. Anyways, seems to be a very pro tank month. All of these seem to fall in line with that...pro tank.

Nice, nice


Those who want to make tanks should buy up the items needed now, rather than when the market is charging crap loads.

I certainly hope this cuts down on the complaint threads created by tank owners.

Maybe the bonus isn't showing on the page, but I equipped my +11 BoM on my minion with about 42k str, and I only got about 400 or so extra strength. Is this a bug, or does it simply not show the extra 4000 or so strength I should have?

May I clarify the 1% per enchantment point?

I have TG +9 and 26,000 str.
str is now 26,344/26,044 which is 1%

How does the enchantment point +9 factor in?

Complaints?

"DUDES AND DUDETTES, MAJOR LEAGUE BUTT KICKING IS BACK IN TOWN!"

10K to first person to identify source of that quote.

TMNT - Michaelangelo

EG magic bonus removed...

8*( there goes my money down the drain... hehhehehe. I guess now EG has the same equal value as TG.

fixed verifex/yohan bug

yummy :) Thanks for the quick response Jon!

10K sent to Keia.

"Part 1" .... Dohhh!!!

Jon,

Dex grant item: EG, EG, EC
Str grant item: PS, HG,TG
Magic grant item: Corn, CoI

Since you took magic from EG, are you going to introduce a magic grant gloves? Seem to be a logical choice. May be supporter item?

Ouch, this hurts me a ton and doesn't help me any.

corn and hoi both grant magic wonder if that will change.

The TSA nerf completely negates a month's worth of strat testing for me... Is change good?

...maybe not always...

TSA removal is a good thing. We still got the Adam and MC for tanks. we'll see if those get changed in Part 2.

Wow, Barzoo: you're just now figuring out that my real design goal isn't specifically to benefit you? Better late than never, I guess.

7 7 7 7 7 JACK POT

The change from 5 to 4 on my HG's isn't showing up, I have tried training and unequipping and re-equipping them. Just a note.

That was tongue-in-cheek, Jonathan, you know - sarcasm...

Same here Cooper ... cache flush will do the trick I guess.

Anyway, nice changes! I like them! One thing though, every USD-spender will now be buying
CB2$ to upgrade their items even more, to get more STR/DEX out of them.

YES! i wanted to sell my TSA anyway, and i was planning on selling for less than i got. Thanks Jon!

hmm.. even more DX to protect vs. axbows.. but on the other hand, I can counter with more myself.. status que in that front, but I like the changes (have thought about that they would be good myself).

also.. corn/coi/hoi granting magic-bonus in relation to level, would be nice.

cant wait for part 2 :D

Eww, not on the Corn, if it was on Corn, price to upgrade would need to be changed drastically...lol

I think Corn and CoI will give bonus base on + now

Also beleg should give about 2 point archery per + now

One question about the ToA change

Is the 50% chance to hit added with the dx/weapons hits (ie treated exactly as a +50 to the weapons) or is it a 50% chance after dx and weapon hits are finished?

Yay, Maybe magic items will get the same buff next.

Jon say can be negate by evasion so i presume it a +50 on weapon

bah, this screws me (TA + BG) ;)

How about boosting BG's?

Watch out for Belegs getting deleted next!

...and the value of MCs sky rocketing (light tanks).

This change should bring some high value armors down in value and visa versa. Making a more balanced market on the whole...

grrr...EG nerf. and i was going to get some to up my magic...

Guess it's a good thing i didn't buy them yet. =D

So did EG users get a refund?

Hey at least you got market price.

/mumbles something about $6M IAs and shakes a fist

/me takes a look at his ToA tank.

more dex and st, w00h00...er... wait.

oh wait, I can hit a bit more oft, I can die even FASTER to CBFs now, YES!!!!

/\88/\

well.. CoBFs does only return once per round

The CoBFs just got nerfed!

Most powerful blow: The Apocalypse Book (249695)
That's a 100K increase from an hour ago.. I'm not sure what changed ToA tanks damage that much? Certainly nothing listed above?

heh 1 had 4 sets of IAs when they got deleted and they were named too ><

HG's are now reflecting recent change, problem fixed.

GRR, I was forging my Helm's Gloves, and suddenly the RPM reduced to 20% from 70% :(

wow, I hope something good will happen to mages in part 2, so that I can actually spend the money I earn, instead of selling it for USD. ;)

Does this mean Buckler of Mandos won't be able to be quipped with a tattoo, because there are people that still have them equipped with a tattoo....

/me gives Jon a big hug!

thank you so much!

Moose,

CBF right now only return once per round per character that attack no matter how many times that character hit the cbf wearer.

War -

Update: unequipped BoMs that were equipped on a minion with a tattoo

BoM is now a power shield, cannot have a power shield and tattoo on one minion.

Interesting since there are now at least 2 characters with BOM's and TOA on the same minion.

yea i see it on Black Dog and deifeln, at least, too.

oops, forgot to commit

definitely no more BoM + tattoos now :)

ranger.. that's about what I said :)

Moose,

I read it as a question not a statement, my apologies.

Jon,

Will the item metastats be updated to reflect these changes?

Thanks.

yes

"Devil Burrito, 3:14 PM EDT
So did EG users get a refund?"

I would like to know, because my EG was loaned out to me because of a deal and I would like to know if the guy got any money i should have got

No

Lukey, no they didn't, because they weren't deleted. It's very uncommen that people get ANY kind of refund for an item being "tweaked" and in this case I think EG's didn't really even get nerfed, just tweaked...and for those who were using them for their Dex they got a boost from this change.

While the EG's 2% magic increase loss is bad, the 1% dex per + possibly makes up for it in value.

I said possibly since there are TG and BG which tanks use also. But the EG value should not plummet to the ground.

Bye Bye HoIs!!!!

some questions:

- Does BoM still give more ST when having 1 handed melee weapon equiped as opposed to 2 handed melee weapon?

- "AC is still" Does that mean no further AC enchantments or does it mean that AC still gets counted?

- 50% chance to extra hit just means +50 to ranged and melee weapon? doe this apply also for UC?

- BoM still for sale from store / black market?

shade, why wouldn't BoMs be in stores or BM? they're still not supporter items.

1) see meta-stats
2) "still" means "as before"
3) where does it imply it might not?
4) duh

ok, ok, ok , ok thanks :) just checking the obvious ;)

Tried to equip a BoM before I read the changelog and didn't get any warning about unequipping a tattoo - have these been removed or was the unequipping penalty switched off for the change only?

Nice change to the ToA - I'm getting triplestrikes now! Thank you!!!!! =)

I'm also wondeirng something. With the HG and any other str giving item. Does the bonus to str only work with direct trained str or does gs get the bonus.

Example . I have a 4 uc strat with no trained dx or str. it all comes with gs and haste. If I were to equip HG's and the new HoE would i get the bonus to str on what my str is with gs or would it just be off the base 20 since I haven't put any exp into it. Thanks Jon for an answer to this because it will help me decide if I have to change my thinking on my strategy right away.

Cylo, Bonuses from armour have always gone off natural STR/DEX, not what GS/Haste/ToA give.

Ok thanks. I must have just never known that. Or I was too tired and not thinking straight.

BoM tattoo warning should be fixed now.

Thanks Jon.

with the ToA on my UC minion will he ever get the chance to triplestrike? or will it always be 2 hits per round?