Hello, my dearest community,
It's been a while in our new patch, which brought a couple of changes to many classes whether it was nerfs/boosts/skills added etc.
Buuuuut.....there is this one particular class that has increased in popularity since it received a tremendous boost and in the eyes of many ppl, including me, is almost game-breaking (especially in olympiad). Elemental Master
A class that has been in top tier of oly farmers since the introduction of olympiad.
What the new patch did to this class is basically boost their dmg by 30% , something that was justified as reverting back to how they were supposed to be.
By official standards i suppose?
Because by official standards, Fear lock is still a thing, while here it was changed (and most of us agreed it was ok).
But let me ask you, was that 30% boost of Summoners that necessary?
Let's look into it a bit.
I'm going to use the skills of Magnus the Unicorn buffed by NPC of olympiad and master's (lv.77) buffs
on a lv.80 Shillien Elder with:
Weapon with Super Sigel p.def Rune 13
Bw light set +8
Majestic Necklace +5 unsealed / Majestic Earring +5 unsealed / core 3 / orfen 3 / aq 3
Baium Talisman
Buffs: Bless Body, Magic Barrier, Shield and rest are irrelevant for this example - - (no Berserker Spirit)
Magnus the Unicorn uses on target Whiplash (the stun skill) for 2,512 damage.
Then proceeds to cast Tidal Wave for 4,437 damage, essentially 2-shotting a char of close to 6k HP and over 1,1k p.def and around 1k m.def.
We can agree that at least one of those skills crit'ed.
As a player who is heavily invested in oly, I've been seeing in discord chats/private messages some serious damage texts; ppl that I know their gear, from ponies that I could never justify in the past, yet by current meta are acceptable(?). People who have been playing for years here and see their chars get 2shotted or even 1shotted in cases of 80 lvl summoners are reconsidering their life choices and the result of this fiesta is apparent on hero voice, discord chats, pms, etc. The most frustrating part of it all is that the class does not require some huge gear investment to be effective.
So let's raise some questions. Given those pet boosts, is this something we should accept as reasonable?
Should the pet stats or Skill Power of pet skills get reduced? Should they all have the chance to crit?
Was this change really important for a class that was already one of the top farmers to begin with?
Should Aqua Swirl be nerfed? (getting crits of it for 1,4k on top of all that dmg adds extra salt)
And last but not least, do we want olympiad to end up a place of carebears playing only ponies?