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Like the Act III scaling option for high level parties. Like the Faith and Conviction changes for NPCs. Like the Recovery changes. Like the Chanter upgrades. Don't Like the Ciphers downgrades....why? No really.....why?

Truly, what was the rationale behind the Cipher nerfs? Although they have some spells that were very effective, they still had to juggle between physical attacks and spellcasting. Beyond specific combos, Ciphers already have some issues with keeping up with spellcasting in boss fights as focus generation have to be dependent on weapon attacks on bosses with good defences especially on higher difficulties. And facing that, it is now even harder to cast spells during boss fights?

Yikes, I'm glad I haven't had time yet to try the beta yet. I play a cipher as my character and the coming rebalance doesn't sound good for her. Now I need to doubly make sure I finish WM Part 1 before the final patch & WM Part 2 drops.

Actually the drugs balance pass includes another Cipher nerf. Prior to 3.0, Ciphers could get +2 PER and +20% Focus gain from Blacsonn, or +4 Focus gain from Carow Golan. Now they can only get +20% Focus gain from Carow Golan if they also suck up a -4 INT penalty that massively shrinks their powers' AoE and shortens their duration. Ciphers really got the hate in this patch, for some reason...

Seriously - that's way too much. Nobody complained that ciphers are too strong or something like that. I mean nobody whom we should take serious. brindle88 with his "Amplified Wave is god mode lol" is gone - so we can all agree that this WAS a balanced class. If you listen to brindle88 you also have to nerf rogues. Lets nerf Sneak Attack so that is does -50% damage instead of +50% and you have to cause an affliction in order to avoid that... Sounds stupid? Well so does 10 focus * cipher power level... And I'm not even a big cipher fan and normally don't rant - but this time I could make an exception. Really I just can't stop... 70 focus? I think I'll get a stroke. No wait - that will cost me too much focus...

Constant and Veteran's Recovery reduced from base 90s to base 45s duration Constant recovery was close to irrelevant at high levels already due to the lack of scaling. With the level cap increase this seems like a further, unwarranted nerf. As it is, it's already straight up worse than active healing abilities because you can't really control when it's used, so some of the ticks are often wasted; furthermore, a 45s base duration means that the total amount of the heal is now 45 endurance, tops, while Veteran Recovery now heals for 30. That's quite unimpressive compared to most healing abilities. I get that with the change to athletics they might prove redundant, but why don't you guys just remove them already and give fighters something worthwhile instead of just crippling it into uselessness? Also, is there a reason an ability with a set duration (and one that gets shorter ad shorter, it seems ) is still called Constant Recovery? The rest of the changes look good. Aside from that, I've been wanting to play a pig fighter watcher for awhile, so I'm glad that they're getting a melee attack :D

"Chanter skeleton summons set to 2nd level" -- did the skeletons also receive a buff? Asking because they're rather totally useless compared to Reny Daret's Ghost as it is. I wouldn't take it at 1st level in its current state, never mind 2nd.