Anyone but me seeing the consecrate weapon delay since publish?

[Slayvite]

Just thought i'd pop into this old thread to see if we got an Answer........NOPE.
We still know 'what' they did but they still haven't told us 'why' they changed a +5 years old game mechanic....
Is anyone actually still at the Broadsword offices or is it just Mesanna now and a few different accounts???

 

[Laura_Gold]

Bump. This is NOT working as intended.
Chivalry was intended to give a bonus to damage dealt by a melee warrior.
This change to Consecrate Weapon gives you a missed swing, so that's a penalty.
The consecrate effect works for about 8 seconds. That's about 4 swings. Use Consecrate Weapon and you miss a swing -- a 25% damage penalty right there. Do you get a 25%+ damage increase to make up for that? Mostly, you don't. Net result is less damage dealt per unit time.

Please fix. Then check ALL the other abilities this change affected for similar math.

Then, fix Enemy Of One which has been broken for a while. Most of the time it gives no bonus whatsoever because you're already at damage cap, but still subjects you to the double damage from everything else. It should always give you a bonus -- and if you decide not to do that, then if it's not going to give you a bonus it should automatically turn itself off.

For completeness: 120 bushido, 120 weapon skill, 120 parrying, 100 tactics, 100 anatomy, 100 healing, 60 chivalry. Classic client.

 

[Finley Grant]

If i would deliver such work/service to paying customers i would get fired...

Its like going to a store an ordering red paint for your house, paying the bill for 200 cans.
2 Weeks later you order workers to paint your house. They open the cans an find green paint.

You complain and get AS answer: yeah we changed it to green that matches better to your eye color...
An no: you cant give back paint specially mixed for you.

 

[Laura_Gold]

Still messed up. See reply #102 for analysis. Also messed with are Evasion and Confidence.
Bleak, please just back this change out.
Does it increase Broadsword revenue? NO. Does it increase fun? NO. Does it balance the game? NO. (The Eodon expansion is for tamers!) Then why do it?

 

[Mr. Smither1]

The damage bonus from a bushido char using whirlwind is still only hitting the first target and the lumberjacking damage bonus is only hitting the first target using whirlwind.

 

[Duncan Drake]

Greetings everyone,
its more than a year ago since i took a break in playing uo. Now with the new addon i thought i would grab my bushido paladin and explore this new world and maybe restart doing some peerless and so on.

First i read about those new masteries and found them quite interesting. But now i found this thread and i was terrified what was done here. I will give it a try because i left my account running (i think its paid til end of month) but i wont buy the addon. If after some testing this change in melee combat is as devastating as i fear it is i will quit uo for the last time and this will be forever.

 

[Uvtha]

Greetings everyone,
its more than a year ago since i took a break in playing uo. Now with the new addon i thought i would grab my bushido paladin and explore this new world and maybe restart doing some peerless and so on.

First i read about those new masteries and found them quite interesting. But now i found this thread and i was terrified what was done here. I will give it a try because i left my account running (i think its paid til end of month) but i wont buy the addon. If after some testing this change in melee combat is as devastating as i fear it is i will quit uo for the last time and this will be forever.

It's not that bad. Just makes you a touch slower, and may get you killed every now and then. Nothing TOO major. Annoying yes. As annoying as the change happening out of the blue and with no explanation or justification? Nope.

 

[Kirthag]

Greetings everyone,
its more than a year ago since i took a break in playing uo. Now with the new addon i thought i would grab my bushido paladin and explore this new world and maybe restart doing some peerless and so on.

First i read about those new masteries and found them quite interesting. But now i found this thread and i was terrified what was done here. I will give it a try because i left my account running (i think its paid til end of month) but i wont buy the addon. If after some testing this change in melee combat is as devastating as i fear it is i will quit uo for the last time and this will be forever.

I'm a straight-paladin... still able to dish it out and only suffer the bug every now and then. I wouldn't say it is unplayable.... but if you know the mechanics of it you can sorta work around the handicap.

 

[Duncan Drake]

Well i think i will try to sort cw ompletely out and go along with 100% el weapons. Other spells like df have a longer duration so there it should not really matter