Huge nerf to Ice Gauntlets

[GeekFreak]

Seems like the patch notes create big nerfs to ice gauntlet while buffing many other weapons. Were they that overpowered?

Rapier, Spear, Fire staff (some nerfs too), great axe, hatchet, life staff, hammer, musket ALL received mostly buffs. While Ice Gauntlet mostly got hit hard.

Edit: Basically all magic got nerfed, not just IG. I just happen to use IG and was focusing on my own pain. But it does seem magic = nerfed, everything else was buffed

[/dev/NULL>skydart]

I am playing Ice Gauntlets in addition to Life Staff. Today's changes feel like a slap in the face to me.... now I can decide it I want to heal "better" and get one-shotted in light armor - or live a bit longer in heavier stuff and heal less (besides the nerfs to the tree in addition to the -20% base healing). Ice gauntlets are nerfed too - making them even more useless as a second weapon for a healer. And the trade skills are getting extra grindy too

[Muisteloinen]

Happy time, i stop playing this pile of trash game.
I quit when first nerf land this game,

[FreakImKäfig]

all bs - the way ppl are banned is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
the decisions made are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
the changes are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (did one of the admins check the dmg of musket - hatchet or 2h weapons compared to ice ???)

playing alone or farming with ice gauntlet is so much more work than running around with bow or musket or 2h weapons..

void gauntlet now coming .. op up to what i seen so every ice mage will switch to gauntlet + heal.. yay.. then this will be nerfed and soon all will be playing musket / bow / 2h / heal.

and open for all to read exploit reported..

WTF is the Amazon admin / programmer / idiot team doing ??

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by FreakImKäfig:

all bs - the way ppl are banned is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
the decisions made are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
the changes are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (did one of the admins check the dmg of musket - hatchet or 2h weapons compared to ice ???)

playing alone or farming with ice gauntlet is so much more work than running around with bow or musket or 2h weapons..

void gauntlet now coming .. op up to what i seen so every ice mage will switch to gauntlet + heal.. yay.. then this will be nerfed and soon all will be playing musket / bow / 2h / heal.

and open for all to read exploit reported..

WTF is the Amazon admin / programmer / idiot team doing ??

Attempting to balance the game around complaints. Hence the reason the PTR was offered in the first place.

[warrickbartley]

yes they have nerfed all magical weapons and buffed, melee , and given us the Void gauntlet to try to make it for it, as a magic user, i was kinda gutted esp with the fire staff nerfs,
this is the problem with PVP they try to draw a line in the sand and make all weapons the same, so whats the point of having a choice, some weapon abilities should have a strong point.
The VG is kinda good but dosnt make up for all the nerfs, sad patch for Magic dudes

[[BOT]NPC Gameplays]

Why did you say lifestaff got buffed? Life staff got nerfed because they don't want it assisting tankers as good as it does normally, they want it to be more useful for players with light/med armor/const builds and not players with high const.

[MeeYah]

yes, wow, they sure shooting themselves in the foot... wtf Devs, get with the ball.. my god. game is working its way to back burner now for games to play, good job Amazon, NOT!!!!!

[Nekochan]

Originally posted by UncleDaddy:

Why did you say lifestaff got buffed? Life staff got nerfed because they don't want it assisting tankers as good as it does normally, they want it to be more useful for players with light/med armor/const builds and not players with high const.

I'm with you, his list is messed, up. Firestaff passives got nerfed across the board which is where most of our damage comes from, the only thing buffed was 2 worthless abilities that even with buff I won't use.

[_D_]

IG had some insane nuke dmg.

[GeekFreak]

Originally posted by Nekochan:

Originally posted by UncleDaddy:

Why did you say lifestaff got buffed? Life staff got nerfed because they don't want it assisting tankers as good as it does normally, they want it to be more useful for players with light/med armor/const builds and not players with high const.

I'm with you, his list is messed, up. Firestaff passives got nerfed across the board which is where most of our damage comes from, the only thing buffed was 2 worthless abilities that even with buff I won't use.

Yeah you're right, I was mostly focused on IG because that's what I use. Fire staff got a couple buffs but all the passives took a big hit. It does seem as though it was mostly magic that took a beating and everything else got buffed.

[Sarina]

Doesn't matter to me. I main Hammer and had Ice Gauntlet only as a secondary for stats. my skill was only at level 4 so not a big loss for me at all.

[GeekFreak]

Originally posted by Sarina:

Doesn't matter to me. I main Hammer and had Ice Gauntlet only as a secondary for stats. my skill was only at level 4 so not a big loss for me at all.

I run opposite, Ice gauntlet main, hammer for extra crowd control (with an gem to scale off INT). Don't run into a lot of people with Hammer/IG

[Outlaw Mugen]

I have full INT build and I have noticed massive damage drop in PvP. I could do up to 3 K crits before the patch with fire staff heavy attack on my friend who has full STR + Heavy Armor... now I'm lucky to do over 1,5 K. The funny thing is, he can easily take MANY of my attacks ( without a crit i deal around 800-1000 ) whereas me as a mage in light gear I get 2-3 shotted. Seriously some axe crits can still do 3k damage to me ( I don't have resilience on all of my gear ).

What they should have done is nerf elemental resistance of the heavy armor a bit since they nerfed the magic damage.

Don't even get me started on musket users who can two shot me to the body since their powder shot deals insane damage to light / medium armor now.

I'll wait sometime before they rebalance things again. Until then, not gonna bother with New World.

[Mango]

Most of the buffs is for skills that no one used before, some of them are now viable, some still dont.

[Kartel]

just take it like a man