In short: seems ballance team is doing much better job for last few months than before.
Ballance patch was rlly good and much needed. Not perfect, but anyone expecting perfection is insane.
And now 1month later we get minor adjustments that are also very good. Also not perfect and we could talk some of changes but in general - good changes.
Job well done ballance team!
Agreed, if they keep up monthly balance it will be exactly what we need. Just keep fine tuning. So much better then massive changes once every 3-6 months.
Obviously balance is hard to achieve, but man does this make the game better. Them actually changing the right things too, or attempting to is a positive sign. Much better then the random changes that no one was even thinking about
Yea, so good that OPR is an absolute crap shoot.
Done with the game until next season patch. Throwing membership on my Runescape and FF14 accounts.
You’re more clueless than the devs, and that’s saying something. Grats on maining a weapon that is viewed as the easiest weapon to use. Even the devs say so. 
Lol what about this patch made the game worse? Plz explain
If you’re genuinely asking that, then you don’t play the game enough.
Lol again, what? I play every day at a high level. What about the changes they made with the most recent patch (yesterday) made PvP worse? Unless if you’re a bow player?
Patch accomplished nothing.
Did the patch achieve perfect balance, no of course not. Did it show that they see indicators of what the need to change to improve, most certainly.
Small incremental changes will always be better than the massive changes they have done in the past. It’s much easier to collect data on if the changes were not enough or too heavy handed.
Go play your other games and be salty. This is the best they have ever done to make quick targeted changes to the game. If you can’t see improvement on how they plan on addressing balance and that being a positive then idk what to say to you.
Small incremental changes, once a month, does nothing. The changes were not significant enough to accomplish anything at all. Simply made players like you try to cope with how bad the game is currently.
You do you boo
I gotta say, coming from some other AAA mmo games, a monthly balance patch is not that common to see.
That they really did release one that pushed the needle towards where it’s gotta be and fixed bugs is impressive and shows progress.
What do you think needs to happen, to what weapon and what amour weight to make the game good
It’s a better system then their previous method of making huge sweeping changes to too many things and breaking the game. Leaving everyone complaining about 10 different reasons the game is broken because nobody really knows what causes it because too many things changed.
Increase time it takes to charge bow and fire staff heavy attacks. (Doesn’t help that the animation cancel for bow heavies are still a thing) Flat damage nerf to bow. Flat damage nerf to fire staff (not as much as the bow needs) Increase mana cost for fire staff abilities, with a time delay between attack and ability usage.
Increase damage mitigation to medium and heavy, beyond what they did this last mini patch.
Remove bow haste.
They need to find a way to make it more attractive to use melee, so something like OPR, will actually have a front line. Instead of just everyone chucking arrows and fire balls, and the side that does have a front line, ultimately steam rolls the other side…and it’s just boring AF.
Hate suggesting them balancing the game around OPR, but the fact is that it’s the primary way that most players will ever PvP…and it’s in a HORRIBLE state right now. Didn’t think it could get worse after the Brimstone update, but it did.
These small tiny changes do nothing. I get it, they don’t want to do heavy handed changes. HOWEVER, the rework of fortify, and the fire staff buffs, have made the game absolutely miserable for anyone that doesn’t want to run bow or fire staff. Heavier changes are needed…quickly…not small changes once a month.
I can sit and run fire staff no issues, and get into the top 5 overall EVERY single OPR with very little effort. Insanely boring to do this though. The thought of contributing to the absolute BS state of the game, just ultimately puts me off of trying to play. If you try to run melee without a dedicated healer, you wont get anywhere.
Solo queing healer is also miserable. You’re legit just trying to keep bows and fire staffs alive, so you can get your points. Funnily enough, still able to get into the top 5 as a healer…and it’s funny AF.
Game is bad, and AGS is tired of hearing about how bad the game is. Thus, closing the forums.
AGS knows it’s bad, yet players like you are still trying to cope and convince yourself otherwise, when AGS knows different.
Ya but they literally are targeting those weapons and armour you mentioned. Like they clearly agree with you. I agree it’s probably not enough for the mitigation side, and bow in a skilled players hands will still probably be very strong, but they clearly see that too.
Next month they’ll do another bump, and then another change the following month. This is good, or would you prefer we wait 3 months for massive changes that undoubtably make one weapon OP for the next 3 months?
Your opinions about the game and balanced seemed to have changed a lot.
I think we had a similar evolution of opinions. I mained the musket, like you, for a long time and I was oblivious to the balancing issues until I started playing melee.
Different builds are drastically better than others and I’m surprised more people don’t see the obvious issues.
I do think small balance changes are better than big sweeping changes.
Dont feed the trolls they get bigger.
When someone is so quick to dish comments like this its just useless to engage.
They dont want improvements, if ags does something good we should give credit.
Is it better for them to release more balance patches then they did in the past? Yes.
Is it perfect? No, but nobody said it was.
OP point is clear, they did reevaluate the balance patch frequency and that IS win. No need to argue against facts.
But once again, we are no there yet. But somehow this attitude helps nothing so go on OP keep giving credit when credit is due and forget pessimists that just want to flame.
Yea, that it has.
When you main a musket, you’re truly playing a different game compared to everyone else. You don’t really see that, when you have 4kish hours as a musket user
When they stuck the bloom in the PTR, that’s when I started experimenting with other stuff more, and truly saw the differences in play styles.
Hence why you don’t really see me being a heavy advocate for musket to return to what it used to be. Musket does need changed, and I don’t see it happening until they do the full rework, probably in the fall.
Small small changes (like they did with this months changel aren’t enough for the current state of things. It simply isn’t…
They SERIOUSLY need to get their crap together, before the release of a couple MMOs that are coming this year.
I just don’t see the game being around for much longer. I’d say RIP NW 2024.
Dude you should find anotehr game to play. If at this point you don’t get its not game for you, you have some serious issues. Uninstall and go play wow or somthing you like.
Well aint that a perfect representation of the tea pot calling the kettle black.
Sounds like it’s really getting to your mental, def best to go play other games.
NW has been a mess for a long time, not saying it’s in a great place, but I like the change in approach to balance.