To provide some knowledge of pipelines/timelines for character class mechanics, and other mechanics that would directly affect a character's build composition. This is to allow for players to brace for impact, or augment their builds to ensure that they might not be "crippled" by new changes. It will also allow for players to plan for new characters, where previous mechanics might have prevented such.
DISCLAIMERS:
Scurvy Cur wrote:It's worth noting, as well, that the changes have a broad range of authors. In some cases, like with spellswords, barbarians, and rangers, the people spearheading the design are actively monitoring the classes as changes go in, and providing immediate feedback, bug fixes, and tweaks as needed, so it's likely that you see a lot of changes very quickly, and that the class will settle out in a close-to-final state quickly.
This isn't the case for all classes, however, and so you are likely to see slower rebalancing in some cases than in others, either because of a lack of consensus on what needs to be fixed, or just a primary author that's too busy to go back and re-evaluate the implementation right away.
INFORMATION:DM GrumpyCat wrote:Just as a point of thought guys...
Please do not take what is below as Set In Stone and an Absolute Promise.
These things are being worked on yes, but Real Life Happens, and also the changes have to be checked by the Admin team.
All I'm saying, is that whilst I think it's nice to have an idea of what's being worked on - please, please, don't take this as any sort of promise or guarantee of schedual.
Contributor: Cortex,
- Dragon Shape changes (rework)
- Purple Dragon Knight (semi-work)
- Maybe rogues? [on hold, as of October 27th]
- Delay on paladin changes (buffs)
Contributor: miesny_jez,
[in order from highest to lowest priority]
- Shadow Mage changes - Balancing, Features addition, fixing Shadowmage+SD interaction
- Project_Image rework
- Rework of sacrificial system
- Golem system rework
- Invisibility bug fixing
- Ad-hoc Bug fixing
Contributor: Kirito,
- Spellsword bug fixes (because the bugs seem to be flipping cockroaches...)
- Rework of AB Bonus for Tenser's Transformation/Divine Power/Spellsword
- Ranger buffs that wont wont change how the class behaves
- Maybe archers?
UPDATES:
Paladin changes - 1 October 2017 changes.
PDK changes - 19 October 2017 changes.
Dragonshape changes - 24 October 2017 changes.