Not really, you can play Melee and play a Rend/bleed build. Same for Bow/guns.
Though with Mage its easier to go into the Occultist type ailments.
There are like 9 different ailments in the game.
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Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem |OT| Big Diablo Energy
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Though with Mage its easier to go into the Occultist type ailments.
There are like 9 different ailments in the game.
Glad some people are actually getting there without bugs that drive them nuts and cause them to quit lol
Good to hear!
I'm still in Act 1 but having a blast, only thing I fear is if there is enough endgame to keep me going.
If you just want to play offline, then yes - I've played an offline character to the upper 50s so far with no issues. Online is supposedly better now, but I have no plans to touch it until it's fully stable (and items/progress stop disappearing).
Also, does anyone know whether dyes carry over from character to character? I play offline only, and if dyes are shared over all offline characters, then I see no reason to keep the duplicates around.
I'm level 58 at the moment and have only one unique (it's in my stash since it's a pistol which I have no use for). My equipment is about 50% rare and 50% legendary at the moment, but I've seen less than 15 total legendary pieces so far.
The nice thing about my build is that life leech and rage generation are really high, so the larger groups I spin in, the better I do. I also have Bladestorm generating health orbs, which takes care of the occasional big health drop from certain super-powerful mobs. My favorite is when I get into a chamber of greed and activate half a dozen cursed chests at the same time. Pure chaos, but I love it.
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finally managed to play online again, got connected to sydney server
i guess asia servers are still fucked
since a lot of people are saying mage is fucked i went the ailments route
huh the devs posted something
Steam :: Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem :: Servers and patches (includes patch 1.0.4.0 changelog)
Community translation: Deutsch - Français Hello everyone, First of all, we want to thank you for your patience. It has been a rocky launch and we clearly weren’t expecting that much passion for Wolcen. We know that the connection issues and bugs you currently encounter are frustrating and...steamcommunity.com
Party's over Shieldbros, apparently it's not Bleeding Edge time yet.
That's a big nerf to the shield/block builds LOL!
Party's over Shieldbros, apparently it's not Bleeding Edge time yet.
Damn those skills were 100x more efficient than intended!
Ooof, finally hit a wall on the path to Helmshire in Act 2. I just melt when the boss looks at me. All revive tokens spent in seconds. And I thought I was doing so well by beating the final boss of Act 1 first try!
Might have to start investing some points into toughness, or throwing in some block/dodge stats to my gear. Failing that, I grew up on MMOs like Lineage 2, so I have no shame in grinding out a huge level advantage =D
Might have to start investing some points into toughness, or throwing in some block/dodge stats to my gear. Failing that, I grew up on MMOs like Lineage 2, so I have no shame in grinding out a huge level advantage =D
I played offline when the server was down, and then restarted when online was up - but I'm only level 7. It's actually pretty damn fun! The only thing I ran into that was annoying as hell is hit detection for some enemies as a ranged hero, specifically fucking bats. Anyone else struggle with that?
Most definitely yes if you are a Bow only user, I has the same issue. It's not a problem if you are melee as you can auto dash but projectiles seem to miss the bats completely. My suggestion is to use like a Gun + Catalyst/Melee weapon do that you have some AOE skill or melee attack that can kill them.
This is a bug of course.
Hit detection is 'meh' across the board. Not a big deal for Bladestorm builds, but targeting single mobs and even picking stuff up off of the ground is more annoying than it should be.
Fuck those bats. Drove me crazy. I had to AOE them Bc I couldn't hit with my gun.
I was hoping that would be the case. Next time I fired it up though I found that Vsync was already on. I have never had issues with loot as long as I am clicking on the name itself. Rats/Bats or any fast moving smaller creatures, though, I end up 'chasing' around because it registers as clicking NEAR them and not ON them half the time. It just seems like hit/click detection is a bit small on some of the smaller things.
Grim Dawn feels like night and day in this regard. Played a bit of that over the weekend as well as it was heavily on sale on GOG and noticed immediately how I am always attacking when I feel like I should be instead of running up next to the monster repeatedly. Hope they can fix it.
Sometimes though I do get a random bat that just seems to have a very broken detection box and I can't seem to click anywhere near it and have it register. That is far more rare so far.
You can fix this by holding down the "Attack in place" key when attacking (LShift by default). Pretty mandatory for ranged builds IMO and allows you to attack targets from off screen.
Bats fairly busted though, you really need AOE or auto targeting attacks to kill them reliably.
Ah thanks for this, that will definitely help if I go back to my caster. I am actually enjoying my Bulwark/Plague character at the moment, so it is the single target melee attacks where I am playing a wack-a-mole like mini game most times. My character just moves around the enemy I'm trying to hit instead of actually swinging. No problem most times since I have plenty of AoE skills now too, but can still feel a little annoying when you are finishing off those one or two poison spitters that like to move back and attack you from range.
Patch notes sound promising, although not seeing anything about making spells viable yet. I finally managed to get to the end game after having my campaign progress stalled / rolled back due to the bugs, and it's a far better experience. Really fun stuff. Underneath the mountain of bugs and lack of polish, there's definitely a good game there. I have to say though, I can't help but feel that I paid full price for essentially an untested beta version of a game.
The experience with this game must be night and day when comparing offline to online. I haven't had any bugs aside from a weird animation glitch where some of my weapon effects wouldn't show up. But that's hardly game breaking and could still play just fine. I'm level 35 now and that's been the worst of them. I think most of the issues they're having are lag/sync related. Not to mention the database issues... lol.
It's unfortunate that some skills are definitely buggy. Hell, the critical chance for one of my warrior skills goes from 33% to 100% if I put on any armor piece that has that inherent block chance (3-4%). That's broken, lol.
Probably could have benefited from more early access, but then they don't get the big official release attention that this game got. And with the massive in-take of new players, bugs are found much faster. Victim of their own success, as they say.
I kickstarted this game so to me it's just more early access with more content. I might just back off until they fix some of the issues with skills because I want to play my mage character without being disappointed down the road.
It's unfortunate that some skills are definitely buggy. Hell, the critical chance for one of my warrior skills goes from 33% to 100% if I put on any armor piece that has that inherent block chance (3-4%). That's broken, lol.
Probably could have benefited from more early access, but then they don't get the big official release attention that this game got. And with the massive in-take of new players, bugs are found much faster. Victim of their own success, as they say.
I kickstarted this game so to me it's just more early access with more content. I might just back off until they fix some of the issues with skills because I want to play my mage character without being disappointed down the road.
This already happened to me on day2 and I permanently lost everything, thankfully I only lost my skins and dyes this time around; still sucks though :/
I just fucking lost all my dyes and transmog looks AGAIN lol
this is fucking hilarious. Guess I wont use any more dyes thats for sure.
Haha! Yes, I'm also playing offline and loving it =) I paid full price for the game too, after "release" day and don't mind at all. I guess it's a GaaS thing, but the foundation is solid and fun enough in offline mode that I can look past the few (mostly visual) bugs I've encountered. I'm sure they'll be fixed in time, and I'm happy to be playing in the current state.
huh youre right I have 2 items that "add x frost dmg to spells", thats weird. If I remove them, the spells only do 1 ailment (at least on the tooltip), I could swear they did stasis + other stuff before. I guess I had a item that added...err... aether dmg or something?
Games has crashed too much for me to keep going at this point, I'm probably done for a while until things get ironed out. Reading about spells being shit at higher level doesn't help either.
Patch notes don't mention anything about most broken passive nodes so hopefully those fixes come soon too...
Yes stasis is caused by aether damage.
Patch notes don't mention anything about most broken passive nodes so hopefully those fixes come soon too...
Yes stasis is caused by aether damage.
this stupid ass broken shitshow of a game, everytime I want to hate it, it turns around and makes me love it...
Case in point, fucking around with builds, I wanted to make some sort of weird ass full ailment build, im talking 6 different ailments, which is a bit of a pain to figure out 6 different skills to use to ge the results, you need to fiddle with modifiers and whatnot. Anyway, dmg was fine (dmg was already fine in my half ailment / half summons build) but I really wasnt feeling Eclipse as a source of curse ailment, its shit to use, knocks enemies OUT of my aoes which is the opposite of what I want, just a shitty skill no matter what modifiers I use. Also since you are basically playing piano with 6 skills, its a absolute mana drainer to the point im not even using health pot, im using 2 willpower pots...
...and then I realised Infinity Blade has a shadow, aka curse ailment modifier. And then I started to look at the various blade mofifiers and it has a ton of shit to get willpower back, AND has no cooldown (all the other skills have long ass cooldowns) and all of a sudden I have a actual filler that looks badass and happens to be one of the skills I've wanted to build around since I got the game?
Case in point, fucking around with builds, I wanted to make some sort of weird ass full ailment build, im talking 6 different ailments, which is a bit of a pain to figure out 6 different skills to use to ge the results, you need to fiddle with modifiers and whatnot. Anyway, dmg was fine (dmg was already fine in my half ailment / half summons build) but I really wasnt feeling Eclipse as a source of curse ailment, its shit to use, knocks enemies OUT of my aoes which is the opposite of what I want, just a shitty skill no matter what modifiers I use. Also since you are basically playing piano with 6 skills, its a absolute mana drainer to the point im not even using health pot, im using 2 willpower pots...
...and then I realised Infinity Blade has a shadow, aka curse ailment modifier. And then I started to look at the various blade mofifiers and it has a ton of shit to get willpower back, AND has no cooldown (all the other skills have long ass cooldowns) and all of a sudden I have a actual filler that looks badass and happens to be one of the skills I've wanted to build around since I got the game?
The only thing you miss out on is coop.
You cannot convert them because you can basically cheat just about everything in offline mode
Couple questions.
Anyone have a generic explanation on how ailments work? Do all spells have a chance to apply their ailment?
Also, how do you dash with auto dash toggled off for melee characters?
Anyone have a generic explanation on how ailments work? Do all spells have a chance to apply their ailment?
Also, how do you dash with auto dash toggled off for melee characters?
Hm, I just got the scene with
and I really liked the music during this scene. Problem is, I can't find it on the soundtrack, or I missed it I don't know. If someone know what I'm talking about, I would really like to find it.
Heimlock and Justicar Azenhal
Basically, anything that deals damage has a chance to apply an ailment that's based on the attack's damage type. There's also a passive node in the Cabalist tree that lets attacks apply *two* ailments instead of just one. The chance to apply an ailment is based on the associated ailment score/percentage.
From what I understand, damage types and ailments break down like this:
> Material
- Physical = Stun (brief stun, basically just an interrupt/stagger)
- Rend = Bleed (damage over time)
- Toxic = Poison (damage over time)
> Elemental
- Fire = Burn (damage over time)
- Frost = Freeze (extended stun/lockdown)
- Lightning = Shock (damage over time; affected targets can damage nearby targets)
> Occult
- Aether = Stasis (slows movement and attack speed)
- Sacred = Weakness (debuffs resistances and damage)
- Shadow = Curse (causes active ailments to spread to other targets; does not cascade)
I'm not 100% on it though, so any corrections and additions are welcome.
Dunno about the auto-dash functionality. :x
Yep, it's amazing =D I've built my character around Infinity Blades with a catalyst, switching to those Kratos blades when I run out of willpower (they have an occult damage modifier so they can scale off the same stats as Infinity Blade, and a big crit damage modifier). I built for a high crit chance, and now Infinity Blades rarely ever runs out. Just... self-sustains. Works so well with the huge crit damage passive.this stupid ass broken shitshow of a game, everytime I want to hate it, it turns around and makes me love it...
Case in point, fucking around with builds, I wanted to make some sort of weird ass full ailment build, im talking 6 different ailments, which is a bit of a pain to figure out 6 different skills to use to ge the results, you need to fiddle with modifiers and whatnot. Anyway, dmg was fine (dmg was already fine in my half ailment / half summons build) but I really wasnt feeling Eclipse as a source of curse ailment, its shit to use, knocks enemies OUT of my aoes which is the opposite of what I want, just a shitty skill no matter what modifiers I use. Also since you are basically playing piano with 6 skills, its a absolute mana drainer to the point im not even using health pot, im using 2 willpower pots...
...and then I realised Infinity Blade has a shadow, aka curse ailment modifier. And then I started to look at the various blade mofifiers and it has a ton of shit to get willpower back, AND has no cooldown (all the other skills have long ass cooldowns) and all of a sudden I have a actual filler that looks badass and happens to be one of the skills I've wanted to build around since I got the game?
Clandestine Execution passive - 25% more damage when only one enemy is within 7m range.
I just tried using this and didn't notice any difference in damage output. Is this known to be bugged? I'm wondering if I just don't understand its use case...
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