LOSTARK MARCH 6TH 2024 PATCH BALANCE PATCH

[@PlasmoX]

That arcana change is huge. The star card no longer returning mana means it's a lot easier to stay in boundless without having the stress of being aggressive even when it's clearly dangerous to do so. You basically enter boundless, and then lock your mana bar with star, giving you 12s of free casual boundless. Conversely, you can use it to lock your mana bar when you're about to drop boundless during say, a burst window. The change to their awakening was necessary. During most encounters, in order to maximize damage, there is a specific opener where you will scratch dealer > awakening > space bar cancel > Call of destiny > celestial rain. This was to maximize the damage on the awakening, and efficiently use the same stacks to do damage with rain. Sometimes bosses just don't give you that chance to do so. So now you can just throw out the awakening for big damage regardless of stacks. example: In raids like G3 voldis, i will usually hold my spacebar after we get hit by the fire so we get the damage buff, and walk to safety. Not always the safest option, but necessary to do more damage as arcana.

[@Kuro-sc1mg]

they should have reduced the chance to draw star in the first place or straight up remove that trash. also serendipity is still a garbage skill. i hope they give arcana more love in the future, it feels so outdated

[@HaxL2]

@@Kuro-sc1mg New Star Card is one of the best cards of arcana now. Definitely prefer a new top card rather than no star card as solution. It did need a rework 100% though because it's so anti synergistic atm.

[@PlasmoX]

@@HaxL2That's what I thought when i saw it. Removing would still have been a nice change. But this change is probably better. It would be great to not have to shadowbox during DR, or be able to hold skills knowing a burst window is coming up. I can think of an instance like g1 akkan for the inana mech, massive damage window, but you might have been just about to drop out of boundless before it. So during that massive damage window, you do one burst, and you're stuck waiting on CDs because you had to re-enter boundless. If you could use the reworked star card, just hold it, enter boundless, and pop the card before the mech starts to stay in boundless and be able to DPS the entire window

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

I was under the same impression, but this change made this card god tier from trash. It now locks your mana and also reduces skill mana consumption for 12 seconds, that means that you can prolong boundless effects for 12 more seconds for free. The change is huge. They literally turned a card that would take space and cause issues only into a god tier card.@@Kuro-sc1mg I would have lowered the probability of getting other cards though, like for example Three-Headed Snake and Mayhem. But I guess they have to keep some fillers.

[@QuietLunacy]

thanks for the breakdown Benji!

[@pmatics18]

does anyone know if the communication overflow summoner got a nerf or buff this patch

[@nomoredpk1366]

Hope every classes will have changes. Especially for the C-D tier rank

[@p.g.8796]

Do we have to wait again like 6months till it will be released to the rest of the world?

[@AratellSkink]

Nightmare Reflux got nerfed - reverse gravity cooldown nerfed, forcing them to play something to burn mana, probably instead of counter skill. Hallucination Reflux got buffed, but it needs futher tests if it's a meaningfull buff and whether to play Inferno or not. Reflux sorcs often play Apocalypse Call.

[@rjacks3284]

SG have no clue what they are doing.

[@jlee9360]

Just play igniter it's broken after these changes

[@AratellSkink]

@@jlee9360Just play souleater full moon - it's better igniter. :P But people play different classes for different playstyles not just dmg numbers. My SO playes Reflux, because she likes to RolePlay it. And Reflux with Hallucination build has as high floor as you can get - perfect for some people :)

[@jlee9360]

@@AratellSkink I made a SE full moon boring af swapped to NE still boring. Tons of damage OP actually but still boring dropping it for breaker.

[@Boomstone]

Nice, thanks for such an informative video 💯

[@OMG_TheRealZeus]

i said this before they keep using bad design and mistake it as ''challenging'' it seems one person fails wipe no more of that are they deft?

[@TheEddy115]

Mages on top once again? When will GS get a turn?

[@azunodilver3293]

So they released a class which plays around staggered bossess that they want ppl to spend money on and now they are planning to release raids where bossess are rarely staggered? The game is begging to be quit

[@jlee9360]

​@rjacks3284 yeah I'm OK with the newest class being broken on release and bringing them inline with others but wrf is deathblades doubling peoples damage right now. You have classes in the gutter and they don't even look their way. Atleast they buffed sorc now it's op again.

[@kerimaykut4854]

I've got 2 different idea until this patch notes. My main is igniter sorc i was thinking to swap main to gunlancer or swap build to full crit reflux but now i got no fucking idea xD

[@jlee9360]

Igniter sorc is op after this.

[@kerimaykut4854]

@@jlee9360 if servers came back i'm gonna try fast as i can xD

[@jlee9360]

@kerimaykut4854 this isn't live on out version. You got another month or 2.

[@kerimaykut4854]

@@jlee9360 oh damn

[@cccning1919]

when buff gs???

[@spqrdan]

benji goated

[@shgalagalaa]

No one is balancing the game ig

[@gamerlobby7116]

Dumb question but what is this english site with the patchnotes ? Cant find it

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

So another month of Surge DB being busted and the rest of the classes dealing less damage than a Surge DB that is 20-30 item levels below it. Way to go SG, nice balance patch as always.

[@gurpinderuppal]

nice summary

[@GrantLOA]

Buff gs nerf surge and soul eater more it’s too easy pay me 6 figures

[@cyborg7162]

Not a single stuff for GS or some other class, they are trolling and farming us, its time to take a break from LoA

[@clouds5]

This. Last epoch is pretty fun Btw.

[@shgalagalaa]

Class is far from unplayable ya’ll just bitch on cd

[@WeGameAllNight]

forgetting th eGS is crazy!

[@jlee9360]

My sources tell me they are working on a rework which is why they didn't give us a buff.

[@clouds5]

@@jlee9360 which will arrive in autumn at the earliest. Time for a break :D

[@senzaaii5176]

imagine gt gets hitmaster class omg i would love to play it more but now it suck balls

[@LunarLoxis]

Thanks Benji

[@gokhan9438]

SO summoner free from atack buff skil but zerk need to keep red dust :D Just remove this shit skill man

[@ranjnijan3446]

All they touch every patch are the same damn classes over and over again. Buff nerf buff nerf like wtf there other classes in the game smilegate????

[@whatttxd]

Tldr always play the newest class and you’ll have no issues

[@hazemnada798]

Do they even know wtf they're doing with glaivier? Its like that have no idea what the class even does or they're keeping it weak on purpose. They say they don't want it to be purely an entropy class yet they gutted the nightmare build completely and now they keep giving it these shit stagger buffs

[@chriso6042]

Who woulda thought they could fix control glaiv with 1 simple change... oh wait. Honestly just makes it disrespectful to control players that they got a change and that was the best they could do

[@nicksotiriou7346]

So bad balance patch these guys are trolling you in kr at this point

[@got2beable]

Nah they changed to make smaller more recent balance patches rather than a big one once a year lel. We will see if it continues like this

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

@@got2beable True... but most of these small balance changes are just so underwhelming... and no additional Surge DB nerf despite the class being so broken. Another month of Surge DB dealing more damage than many classes that are 20+ item levels above it.

[@banji3986]

Brother, they gave mayhem 2% more survivability, they are literally trolling.

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

@@banji3986 Yeah... what Berserker needed was more damage. Mayhem build was already pretty tanky. A 1640 Mayhem Berserker fucking deals less damage than a Surge DB without Elixir 40. Very balanced.

[@Joske0000]

​@@Kalimdor199Menegroth Blade is broken whatever you compare to it. Again it is the same.stuff with predator slayer which does similar damage like mayhem amd everyone sees it as broken haha like wtf.

[@brokenhero421]

im still waiting for that gunslinger rework

[@ceacaralex3994]

sorry mate. that 5% def increase is the rework.

[@cccning1919]

😂​@@ceacaralex3994

[@brokenhero421]

@@ceacaralex3994 :_))))))))

[@davidstrangio]

Is 26.8% the largest across the board pve skill damage increase a class has ever seen?

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

Not really. They removed the Ready Attack tripods in exchange, so what they did was to increase the floor while lowering the ceiling. This should be a nerf in Trixion, but it might see the class doing more damage in raids, as you are no longer constrained by the 5-seconds self-buff window. In theory, Master Summoner has received a buff. Communication Overflow, not so much. Until they rework this build to actually benefit your pets more than the other skills, the build will remain D-tier. What is the point of playing this engraving at end game, when it buffs skills that deal less damage than Ancient Spears and Earth Collapse?

[@momoaa]

​@@Kalimdor199Menegroththere is no way they is a buff, you should already have the ready attack up for every ancient spear and akir

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

@@momoaa I guess we will see. In Trixion, probably it is a nerf. In a raid situation, I think it will be a buff.

[@momoaa]

@@Kalimdor199Menegroth we will see, cuz the change allows you to potentially swap out the two skills with ready attack which are otherwise kinda mediocre. The problem is, all of summoners other skills are also pretty mediocre so its hard to imagine as a buff. I started off as a summoner main and still keep it on my top 6 and even with level 7 cd gems, its pretty close to 100% uptime ready attack if you rotate your skills properly. Super easy in real raids to have perfect uptime on ready attack on akir, ancient spear, earth colapse, awakening, which is like 85%+ of your damage.

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

@@momoaa I will take your word then. I only played CO Summoner for a while before I abandoned her at 1540 for Slayer.

[@teddanville6996]

What an insane buff for Sorc and Summoner.

[@R0cketsloth]

Its a QOL buff but an overall damage nerf. In trixion, you'll see smaller numbers, but I feel like in real raids you'll probably end up doing more damage.

[@ItsmeMack]

@@R0cketsloth there's no way that this could be a nerf, considering that base crit rate of igniter was rised, the bonus damage during identity was buffed in her main dps skills, and also the cast of doomsday is way faster and easier to land now. on inven i've seen a few reflux and igniters say that they saw a damage increase, but so far haven't seen a consensus of what is the exact % damage, since plenty of them are still testing the new inferno and reverse gravity changes for their builds

[@AlphaFrameOfficial]

It's like you didn't even watch the video ​@@ItsmeMack

[@R0cketsloth]

@@ItsmeMack I was talking about summoner but ok?

[@statcher6565]

it's a ~6% dmg nerf for MS summoner unfortunately lol, no clue about CO

[@destroykpop576]

this sorc change is sooooo baaaad gg

[@Rek1emMScar]

this balance its shit... sadness patch ever.