Part 2:
Withered Set:
Dried Cactus: If those armor numbers on the front page are correct you'd need a target with at least 150 armor for this to be somewhat effective. So unless you are really unlucky with dps item drops or don't have Knusperhexe I can't see this item being useful.
Rotten Toadstool: It's strong - if you take the time to micromanage it against fal waves.
Mummy Bandages: Very powerful if leveled - probably the best item for proc based towers.
2set: Definitely helps against boss waves.
3set: this could potentially double the damage against bosses which sounds a bit too powerful
Verdict: Cactus meh, Toadstool useful, Bandages crazy, 2set/3set crazy anti boss support.
Thanks Nillo for your input on the set items, very much appreciated!
- The rares of the frozen set are now more valueable in 0.8.1!
- The grammar is corrected :-)
- The Gib summoning description should be more clear now!
Does dried cacti bonus stack additively or multiplicatively? An addition bonus will give 88.4% armor ignore while a multiplicative bonus will grant 69.4% armor ignore.
I did a test with a lvl 99 Balu carry holding a Blade of Darkness and an Excalibur on wave 518. Adding two more cacti actually gives more displayed damage numbers than two additional Blades of Darknesses. This is taking account of a lvl 94 Knusperhexe that has eaten 589 mass creeps.
Additional testing had me replace the last Blade of Darkness with another cactus. Interestingly enough the result is much less impressive where that last Blade of Darkness is able to (somewhat) give Balu more DPS than the cactus.
The cactus reduction should be added, I think!
Interesting observation about end game armor. I think a solid balance between piercing armor/raw damage sounds quite solid. Probably this ratio got out of Balance with removing the last blade?
Well if it's added then that would explain why a third one does next to nothing. Low armor doesn't really reduce damage taken by much so removing the last 11.6% just doesn't do anything. On the other hand going from 55.8% to 11.2% is huge.
Am I to understand that Knusperhexe's armor reduction takes effect after the armor reduction from cacti then?
Sounds unlikely - I mean the hexe aura affects the creeps so they should already have a lower armor value that works before the outside reduction.
So here's a few updates on what I think needs re-tuning:
Knusperhexe: Becomes kind of pointless at some point -> armor needs to be reworked and the cap on her ability remove
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Wolf: Elvis does about twice the damage per second so it takes a lot of leveled wolfs just to get to his level which means that in it's current state it's a pretty useless tower.
So the abilities I have in mind are:
Pack leader: The highest level wolf is considered pack leader and gains crit damage, crit chance based on the total levels of all pack members combined.
Pack member: each pack member gains stats equal to (50% + 0.3% per level) of the pack leaders stats (that is +dmg%, crit%, chd%, atkspd%, item%)
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Shadow: The imbalance between insta kiling normal waves and being really weak against challenge/horemen is kind of disturbing.
Hmm, I tried a wolf build recently and made it quite nicely through the game. I know there was a version where Wolf was nerfed to the ground, but in the current release he should be a pretty decent carry option, especially for early/mid game if you are unlucky with crit potions.
Also, I really need to update the changelog for 0.9, but atm I'm quite busy with real life stuff :-) Currently there are 32 issues in mantis for sprint 0.9. It's gonna be a quite big release this time!
Hmm the card still says
13-15 dmg 1.5 sec
and 2% damage , 0.5% crit per level.
So either I'm looking at the wrong tower info or it's just way too weak !:
Be aware that the range of Wolf was also increased from 1 -> 2, thus the reduction in damage.
The 2% crit damage and 0.5% crit chance, per level of any Wolf on the map isn't too weak I think.
Hey!
I have tried the first playthrough with Huli/Muli in the new version and i honestly think that 2 seconds hangover is too much. If a fast air comes it can almost fly the entire way through the maze before Muli recovers. I think that one second would be more appropriate, it will still make him worse than he was in 0.7, but not as bad as in 0.8..
Furthermore there seem to be a bug with him. Sometimes he gets 2 or 3 hangovers in a row even though there are monsters he can hit. It is like he gets a 'liquor bought' while he is hungover or just after he is recovered but before he attacks?
Hey pretz, thanks for your reporting.
The Hangover bug was already reported by @kad in mantis, so I got that on my todo list already.
I haven't really played with Muli yet in the latest release, are there other opinions on him being too strong now?
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Alright, gonna re-check muli on the next release then. There are some problems with the 2s not working correctly so I gonna put hands on him anyways. Looking forward to see how that goes :-)
Regarding hitman he's actually a very strong carry, despite the 5s cooldown! For the beginning you just need a second tower to handle masses, later put messerschmidts on for masses!