[cross-posting from Reddit by request] Love the balance pass. Thank you, devs and Aqshy. Wanted to offer some tweaks from my own experience and from reading player feedback. Mostly in the direction of restraint. Summary: Removed Grail Knight, Bounty Hunter, and Dual Daggers nerfs Simplified changes to Warrior Priest, giving players control over when they proc ‘Righteous Fury’ rather than incentivizing taking damage Made Pyromancer and Outcast Engineer buffs a bit more conservative Made Battle Wizard nerfs more targeted to the problem talents, ‘Famished Flames’ and ‘Burnout’, without nerfing Kaboom!, which is already in a good place Addressed a couple other popular requests like Zealot thp conversion and Kruber’s greatsword Original for comparison: Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Developer Blog: Rebalance Pass 2023 - Steam News Pyromancer: Moved ‘Volans Doctrine’ to Passive Increased ‘The Burning Head’ animation speed New Perk ‘One with Aqshy’ - 50% increased max Overcharge Replaced ‘Volans Doctrine’ with ‘Flamestrike’s Tutelage’ - Sienna gains 80% reduction on Venting damage Outcast Engineer: Increased Engineer Health to 125 Increased ‘Gromril-Plated Shot’ damage Increased base fire rate of ‘linked compression chambers’ Reduced base Crank Gun starting fire rate Reduced base Crank Gun fire rate gain per shot ‘Build Pressure’ no longer loses stacks while firing Can ‘Build Pressure’ while on max ability bar ‘Build Pressure’ stacks no longer lost on full bar ‘Superior Gaskets’ now causes pressure to be lost upon firing instead of over time and each stack of pressure grants 4% power. ‘Experimental Steam Capacitors’ replaced with ‘‘Perilous Overclock’ - Building Pressure at Max stacks restores 25% charge and grants 15% crit but damages Bardin. Each Overclock increases damage suffered. ‘Bombardier’ now also causes Bardin to start missions with 3 bombs makes Bardin create a bomb every 80 seconds, and explosives no longer deal friendly fire damage (listening to feedback) ‘Piston Power’ now also restores all stamina when triggered Warrior Priest: ‘Righteous Fury’ now activates the next time you hit an enemy with a charged attack, rather than the moment the bar is filled. Full bars of fury can be held for 15s before beginning to decay. Battle Wizard Raised the cooldown and decreased the burn damage of ‘Burnout’ talent, which previously doubled the value of Fire Walk without any tradeoff Reduced the bonus damage to damage over time effects from ‘Famished Flames’ to 100% Reduced the reduction to normal damage from ‘Famished Flames’ to 15% ‘Volans Quickening’ now also buffs the burn damage of ‘Fire Walk’ Increased the damage of ‘Lingering Flames’ Necromancer ‘Army of the Dead’ now reanimates 6 additional Skeletons that decay after 20 seconds (these can still stack) Reduced the amount of Overcharge vent needed to trigger ‘Lost Souls’ and increased their damage ‘Curse of the Undeath’ stacks are no longer consumed by venting Bounty Hunter: ‘Double Shotted’ bug fixed. No longer triggering twice and reducing cooldown by 40% twice. Instead increasing the cooldown refund to 80%. Javelin: Significant reduction in cleave and a slight decrease to reload speed to maintain breakpoints while reducing the weapon’s extreme versatility and spammability. Coruscation staff: Reduction in overall damage Decrease in the duration of the damage over time effect of the flame patch Increase to the tick rate of flame patch 1H weapons: Push cost cut in half Modest increases to dodge distance and finesse (crit and headshot multiplier) Kruber’s greatsword: Increased armor damage on heavy attacks Sister of the Thorn: Crits from ‘Briar’s Malice’ no longer consumed by swinging weapon Zealot: ‘Holy Fervour’ now converts green hp to thp with each hit during its duration Bardin’s throwing axes: Increased projectile speed Note on boss killers: Fatshark isn’t wrong that certain setups let teams delete bosses faster than intended. But the playerbase generally does not complain about boss killers being OP. Boss killer builds and dual daggers are perceived as making investments and taking on risk for a specific payoff. The negative reaction to the upcoming nerfs is a sign that a different approach may be needed. Perhaps specific encounters like Skarrik Spinemangler need a buff, rather than nerfing classes and weapons. Finally, ahem… if boss killers need a nerf, why give Warrior Priest a party-wide +Monster dmg talent in the same update?

[image] Earthtender: I welcome superior suggestions. New button is the lazy answer, optionally, weaken the passive but make it easier to activate if the power budget is a problem.

Disagree with reverting Double Shotted Nerfs. That talent was way too easy to use and trivialize bosses

[image] Adelion: Because outside of boss fights the career skill can now be used a lot more often. A non-boss fight time is arguably the larger part of the mission. So you made it consistent but also increased the career skill usage by a lot. Overall, a notable dps increase for BH. Fair! I am personally okay with that. I think landing consistent headshots is worth rewarding, and Bounty Hunter was arguably deserving of a small buff. Waystalker has Piercing Shot with 100% refund but because consistent headshots are so difficult for players to land, it’s an extremely niche pick. Bots use it well on bosses tho, lol. Huntsman can oneshot regular enemies with headshots without using his ult. I don’t think it will be too strong in practice. If they want to avoid trivializing bosses, reducing monster damage on Locked and Loaded is an option that would maintain player’s desired gameplay. My read on player sentiment is that letting boss killers that successfully land consecutive trick shots (backstabs and headshots) clinch the kill is… fun, healthy, and an appropriate reward for dealing with their squishiness and lack of horde clear. So if anything, I might nerf griffonfoot’s spammability and consider a passive +ranged pwr buff to BH so his other ranged options can compete. Anyway, this is good discussion I think and asks the right questions.

[image] Frostysir: New button is the lazy answer, optionally, weaken the passive but make it easier to activate if the power budget is a problem. I’ve thought about special attack or a new button as well. But here I am presenting the simplest possible solution in hopes that it’s elegant. Building fury on taking damage incentivizes exactly the wrong thing, and the other WP changes that came with it are all bad, imo, so I really want to show a viable counter-proposal.

[image] GreenColoured: Disagree with reverting Double Shotted Nerfs. That talent was way too easy to use and trivialize bosses I think players in the highest skill, highest difficulty minority will agree with you. The majority of relatively casual players disagree, as they’re not consistently landing headshots in the heat of battle, and they like how rewarding it feels to do so. The question is always where balance is struck (or around what difficulty), and at what point is fun more important than balance. If rapidly killing bosses negatively impacted teammates’ experience, that to me would be the biggest reason to nerf. But as far as I can tell, most players celebrate a fast boss kill.

I completely agree, however, you forgot to comment on this: [image] What did they do with WARRIOR PRIEST Feedback the “divine excoriation” talent no longer exists or only works in the ultimate, it’s a shame… one of the coolest and most effective talents on a large number of enemies, it could be added to the level 10 talent “Unstoppable Force” [Talent_WarriorPriestOfSigmar_10_01] [Talent_WarriorPriestOfSigmar_20_01] the two talents merge and become just one I believe that this talent, even visually, is cool, and adds life (visually) to the WP kit, removing this will only limit it to the g…

he is a boss killer and trivializes the bosses, just like kerilian trivializes the special ones, the bazzoka trivializes the patrols, the mercenary trivializes the damage suffered by allies, the grail trivializes the elites, the battle mage trivializes almost everything in the game, the sister the thorn trivializes all enemies, the iron breaker trivializes the damage suffered, the unchained trivializes enemies with a shield using a flail… this nerf on victor turns him into a plastic huntsman with no talents for gaining a lot of temporary life.

Don’t worry, I deleted all the WP changes. It’s just the one Righteous Fury change. What you see is my proposed update, so the stuff that’s missing, I deleted. WP would be keeping Divine Excoriation, not getting +Monster damage for party, not getting Unyielding Blessing baked into base invuln bubble.

even in lower bracket play players can pretty easily land constant headshots, why? Because you literally only need to land one and all the rest were free. That’s the reason why the cooldown reduction was fixed. Maybe FS should have changed it by giving monsters more randomized unpredictable stagger animations, but that’s a bit too much just to balance a single talent

Good, so now they fixed one problem FS can work on others that exists :+1: That is if they really actually trivialized what you claim they do and you weren’t making up hyperbolic examples just for your own arguments

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Danielgafforio December 13, 2023, 4:03pm 17

I completely agree, however, you forgot to comment on this:

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