Eternium's Season Update: Legacy Gear and Beyond!

[Arawn]

Thanks Travis . Well the descriptions do reflect the changes. Sorry, it's been a bit since I've played and I forgot what the old stats were

[Travis | Support Mgr.]

OLD:
2 Piece Bonus:
Casting Charge, Leap, Battle Rage, or Whirlwind grants 4 charges of Fortress of Steel. Whenever you are attacked, you have a 30% chance to consume the charge, preventing 50% damage and healing you for 6% of maximum health.

4 Piece Bonus:
Shield Slam damage is increased by 400%.

6 Piece Bonus:
Shield Block can now trigger a Deadly Throw every 1 second instead of 6 seconds. While Shield Block is active, you gain 100% of Block Rating as Power.
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NEW:
2 Piece Bonus:
Casting Charge, Leap, Battle Rage, or Whirlwind grants 4 charges of Fortress of Steel. Whenever you are attacked, you have a 30% chance to consume the charge, preventing 60% damage and healing you for 8% of maximum health.

4 Piece Bonus:
Shield Slam damage is increased by 500%.

6 Piece Bonus:
Shield Block can now trigger a Deadly Throw every 1 second instead of 6 seconds. While Shield Block is active, you gain 150% of Block Rating as Power.

[Arawn]

Defender Set Reimagined: We've tweaked the Defender set for enhanced performance. Pair it with The Liberator for an unmatched combat experience.

How specifically was the Defender set modified? I don't see any see any changes in the gear description or the abilities/passives descriptions

[Bali_Lenni]

Feedback:
Love the new Manastim (arcanist farming, zap boss fights) and great idea to keep Velocinite in the game (and have even more different kinds of spirit stones in future?!).
Very much looking forward to a Mage Legacy item though I do not envy those who are trying to figure out its kind, characteristics and balancing Good Luck and Tally Ho !

[Shinori]

So with new season and changes to shield warrior, wanna share my opinion on these changes:

First of all, the Deadly throw/shield block mechanics, don't know if it's intended or not, but now there is no cooldown between each DT cast, that means each hit you get will spawn 1 DT, using 3 shield blocks in a row will proceed to spawn 3 DT per blocked hit(Kara's ability that reduces attack speed is perfect example), same goes for mob clear phase in trials, leaving shield slam far away from deadly throw in terms of dps(including new liberator shield, and deadly throw bracers equipped - before shield slam bracers were better than DT ones..). With new manastim spiritstones and CD reducement of shield block ability(6sec - from 30 to 24) shield warrior is capable of stacking shield block buff over 2 minutes during full trial. But the thing is, one shield block buff has a limit of DT u can cast(if I'm right it's 5 - didn't checked), so having for example 30 seconds of shield block buff, there will be no DT cast if they're spent already, so you have to cast shield block once again... I would say that's really good to have such buffed and resurrected shield Warrior, in terms that it is capable to compete with juggernaut in SEASON, but ANB defender totally destroys 6fury(way weaker farmer than 6 defender now and much more demanding in terms of gear - need 2 good weapons, while shield Warrior needs only good shield to farm effectively) and 6J builds both, leaving no competition for any of them
As for me, I never played on my main anything except defender(season) so I'm really happy with these changes, but other players might be disappointed that defender now is the only playable build...


New liberator shield is really great and totally changes the defender build itself, but the consequences are: shield Warrior looses his weapon set - changing blackguard shield to liberator is a huge hit to warrior's sirvivability, losing 50 dmg reduction while below 50% health, same goes for the weapon - blackguard mace to whirlwind axe for more heal and toughness, cause shield slam now isn't so powerful, so no need in these 15 shield slam per 60 sec procs from your hits, ww axe heal effect is much more needed on higher trials than few slams more. And with loosing dmg reduction, shield warrior's hp bar really starts to jump from side to side(on higher trials), good thing that he have instant heal, which manastim helps with... Lost set effect, but gained much faster heal with manastim, so it's fair


As you can see, I'm using deflect rating on my items(because it really helps, but not so much like I wanted), I'd be really satisfied if you would answer me if any changes will be made to deflect(as I suggested in my post below - though, I would change some chapters now)

https://forum.makingfun.com/forum/eternium/feedback-suggestions/219794-ideas-on-improving-shield-warrior

[Mxtof]

Re: Spirit Stones.

Where do I find them in normal game? Easy to find in ANB, I've got bucket loads. But normal season, running around like an idiot in Story and Trials, don't seem to be any about. Is the drop rate really low?

Spiritstones are a sub-type of Gemstones, which means Currency boosters can increase the drop rate for both of them (albit Spiritstones are the minority). Trials have an increased gemstone drop rate in ANB, but not enough otherwise. You need to run small maps in Story Mode with high mob density (like Morgenheim, for instance), preferably with Currency booster on.

[Fafhrd1611]

Re: Spirit Stones.

Where do I find them in normal game? Easy to find in ANB, I've got bucket loads. But normal season, running around like an idiot in Story and Trials, don't seem to be any about. Is the drop rate really low?

[MightyPen]

Ah, thanks, papa jim. It's been so long since I bought a recipe, I'd forgotten about Liana.

[papa jim]

At this time the only legacy gear is the liberator (shield) for warrior, requires 8 MotO to craft.. The recipe has to be purchased from Liana. legacy gear for other classes is planned. Look under weapons/shield/legacy to see the liberator and attributes.

[MightyPen]

Okay, I found a Liberator and salvaged it, receiving 4 MotO. Can't seem to craft any Legacy gear though. Will Ingrid offer me new choices when I have more MotO?

[David Hilfiker]

Oh OK I will use the essences then. Thank you for your answer.

[mxb]

All and all, I need more velociraptor stones...
Give them to me!

All and all, seems like a cool all-around job to me.
Good job!

[Travis | Support Mgr.]

What happened to all the spirit stones I had? They disappeared.

Why are you going with Spirit Stones again- you stole the last batch from us out of our inventory and off our characters jewelry. I ain't even using this batch of Spirit (sucker) Stones ... selling them for the coin. I ain't falling for than that mess of you removing them again ...

Spiritstones only last one Season. At the end of each Season, they are converted into Essences (crafting ingredients).

[Knightmare5498]

Why are you going with Spirit Stones again- you stole the last batch from us out of our inventory and off our characters jewelry. I ain't even using this batch of Spirit (sucker) Stones ... selling them for the coin. I ain't falling for than that mess of you removing them again ...

[David Hilfiker]

Also the mage class could use a staff and book combination legacy drop.