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Should explain, once again, that MSC XP has always worked on the basis of diminishing returns, meaning stronger monsters have poorer XP/HP/ability ratios. It's more generous than it's ever been before, but to prevent the rapid rise of god-like characters that the world cannot sustain, I've kept, more or less, to that theme.Keldorn said:
When I first went about increasing Boss XP's exponentially (shortly after Atholo's introduction, when nothing had an XP value higher than 400), I didn't go overboard on Atholo, due to the Parry exploit (although I did raise him from 400 to 5000, vs. Venevus going from 300 to 3000). Might be able to undo that, with the Parry cap, and MiB expressing interest in getting the new Parry system in place sooner rather than later.Keldorn said:
Wasn't possible at the time, but as ye point out, it might be now. Bleh, would mean map editing though, and bumping up the size of the betapack yet again. Really need to get a full installer in. Would have this last time, but so many bugs cropped up...Keldorn said:
Had a more wicked idear that the minions would have normal XP, but keep increasing in power as more were allowed to spawn. Granted, it'd make the area unpassable, at a certain point, if the players didn't catch on.
The Torkie mini-Bosses are all worth 5k XP now. I may raise this again before the patch.Keldorn said:
I can remove the retaliate (switch target) function from the Frost Hammers to make tanking a more relevant tactic. As explained earlier, however, all end-bosses have extremely inflated XP, so one shouldn't expect to get more XP out of a minion on harder map, regardless of how much more powerful it maybe.Keldorn said:
Error in the way the #include in the script was setup, since resolved.Keldorn said:
The fire shamans on MSCave are nerfed so as not to instantly-fry MSCave leveled players. This likely is not translating well with the Zombie transformation (although, I'd really like to re-rig their behavior in zombie mode to something less sophisticated than fire-ball throwing - they being Zombies and all.)Keldorn said:
They shouldn't be able to parry fire balls, as the damage type has an _effect flag (thus, no parry). :\ The Sorcs have already had their XP increased quite a bit though...Keldorn said:
Keldorn said:
Already done, although I neglected to reduce the XP for the infinite spawn the ones. The ones Ihotor makes, even with the increase, likely aren't worth the pounding you get in that chamber, so probably not needed there, but tis true, I could see sploits coming for the ones on The Wall's... walls...
