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IoD bams

DrazerDrazer
in TERA PC - General Discussion
Is it just me or the IoD BAMS become stronger every week?, As a priest i did a 2 million dmg with a critic, now it barely do a 1.3 million.

Comments

  • StarbuzzStarbuzz ✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    Are you sure you weren't backcritting the bams to get more damage? Did you by chance, pick up a keen mote ?
  • DrazerDrazer ✭✭
    edited July 2016
    I always do a backcritic damg, and no, thats the normal dmg with no keen mote (with the mote it went up to 4million) yes, i have +15 weapon, I asked some friends and they said they feel they do less damg/critic to the BAMS, but i just ended to asking here just to be sure
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bams have been the same strength since Ninja patch. And tomorrow's patch shouldn't change anything on them. Double check if all the conditions for you to max crit were done. The back crit zone is rather small and is not always where one thinks it is. I was having a similar issue on my warrior, where I did varying amounts of crit damage with the same move under seemingly similar conditions. Happens that because of some bam animations, the real back of the bam is not always where the model shows it to be.
  • MagraalMagraal ✭✭✭
    edited July 2016
    One interesting fact is that, while a BAM is turning (particularly noticeable on Naga Warmasters as they turn quite slowly) their 'back' doesn't move until they finish the full turning animation or get stunned/kd'd/etc. Similar things happen during other animations as well, such as attacks, falling over, trampling and so-on.

    There are also other player-made variables to consider, such as buffs, which scroll you were using, Energy Stars, glyphs, etc. Always check you've switched your crystals and glyphset fully before dps-ing as any non-DPS class to ensure maximum damage output.
  • PhandemoniumPhandemonium ✭✭
    edited July 2016
    I've noticed some things with IoD giants..

    1. I could knock them down fairly well in assault stance and a ALOT more while using intimidation but now even in intimidation I'll be lucky if I can knock them down even ONCE.

    2. Out of all IoD bams I see the most whites with giants. This posses a problem for zerkers cuz it just prolongs the fight by a lot.

    IoD dailies would go so much faster without the ridiculous crit resist. Heck even with keen mote you can still see whites! and that's with over 400 crit factor =_=

    So yeah, I think they've been buffed. In a different way tho.
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    They were massively buffed defense-wise when ninja patch arrived because the power creep players got in gear and because of ninja itself (devs wanting to make the shiny new class so OP in dps at first that it's among the best classes to do IoD with at the moment) But I personally farmed a lot of these things after ninja and have noticed no changes yet. Maybe I should pay more attention to my crits?
  • MagraalMagraal ✭✭✭
    Nopi wrote: »
    They were massively buffed defense-wise when ninja patch arrived because the power creep players got in gear and because of ninja itself (devs wanting to make the shiny new class so OP in dps at first that it's among the best classes to do IoD with at the moment) But I personally farmed a lot of these things after ninja and have noticed no changes yet. Maybe I should pay more attention to my crits?

    They were re-balanced more than buffed. Due to them being reclassified into 3 tiers of BAMs rather than 9 separate tiers, the lower 2 of each tier were buffed substantially while the upper 1 was left basically as-is. The primary reason the highest tier of BAMs (Nagas/Giants/Hydraths) is so annoying to do is because they seem to be balanced around kTera's use of the Talent System, which we lack.
  • YamazukiYamazuki ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nopi wrote: »
    They were massively buffed defense-wise when ninja patch arrived because the power creep players got in gear and because of ninja itself (devs wanting to make the shiny new class so OP in dps at first that it's among the best classes to do IoD with at the moment) But I personally farmed a lot of these things after ninja and have noticed no changes yet. Maybe I should pay more attention to my crits?

    The strength of BAMs have nothing to do with Ninja, and even then, the class isn't the best at killing them. As pointed out, Korea has a talent system that gives them nice things. Their classes are not played in the same way as ours, and theirs all deal more damage. What makes Ninjas op does't even apply to our version as we don't even have talents. BHS has a hard time balancing as it is, so it should come no surprise that there ends up other areas that end up imbalanced when they have to balance for version with and without the talents.
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