B25: Factions and Nemeses

[TedLeilaCarl]

there is no enough information on the bounties like “Killing the 'Bruiser Romanov” like locations or hints on whereabouts…anyways nice update…good job Crate…

[DaftRock]

THANK YOU for your great work crate

[system]

I don’t know which map you mean, but my maps are fully up to date and available in 2 versions A static map here http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showpost.php?p=220608&postcount=10 and a fully zoomable map here http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21186

The only missing bits are the new B25 areas, which I do not add to any map until at least a week after release as I’m not providing spoliers.

Sorry for not being clear. Your maps look great. I mean the map in this website (http://maps.grimdawn.es/) where rift, entrance, and quest mark are displayed on the map.

[dondarm]

there is no enough information on the bounties like “Killing the 'Bruiser Romanov” like locations or hints on whereabouts…anyways nice update…good job Crate…

if I’m not mistaken the description says something like “He’s rarely seen leaving the side of Darius Cronley”, which is quite true.

[Hamunces]

there is no enough information on the bounties like “Killing the 'Bruiser Romanov” like locations or hints on whereabouts…anyways nice update…good job Crate…

Had a play around with the Homestead ones on my current favourite max level character. I gotta say, I never had this problem. ‘Kill bla bla the rat, and his rate in Heffney mine’ or whatever it was. Salazar’s description was a bit more hidden. I think it was something about him hiding in a cultist lair. I didn’t have any trouble finding them, but I have a decent grasp on the bosses names I picked up somewhere along the line.

I like the somewhat vague locations. Gives a sense of exploration, and player skill instead of character stats or whatever. I’m sure eventually there will be guides on the wiki for people who haven’t encountered a certain boss yet, or can’t remember him, but for now I like the ones I’ve seen.

That being said, Bruiser Romanov…maybe one of the bosses in Cronleys Hideout? Can’t remember him specifically. Maybe I need more than 110 hours played to remember him haha

[ibugsy]

Sorry for not being clear. Your maps look great. I mean the map in this website (http://maps.grimdawn.es/) where rift, entrance, and quest mark are displayed on the map.

Ah that’s another person. Here’s the thread for that: [Tool] GD Interactive Maps.

[system]

Thanks for the info about the updates! They look great! I can’t wait to play!

I have some questions with regard to the updates:

1. I saw this thread (http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21262) saying that there will be adding dozens of new pieces of equipments for Grim Dawn’s various faction. Are these equipments part of what is said as faction only item in this update?

2. What is Soulbound status?

3. What is the difference between Soulbound Augments and augments?

4. I don’t think I understood the changes on pierce ratio. I think this is because I don’t know the term pierce ratio. My guess is that pierce ratio is a conversion of physical damage to pierce damage. Is this pierce ratio related to armor piercing of weapons? With this changes, if attacking the same enemy (this enemy has 0 physical resistance, 5 armor, and 5% pierce resistance) using the same weapon (assuming the stat of the weapon doesn’t change) using default attack (no fire strike, cadence, or wps skills) in B25 and B24, will the character has higher total damage on this enemy in B25 or in B24?

5. With the changes on Probability to Hit formula, this allows characters with lower defensive ability to survive better, does this formula apply only to enemy attacking player or both ways? If apply both ways means player is harder to die and enemy is harder to kill as well (since PTH also affects critical multiplier)? The PTH formula and its impact in each range will be updated on the main webpage, right?

6. With regard to reduce flat defensive ability bonus of all items, does this only on players or on enemy as well? I think this way because my understanding is that monsters wear monster infrequent items before we kill them. Therefore, I am not sure whether this only apply to players or to monsters as well. Same for offensive ability and health regeneration.

7. The updates said cooldown lowered on many skills. When I see the changes in each class, I don’t see any skill has reduced cooldown but either implemented or increased (Wrath of Agrivix’ cooldown time is increased to 6s).

8. With regard to damage over time, in situations where the second largest damage has longer duration than the largest damage (both are the same type, let say both are poison damage) and after the end of the duration of the largest poison damage, then in the next second the second largest poison damage is now the largest poison damage. My question is does that poison damage which used to be second largest and the moment where it is the largest, does the 50% change to 100%?

9. How does it work for overguard’s health regeneration to synergizes with menhir’s will? Does this mean when both skills are used, the % increase in health regeneration is better than the sum of each individual’s skill. Let say overguard increases health regeneration by 5% and menhir’s will increases health regeneration by 10%, when the character uses both skills, the character’s health regeneration is increased by 17% instead of 15%?

Hi, I haven’t heard back from anyone with regard these questions. Are they offensive or unclear? If it has been offensive, I apologize as I have not intention to do so. Please let me know why so I can make the ask these questions better without being offensive or unclear. Hope you guys enjoy B25!

[system]

Ah that’s another person. Here’s the thread for that: [Tool] GD Interactive Maps.

Thanks ibugsy, now I know it will be updated soon! Thank you Jaknet for the clarification and making the map!

[Zantai]

1. I saw this thread (http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21262) saying that there will be adding dozens of new pieces of equipments for Grim Dawn’s various faction. Are these equipments part of what is said as faction only item in this update?

Correct. The new equipment is sold by the various Quartermasters.

2. What is Soulbound status?

It means that item is bound to that character and cannot be traded, dropped or placed in the shared stash.

3. What is the difference between Soulbound Augments and augments?

Soulbound Augments make the item they are applied to Soulbound. Regular Augments (which do not exist at this time), do not have this restriction.

4. I don’t think I understood the changes on pierce ratio. I think this is because I don’t know the term pierce ratio. My guess is that pierce ratio is a conversion of physical damage to pierce damage. Is this pierce ratio related to armor piercing of weapons? With this changes, if attacking the same enemy (this enemy has 0 physical resistance, 5 armor, and 5% pierce resistance) using the same weapon (assuming the stat of the weapon doesn’t change) using default attack (no fire strike, cadence, or wps skills) in B25 and B24, will the character has higher total damage on this enemy in B25 or in B24?

Pierce Ratio converts a % of physical damage to pierce. Before B25, that only applied to the weapon’s base damage, now it applies to all of your physical attack damage when attacking with a weapon that has Pierce Ratio.

5. With the changes on Probability to Hit formula, this allows characters with lower defensive ability to survive better, does this formula apply only to enemy attacking player or both ways? If apply both ways means player is harder to die and enemy is harder to kill as well (since PTH also affects critical multiplier)? The PTH formula and its impact in each range will be updated on the main webpage, right?

Yes, monsters with lower DA are now a little tougher too. The PTH formula on the website was actually sneakily updated weeks ago.

6. With regard to reduce flat defensive ability bonus of all items, does this only on players or on enemy as well? I think this way because my understanding is that monsters wear monster infrequent items before we kill them. Therefore, I am not sure whether this only apply to players or to monsters as well. Same for offensive ability and health regeneration.

If a monster is wearing equipment, then the adjustment affects them too. Otherwise, no.

7. The updates said cooldown lowered on many skills. When I see the changes in each class, I don’t see any skill has reduced cooldown but either implemented or increased (Wrath of Agrivix’ cooldown time is increased to 6s).

http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21520

8. With regard to damage over time, in situations where the second largest damage has longer duration than the largest damage (both are the same type, let say both are poison damage) and after the end of the duration of the largest poison damage, then in the next second the second largest poison damage is now the largest poison damage. My question is does that poison damage which used to be second largest and the moment where it is the largest, does the 50% change to 100%?

Yes.

9. How does it work for overguard’s health regeneration to synergizes with menhir’s will? Does this mean when both skills are used, the % increase in health regeneration is better than the sum of each individual’s skill. Let say overguard increases health regeneration by 5% and menhir’s will increases health regeneration by 10%, when the character uses both skills, the character’s health regeneration is increased by 17% instead of 15%?

Menhir’s Will gives you flat health regeneration, so the % bonus from Overguard would boost it.

[KillMeTender]

Nice update. I would really like to see mobs level scale with the player’s regardless of the area (higher mob lvl than player’s is ofc fine) because it is just annoying to skip all low level mobsters before you get to the boss/bounty target.

Also the mob level jumps weirdly between 39-41 and then 13-15 in the Foggy Banks where I was trying to find Slathra (was nowhere to be found though, searched every nook n cranny). There seems to be no logic where the higher lvl mobs spawn since the bounty target was missing/bugged. This needs to get fixed asap, it is especially annoying for hardcore.

[system]

Thank you very much for the answers to the questions, Zantai! Your answers are clear and quick! You rock!

Long live Grim Dawn! Long Live Crate Entertaiment!

[Zantai]

Nice update. I would really like to see mobs level scale with the player’s regardless of the area (higher mob lvl than player’s is ofc fine) because it is just annoying to trek around with lvl 10 mobs around before you get to the boss/bounty target (supposedly this is endgame content and not something you primarily do while questing/leveling)?

Also the mob level jumps weirdly between 39-41 and then 13-15 in the Foggy Banks where I was trying to find Slathra (was nowhere to be found though, searched every nook n cranny). There seems to be no logic where the higher lvl mobs spawn since the bounty target was missing/bugged. This needs to get fixed asap, it is especially annoying for hardcore.

Mobs will scale with the player regardless of area at higher difficulties.

Bounty targets ignore level limits, so they can spawn higher level than surrounding monsters. Where did you see 39-41 mobs in the Foggy Bank?

Slathra has 3 possible spawn points, I’ve updated her bounty to give a more direct hint to her location She can also sometimes spawn in a cave in that area.

[SlayerM]

Question to Zantai - with new multi-thread support in b25 these things from options.txt will affect the game? List:

forceSingleProcessorMode
maxResourceThreads

[KillMeTender]

Mobs will scale with the player regardless of area at higher difficulties.

Bounty targets ignore level limits, so they can spawn higher level than surrounding monsters. Where did you see 39-41 mobs in the Foggy Bank?

Slathra has 3 possible spawn points, I’ve updated her bounty to give a more direct hint to her location She can also sometimes spawn in a cave in that area.

Thanks for the reply Zantai. I encountered lvl 39-41 mobs in the Cultist cave near the shrine in the backroom. Also saw a few near the vendor in Wightmire as well as in the area where there used to be the stonehenge close to the path that leads to the small peninsula where you find them green shoulders under the log (quest).

[KillMeTender]

Was playing on hc veteran, lvl 40 Commando if that provides any further help.

[eisprinzessin]

Void Fiends which spawn on death of a cultist ignore the level cap. Similar to Corpse Fiends.

[system]

I’ve also noticed since the new update, everytime I join a multiplayer game, my game crashes after 3-5 minutes… And when I say everytime, I really mean it. I can’t play multiplayer more than 5 minutes now… R.I.P playing with friends for a while I guess…

[dmitrij]

I’ve also noticed since the new update, everytime I join a multiplayer game, my game crashes after 3-5 minutes… And when I say everytime, I really mean it. I can’t play multiplayer more than 5 minutes now… R.I.P playing with friends for a while I guess…

Same here.

[Erevos]

Same here.

same here, for my buddy too

[SlayerM]

Little performance testing. Short run to last location of act 1. Three runs, with
maxResourceThreads = 1
maxResourceThreads = 2
maxResourceThreads = 4

Here results:

For me it’s an improvement, FPS in hot battles really go higher. I got ~+10-15 in some cases. Optimal maxResourceThreads = 2 i think.