Couple updates from test...

[Tastian]

Beastlord epic now has +1 cold damage instead of +2 cold damage

Festering malady has been chagned to...

1:     Increase Disease Counter by 18
2:    Decrease Hitpoints by 110 per tick

Mana:    250
Duration:    9 ticks
Casting time: 3 seconds

[Oneiromancer]

Nice!  That looks much better...now I just need level 70 and a Glowing Muramite Rune.  :P

Game on,

[Tastian]

It's better, but still not what the spell should be imo.  This is a level 70 spell and although the cast time and duration are where they should be the actual damage per tick is still lower than it should be imo.  I'll update more as I get them, but I hope this is just the first of many changes we'll see.

[Eatbugs]

Festering Malady could still use an upgrade from that, but better than before.

As for the epic change, I half expected an adjustment, what with all the monk bitching about the ratio on ours compared to theirs.  If that's as far as they're going with it, I won't complain.

[kurlin]

will this affect all epic or post patch epics

[Moffett]

Festering Maladay now is what Plague should be at 65.

[Tastian]

It's a retroactive change on the epic.

And yeah moff that's exactly what I'm trying to explain to them atm.  I've given them a ton of data and am trying to explain it so hopefully it'll happen.  The majority of changes (casting time, duration) are fixed, now we just need the damage on this now beastlord dot bumped up to be what it should be at level 70.

[Tarsq]

Another change on test (if it aint a bug) is you can invis without losing your pet.

[Kitvear]

Now the invis is worth drooling over :)

Pet surving invis is the best solution imho.

Though a having a zonewide announcement that so and so has murdered so and so's pet  might have solved the problem too.

[Tastian]

Nah it's not a bug I reported this a bit ago that the change would be hitting test soon.  I had actually heard it was on test yet or tried it out.  Nice to see it there though I know a lot of people will be very happy with this.

[Qwawn]

Beastlord epic now has +1 cold damage instead of +2 cold damage

And the nerf bat SWIIIIIIINNGS!

[Sharrien]

Beastlord epic now has +1 cold damage instead of +2 cold damage

And the nerf bat SWIIIIIIINNGS!

Just a love-tap, we can live with it.  Far more important is finding out if they have fixed the stacking issues the epic clicky has with our other pet procs.

[Ukator Iceblood]

Does anyone ever use plague? Only time I break it out is in VT for those insanely long fights. Can't imagine FM being too much different.

[Oneiromancer]

Well, except that FM is 9 ticks now...at 110 per tick that's 990 damage, 4 points less than SV...not including the initial DD of SV.  So...it's not as damaging as SV, but it's much less aggro.  However, at 250 mana, FM is 110 mana less than SV, which is nice.  I'd be much more likely to use it in a group than SV, although I agree it's pretty weak for a level 70 spell.  We'll just see how things change...

Game on,

[Gospodar]

But ya gotta find uber disease focus for it.... discordant poison works just fine on all our poison dots which makes it much more friendly, sacrificing another slot just for another dot focus will be horrible....