SWTOR: Planned Balance Changes for 7.1.1 23514j

Madness / Balance, and Advanced Prototype / Tactics. Check it out: 5i171

Shabir here and I am a Gameplay changes we are making in the patch: 

Lightning/Telekinetics:

• Patch Notes:  

• Convection/Clamoring Force – Critical hit damage bonus goes to 12% (down from 15%).
• Thundering Blast/Turbulence – Second arc of damage deals 20% of Turbulence’s damage (down from 25%).  
• Storm watch damage decreased by 4%
• Halted Offensive/Power of the Force cast time increased to 3.0 seconds (up from 2.5 seconds). Alacrity still affects cast time. 
• Decrease Halted Offensive’s/Power of the Force’s damage by 15%.
• Convection/Clamoring Force – Thundering Blast/ Turbulence grants Reserved Darkness/Reserved Light, making Dark Heal/Benevolence an instant cast and increasing its healing by 30%. Stacks up to 2 times.
• Thunder and Lightning/Incoming Turbulence ability mod have their damage increased to 10% (up from 5%) and includes Halted Offensive/ Power of the Force.

Developer :

• Lightning/Telekinetics is exceeding our DPS targets as a Ranged Burst spec role. For this reason, we are making the following changes:
  • Halted Offensive/Power of the Force cast time increased to 3.0 seconds (up from 2.5 seconds).
    • An increase to cast time allows players to not feel as if they have to hard cast this ability especially in situations that require mobility. 
  • Decrease Halted Offensive’s/Power of the Force’s damage by 15%
    • This change was made to bring the ability’s damage into line to its intended damage value and bring the Ranged Burst spec’s damage correctly into line with the DPS targets. 
  • Convection/Clamoring Force – Thundering Blast/Turbulence grants Reserved Darkness/Reserved Light, making Dark Heal/Benevolence an instant cast and increasing its healing by 30%. Stacks up to 2 times.
    • The old version of Convection/Clamoring Force. In the future, we will make changes like these much clearer. 
  • Thunder and Lightning/Incoming Turbulence ability mod have their damage increased to 10% up from 5% and includes Halted Offensive/Power of the Force.
    • This change is being made to make the burst option more appealing in comparison to the sustain and utility based option. 

Madness/ Balance: 

• Patch Notes: 

• Disintegration/Critical Kinesis – Death Field/Force in Balance and Death Brand/Shifted Balance grant Vitiate’s Malice/Warden’s Vigor, giving Force Lightning/Telekinetic Throw 20% Lifesteal for 12 seconds. 
• Force Horrors/Drain Thoughts – Increase periodic damage to 20% (up from 15%). 
• Lightning Barrage/Telekinetic balance – Force Lightning/Telekinetic Throw reduced damage changed to -20% from -25%.
• Tempest of Rho – Correctly applies 50% chance for Force Lightning/Telekinetic Throw to trigger periodic effects down from 75%. 

• Developer :
  • The distribute that DPS back into the class itself. 
  • We also wanted to discourage players from prioritizing Force Lightning/Telekinetic Throw over Lightning Strike/ Disturbance when proced in order to get the best DPS output. 

Advanced Prototype/Tactics:

• Patch Notes: 

• Magnetic Blast/Tactical Surge damage reduced by 14%. 
• Power Burst/High Yield Explosives mod stacks damage bonus reduced to 4% per stack down from 5% per stack. (total of 16% damage bonus to thermal det down from 20%). 
• Serrated Blades damage reduced to 5% down from 15%. (combined into Prototype Rail/High Friction Bolts)
• Blood Tracker/Triumph damage increase to bleeding targets is reduced to 3% down from 5%. 
• Lingering Heat/Superheated Cells damage reduced by 50%.

• Developer : 
  • Advanced Prototype/Tactics is exceeding our DPS targets as a Melee Burst spec role. For this reason we made the following changes: 
  • Magnetic Blast/Tactical Surge damage reduced by 14%. 
    • Magnetic Blast/Tactical Surge damage was reduced to lower sustain and reduce the amount of DPS this ability contributed to an overall parse. 
    • Magnetic Blast/Tactical Surge is intended to be a filler ability and not make up a majority of the DPS output on a burst melee class. 
  • Power Burst/High Yield Explosives mod stacks damage bonus reduced to 4% per stack down from 5% per stack. (total of 16% damage bonus to thermal det down from 20%). 
    • The change to Power Burst/High Yield Explosives mod was made to bring the mod more in line with the intended DPS increase a player should receive from a burst DPS mod. 
  • Serrated Blades damage reduced to 5% down from 15%. (combined into Prototype Rail/High Friction Bolts)
    • Much like the Magnetic Blast/Tactical Surge changes this change was made to reduce the sustain of the spec.
  • Blood Tracker/Triumph damage increase to bleeding targets is reduced to 3% down from 5%. 
    • The change to Blood Tracker/Triumph was also made to reduce the sustain of the class. 
  • Lingering Heat/Superheated Cells damage reduced by 50%.
    • The change to Lingering Heat/Superheated Cells mod was made to bring the mod further in line with what a sustain mod should give within a burst melee spec.
       

What will happen after 7.1.1: 

• We are going to be taking a look at the tank balance within the game as well as a variety of quality of life changes for various classes. 
• We will be taking a look at other mods across classes and balancing them in order to make them more competitive with the go-to options players tend to take. 

I just wanted to close by thanking everyone for their updated with class changes coming your way in the future.