The Patches Notes - Regulation Version 1.32 - April 5th

well - it seems going faith or sorcerer - it still is ok. faith even got a buff. but going pyro.... you are screwed. my chaos longsword had 129 phy. AR. and 343 fire dmg. (472 AR total) now I have 390. because of the c-b-c-c scaling. a fire longsword without any investment has now 203-203 (407 AR total) but there is even a hidden nerf. we all know that weapons with two AR (fire and pyhsical) go through two absorption. before it was around 1/4 physical and 3/4 fire, dark or whatsever. if you go through the calcualtions with even numbers - you have the biggest deduction. the more damage you have on one side the better it is. means - they "buffed" the phyical potential of your weapon but decreased the elemental side. that means your weapon will do even less damage than the "390". and they buffed armor as well - melee have easy 30% physical defense but maybe only 22-24 fire or dark resistance. instead of 335 fire dmg going through 22% absorbtion it is 196 fire and 192 physical (my chaos fire longsword) means 196 minus flat def. minus absorption. and 192 minus flat minus absorption. lets say 140 flat and 30 phy and 22 fire abs. means 192 - 140 = 52 - 30% = 36 dmg. 196 fire minus 140 minus 22% = 44 dmg = total of 80 dmg! before it was 129 physical means 0 dmg BUT 335 fire dmg - 343 - 140 - 22% = 158 dmg. almost double the damage. pyros are screwed. the astora greatsword (melee) - before refined was the best. now it gets a S -scaling. and with only 40 dex you get a AR (one-handed) of 578 raw damage. over 600 with 50 dex. you need not even 26 str. DEX, and faith (with dex) seems to be very strong. and big weapon (raw) with a lot of vigor, endurance and vitality. FROM said - fuck off pyros :(

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