haha, grats!

Did they improve later on with better gear?

Yeah, once you get high enough for elite gear and put on some 200+ armor boots your crane kick damage jumps tremendously and your dps becomes more reasonable.

Not first, but still a great feeling!

Now I'll try Mage, see if I can be first there

Grats man!

Grats yo. It's a challenging game, so it's no small feat.

SHAZZAM! Ok, I can stop now. Phew...

lol, nice!

Btw, did you run into any weird bug with exp to go on your stat sheet? I'm not even 100% sure what it says.

It says I have -460 xp till next level, that's about the only weirdness I see.

yeah. Will have to fix that up. heh

One more down!

I made Sylvan Creep too strong! I knew it!

hah, it's alright as it is with the way healing is right now. I still died a few times to some bosses just because I couldn't mitigate the damage done well enough.

The regens on the buffs is very insignificant.

I didn't change their chloroplast, thorns, or anything else yet.

I know, just saying - before you swing the nerf bat on it. hehe

Might be a good idea to look at all of the heals and make them scale by %. Makes sense for healing abilities since skills stop at L.50. Right now they don't scale well at all.

Sylvan Creep was a nice change, its really only for bosses given the long cooldown and they needed help with bosses.

Scaling healing with % would be awesome but it might be a nightmare to balance. Also, how would it scale with skill? The skill impact would have to be minimal, like it starts at ~25% heal and scales to low 30s?

I'd do something like:

Heal over Time:
Skill - Potency. Min Skill = 1%, Max Skill = 3%.
Talent - Frequency. Skill Level 1 = 3 Seconds, Skill Level 20 = 2 seconds.

So a maxed out skill with talent would regenerate 3% every 2 seconds. A min skill would regenerate 1% every 3 seconds. A max skill with no talents would regenerate 3% every 3 seconds.

Direct Heals:
Same logic could apply with Direct Heals.

Skill - Potency. Min Skill = 15%, Max Skill = 25%
Talent - Buff. Applies some kind of buff that lasts for less than the duration of the Direct Heal cooldown.

Just some random thoughts - totally the wrong forum for this though.

It's just that a 15% heal at high level is awesome, a 15% heal at low level is terrible. Thus it's sort of x^2 growth of usefulness. Makes heal pretty crap at low levels but I guess thats not entirely bad.

Better solution is probably a really simple one. Just change the skill maximums.

Well that might be a good solution - probably want to test it first to make sure things don't blow up Definitely though, if you're open to it / trying it.

It would certainly create some flux, but it might be a good idea. I might have to buff mob HP a bit.

Slowing all day long!

i'm late to the party but congrats on the first 99!

and of course grats to all of the rest of the achievers in between

Now only Mage and Cleric haven't yet cleared Hell in softcore...
As a side note, I started first as Mage but at ActI Hell I hit a wall, every mob was a pain to kill, so I went Wizard and finished the game in less time it took my mage to finish Nightmare
Didn't use much gear from Mage either; Wiz has much more synergies going, and better lvl20 bonuses imho. Reduced cooldowns ftw!

Cleric is decent, so I think it's official, mage is the redheaded stepchild of nevergrind.