Riders of Rohan Developer Diary: Burglar
By Jonathan “RockX” Steady
Hello all, RockX here! Today, I’ll be talking about the main updates, changes, and improvements we’re making to the Burglar for Riders of Rohan. Our primary focus for Riders of Rohan was on Mischief-maker and the Mischief-maker trait line. There’s a particular focus on Finesse debuffs, which is an area we haven’t really touched yet. There are also the standard Quality of Life improvements you’d expect in this update.
Improved Skills
Level 77 – Trick: Improved Disable:
- Adds a Finesse debuff in addition to its other effects
The untraited version of this will give a minor Finesse debuff, which is enhanced by having the Disabling Attack trait active.
Level 80 – Improved Confound:
- Adds a potent Finesse debuff
- Can be used at up to 15m range
The Finesse debuff triggers when the skill is used, and is completely independent of the countdown daze. Using the Confound the Fools trait will increase the duration of the Finesse debuff. This, coupled with the ability to use the skill from range, adds a great deal of versatility to a skill which was very difficult to make use of previously.
Level 83 – Improved Addle:
- Target receives a Tactical Damage debuff
So, we heard you like to use Addle to mess with those monsters which use Tactical Damage. We’re going to make Improved Addle mess with them even more, by reducing their Tactical Damage on subsequent skills.
Skill Modifications
- Safe Fall can be used while riding a normal mount.
- Find Footing now heals 25% of the Burglar’s maximum health.
- Practical Joke no longer requires Stealth to use.
- Clever Retort’s “red” damage should now be just as strong as a single red conjunction.
- Burglar’s Antidote will remove all Poison effects.
- Confound’s cooldown has been reduced to two minutes, from five.
Trait and Trait Line Modifications
- Mischief 3-set bonus reduces the cooldown of Cure Poison and Burglar’s Antidote to 40 seconds.
- Mischief 4-set bonus reduces the cooldown of Cure Poison and Burglar’s Antidote to 20 seconds.
- Mischief 5-set bonus allows Cure Poison and Burglar’s Antidote to affect the entire Fellowship.
- Footpad will now give Diversion a chance to inflict a Debuffing Gamble, in place of Burgle. As such, Improved Feint Attack will no longer allow Burglars to use Diversion from stealth.
Changing Footpad to give Diversion the Debuffing Gamble in place of Burgle opens up the opportunity to apply the Debuffing Gamble to all types of monsters, giving a lot more utility.
Legendary Trait Modifications
- Quite a Snag will allow Burglars to switch into Mischief stance when in combat.
As always, everything listed here is not final and is subject to change based on feedback and testing. Thanks for reading, and Forth Eorlingas!
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