[2021] Well of Radiance stealth nerf in patch 3.4.0

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Well of Radiance is no longer turning your fireteams weapon damage into super damage but only does it for the player casting the Well. This has two major implications:

- Focusing Lens does no longer buff any weapon damage of fireteam members standing in a Well of Radiance.

- Fireteam members can no longer shoot through shields when standing in a Well of Radiance.

The game does recognise the Well's 'owner', therefore other Warlocks running Well of Radiance still dont get the benefits when standing in someone else's Well of Radiance.

First to bring this up was ninj on twitter

Edit: See u/CourtRooom's twitter thread for further explanations and clarifications on this

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almost 3 years ago - /u/Tocom - Direct link

This is not a bug or a stealth nerf. Genuinely missed it in the patch notes and is by design.

Goal was to make it so the casting warlock still got it's benefit but the team which was erroneously getting it no longer did. This lead to DPS accelerations that we did not intend for or could meaningfully sustain season over season.

The interaction for focusing lens should still function as normal with other damage focused supers. Apologies for missing this patch note, it was a huge patch with lots of moving parts.

Pardon our dust!

almost 3 years ago - /u/Tocom - Direct link

Originally posted by Alarie51

Literally a stealth nerf lmao. Someone had to make this post public for you to acknowledge a nerf.

We often think of this community as one we expect to do damage breakdowns on even the smallest of changes to the sandbox. So we never expect or believe we could sneak even the smallest change past y'all.

Accidents happen, we're human after all and like I mentioned it was a massive patch. One of the drawbacks of a scope like that is the increase in likelyhood we will miss notes like this. We try our best not to but these things happen.

We're want to continue to make meaningful changes and be communicative about them. I hope that what you've seen via action this last year shows you that were not interested in sneaking by anything. We will always try our best at keeping the line of communication open. Even if the change stings.

almost 3 years ago - /u/Tocom - Direct link

Originally posted by PlentifulOrgans

The clarification is appreciated. But I will miss, very much, having a counter to the insane shields a barrier servitor puts out.

Can we ask about shatter dive eating melee charges while you're here?

Known bug that has a fix in the pipe. More on that in the nearish future.

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