Buh-bye Crit mit!

[Lapsus]

From Smokeblo...er, Smokejumper:

We’ve listened to all of your conversations since Critical Mitigation was originally introduced. The dev team has extensively debated about it internally. (Very extensively.) But ultimately, we decided that the right move for EQII is to remove Critical Mitigation entirely from the game.
 
Critical Mitigation initially seemed to do what it was designed for, but it has always suffered from a complete lack of intuitiveness for players, and it’s not a forward-extensible system. Ultimately, it doesn’t add any fun factor to the game.
 
So we’ve decided that a complete removal of it is by far the best solution for all concerned.
 
Here are the details:

Critical Mitigation (the stat) has been removed from the game.
Critical Mitigation no longer displays on the Character pane (for obvious reasons, since it’s no longer in the game).
NPCs no longer use Critical Bonus to add to critical damage.
Buffs and debuffs that have Critical Mitigation elements to them will have those elements replaced with other elements instead, so that those buffs/debuffs do not lose effectiveness.
Critical Mitigation values on adornments will be replaced with hit point values instead.
 
This change will be coming to Test soon and then to the regular servers soon thereafter.
 
NOTE: This change has no effect on PvP game play. The “PvP Critical Mitigation” stat is still useful for game balance in PvP play and is not being changed.

[Zeng / Arovin]

Good thing no one made you guys go out and adorn all your stuff for crit mit...amirite?   

[Lapsus]

[Zeng / Arovin]

Hmmm...crit mit changes are already on test. Given the usual robust way this game is tested, I guess we'll see those changes on live next Tuesday.

[Zandos/Malusignis]

We don't need test, WE'LL DO IT LIVE

WE'LL DO IT LIVE FUCK IT

[Chimes]

Hmmm...crit mit changes are already on test. Given the usual robust way this game is tested, I guess we'll see those changes on live next Tuesday.

Yup, removal of crit mit goes live tomorrow (Tues).
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=516297

[Zandos/Malusignis]

This weekends raid shall be... interesting.

[Harrek]

Hooray for the crappy health adorn as a replacement!   

[Zeng / Arovin]

Heh...word is right now mobs are critting like crazy. 

[Zandos/Malusignis]

No mention about pathing either.  Guess the CM removal was enough to deal with at once.  And I guess we'll see a hot fix here and there to fix the current state of crit.

[Ebabtar (Rat)]

Crit Mit Loose Ends Getting Patched
Written by Feldon on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 6:50 pm

Looks like some of the files related to specific mobs didn’t make it to Live, so some mobs are still critting. According to Gninja, An emergency fix is incoming.

Update: US servers are going down at 5:25 PDT for a quick patch to fix this issue.

[Mytra]

Did EOF last night in a sorta PUG and saw no real issues.  Folks there said they were fine in the Drundar X2 after the change. 

[Zandos/Malusignis]

So I'm wondering, how should we adorn now? Can we go our own ways and tweak the way we want now, or are we just going to have to pop on HP adorns?

[Ebabtar (Rat)]

I figured I was going to wait until after Game Update 63 before I wasted any more shards. You can always get some of the white health adorns by doing the Guk chronoportals, too.