Hunters Get A Massive Buff In Today’s Lord Of The Rings Online Update
Hunters have gotten a much-needed buff in today’s Lord of the Rings Online in Update 26.1. Apparently, this was the “something secret” that Standing Stone Games teased in last month's Update 26 patch notes. The hugely underpowered class is getting a number of significant boosts across the board including increased DPS, reduced cooldowns, and the addition of Focus-generating melee attacks. Here are the details:
- Hunter DPS is being brought up. Skills that were lagging behind received the largest boosts, including melee, traps, and secondary bow skills.
- Improved Penetrating Shot's Mitigation debuff magnitude has been reduced slightly, but now applies to tactical mitigation as well as physical mitigation for greater group utility.
- Dazing Blow's cooldown has been reduced from 60 seconds to 20 seconds.
- Low Cut's cooldown has been increased from 5 to 10 seconds, and its base area of effect targets has been reduced from 7 to 5.
- Set Trap's cooldown and induction have been reduced from 60 to 45 seconds and from 2.5 to one second.
- Most bow skill damage has been increased.
- Damage on all melee & traps has been increased greatly.
- Most hunter melee attacks now generate Focus.
The update also comes with small tweaks and fixes to the Captain, Rune-keeper, and Warden classes, along with general fixes and improvements. You can view the full update release notes on the Lord of the Rings Online official forums.
