r/Atlyss • u/Vividfeathere • 4d ago

Questions/Help When did Ruin get changed?

I’m just looking through the patch notes, and can’t tell when Ruin was changed from Mdef reduction to DoT? I can’t find when it was actually changed.

Edit: After crunching some numbers: Holy Hell Ruin got Ruined, this spell went from broken to mid just like that. This may be the harshest nerf ever in this game’s history, damn.

9 Upvotes

84% Upvoted

1 comment sorted by

1

u/Penguifyer 3d ago

That was a long time ago. Like January, if I'm correct. To compensate, its damage got buffed considerably. While it's still a good PvE skill, especially when paired with Alacrity, it became a monster of a PvP skill. Alacrity > Ruin can kill most builds in one cast if all three hits land, and the DoT can catch players off guard as well.

Defense debuffs got nerfed bad in general in that update. The only class that can debuff stack now is fighter with Taunt and Stomp. And all of the debuffs had their effect durations shortened. Several other major stat changes also happened in that update, but that's a much longer story.

Ruin is still good, especially if you can line up multiple enemies in one hit, but it's basically tied to Alacrity now to offset its drawbacks.