Riders of Rohan Developer Diary: Minstrel
By: Jonathan “RockX” Steady
Hey all, RockX again! Today’s diary is focused on the Minstrel changes for Riders of Rohan. There’s a decent amount going on in terms of quality of life improvements, but first:
Improved Skills
Level 77 – Tale of the Elements (Improved Tale of Frost and Flame)
- Replaces the Frost and Fire Mitigation buff of Tale of Frost and Flame with Tactical Mitigation.
Level 80 – Call of Eärendil (new skill!):
- Requires Harmony stance.
- Melee-range frontal Area of Effect attack.
- Maximum of 3 targets.
- Deals light-type damage and applies a tactical mitigation debuff to targets.
This skill will deal substantial light-type damage to targets in a cone directly in front of the Minstrel. Any targets hit will be given the same tactical mitigation debuff as from Call of Oromë.
Level 83 – Improved Gift of the Hammerhand:
- Adds a potent Heal over Time to the target.
The Heal over Time is applied at the same time as the bubble.
Skill Modifications
- All Minstrel attacks with a buff of some sort should now trigger the buff, even if the attack misses.
- Tales stay active while silenced.
- Tale of Battle’s Vitality buff has been brought up to the same strength as the Will buff from Tale of Heroism.
- Song of the Dead now affects the Dead, Ancient Evil and Unseen. It has been renamed to Song of Subdual.
- The strength of Anthem of Prowess has increased.
Item Advancement
- Call of Oromé Damage Legacy will affect Call of Eärendil as well.
- Song of the Dead Cooldown Legacy has been renamed to Song of Subdual Legacy.
- Anthem of War (melee damage) Legacy will increase both melee and ranged damage now.
- Anthem of War (ranged damage) Legacy is replaced with Minstrel Skill Bubble Strength Legacy.
Trait Modifications
- Battle-hymn increased in potency.
Legendary Trait Modifications
- Master of Tales now gives Tale of the Elements’ Battle (+Tactical Mitigation, Vitality, Resistance.)
As always, everything listed here is not final and is subject to change based on feedback and testing. Thanks for reading, and Forth Eorlingas!