The latest patch seems to have a lot of people in an uproar, and I guess if you play in the PvP game it is understandable. I don't play there so it doesn't mean much to me. But in a post on their own forum one of the lead game managers, Acid, said that the nuker characters are supposed to be the strongest role in the PvP arena. He called them "glass cannons" and I don't think he could have gotten people more upset if had tried to upset them.

As for my characters, SpearDriver got a great deal. His own damage self-buff is now worth 300 damage for a few a couple of minutes and with the advanced mastery skill that can be extended to 5 minutes. Good deal! I was testing it a little last night and it doesn't seem to extend "to the others around me", like it is supposed to.

My hybrid character didn't get anything good out of the deal. In fact it looks like the CK attack rating has been nerfed, making it harder to nuke anything. I tested that on the Hangzhou Deva's last night and even with full buffs, wisdom relics and chocolate I was missing an awful lot. I hope that gets put back to normal soon.

As for my nuker, I haven't pulled that character out of the box yet to do any testing, but I'm not ready to take him to war anyway. I have plenty of time for that later.

I don't have a healer character so I don't know what the changes were there. Maybe someone who has one can tell us?