has darkway magic been made a lot weaker?

[Aiken]

In .18 I could start killing a rat with weakness with level 8 or 9 dark way and the slider at 0%. In version .19 and level 20 DW I need the slider at 30% to kill a rat.

Taste of death is also very weak compared to what it was. Again level 20 dark way, before the update I could kill a rat with 2 hits of taste of death. Now it takes eleven.

Is this a change with dark way or a bug?

[neko kyouran]

Other follow up question to your testing methods....

Perhaps the rat you were testing on is one of the stronger types, as not all mobs, even though in the same area, will always be the same degree of difficulty to defeat.  So, did you retest your findings multiple times across multiple rats in multiple locations?

[Lanarel]

Magic did change recently, not only for Dark Way. Biggest change is that the power slider previously did not work (as it should), and it does now. This means that for similar results, you will have to put the slider up. This also increases your chance of failure.

[Aiken]

I had been picking on the 11 rats I could find in Ojaveda to see what difference there was. At least 9 of which are weak. Level 20 and slider at 0% all 11 drop to around 20% health instead of dying like previously. More playing and I can kill one of the indoor rogues with the slider at 70% whe it works. Which is simillar  to previous behaviour.

So my next question is the magic weaker at lower slider levels in .19 compared to .18 or are the rats stronger than they were?

[neko kyouran]

or the other way you could look at it is, with the power slider broken before, it was acting as if you were using it at 100% all the time.  so before it was not reflecting it being at a lower %. 

thus when it is put to a higher %, it does about the same as it did before, but when it is put to a lower %, it does less.