Aett_Thorn

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I can take on hordes of enemies at the same time. That feels pretty heroic to me. I can wipe out a spawn full of enemies in a few seconds. That's pretty awesome and powerful. I can now call down the power of the gods to help me smite foes. Awesome-sauce!

Yes, there are a few times when you can feel less powerful, but they're usually fleeting and easily done. So I don't get how this is a widespread concern.

ED happened, yes, but allowed us to have the invention system, which allows you more flexibility in what you can do with your character, so I consider than a net win.

Earth Mastery is possibly the worst Tanker Ancillary pool for many sets. Your first choice is between an Immob (which you likely don't need or want, since KB would be suppressed on the enemy you hit with it) or a PBAoE sleep, which will break as soon as Mud Pots goes off next. Other pools at least get a hold, which is useful, as one of their choices. Next up is either the hold, finally, or quicksand, which doesn't do much for you at high levels. Stalagmites is the worst AoE in the Ancillaries. Twice the recharge, less damage, and causes mod wandering. YES!

So I'd go with the Fighting Pool.

Imagine an enemy type on the roofs of buildings, with sniper-range TP Foe. And that was all they did.

You'd be forced to stop and take them out, otherwise you could never get anywhere.

Congrats TA & Sassy! Well done!

Once the Devs moved Moonbeam to level 35, the set was sold with me. I was probably going to use it anyways, but that just sealed the deal. Why is it better at 35? Because I can skip it and start getting ancillary pool powers then.

Loving my level 15 Ice/Dark Dom so far. Trying to make it a confusion-based Dominator, which should be a fun attempt, at the least.

My Elec/Nin tears through content at level 50, running at +1/+8, I only run into trouble against certain factions, like rularuu or multi-stacked-venged-nemesis troops.

Edit -> Also, on trials, I do fine, at least once I got a single level shift. Before that it was tough, as it is on anyone. But the AoE capabilities of an Elec/Nin/Fire Stalker are awesome, and I don't get much flak in return, since my AT threat modifier is so low.

Arcana,

While I appreciate what you are trying to say, the tests that I saw in beta were trying to purposely get results as fast as they could. As such, in three days of joining every trial they could when they were on, they had tier 3s of most everything. It would take longer to tier 4 everything.


HOWEVER, I get what you are saying. When the trials first come out, you need to run them over and over again to get good rewards, because as people try to figure them out, they take both longer, and run the risk of failure, requiring more attempts to get the same reward (read: farming). However, as the trials get run more and more, and people figure out the right tactics, you can "speed" them more easily, for slightly less XP, but higher rate of end rewards.

The DA content can't be sped up in a similar fashion, because of the time locks. Running things over and over again does not increase the rate of return as it would for running the trials. So there is definitely a difference there, in addition to the fact that rewards are lower in general.

As I said in my one of my earlier posts, using people who are intentionally trying to get max rewards in a minimum amount of time is not a good comparison point for anything. But then what is? It would be highly subjective based on the player, of course. Somebody who plays every night would expect possibly the same overall rate as somebody who only plays twice a week. Say, a month per tier 3. However, Person A would then need a drop rate that is lower than Person B would want.

So, can we create a fictional person, who plays what we might consider an "average" amount, and see what the drop rate is for him? Yes, though we'd have some argument on how much this person plays. But it could at least give us a baseline of how slow or fast the new solo path is compared to the trial runner.

What about three players, each with the same schedule. One is only a trial runner, and one only does the new DA content in a team, and one only does the new DA content solo. Each player plays for an hour a day, three days a week (I doubt that's a bad value to give these fictional players). What would the rate of gains be for these players?

This time, she is right, though. The Devs have said multiple times that Staff Fighting would not come out with I22, but would be released between I22 and I23. They have never said otherwise. People who were expecting it to come with I22 were either ignoring all evidence to the contrary or just weren't paying attention.