Bill Z Bubba
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Quote:Lying will never help your case.
You only say that because it's a mantle nobody else wants because it doesn't benefit them. -
Quote:There can be 6 or 1000 DA arcs but if the 1 component a day lock is in place, it's unacceptable.Originally Posted by Lemming_NA
If there have to be the timers, 20 hours is much better than longer ones. And this from someone who used to have over 70 alts, but recently cut down to 35.
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I prefer the term "annoyed" to "insulted." I am annoyed by the time gates currently in place because they create an excessive disadvantage to progression for those that don't do the itrials.
All it would take after the current batch of changes for me to find the system acceptable is for each arc to be given their own 20 hour timer. -
Quote:As long as tanks remain at the bottom of the pack for damage output, I would even agree with raising their melee modifier a bit.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Given that nobody seems to have an issue with Brute survivability either way, it's painfully obvious that it's the Tanker damage cap that needs to give and be increased.
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I go premium when I feel like punishing the devs for decisions I disagree with. I'd rather be running DA arcs, but oh well.
Developer decisions around here are like Texas weather, though. Don't like 'em? Wait around long enough and things'll change, usually to an acceptable level. -
Quote:I concur. While I may still never play a stalker, I've long agreed that they should be the single target damage kings.Originally Posted by Test_Rat
Stalkers do more Single Target DPS/Burst, while Scrappers have better survivablity, and better AOE.
Now if the devs can figure out how to make tanks the kings of aggro management again, the 4 melee archetypes will be damn near perfect. -
Quote:Is 2 emps and 7 components per week actually being considered a fair and viable progression for soloists by the developers?Originally Posted by Dr. Aeon
FPARN
Hey everyone!
To add on to what Zwil said, for the weekly rewards with Gabriel, we introduced with this patch a method for tracking your completion of the Dark Astoria arcs that are also removable once you cash in everything with Gabriel. This was done since badges and souvenir clues are not removable. This is the reason why, unfortunately, this reward is not retroactive if you've already done them before the patch.
You do not have to talk to Gabriel before you start all the missions. With this patch, you can do the Dark Astoria arcs and talk to Gabriel at any time to see your progress towards the Empyrean merits or claim them if youve completed the arcs.
What are the chances that the 1 component per day time gate is going to be changed to 1 component per arc per day? As it stands, I can't resub until we get something better than this. -
Quote:Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
Catalysts also have a higher drop rate vs higher level foes.
Level or rank. Rank I'll believe. Level I'll be skeptical. And when/if proven, I'll be left wondering why everything else isn't based on level AND rank. -
Quote:Lots of them. Depends on what you're fighting. Depends on what you want out of it.Originally Posted by jemmina
What toon does +4 x8 the best?
When it comes to rewards, like threads and purples, however, +4 means nothing. Might as well run at -1. -
Quote:On live now, you only get to choose two threads ONCE. After that, you only get ONE thread.
The Daily Repeatable mission reward has been increased to 10 threads from 2 threads.
So is it now, run a single repeatable, get 10 threads, after that, all repeatables for the next twenty hours still only give 1 thread?
Still crap.
I run all 6 arcs in a night, get ONE common component (because my personal component drop rate after 13 drops is 100% commons) but now I can get 2 Emps but only once a week. Possibly 3 with the 1 possible emp per night although after 3 choices of incarnate merits I also had a 100% astral drop rate.Quote:Players can now earn two Empyrean merits a week by completing all Dark Astoria arcs every week. They can speak with Taskmaster Gabriel, who is outside of the Dark Astoria hospital, in order to claim these merits. Taskmaster Gabriel will inform players on how long they have until they can earn their next Empyrean merit, along with which arcs they still need to complete for their next reward.
Not good enough. I'm still getting complete crap each week in comparison to what I get get running trials.
This is the nerf part of the changes, correct? Because folks were farming the repeatables for 5 merits per run?Quote:Adjusted the maximum merit reward in Dark Astoria's Repeatable Missions to 2 Reward Merits. This is attainable once per 20 hours. After that, each Repeatable mission will only offer one Merit.
And we're still only getting one component chance per night?
Swing and a miss, devs. Your solo incarnate path still sucks ***.
So... here's a standard week:
Monday night:
Run Heather's arc, get a common + 5 threads for random thread drops.
Run Heather's arc again, get 2 astrals + 5 threads.
Run it a third time, get 10 threads + 5 threads.
Run a repeatable, get 10 threads + 5 threads.
Doing any more than this and you're wasting your time.
Tuesday night:
Run Arc#2, ooo look, common #15 for me! + 5 threads.
Run Heather's arc, get 2 astrals + 5 threads.
Run it again, get 10 threads + 5 threads.
Run a repeatable, get 10 threads + 5 threads.
You get the picture.
After a week, I get:
7 component rolls, probably all commons, maybe I'll get lucky and get an uncommon.
Probably 10 astrals from 5 rolls of astrals
Maybe 2 emps from random rolls when astrals don't show up
2 emps from completing all 6 arcs over 7 days
280 threads from choosing the thread option and thread drops.
Still sucks. Try again.
It'll only take me two months to save up enough emps for that very rare. How incredibly generous of you, devs! You're so nice! -
BZB needed wings and hooves. He got 'em.
He needed more hit points. Rebuilt him as a brute.
There's only one thing lacking now... talons instead of wrist mounted fury claws. -
I keep hearing BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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Quote:dark/dark blasterOriginally Posted by JayboH
Yep I am using it towards my dark/dark dom.
fire/time cor
grav/dark dom
And more time spent with my new sm/fa burn farmer. woot! -
Like posting to the forums about the servers being down!
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Quote:It works cuz it's true.Originally Posted by Ironblade
and people would still be nerdraging. Wait, that wasn't where you were going with that?
As for ragequitting, how do you quit that which is free?
Cancel your recurring payment? Done, but I haven't quit the game.
Quit logging in? Sure, but you still can.
Quit posting to the forums? You could but there's still a few that are all access.
We do what we can. I come here, throw out my opinions, haven't a clue if they're listened to anymore or not, don't really care. I'm going to share them regardless. I like this game. I have for a very long time.
I'm actually more annoyed that there seems to be a trend of craptacular sound effects being added to the game than I am that staff won't be released before DXP weekend. Moot point as PS/NCSoft isn't getting another dime from me for anything until DA is fixed to my liking. It may never be. Life goes on. There are other games to play and I just finished tier8 on premium.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Xzero45
So much anger in this thread.I'm not angry. I'm used to this now.Quote:Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
Is that really a surprise? No reason has been given for the holdout. I expected Staffs for i22 launch. (Beasts not so much considering how rough if was in Beta.).
I was extremely disappointed if was left out, and extremely pissed that it'll be a month or more now.
They screw up, I stop giving them money, they fix it (or at least put something in beta for me to test,) I give them money, wash, rinse repeat.
I once said I'll be around when the servers shut down. I see no reason that this can't continue to be true. -
Quote:Ya know what's funny? They could fix BOTH! AND make titan weapons not also sound like beating someone to death with a wiffle bat!Originally Posted by ShadowMoka
I personally don't give a rat's behind about the noise of Staff. It's better than DEMON MASTERY'S sounds.
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Quote:Yup. It's the same logic behind redesigning an entire zone and adding a bunch of new arcs for soloists/small teams but then locking progression behind draconian and idiotic time gates.Originally Posted by JayboH
Makes sense to me, I would definitely consider delaying Staff and Beast intentionally to miss double xp to keep subscriptions going. It will just take longer for the players to reach goals and requires more play time.
...doesn't that make business sense to you guys?
Guess they want us to dump VIP, play for free and ignore everything they add to the market.
Oh wait... that's already done. Damn, these devs are awesome at manipulating me! -
Quote:Gone to the Americans. Dupin rares.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
That's ... an interesting thing to say to TopDoc.
As to the OP and what to do next, I suppose the next thing to do is to see how many of these you can make:
...buncha pvp uniques...
I have ... a few. -
Quote:No, Wendy. You get three options, once per day, total.
Now I have a question... Once I complete all 6 arc taking a component as a reward each time am I allowed to go to the Ouro Portal and run them again taking merits? and then again taking 10 threads? All within the same 20 hour period where i am waiting for the component option to be available again????
If I've already run all 6:
Day 2, I run an arc, I get a component.
I then turn around and run either the same arc or another one, I can choose merit(2 astrals or 1 emp random.)
I can then run either the same arc or another one and get 10 threads.
That's it. The cap for ALL arcs in a 20 hour period is 1 component, 1 merit, 10 threads. After that, you might as well go do something else. -
Quote:No. The game was fine before raid content, it'll be fine when the itrials become impossible to start.
Moral of the story: soloists need lots of people to subscribe to the game in order for it to be profitable enough to survive. Even if you hate teaming, you should go out and join an iTrial once in a while when a league needs members to make it happen. You'll be doing the game a service, and also speed up your incarnate process by a factor of 10.
Game needs subscribers, huh? Too bad my VIP status is dead until we get a solo incarnate path I can tolerate. -
Quote:Nope. You get 6 component rolls your first time through.Originally Posted by Humility
I believe the timer is 20 hours PER arc on separate timers. But I agree, the content is good stuff.
After that you can get no more than a single component per 20 hour period no matter how many arcs you run.
If you run through a second arc, you'll get either 2 astrals or 1 emp.
Third run is 10 threads.
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So we're back to square one with the following:
1: SS is not being ported to scrappers because it's already broken on brutes and tanks, therefore SS needs to be fixed now and ported over.
2: SS is not broken and should be ported over now.
In either case, continuing along with scrappers (and stalkers, of course) not getting SS is silly. -
Quote:Yup.Originally Posted by BellaStrega
Redraw has always been such a terrible idea.
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Quote:It's true. I truly thought that claws/fa would be better than ss/fa for farming. Redraw killed that on both paper and in game testing.Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
And Super Strength gains much more benefit from Patron/Epic AoEs than Titan Weapons does because of no redraw and rage. So while you can't compare SS aoe to TW aoe without factoring in TW cones, you can't compare TW aoe with cones to SS aoe without factoring in patron/epic aoes.
Yes, but it demonstrates that we're getting way out of bounds on the topic at hand.Quote:Originally Posted by BellaStrega
Which is applicable to brutes as well as scrappers and does nothing to demonstrate that it's less OP for brutes than it is for scrappers.
We all know that rage buffing everything is the reason SS is OP. We all know that by overlapping rage instances you get to ignore the defense debuff. The damage crash can be functionally ignored by filling that hole with temp powers that ignore damage buffs/debuffs.
It's broken but how much more it would be on scrappers than brutes just isn't an issue.