rsclark

Nope. Unless they changed it since I tried, selecting the level only limits which selections you see in the box. The resulting recipes are either your level or the max level for that recipe. No way for a 50 to get a level 15 recipe from a random roll.

So, a massive increase in the availability of low level rares without a corresponding increase in inf generation. Sounds awesome. Anti-inflation for the win!

Yup. Those awesome perks of being a VIP are just getting better and better.

Yet, they somehow got confused in the process and produced lots of multi-group content instead of endgame content. Oopsie.

What does the run being successful have to do with cat herding? The question is what activities contribute to a successful run.

No individual character's abilities are going to make a meaningful contribution when you have 2 dozen people there. What matters is getting X people, getting them to move together, and click on the right guy at the right time.

In other words, cat herding.

What they need is a trial where playing the game is the important part instead of organizing.

1. Then you cannot say that weapon sets are buffed by the change to redraw. If they are balanced by actual performance, then the fact that this real performance is better than the "always same cast time" implementation isn't really true, because it has been balanced on it's own. The final result should be a power level that is comparable to what it was before once all the balancing is said and done.

2. Similarly, if they did something to take away the redraw it would not require the effect of nerfing the set, because, as you say, they are balanced by the actual performance of the set.

So, as long as actual performance is being used to balance, you don't effectively nerf or buff a set (on average) by playing with how the redraw animations work. The average should be balanced the same, but the only final effect you end up having is to pull high performance (chain set powers) and low performance (click happy secondary) outliers closer to the center.

Why should the overall performance of a set have to suffer for a fix to be needed? The problem is not with the average performance of the sets, it is with the difference in performance that arises when combined with certain other powersets. An imbalance within a set is just as bad as an imbalance between sets.

Cat herding is part of the "challenge" if you are a kindergarten teacher. It has no place in an activity done for enjoyment.

That's just begging to pay the conversion charge.

But, do we know this to be only people who have gotten them? If absolutely no one had received a point for time paid, I would expect more complaints. Does anyone know of anyone who has been awarded their monthly point?

If you look under costume bundles>holiday, it's listed under "coming soon".

This is my thought as well. I only see two problems with it as an explanation.

1. It's pretty basic, and someone should have been able to give this explanation officially if it was true.
2. It would also mean that absolutely no one should have gotten a new token before the 28th, and that doesn't seem to be the case

And the sets have not sat in some unalterable state since the most recent version of redraw was implemented. Many sets have been adjusted up and down in power.

The difference is that with non-weapon sets those adjustments are based on the actual performance of the sets.

With weapon sets, there are at least three different performance values that any current and future balance decisions could be based on.

1. full redraw on every attack
2. "average" performance
3. optimal no redraw

Before the current state of redraw was in place, all balance decisions would have been made based on #1. Your argument relies on the idea that they still do this. I find that highly unlikely.

The more likely they go by some mixture of #2 and #3, which mean that the weapon sets are not operating under this theoretical "buff". That buff only exists if everything else in the game has remained static.

More like "if you have to ask then you haven't tried", since they don't cost any inf at all.

Why does that idea even make sense? I get hungry occasionally, but I'm pretty sure i can't channel that desire to eat into a desire to learn to juggle. The whole idea is about 10 different flavors of silly.

If someone wants to work out, then good for them, but to somehow equate a drive in doing that with a completely different drive to take part in a totally different activity is to demonstrate a lack of understanding of both.

That is an alternate way, but unfortunately not an accurate one.

Not unless the set pre-dates the changes. Something like DP has only ever been implemented with the current version of redraw in place, so you can't really say what the baseline is. Is it normal with redraw and stronger if you chain, or is it normal if you chain and weaker than it should be if you have redraw? With no "original" version to compare it to, you can't say. All you can say for certain is certain combinations of primary and secondary and epic are weaker than others for no good reason.

Just going by the attitude conveyed in the pictures, the guy on the left looks like a nicer person. Cockiness and vanity are not attractive traits.