Difficulty Level and TFs, Trials, Etc.
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2009-11-20 10:05 in Player Questions
Nope. Difficulty settings are currently disabled for TF/SFs.
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Exactly. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I miss the challenge sometimes, but it does seem, anecdotally, that TF participation is up. Could this be a reason?
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Originally Posted by enderbean
Nope. Difficulty settings are currently disabled for TF/SFs.
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Never argue with stupid people. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
@vanda1 and @nakoa2
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No. Difficulty settings currently have no effect on TF/SF/Trials, as you were told. Everything will be as if you were +0/x1 (or the size of your current team).|
Originally Posted by TBoxer
For example, I'm set at +4/x8 on my Tanker. If I led a 4-person team on a 3rd Respec Trial, would the Rikti mobs be level 54 and would the spawn size be equivalent to that for an 8-person team?
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This was done for two main reasons:
setting TFs for -1 level meant they could be bum rushed for easier Merits. To head off a bunch of people taking advantage and skewing the data for Merit Rewards, they disabled it until they could put in a more robust solution.
setting TFs at -1 in order to more easily obtain "Master of" badges was... backwards? unintentional? They don't expect you to do it on hardest settings, but negating most of the challenge kind of defeats the purpose of awarding a badge as proof of your Mastery.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
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I doubt it. Removing options is unlikely to make people decide to do more TFs.|
Originally Posted by PuceNonagon
Exactly. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I miss the challenge sometimes, but it does seem, anecdotally, that TF participation is up. Could this be a reason?
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The devs did state that making TFs ignore difficulty was a temporary solution to stop people running them at -1.
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TF participation is up because of the changes to AE and xp scaling of foes, as well as the changes to Exemplaring and Super Sidekicking. |
Originally Posted by PuceNonagon
Exactly. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I miss the challenge sometimes, but it does seem, anecdotally, that TF participation is up. Could this be a reason?
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On the whole, the lack of challenge is the one drawback people are bothered by. The logic goes, it's not exciting and you could get faster xp elsewhere, but you might as well do it and get Merits, and chill out and have fun.
Final note, the Difficulty Slider will be back. They just need time to engineer the solution.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
Thanks guys for the quick answers. I do hope they bring back the difficulty options at some point. I personally prefer participating in TFs at the tougher end of the spectrum, since speed runs were never really my cup of tea.
Winteriel Ice/Fire/Soul Tanker | @TBoxer Global | City of Heroes R.I.P. (2004-2012)
I haven't led a TF or Trial in a while, and I heard that there was a change to how TFs/Trials/etc. are (or aren't) affected by a player's difficulty level anymore. I was just wondering if anyone could clarify how it all works now.
For example, I'm set at +4/x8 on my Tanker. If I led a 4-person team on a 3rd Respec Trial, would the Rikti mobs be level 54 and would the spawn size be equivalent to that for an 8-person team?
Winteriel Ice/Fire/Soul Tanker | @TBoxer Global | City of Heroes R.I.P. (2004-2012)