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13 minutes ago, Frosticus said:
I personally agree with your stance, but I'm not the one hosting or fronting the inf.
That said, both builds/vids I submitted met "scrapper" rules (which is what you are requesting) and both were in excess of 1200dps.
Doms can do truckloads of damage if permitted the opportunity.
4 digit dps doms are not uncommon and they can still be quite functional in game.
Another contributing factor is that these new pylons apparently don’t deal damage. Until I realized that, I assumed your Fire Imps actually surviving long enough to contribute DPS was some sort of test server hack. I guess they’ve made the pylon test that much easier.
Back when I was doing pylon runs on doms, Phantasm and Umbra Beast had no chance without Spirit Ward, and Fire Imps and Haunt had no chance at all.
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16 hours ago, Koopak said:
Bounty Posted!
Prize: 2 billion influence
Task:
Post the best pylon/dummy time of any Stalker for the month of March.
Start Date/Time: 00:00 UTC, March 1st 2024 See in your timezone here!
End Date/Time: 00:00 UTC, April 1st 2024 See in your timezone here!
(In the links look in the non bold text with your location in it, if anyone has a better translation method, let me know.)- Runs on the test server are valid provided they do not make use of any changes currently being tested, or the changes used are promoted to live.
Would be nice to see no Envenomed Daggers, Geas, etc this time. Every Dom time posted was a completely unrealistic eye-roller.
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19 hours ago, Jimmy said:
The main intent of this change was to make exploration more rewarding - specifically exploration in the course of your normal gameplay rather than just a standalone dedicated activity (for those players, the badges are the main draw, so it didn't need much more of an incentive). Boosting the amount of XP from exploration badges wasn't really an option, as it would need to be a massive amount to have any real impact.
Patrol XP was a thematically-relevant middle ground that ticked all the boxes. It's now very rewarding to collect exploration badges as you travel the game world during your levelling journey. Significantly more rewarding than it used to be.
There are of course some corner cases where the benefit is "lost", but the amount of XP you gained beforehand was so tiny that we feel the trade-off is overall very worth it for the average player.
It’s a good change. The reward is orders of magnitude greater. Thank you.
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I don’t understand why it’s a problem that players who don’t yet know how to make money are struggling to make money. This has been the case in every MMO I’ve played. You’re just supposed to learn.
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2 hours ago, KingCeddd03 said:
Well, you're not a dev so how would you know???
I’m… observant? It’s not rocket science.
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1 hour ago, KingCeddd03 said:
yes I do. they are old compared to the new powers introduced if you did your research you would see that mind control and psychic blast are extremely dated and not as powerful.
So your idea is genuinely “Let’s make Psy Blast 2 and Mind Control 2”? Yeah I don’t think the devs are going to pick that up. They tend to create unique powersets, not tweaked copies.
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1 minute ago, Rudra said:
Then @Frozen Burn's first 2 points should still make sense to you since your other characters, from the way you just described your play rotation, probably have max patrol xp when you log on them.
See my latest post then.
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Also, the value of one bar of patrol xp is so much greater than the former amount of xp that you could literally be capped when you get the vast majority of your badges and still derive a net benefit from the change.
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13 minutes ago, Rudra said:
Points 1 and 2 make sense if you play several alts rather than just one (or two) characters.
I play tons of alts and am still likely to log in my favorites more than once every ten days.
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17 hours ago, Iron Bull said:
I was wondering why the Change to LRM Rocket? The Extra damage was great for Scenarios like an MSR or any Large enemy groups at a distance. Now it seems like it's lost it's umph.
LRM Rocket is ten times better now….
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You realize Psychic Blast and Mind Control already exist, right? Writing up this thread seems like it was a waste of your time.
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You do realize how long it takes to fill up on patrol xp from logging out, don’t you? Points 1 and 2 don’t make sense.
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Sounds dead on arrival, sorry
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On 2/22/2024 at 8:59 PM, Sailboat said:
beloved and effective Time Bomb
u wot
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58 minutes ago, Player2 said:
I feel the same way about Mind Control and the changes to Telekinesis specifically.
Telekinesis has been through so many rounds if changes… exactly how many Mind Control sets would you want there to be?
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Hard mode TF’s give great extra rewards. Ouro challenge settings do not (besides badges).
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So turn them off.
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If possible, the rule should be something like: you can have two auto powers if neither is an attack.
That way, Doms, SR/Shield/Nins, SS with Rage etc could get the benefit, but afk farming wouldn’t be strengthened at all.
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I like the Thunderstrike change. Elec Melee needed ST help more than it needed the AoE help.
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Out of curiosity, what server were you on?
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5 hours ago, Parabola said:
I can't see any possible downside to this.
No one is going to state the downside because they would be bullied in a heartbeat.
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1 minute ago, PeregrineFalcon said:
Oh I think Tough and Weave will do just fine.
And I'm protesting anything. I'm not interested in having a power in my build that I consider worthless and won't use.
Suit yourself. Agree to disagree.
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1 hour ago, PeregrineFalcon said:
I will be respecing a lot of characters to remove the Ancillary power pools from them once this goes live.
You’re just gonna run around without an Ancillary shield toggle because you’re protesting Bonfire? Seems ill-advised.
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Respectfully no thank you
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Fair enough, I just expected things to go more like they do in the Pylon Damage thread.