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Earn influence anywhere -> buy on market. I’ve already purchased several costumes and the accolade with influence from AE farming. You can do literally any content and still get these. Not sure what you’re not understanding.

Don’t know why you keep overlooking the fact that they can be purchased on the market. Literally any content can get you these things.

The post you quoted is literally highlighting the other ways you can get those rewards without hard mode content???

*IF* you are *ALL* of the following: (1) completely opposed to making alts *AND* (2) completely opposed to having 2+ Incarnate powers for 1 slot *AND* (3) completely opposed to making the influence gained by selling super inspirations. *THEN*, yeah, your use for Empyreans will be limited now. But your playstyle is so rare/niche now that it’s hardly relevant IMHO.

Big time thanks to @America's Angel for being kind enough to share new builds / strategies. Not sure I would’ve figured out the new farming meta with zero hiccups without their posts.

I actually really love that we have a whole new thing to work on. Last night was the first time since the patch went live that I even got around to logging in to any alts besides my main, farmer, and symphony dom. Because I have dozens of alts that need NPC costumes, there is a renewed sense of having lots to do in the game. This is the kind of change that makes you stop asking why you’re still playing this game, because the amount of new stuff to achieve is so massive.

Of the maybe ~130 aethers I’ve used so far, the vast majority were purchased on the market. Definitely no one is being forced into playing any particular content.

If that minor tweak makes this game City of Dark Souls to you, then this whole routine was always hyperbolic nonsense.

Lol the Dark Souls comparisons are so cringe.

Just verifying your opinions are those of a non-player. Thanks.

My experience with AE in page 4 thus far has been that the XP booster bug fix admittedly makes leveling a slog, but after 50 things clear up a lot. The aggro changes don’t seem to be problematic if you respec’d your build to suit the changes.

Ugh. Weren’t you one of the ones allegedly playing on a different server now.

As with the other thread, I don’t think this is a necessary change, but I’m still sorry you have to deal with such remarkably unhinged responses.

And anyone who likes changes is told they’re a cheerleader or a shill or “heaping praise and adoration”. All smears but that’s the forums for you.

Every prominent member of this forum, including you and each and everyone one of those that use this argument, has contributed suggestions or feedback that could potentially contribute to game changes and “how others play”. Mostly because this is an MMO and MMO’s tend to get patched with changes that impact how players play. It’s a stupid and childish way to frame an issue when one is too lazy to make an actual argument. Again, you can disagree with this suggestion without resorting to that nonsense. Observe how I have managed to not endorse the OP’s suggestion without throwing around fallacious hypocritical trash.

Obviously you can disagree with the OP’s specific suggestion *without* taking ludicrous positions such as “all nerfs are bad” or the notoriously stupid “you want to control how others play!”. But it doesn’t seem many here got that memo.

I’m pretty positive the only reward in this game is the joy of converting a shiny empyrean merit into a stack of reward merits and now the whole game is devoid of pleasure for all.

Holy hell that’s backwards thinking.

In the meantime I encourage players to utilize hcwiki and even google. They have pics.

In addition to being a precious resource for Incarnates, you are free to convert them into threads, convert those threads into Ultimates, and… you guessed it! Sell them on the market.

Yes. I like to use the icons for Staff Mastery that have the little “1”, “2”, and “3” on them for Build 1, Build 2, and Build 3. Lot of fun to be able to swap builds mid-mission etc.

Your proposal to delay the damage a second makes sense on the surface to me. That said, as far as why anyone would assume this confuse has different uses.. I’d say it’s pretty common knowledge to even the most casual player that damage causes aggro. I like how much damage it does now… seems like a good thing for Controllers.

I think he’s just saying that, from a game balance perspective, afk farming being curbed in any way is a non issue because no dev team in their right mind should ever want to incentivize rewards for exactly zero work. Which is just a purely factual statement. I don’t think his intention was to be invalidating towards your preferences. I afk farm too but can still acknowledge it is a game flaw that just hasn’t been fixed yet.

Yeah removing DDR from anything that currently has it is a pretty huge deal and a sizable nerf. This is just a misunderstanding of the game mechanics, no big deal.