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I assure you all: I would never call someone a troll just for their opinion. Has a lot more to do with constantly antagonistic behavior. If you are one of the few actual trolls in question, you’ve already pulled far too much insulting bullshit for me to care to turn around and placate you now. The only thing that will clean up this place is the patch coming out, at which point everyone will stop bitching and start adapting.

Although there is zero evidence that Rune of Protection uptime drove a single player to quit, I would say anyone who quits a game on account of such an inconsequential change is too fragile to be considered a material loss to the community. As for the actual population decline, thankfully there are much more logical reasons for that than a couple of tiny nerfs buried in great patches. Zero reason to believe these patches have anything to do with that. Am I saying all this just to farm thumbs down emojis that I now cherish as a badge of honor ever since I realized they all come from the same 5 trolls? Maybe 🙂

Ofc you will. And like I said, if the impact is too great, thankfully there are other servers for you. And like I said, the impact to HC overall will be negligible.

Yes, there will be a very slight nerf to certain niche playstyles. I am not disputing that. It will go over like every other “sky is falling” nerf in this game. People will realize the effects are negligible and adapt and move on. Let’s all remember once again that this great month of arguments and rage is no different than what happened when we lost… 30 seconds of Rune of Protection uptime. Turns out the sky never fell and that didn’t spark a mass exodus and neither will this. Actually, turns out the Sorcery pool is more popular than ever now. If it’s truly something you can’t get over, it seems we will part ways and have to miss you when you move to Thunderspy. But most here will get over it.

You probably missed the patch notes where additional reward merits were added to regular content to offset the change.

False. The reasoning was plainly stated by a developer, and this was not it.

Yeah my main characters tend to have lots of alternative incarnates as well. I think my main blaster has 2 alphas, 2 interfaces, 3 judgements, 6 destinies, 2 lores, and 2 hybrids all T4.

The holier than thou routine is a bit much. You contribute just as much to the conflict as anyone.

Extreme hyperbole like this is useful to no one here

To clarify, it’s three accounts allowed per shard. 15 accounts max.

I agree that Switch’s numbers are a little “off” for the average 1 farmer / 1 alt setup aiming for the average fully purpled / boosted build; you need a teeny bit longer. But it’s all sort of beside the point. The point is: we know for a fact that you can fund billion-inf builds on dozens, perhaps hundreds, of alts with only income from one farmer. So the folks who have explicitly refused to do normal content, AH, or just about anything but farming… are being disingenuous when they suggest they won’t be able to make money without the empyrean merit conversion.

A strawman is when you argue against a weaker argument that no one is making. The argument that self-identified farmers need merits to make cash is an argument people have explicitly made multiple times.

Problem is you’d have to pick between Melee/Ranged/AoE because Heightened Senses is balanced around not giving you full defense coverage. And then what would happen is: WP would become even stronger vs S/L damage and even weaker vs F/C/E/N. Don’t think that’s best for the set.

I think the problem with relying on “how long it takes to put a team together” as evidence of popularity is that it misses everyone who does these TF’s without using LFG. Which is more common with this kind of content because this difficulty is really not ideal for pick-up groups. I know a lot of people that do relentless ASF. I don’t know anyone that does it as regularly with pick-up randos.

You obviously have no idea how many people are interested in the content that don’t post on the forums.

I cordially and respectfully disagree 🙂

Dark Armor rules tho. And you don’t need Cardiac if you have Ageless Core.

Fair enough 🙂

I think you’re struggling with interpreting the text medium here. You keep accusing people of crying when they aren’t, and it’s just kind of awkward to watch.

They explained what the objective of the merit change was, and it had nothing to do with herding players out of AE. You were there and replying to that dev when the explanation was given iirc.

I will always find inappropriately apocalyptic language hilarious and childish no matter where I stand on an issue. I never liked the vet level change.

I don’t think the point of hard mode was to have the most optimal and efficient rewards. In fact that’s hardly ever the case in any game. Might have something to do with the word “hard” or the perhaps the word “challenge”.

The devs not implementing *your* feedback does not mean they did not listen to feedback and adjust the changes accordingly. I am very happy we were heard on the vet levels issue. Sometimes they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. One of the two changes was necessary to prevent the ridiculous strategy of rerolling characters for front loaded emp merits from being an optimal way to play - as a dev explained to us.

It baffles me that people who have clearly stated over and over that they are not okay with doing anything but farming… are also stating over and over that they need the reward merit conversion to make money. Where the hell are your 24/7 farm rewards going? Since there is so much cognitive dissonance coming from some folks, at a certain point you have to assume they are confused or just lying trolls.

If 5s is still deemed a net nerf, happy to have devs just revert to offensive toggles just dropping like on live. I’ll live without another sizable buff - game is pretty easy.