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HELL NO to the suggested names. Electrical Affinity could change back to Shock Therapy though, that would be good.

If you don’t have any “interest” in a currency’s primary use, it’s not a dev problem when the currency is rendered useless to you. I don’t use every form of currency in the game either. No big deal. As for concerns about incentives to run certain content, I don’t think proposing to bulldoze the game’s entire incentive structure yesterday makes today’s arguments look very sincere.

That sounds normal to me..

If having incentive structures is exercising force, then every game in existence forces you to play a certain way, rendering the entire idea of being forced to play a certain way rather meaningless. If all you mean by being forced/pushed towards things is that incentive structures are adjusting around you, then I have no qualms with the devs mind controlling you or whatever you want to call it. Because adjusting incentive structures is a core job of any half-decent MMO dev.

Changing incentive structure is *NOT* forcing anyone to do anything.

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I don’t believe you read my post. I asked what you are upset about if nothing is changing. I already understand that you think nothing will change; I’m asking why a non-change is your hill to die on? It’s a very strange stance to me and I sincerely don’t understand it.

The whole “nothing is really changing so this change must be argued against day and night” argument isn’t very convincing. You are not acting like someone who thinks nothing is changing. You are acting like someone upset with impending change. And the “it doesn’t need to change anything, it’s bad just because it’s a waste of the dev’s limited time” counter doesn’t really work when the real dev work is already done. What exactly are you arguing with / what exactly are you upset about? I don’t get it.

The reward merits were only added to trials to appease people that would want to convert their empyrean merits but couldn’t. So no, there would be no logical reason to roll back to Build 1 but keep the merits. The merits are a package deal with the merit change in Build 2-3.

Besides the first two and DFB? Because you can play them at level 50 with all your stuff. That’s my reason. Has nothing to do with rewards for me.

Thumbs down for not reading!

As already stated, we know from experience that it is possible to purple and boost 100+ 50’s to the teeth without ever converting a single Empyrean Merit, so it is obvious that removing that conversion won’t seriously affect new players. I agree the vet level change could arguably seen as unfair to new players though, even though I stand ready to farm Harvey Maylor’s mission if I have to.

Just my two cents: as someone with over 100 level 50’s (so I create characters right?), I do not see any of the new beta changes as making my playstyle significantly harder. You should just give the new patch a chance; it’s all very mild stuff.

Then we need some serious psychotherapy

Can you clarify which part is not clear or transparent….:

I hardly ever build this way because defense bonuses are for n00bs 🙂 the tears are so delicious.

67 is the number of *additional* slots you get to allocate for leveling, to clarify for whoever brought that up. As in, a 6-slotted power has 5 additional slots. I have to use a spreadsheet instead of mids and that number is burned in my brain.

I promise you that is not what will happen. Look at Dr. Aeon SF. Nobody wants to PUG the hardest difficulty. No evidence ITF will be different. If you honestly think you’re going to be forced into something difficult, my best guess is you haven’t actually played the game since Dr. Aeon SF went live.

c) skewing polls about skewed farm rewards?

Now I'm thinking we need a leaderboard for each reaction emoji given/received. 🧐

Meh, people don’t want that kind of explanation though. They want the dev diary before the patch so they can have something new to argue with in hopes of sinking the changes. I’m 99% sure not one of the people who have demanded explanations actually intend to accept said explanations.

I slot it with 6 damage procs, no Lockdown or Accuracy. Often get Vigor on TA’s to cover my Accuracy/Endurance if needed since Acid Arrow is good with 6 procs too.

I can’t put my finger on it but your posts really suck lately. Thumbs down. Again.

Ratios? We don’t need no stinking ratios. This is the level of unpopularity to beat boys, now come at me.

Absolute truth. Unfortunately it is still fallacious to imply that wrongdoing is afoot *here* just because a sizable fraction of 8 billion people are doing bad stuff at any given moment. I’m sure *you’re* not implying that, but no need to give any ideas to those less prone to reason. …Worth noting though I’m destroying all of you in the thumbs-down rankings so maybe you shouldn’t listen to me.