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Re: Rich Lambert's Comments About The Current State of Balance
What is interesting is that from time to time ,we have seen posts requesting more choices. Some mistakenly thought that more choice meant more builds and variety.
That opinion is that more choices meant more variety, which could not be truer and more false. There will always be the best builds because of what we call math. Nothing developers can do to change that outside of making changes that merely change what builds perform best. No one needs to run the top-performing builds unless they want to perform at the highest level. Even then, most of us are not willing to put the effort into making the most of any top-performing builds because that takes time and practice.
Welcome to life in an MMORPG.
This is neither an endorsement for nor against subclassing.
Again, it's not about there being a meta and everything else. It's about the meta being SO FAR above everything else that you're left with no choice. Back when I still did trials, I ran off-meta classes/set-ups and still performed in the top couple DDs in my group. The meta existed, and has always existed, but the difference was more negligible which allowed people some wiggle room to play outside of it. That is no longer the case.
In other words, devs should not be held responsible for the choices we make that lead to poor performance of the builds we create. At some point, we need to look in the mirror. If a build is not performing as well as we would like and other players are doing better, we need to make changes to our builds to bring them closer to the damage we want.
They absolutely should be held responsible when their actions are what overnight turned player builds from well built to a poor performance build. In this instance, players are not culpable for poor build choices. The powers that be behind the scenes who nuked perfectly fine builds for no recognizable reason are who should be held responsible.
DenverRalphy
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Re: Heart's Day Duelist Outfit - request for matching weapon set
There are a few sabers that can work, like Dreadsail swords, I believe. Not exactly a foil, épée or rapier but I think it looks neat.
Froil
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Re: “Joining Encounter in Progress” should have a confirmation check
True but speedrunners aren't the ones constantly complaining and making posts here about people who go too slow.scrappy1342 wrote: »"they can make their own group" goes both ways.
Frayton
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Re: “Joining Encounter in Progress” should have a confirmation check
Yeah it should work the same as the invitation for accepting a queue. Give people a few seconds to look whatever is in front of them before yanking them away from it. Don't make them decide instantly, let them hide it and loot it, then go to their notifications and accept it. Basic courtesy.
Re: “Joining Encounter in Progress” should have a confirmation check
I was in a group yesterday and called out that there was a chest. I unlocked it but was pulled into an encounter in progress before I could loot it. A minute later I saw another chest that I called out but once again I was pulled away before I could loot it.
After the run I was able to run back and loot both chests before being removed from the dungeon. I was irritated that they didn't wait the few seconds it takes to unlock a chest but I took satisfaction in the fact that I was the only one that benefitted from these chests.
After the run I was able to run back and loot both chests before being removed from the dungeon. I was irritated that they didn't wait the few seconds it takes to unlock a chest but I took satisfaction in the fact that I was the only one that benefitted from these chests.
SilverBride
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Re: “Joining Encounter in Progress” should have a confirmation check
True but speedrunners aren't the ones constantly complaining and making posts here about people who go too slow.scrappy1342 wrote: »"they can make their own group" goes both ways.
That's because they don't have time to type up posts; they are too busy fake queueing and speedrunning dungeons.
Vonnegut2506
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Re: “Joining Encounter in Progress” should have a confirmation check
gamergirldk wrote: »Just need to be removed altogether.
I actually prefer being pulled to the boss to standing before the closed gates before the boss area because I was a tad slow.
Re: “Joining Encounter in Progress” should have a confirmation check
No because there's a solution to this built in to the game - make your own group.
Frayton
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Re: Rich Lambert's Comments About The Current State of Balance
What is interesting is that from time to time ,we have seen posts requesting more choices. Some mistakenly thought that more choice meant more builds and variety.
That opinion is that more choices meant more variety, which could not be truer and more false. There will always be the best builds because of what we call math. Nothing developers can do to change that outside of making changes that merely change what builds perform best. No one needs to run the top-performing builds unless they want to perform at the highest level. Even then, most of us are not willing to put the effort into making the most of any top-performing builds because that takes time and practice.
Welcome to life in an MMORPG.
This is neither an endorsement for nor against subclassing.
Again, it's not about there being a meta and everything else. It's about the meta being SO FAR above everything else that you're left with no choice. Back when I still did trials, I ran off-meta classes/set-ups and still performed in the top couple DDs in my group. The meta existed, and has always existed, but the difference was more negligible which allowed people some wiggle room to play outside of it. That is no longer the case.
I apologize. I should have been more specific.
Yes, crappy builds can and will happen. They have all along. Even in games with more rigid build systems, people can still create builds that very much underperform.
I recall helping a member of a casual guild I am in who was parsing and testing a new build. He was doing a fraction of the damage possible with the class he was in. I offered to connect him with the top player for his class to help him with his build. He declined, saying he was happy with what he had.
In other words, devs should not be held responsible for the choices we make that lead to poor performance of the builds we create. At some point, we need to look in the mirror. If a build is not performing as well as we would like and other players are doing better, we need to make changes to our builds to bring them closer to the damage we want.
However, there is a massive difference between "I like playing my RP flavored build" and "I want to play literally anything other than Arcbladeplar"
That's one of the problems of this argument in the first place - people are taking the nuance out of it. Obviously your heavy armor sword-and-board DPS will not do well, nobody's arguing that. But someone running a build which very comfortably could do trifectas before Subclassing should still be able to now, right?
The problem is that a pure DPS build which could do meta-level DPS in U45 is no longer able to parse as high due to individual skill line nerfs. And instead, a singular build focused around stacking the two most overloaded DPS lines is now doing 50% higher damage than that one.
tomofhyrule
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Re: “Joining Encounter in Progress” should have a confirmation check
I do not like speedrunners too. But many speedrunneers can solo the dungeons, and that could potentially leave some new players that are not familiar with this whole thing unable to complete the dungeon.