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Merry Christmas to you!
No hurt feelings, all the best to you too
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CDI- Character Progression-Horizontal
Personally I like the idea behind sub classes ~ quoted from Chris Whiteside
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It would be rather weird to see other players slashing at the air…
And if they are going to be in the hidden corners of the world… wouldn’t it be just as easy to make them visible to everyone but warn players about the strength of these powerful monsters early in the game?
Perhaps they would have some sort of dark aura, or a new ‘star’ around their image. (Where elites have a purple star, perhaps these could have a black-green one)
And if these new mobs are going to be very popular… will they be zerged just as easily as the other content? (Scaling only goes so far in making things more difficult)
I am not saying that it cannot be done, just offering some difficult questions.
And how would we go about unlocking hardmode? I have 5 level 80 characters, but only 70%-ish completion on a single character. Yet I’ve completed all the maps several times on different characters.
Would I need to unlock hardmode for every single character for the feeling of progression? Or do I only need it for one? Or will it count the progress over all my characters?
If you are playing for the challenge, would you like for that other player to come over and help you? And if it would be challenging for the three of you, would you even bother on your own? Would you get angry at players that are just walking through and scale up the event? Would the loot be any better? Would the players gather at the best spot to farm and leave the real challenges be?
What does the open world offer in hardmode that instanced content can’t? (Quite a bit, I guess, but it is an important question to ask)
Did completing campaigns to unlock hardmode feel worthwhile and characterbuilding in GW1? Or was it more frustrating that your friends couldn’t join your challenges because they didn’t have it unlocked?
And regarding the earlier proposal: Is 25% going to make a real difference? The average foe in the open world does not stand a chance against a level 80 character. Doing group events on your own is probably getting a bit harder, but the usual fights wouldn’t really offer me much more of a challenge I’m afraid. Now in dungeons… I can see 25% making quite a big difference. Since we’re already in some tight spots there every now and then… But aren’t there more interesting ways to make the game harder within instances? (Such as taking one path and upgrading it to level 80? This time without the path length increase perhaps)
As for the extra level decrease, I guess that could help when playing with lower level friends. Personally I like to build up my characters to be the best they can possibly be. I would prefer tougher foes over limiting myself. Even though it has a similar effect. Being able to become worse feels like a very weird way to have character progression.
Personally I like the idea behind sub classes ~ quoted from Chris Whiteside
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“You keep saying ‘its unfair.’
I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
- Jareth, King of Goblins.
I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
- Jareth, King of Goblins.
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New Main- 80 Thief – P/P- Vault Spam Pro
221 hours over 1,581 days of bank space/hot pve/lion’s arch afk and some wvw.
221 hours over 1,581 days of bank space/hot pve/lion’s arch afk and some wvw.
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I’m fully against all forms of hardmode, not because I dislike challenging content (when done well), but because it will take away people from an already desolate area.
Um, if you’re saying all future content has to take place within the maps we have now for fear of spreading things out… that’s pretty much the definition of Dead Game to me. And there were no more worlds to conquer – just maps to endlessly rehash.
While I have lobbied extensively for more Dynamic Events layering, refreshing and expanding the stories of the zones we have now, it was NEVER with the belief that what we have now should be the full measure of real estate the game shall ever present.
If the Living Story has taught us anything, it’s that the Devs can focus population where they want it for as long as they want it. Often to the detriment of any hint of challenge as the zerg consumes all.
I’m largely convinced a couple of zones designed for the hard core aren’t going to meaningfully deplete the population of open world zones… since there’s almost no one in them anyway except for the two champ trains. And if the rewards are chiefly the pleasure of exploration and the bragging rights of surviving in a harsh land rather than the never-ending search for the next most abusable farming loop, then I just don’t see it pulling a huge amount of population or of keeping them out of other area all that long.
If anything that’s the strongest argument against it: that it would be a lot of work for a very flashy, nicely promotable but ultimately not grindy enough piece of content .
“You keep saying ‘its unfair.’
I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
- Jareth, King of Goblins.
I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
- Jareth, King of Goblins.
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…………………. Traits System Remake: ………………….
Build variety, versatility and accessibility can easily increase the fun of playing through the game. Right now, certain traits that would be fun and great on many builds are out of reach because the stats that the line gives or because certain traits feel forced just to get to a later trait in that line.
Stats:
If the traits and stats were separated, the player would be able to choose the traits they want without being bound to stats that they don’t want – for example, critical damage on a condition build.
Players will be given a certain amount of stat points to put into the different stats available; there are 140 Stat Points available (at level 80). The maximum amount of Stat Points that may be used on a single stat is 30. Each stat point will grant the stat either +10 or 1%, depending on the stat.
- +10: Power, Precision, Condition Damage, Healing Power, Toughness, Vitality
- +1%: Critical Damage, Boon Duration, Condition Duration, Class Mechanic
Traits
The way traits are picked can be remade to be far better and more versatile; players should be given the ability to choose a certain amount of adept traits, master traits and grandmaster traits. Traits will not be locked into specific lines like Death Magic and Curses – instead, traits wanted by the player will be chosen from the total pool of traits available from that tier or below.
So, a character will be able to use 7 Adept Traits, 5 Master Traits and 3 Grandmaster Traits. Master Trait slots can also be filled with Adept traits, and Grandmaster trait slots can also be filled with Master or Adept traits. The exact number of traits per tier may be adjusted as necessary.
Trait and Stat Templates
Players should also be able to save a few templates of different stat sets and trait sets; the player should be able to buy Stat and Trait pages with either 25 skill points or 50 gems. There should be a maximum amount of Trait or Stat Templates available per character (likely around 10 or so).
Example Images Attached!
Perfect
I’m fully against all forms of hardmode, not because I dislike challenging content (when done well), but because it will take away people from an already desolate area.
Um, if you’re saying all future content has to take place within the maps we have now for fear of spreading things out… that’s pretty much the definition of Dead Game to me. And there were no more worlds to conquer – just maps to endlessly rehash.
While I have lobbied extensively for more Dynamic Events layering, refreshing and expanding the stories of the zones we have now, it was NEVER with the belief that what we have now should be the full measure of real estate the game shall ever present.
If the Living Story has taught us anything, it’s that the Devs can focus population where they want it for as long as they want it. Often to the detriment of any hint of challenge as the zerg consumes all.
I’m largely convinced a couple of zones designed for the hard core aren’t going to meaningfully deplete the population of open world zones… since there’s almost no one in them anyway except for the two champ trains. And if the rewards are chiefly the pleasure of exploration and the bragging rights of surviving in a harsh land rather than the never-ending search for the next most abusable farming loop, then I just don’t see it pulling a huge amount of population or of keeping them out of other area all that long.
If anything that’s the strongest argument against it: that it would be a lot of work for a very flashy, nicely promotable but ultimately not grindy enough piece of content
Way to go and read things I never wrote or implied and utterly not understanding my real point. Every game with hardmodes I played got fractured into hardmode and non hardmode people. Yes even GW1 you just noticed it less there due to the set up of the game. On top of that I find hardmodes utterly cheap content.
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