My thoughts on progression
Weapon skills
- new weapons skills have been added to all weapon types expanding customization options.
- All weapons skills now have a Tiered power grade ranging from 1-5
- All skills now have a classification, minor, major, superior and master.
- Tier points are awarded to all players starting at level 11, 1 Tier point per level gained for a total of 70, spent these points on your weapon skill tiers to further customize your load out.
- All level 80 players are awarded an initial 30 Tier points, the rest is awarded as you gain skill points aka level up.
How it works
- You can equip 1 minor 2 major 1 superior and 1 master skill.
- soft CC belongs to the major category, hard CC belongs to the superior category.
GS example:
- auto attack = minor Tier it to make it hit faster or increase cleave to 5 targets
- 100 blades = master Tier it to either hit harder or hit faster
- whirlwind = major Tier it make it spin on location or hit harder
- blade trail = major Tier it to make the CC last longer or travel further
- rush = superior Tier it to increase distance or reduce CD
Defiant Boss buff
- Defiant has been replaced by Resilience.
Resilience:
- CC has been split into 2 categories
- Soft CC: cripple and chill.
- Hard CC: Blind, fear, daze, stun, knock back, knock down, blowout.
- How it works, the Boss resilience meter fills up the more CC is used on him when the resilience bar is full the boss becomes enraged and is immune to all forms of CC and is more prone to use his elite attacks more frequently, use your CC sparingly and only when necessary.
soft CC adds 1.5 points to the resilience meter, hard CC ads 3 points, the bar total is 12.
- once the resilience bar is full it will only start to decay after say 15 seconds, it decays faster the longer you abstain from using CC abilities on the Boss.
Time gating
- Time gating needs to be adjusted so that alts can be progressed on the same day as the main character, make the items account bound but at least, if I have 8 toons don’t limit my progression to just my main.
- here’s a thought, all these once per day resources could be adjusted to work for example like this: for every level 80 toon you have the time gate extends by 1 per day, this way if I have 8 maxed level toons I can gather the resource 8 times.
goes w/o saying but all of the gathered resources should be account bound even the end item itself in order to prevent economy disruption.
Hard mode dungeons
- make it crazy hard, not for the faint of heart but also rewarding.
no whites, no blues, no greens, no rares, increased chance at exotics+ by a lot.
account bound named weapons after the bosses with unique skins.
you want the skin you gotta kill that boss yourself to get it, it adds prestige.
I’d rather get no drop and just some coin rather than all the vendor trash.
elite skills
- their is a need for more weapon specific and types of elites, what I mean is:
- all weapons should have at least 2 elite skills available to them.
- from a warrior’s perspective I’d love some dragon slash elite on my sword for example.
- stances, shouts physical type elite’s that interact with your traits.
Controversial Changes
make legendary items account bound upon creation just like you did with ascended.
- this would give back the prestige legendary items should have, it adds a sense of wow you got that ! instead of the you bought it from the TP feeling.
- precursors are now account bound, drop rates have been increased meaningfully.
- rich orichalcum ore node outside of JP has been added for those that do not enjoy jumping but would like to get access to this resource, no one should be forced to jump if they do not want to.
Legendary node protector actively protects the node and cannot be lured away from node has to be killed before the node can be mined.
- TP minimum outbidding price difference of 5% has been introduced to prevent 1 copper outbids. this percentage goes up as the rarity of the item goes up.
