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Re: Rogues: Seeking Feedback/Suggestions
I like aspects of that idea (esp being able to somehow still get mist turnins), but I'm already iffy on whether non-rogues should be able to have guards protecting them--I think being way less safe is one of the fair tradeoffs of being a rogue.
Tetchta
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Re: Rogues: Seeking Feedback/Suggestions
I think that being cityless has a ton of consequences baked into it by default (you're outside the group, you miss out on city specific events and contests and credit sales, you don't get to fight in wars, the list is pretty enormous) that some of the mechanics that classically have been city-only are a bit too punishing to give up when you leave a city. At one point, you lost anatomy (haha nobody gets that now, suckers!) and ylem fiends (even artifact ones, though this is no longer the case) which really made it rough to do PVE. I'm sure some folk would say something about Aegis here too, which has become pivotal in PVP. There was also losing out on the 60 lessons-per-learning thing which felt like a good qol change for the game as a whole, so losing it when you become cityless seemed like an unnecessary kick in the nuts.
Personally, I don't think being cityless should impact a ton of the core mechanics of the game like that. Having a major hit in PVE, or PVP, or QOL outside of the benefits already garnered from being in a city felt needlessly punishing when I was experiencing it. You already lose so much (which is a good thing, imo. Losing war participation, the social network etc all seem fair to me.)
I'm basically just repeating myself here, though, from what I've already said, so, yeah. Just anything I said in that thread I still agree with basically. It's def more of a "the whole picture is pretty bad" thing, not necessarily that each individual component is a huge kick in the sack or something.
Personally, I don't think being cityless should impact a ton of the core mechanics of the game like that. Having a major hit in PVE, or PVP, or QOL outside of the benefits already garnered from being in a city felt needlessly punishing when I was experiencing it. You already lose so much (which is a good thing, imo. Losing war participation, the social network etc all seem fair to me.)
I'm basically just repeating myself here, though, from what I've already said, so, yeah. Just anything I said in that thread I still agree with basically. It's def more of a "the whole picture is pretty bad" thing, not necessarily that each individual component is a huge kick in the sack or something.
Tetchta
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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves
Folk in this game oughta be a lot less comfortable DMing people to guilt/berate them on Discord over stuff that's happening IC. If you think something has gone too far in game, or has OOC motivations, or otherwise isn't right, the answer is not to DM someone on Discord and tell them to play differently, the answer is to issue or, barring that, email Ictinus about it.
Tetchta
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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves
If you don't want PK'd do not put yourself into a position to get PK'd.
Bulrok
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Re: Research Trees
Yeah, for those of us who have level 20 antiquated gauntlet, which includes all 3 transmute charges, losing that functionality is kinda savage.
My guess, knowing Ictinus, is that there is story based reasons they haven't talked about it yet, and they don't want to spoil anything.
Even still, its a bit out of character to not have heard anything at all, especially when it affects so much. Here's to hoping we do hear something soon!
My guess, knowing Ictinus, is that there is story based reasons they haven't talked about it yet, and they don't want to spoil anything.
Even still, its a bit out of character to not have heard anything at all, especially when it affects so much. Here's to hoping we do hear something soon!
Aeryx
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Research Trees
Lets talk about the research trees and if or when the damaged abilities will work again. It feels like the pink elephant in the room that no one talks about or seems to care. I asked IC to various people and nobody knows.
I will admit I have selfish reasons for asking and they pertain to bashing. The anatomy lost means 5% crit rate gone, the manipulation and transmutation of wisdom is 30% XP lost. Having the venantium-chased gauntlet makes it even more annoying since we could get a free manipulation every 6 hours. I remember @Mjoll saying in the forums here how she spend a lot of gold transmuting wisdom, that is no longer possible. It may not be much but at higher levels every little bit helps.
Now with all that said and to be fair the weekly bonuses for September and October certainly made up for the research loses. Thank you @Ictinus and the team for that, it was appreciated.
I will admit I have selfish reasons for asking and they pertain to bashing. The anatomy lost means 5% crit rate gone, the manipulation and transmutation of wisdom is 30% XP lost. Having the venantium-chased gauntlet makes it even more annoying since we could get a free manipulation every 6 hours. I remember @Mjoll saying in the forums here how she spend a lot of gold transmuting wisdom, that is no longer possible. It may not be much but at higher levels every little bit helps.
Now with all that said and to be fair the weekly bonuses for September and October certainly made up for the research loses. Thank you @Ictinus and the team for that, it was appreciated.
Neoma
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Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves
Sending unsolicited pastebins of logs in response to IC conversations, as if that is answer enough to an IC question.
I can take an IC written transcript of an event, which has been edited so that it shows what happened, what people say and so on, because that's something I imagine a written statement or report would look like. In a normal conversation, though, just use IC words, truncated to explain what went down without resorting to OOC logs.
I can take an IC written transcript of an event, which has been edited so that it shows what happened, what people say and so on, because that's something I imagine a written statement or report would look like. In a normal conversation, though, just use IC words, truncated to explain what went down without resorting to OOC logs.
Teeh
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