Sigh… wish that it had just been private messaged instead because now it will just be abused to death. That is only a partial list of dungeon related issues discovered during PTS as well.
Bluehole Ginno is just killing this game one buggy patch at a time.
As far as the request to nerf the DF Heroic boss (specifically Avarix), uh no. The top geared players would then just ROFLSTOMP through this and be full Chimera (including weapon) within a week (#).
When I say top geared. I don’t mean by the poorly calculated gear score; that has been skewed by the inflation in vitality. The breakpoints for damage and defense can be reached. As I wrote in my earlier PTS post, the entire power creeping in this patch was lazily done (and also ulterior motived to compel artifact enchanting as high as possible). It’s why I used runes that balanced out crit, penetration, attack speed, physical/magic defense. It’s why I did not bother to +15 chest artifact because that would’ve just inflated gear score.
So it just requires gearing in steps like getting Hellswamp weapon and using at minimum, a Bloodstained rune (Morbid for the slight main stat increase would be better) with artifact amplification and main stat (all max refined of course).
Any combination of Hellswamp, Capricious, and Chimera armor pieces (maintaining 3/8 and 5/8 bonuses) will allow chipping away at the time it takes to get past the wall. Once the Chimera weapon drops and is properly runed, part of that wall disappears for those folks (and if folks discover some of the glitches, well they just get geared up that much faster).
Repeating, this was lazily done to try and give the current best geared players (again, not based on vitality inflation) a challenge. Everyone else has a larger wall to climb where they get carried and/or give up trying (that is a completely different story which has been my criticism ad nauseum that has fallen on deaf ears). So if you can’t beat the ones who have had no earlier useful feedback for actually fixing this game, might as well join them and say, “there is nothing wrong”.
Players might as well get used to it since this is the way Ginno is going to deal with things going forward. Rumor has it they may (for Trion), continue past 60 and just do this power creep thing to 70 (and then do the unique tier then). That really sounds like an “excellent” idea to me as well if they go through with it.
With that said, besides a few more drafts that will be posted in the next week or so, I am not going to bother discussing this game anymore unless there are drastic changes to the approach.
(#) May 29th: not even a week out and there are already a few players in both regions with Chimera weapon and nearly full armor set. So yes, there is no need to nerf anything because it just goes downhill (easier) for these players over the next 3+ months. This is probably the best patch yet and it is only going to get better from here on out.
