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Or people could care/benefit from stats differently?

After all, rapier in mainhand is whole different story than rapier in offhand.
Newbies may have below 100% accuracy as a melee build.
etc.

That's what suffixes should be for?

That's the thing I don't get. No, seriously, this whole business about 'drops more varied and interesting'.

I like the fact that everybody's not running around with the same shit basically. It makes the equipment more interesting, like "holy shit I can't believe I got this awesome/terrible roll on this". It makes the equipment more unique (for good or bad). I don't want every legendary and magnificent to have an incredibly tight range of stats. It's better to me if there's still a range within each quality zone.

Besides, quality is all relative. One man's trash is another man's treasure. Like the estoc in your sig. To you it's probably a pretty good weapon. If it dropped for me though it would be useless because I already have a better one. Or I'm sure my dual-wield set would be trash to drksrpnt.

Also, please don't compare HV equips to mass manufactured cars and burgers. The analogy just doesn't work.

I guess I'm just happy with the way equip drops are currently. I love getting drops and then looking at the rolls.

This post has been edited by T_Starrk: Mar 15 2013, 07:21

fixed that for you

Fixed what?

1 6 You have been defeated.
1 5 Ryuuzaki Tsubasa crits you for 5785 crushing damage.
1 4 Aigis Anti-shadow Weapon crits you for 4233 piercing damage.
1 3 Cat Sith Dragon crits you for 4144 piercing damage.
1 2 You gain the effect Hastened.
1 1 You cast Haste.
0 8 Spawned Monster G: MID=8896 (Heran1234) LV=292 HP=103830
0 7 Spawned Monster F: MID=5301 (Schroedingers Cat) LV=296 HP=115507
0 6 Spawned Monster E: MID=42370 (Aigis Anti-shadow Weapon) LV=292 HP=91098
0 5 Spawned Monster D: MID=54832 (Ryuuzaki Tsubasa) LV=294 HP=164700
0 4 Spawned Monster C: MID=8913 (Wretched Egg) LV=295 HP=102817
0 3 Spawned Monster B: MID=35907 (Cat Sith Dragon) LV=294 HP=113408
0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=57199 (Erica Hartmann 501st) LV=293 HP=70360
0 1 Initializing random encounter ...
0 0 Battle Start!

Another instant death. Even with levels of Agility bonuses, mages can get killed instantly no matter what action they take. Casting Spark right away is a must. I know, it was the previous update, but still...

Another instant death. Even with levels of Agility bonuses, mages can get killed instantly no matter what action they take. Casting Spark right away is a must. I know, it was the previous update, but still...

I'm pretty sure double death was eliminated a long time ago.

I like the fact that everybody's not running around with the same shit basically. It makes the equipment more interesting, like "holy shit I can't believe I got this awesome/terrible roll on this". It makes the equipment more unique (for good or bad). I don't want every legendary and magnificent to have an incredibly tight range of stats. It's better to me if there's still a range within each quality zone.

Besides, quality is all relative. One man's trash is another man's treasure. Like the estoc in your sig. To you it's probably a pretty good weapon. If it dropped for me though it would be useless because I already have a better one. Or I'm sure my dual-wield set would be trash to drksrpnt.

Also, please don't compare HV equips to mass manufactured cars and burgers. The analogy just doesn't work.

I guess I'm just happy with the way equip drops are currently. I love getting drops and then looking at the rolls.

1. If you call an Enzo a mass-produced car, I'd really hate to think of what you call a limited edition. Something that was hand-crafted by Carol Shelby, just before he went to meet his Maker, perhaps.

2. Everybody's NOT running around with the same shit. You're a Light (Shade) DW. I'm using Heavy (Plate Protection) 1H+Shield, Light (Mixed Shade+Kevlar) DW, Heavy (mixed Shield+Power) 2H and Cloth (Mixed Gossamer+Phase) Staff. There's probably someone running around with Cloth 1H+Shield. And yes, I'm using Slaughter equips, but someone else is probably using Balance. Yet another person is using a Longsword rather than an Estoc. Higher quality equipment does not mean a lack of variety, much less what I'm asking for, which is equipment where their stats more closely match their name.

3. Quality is NOT relative. If a Legendary dropped from my next battle, that estoc is gone (but will probably be in my sig for a while, since I'm lazy and don't update it). Better stats are better stats. A faster car is a faster car; you may not *want* speed, because you value reliability more, but the fact remains.

Meh, this is starting to feel like the same stuff that was said in the suggestion thread conversation a few days ago. Anyway back to my point, I'm fine with how quality is determined on equips currently (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) . Now that I've thought about it I think minor tweaks to phase might be needed but that's it. Like maybe increasing the importance of EDB on phase when determining quality and lowering the importance of mitigations.

EDB on phase problem stems from the range being way too small afaict. The difference between good and bad is fractions of decimals, so the full spread of values depending on quality just doesn't show up, making it very random as to if it will be good.

Or people could care/benefit from stats differently?

After all, rapier in mainhand is whole different story than rapier in offhand.
Newbies may have below 100% accuracy as a melee build.
etc.

That resist makes all the difference, totally.

Hi Tenboro can you fix the weightings for phase please?

Legendary Amber Phase Robe of Heimdall

Legendary: MAB, PMI, MMI, Evade
<Superior: EDB, Wis, Dex, Agi
<Exquisite: Int

I have seen superiors that have better stats.

Also I'm selling this POS btw, if any1's interested.

The fact that it has DEX and AGI at all bumps its quality up too much. That, and base armor stats are weighted the same as plate. That is to say they're horribly inflated for anything not plate.

This post has been edited by Bunker Buster: Mar 15 2013, 11:57

Another instant death. Even with levels of Agility bonuses, mages can get killed instantly no matter what action they take. Casting Spark right away is a must. I know, it was the previous update, but still...

What difficulty was that?

Added: Konata just evaded my attack. Huh.

This post has been edited by kserox: Mar 15 2013, 16:40

Another instant death. Even with levels of Agility bonuses, mages can get killed instantly no matter what action they take. Casting Spark right away is a must. I know, it was the previous update, but still...

You are expected to buy IA and put spark of life on the first autocast slot.

What difficulty was that?

Added: Konata just evaded my attack. Huh.

Konata has agility too

Konata has agility too

Yep, Evade is now present on all mobs. The game is more annoying, Frith is more pissed off, what more could an Adminpony want?

To fix not immediately obviously broken formulas and settings?

Honestly, agility was significant enough to make avions briefly outdamage giants aka the build with the most HP. Adminpony could have made AGI give parry/resist boost ~equivalent to the damage boost it gave(it also may be equivalent due consecutive failure, if so, idk). I assume he decided to spare the players of that and will be changing what AGI does on monsters, planned to happen before monster lab bestiary is 50% giants.

The fact that you could "cap" AGI kinda pointed out it's brokeness and new system makes speed calculations much simpler at the very least. Setting priorities of balancing first towards players then monsters is much easier than doing everything at once after all.

This post has been edited by Lement: Mar 15 2013, 22:38

Yes the drop rate is insane for both gems and crystals (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/happy.gif) it least the changes are making it easier to last longer in grindfest.

Yep, Evade is now present on all mobs. The game is more annoying, Frith is more pissed off, what more could an Adminpony want?

You forgot to mention that donations are back up.

You forgot to mention that donations are back up.

That is a good thing for us too though >.>

Yep, Evade is now present on all mobs. The game is more annoying

This is how I feel currently. Last monster of an arena fight and they evade while casting a spell. I have to waste a potion just to avoid being killed by that ONE monster.

I had 3 hourlies on IWBTH were one monster remained and it fucking parries/evades with 1% hp or something for 5 turns while oneshotting me with skills and triggering my spark, so i continue attacking thinking one last hit will kill it but noooooo i die instead. /rage

This post has been edited by Pillowgirl: Mar 18 2013, 07:10