I haven't really looked closely at it yet, as I've been extra busy with work and family.  With regards to your last point, I'd say no.  There wasn't a HUGE outcry to nerf dailies.  As you said, it gets brought up every once in a while and dies down again.  Probably because it's the way the game has always been - some quests award great XP, most award crap. 

I'm a fan of the concept, though.  I prefer running a variety of content over a handful of quests that actually give decent rewards.  I can only run VoN so many goddam times...  we'll see if they balanced the numbers properly.   My instinct, given their track record, is that they almost certainly didn't.

I like the Reaper changes on paper. 

Just reading about it, with no real feel in-game yet, I give these changes an A-.

kum-gulp wrote on Aug 16^th, 2019 at 6:26am:


That actually reminded me of a Wil Wheaton quote in ToEE of all things.  Something along the lines that a good DM will always say 'yes' no matter what a player wants to try.  A good DM will make it work.

Someone should track down the quote and tattoo it to Jerry's head so Sev has to read it daily.

Didnt you read the mobos? There is no more xp in the game

Yup streak bonus removed with bravery boosted to compensate - you no longer need to build a streak for max xp

Skoodge wrote on Aug 16^th, 2019 at 7:10am:

Wouldn't putting it on a belt buckle serve that purpose better?

Asheras wrote on Aug 16^th, 2019 at 10:41am:


the crying over the optional XP going away is such a silly thing for these morons to fixate on.

You'll get 4 runs per life at almost all the XP of the dailies.

Being VIP and running 50% pot, the optionals in Spies is about 36k EXP.  After 4 runs it goes down a little.  If you needed 8 cycles before... now with the optional XP decaying to nothing on the cycle, this means to make up for the lost optional XP over 8 runs, you need to run Spies ONE MORE time to make up all the optional XP you lost with the decay.
That's 9 minutes of time.

Wiz King gets hit the worst since their is more optional XP than actual quest XP.. .so stop running it after 6 times. (even with 60% optional there, with a full party it's fast enough to complete.)

Grimm's Optional are pretty bad to begin with.

two-toed tobias has the one that is about 15 to 20K.... not getting that full optional XP 4 times per life = running TTT one MORE time.

Essentially all of these come down to: run the quest ONE more time getting zero XP for the optionals, but the main quest XP will more than make up for the lost optional XP.

I do think it affects those those that don't have 50% pots... they'll have to run other quests.

I haven't tried to level from 20 to 30 with a 50% XP in years, so maybe it will slow down those people.  And those are probably the people who whine the most about being the "have nots" and how this puts more distance between them and the 1%.

But fuck'em.  they need to git gud. 

Well, I just did my fastest tr. So its either better or about the same

goldgolem wrote on Aug 20^th, 2019 at 8:53am:

How long did it take you compared to a previous life?  Were you running the same difficulty in both lives?

bob the builder wrote on Aug 19^th, 2019 at 4:51pm:

This is a somewhat reductive and elitist statement.

The point most people are making is that there shouldn't be a massive gulf between the haves and have-nots, or the perception that it's not feasible to run 20-30 (the real issue here) without +50% pots.

Mostly because the people who have them either duped the shit out of them or have a lot of  disposable income to burn (or their parents do).

I personally don't care much, but I ran dailies specifically becauee I hate epic content and would rather do anything than run MotU or ToEE content. I only grudgingly run Mirror and WGU. I'm fully capable of zerging the shit out of any and all content... I just don't want to.

This XP change railroads people into having to run EE/Rx to achieve optimal results, which actually slows TRs for many people, since the 2x Normal dailies were faster XP.

I can't see a reality where the is doesn't hurt their bottom line, since my answer is "Well, I guess those Iconic lives I was gonna do are gonna happen never. Back to racial TRs..." and I'm certain I am not the only one who feels that way. And now I can get good reaper XP and free TP grinding heroics so fuck it.

What I find even more hilarious is that if they were targeting  dailies as "over-performing" then they missed the memo that people are burning Slayer and XP pots to skip content as well. Or maybe they don't care because they figure that's generating revenue with pot sales (even though I can't remember the last time I've purchased anything from the store with actual money).

bob the builder wrote on Aug 26^th, 2019 at 9:07am:

Ran R4 TOEE1 in 21 min with 4 capped toons and a 24 sorc: 5300 RXP with a 30% pot + VIP, and 266k epic XP.

Yes that's FTB and yeah it's bad RXP/min.  Did it to help a friend and was curious how the RXP was.  Won't be doing it again for RXP.