ManyCookies wrote on Aug 28^th, 2020 at 2:44pm:

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Before ravenloft sets came out, gearing was actually totally normal and fun because you just picked items to cover your main stats based on what build you were playing. It wasn't gear tetris like now.

Now with set bonuses being such a huge deal (even in heroics, that +10 melee/ranged power from sharn sets at level 15 is huge), you are forced to use your build's optimum set and then you have to try to fit in everything else.

Before Sharn came out, you had to fit in both adherent + your armor set. So instead of just using the Legendary Utilatarian Necklace for CON, you had to figure out which Ravenloft items you could fit in for CON and still get both set bonuses.

Now it looks like most builds recommend ditching adherent to fit in sharn gear because sharn gear has a lot more insightful/quality bonuses. And you have to fit in an artifact somewhere too.

It gets kind of ridiculous when you are sitting there pouring over a spreadsheet and going "okay i can use A for CON...but i can't because that would mean I wouldn't be able to use B for Deadly...what if I use a different slot...but if I use C in that slot for CON that means I can't get D..."

It was also a LOT easier back before this "legendary" powercreep nonsense. If you were struggling to fit in a stat with what you had, you could just craft something and it would be nearly as good. Now, you can't use crafted gear at cap because the named legendary gear uses a different formula and the scaling is so much higher than what you can achieve with crafted gear.

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There are a lot of choices, sure, but most of those are bad choices.

Every now and then, I will end up in a party with a veteran who wanted to experiment or a newbie who didn't know any better, and they have some weird split like ranger/paladin/monk, and inevitably they struggle to stay alive and kill stuff. And then they go "yea this life sucks, i'm just going to TR at 20". Or the newbie just gets frustrated and quits.

Was worse before inquis came out, because now most classes can at least do some damage if they do t5 inquis with a half way decent split.

The game has several top tier options like THF paladin builds, then you have the mid tier options that are still "okay" but substantially weaker than the meta, then you have a LOT of garbage options, like thief-acrobat, henshin mystic, etc. Most universal trees have garbage t5s as well, nobody does harper t5 for a reason.

It's strange how SSG struggles to make old trees good, it's honestly something that any decent player could do in a few hours just by changing some numbers. Not perfect mind you, but a huge improvement over what we have currently.

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Its not just the combination, its the trees, classes, weapons, even the feats and spell selections. Many of them are just bad.

Like bows, no reason to use them when you have uber crossbows. THF vs any other melee combat style. Trees like Ninja Spy that are "cool' but bad in reality. Some trees like harper are only good for splashing for a few key abilities but with garbage t5s. Spells like summon monster.

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It doesnt need to be perfect. As an example, greatswords vs falchions. Falchions obviously have a better threat range, but the difference is not THAT big, and paladins have greatsword specific buffs so greatswords have a niche now.

Then you have the gap between inquis and AA or DWS bows, or even inquis and great crossbows. The moment inquis came out, great crossbows became obsolete becuase it was just so much more powerful.

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Well, assassin is supposed to be a stealth based tree, but it does offer a lot of power in it. So I would look at what makes assassin good and use that as a base to turn it ninja spy into a short sword assassin tree with ki abilities. The first draft could probably be done in a few hours top and then its just tweaking the numbers.

Then I would look at other stuff, for example, is assassin only good if you do VKF? If yes, is there a way you can get ninja spy to count short swords as daggers to qualify for the VKF tree? Does ninja spy need good raid loot short swords to go along with it? Etc, etc.

The main thing holding SSG back from fixing old content is that they just do not want to, shitting out power creep expansions every 2 years takes top priority. It's like if microsoft decided to not fix all the security flaws because almost every programmer they have is working on the next version of windows which will be released every 2 years.

DDO is sadly, one of those IPs that are being held hostage by a shitty company which badly needs someone to buy it and overhaul it...but its also one of those things that never happen in reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOz6odiAsLI&t=1s

6-7k base hits in r2 as a melee. 9-10k outside of reaper. Someone nerf these niggas making r2 thth a speed run/dps kobold test.

the_biggest_dog wrote on Sep 8^th, 2020 at 6:11pm:


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Gunga wrote on Sep 8^th, 2020 at 5:34pm:

Relax. That wasn't even full retard dps set up. I think Gordon can hit like 11k+ outside of reaper.

Gunga wrote on Sep 8^th, 2020 at 6:32pm:

do you want the big foot video, too? I deliver, homie

Gunga wrote on Sep 8^th, 2020 at 7:05pm:

that bitch dont count either. has no dps

Who is letting you guys out of the mobos? Why are you even here? You know youre not sheltered by cordovan here, right? It's going to become very bad for you guys here. I'm a very nasty person and this isn't going to end well for any of you...

Make it easier on yourselves and just try to keep your stupid confined to the mobos. I proimise you'll be happier. You guys belong there with your brethren ; Chai, Trudh, Nokowi, Sir Valentine, Haphestus, etc. Sorry if I left your name out but it's a long list of you bads and it's hard to name every roach I squash since you all look and sound alike.

Rubbinns wrote on Sep 10^th, 2020 at 1:49pm:


Woah, dude. That's not cool. You can threaten to murder people or encourage them to commit suicide or whatever, but don't tell people that they belong together with Chai. That's just mean.