Head-Meat wrote on Aug 11^th, 2022 at 11:14am:


And only the hybrid swap to bow when 10k is down. While not as good as the best bow build, it's significantly better than waiting on 10k to come back online.

It is only for raids. A basic DWS shuri outperforms it in quests due to being infinitely easier to micromanage, and there isn't a need to swap weapon styles every 30 seconds. But for red name fiestas it's the best ranged option.

Back to casters ; I am not a fan of caster nuking nerfs. It's by far the best looking playstyle in all of ddo. Big, flashy explosions and effects. Devs are bad for nerfing souls and druids. I honestly didn't think anything that is not abusing bugs needed a nerf in r10. And heroics or leveling in epics isn't something that should be balanced, imo. But that is because I despise leveling content in all games, so I am biased.

Rubbinns wrote on Aug 11^th, 2022 at 12:06pm:

R10 is too damn easy and needs changed. Either make the content harder or the builds that cake walk through it weaker.

Ferd wrote on Aug 11^th, 2022 at 9:09pm:


This fixes all need to be geometric in nature. Doom reapers need to teleport on to you like devils. We need meaningful survivability checks alongside a general nerf to r10 damage and a reverse to the monster health nerfs that happened by way of the calculations changing per skull.

That said survivability checks are not popular in almost any game.

In my opinion there will always be a hardest difficulty and it doesn't really matter if it's a little bit harder than what it is right now. I'm more interested in build and quest completion style diversity.

Rubbinns wrote on Aug 11^th, 2022 at 9:55pm:

Keeping r10 quests as cake walks because people can't do r10 raids is a poor argument. Not everyone lives to raid.

And you can keep your dick out of the blender - I'm not suggesting low reaper needs changes. It should likely be easier so new players don't look at the huge cliff they have to climb to get even close to catching up to folks who duped and abused exp mechanics over the last 10 years and more (me being one of them  )

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Aug 12^th, 2022 at 1:00am:
No clue about geometry. All I know is when 2 people step into an r10 quest and say 'we'll just slow down a bit til few more join' something needs to change. Agree on diversity.

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Where may I find your guide please? I think I need more of a challenge than the low reaper TR treadmill and want to up my game.

Head-Meat wrote on Aug 12^th, 2022 at 2:16pm:

The game is more complex than it is difficult. I focus on improving myself and aren't worried about what others are doing. There is always something to do even for the most accomplished. If you can solo raids on LN/LH then try R1. If it isn't possible grab a second or 3rd person.

A lot of my guildies are just burned out on the game. So are a lot of other players. It's not all about because the game is easy, because they haven't done everything. It's more about that they are burned out on a game they have been playing for 10+ years.

I highly doubt making every day quests harder brings back or keeps anyone around longer. What does harder even look like? They can make the r10 player damage debuff 0.25, triple the hp and people are still completing. Still shortmanning. Raids with impossible mechanics are really the only way to challenge players like that. We have some in KT, THTH, Hunt, Skeletons. We need more of that.

Ferd wrote on Aug 11^th, 2022 at 9:09pm:


I guess you dont play melees much then, huh?

After the stat squish + 25% leg.mob HP reductions + removal of Legendary wards mobs DIE quicker.

At the same time they increased Reaper Scaling for player received damage per skull. It's most evident via Fear reaper's bane damage ticks. Untyped damage on R10 before stat squish update was around 200, but now its 299 per tick.

My medium armored pally went from comfortably tanking 4-5 Doom hits to getting 2 shot. Wearing Suulo set with 33% evil absorb effect easily prevented venge circle oneshots before but now even 8k+ HP tanks will get oneshot if not wearing evil absorb. This is probably the main reason I switched to high dodge/evasion/hit avoidance melees. If you're playing only nukers and ranged this shit is barely noticeable I supposes.

R10 is both too easy and hard at the same time. I suppose its SSG's fucktard idea of balancing things.
Steelfag always so giddy to claim that reaper isnt supposed to be fair and its trying to kill you. LOL. I wonder if he considers himself God's gift to SSG and the playerbase.

Personally, I'm against any changes that increase quest completion times and dip into players pockets some more.

Alex DeLarge wrote on Aug 16^th, 2022 at 7:41am:
Pretty much. Melees and swim clerics. Neither really appeal to me in R10.... 

Ferd wrote on Aug 16^th, 2022 at 8:33am:

How to know if someone Fucks. And has for a long time.