Blood Spectre

For my two cents worth, there never should have been a minus one setting to begin with. Seriously, if you can't handle your missions on +0 with no bosses... I don't know what to tell you. But maybe my years of experience make me too biased to be an accurate judge of difficulty for everyone. Although, here we are making huge sacrifices to the upper tiers of difficulty in order to compensate for the allowance of this lowest metric, so if nothing else one could make the case that the sacrifices we have to make in order to get a minus one setting are not worth whatever benefit most of us would gain by having it. You could argue that either way though.

For my part, I have done everything on my 50s. All that there is to do, I have done. I was really looking forward to doing some of my favorite arcs set for 8 over and over again as I need to to finance my alts. Set to +0 for 1 the missions don't provide the kind of rewards I need for that. I was really excited for this but now, well I have my doubts that I'll be allowed to do so. Basically, if this goes live it would be a huge buzzkill for me. And while there is certainly an argument to be made that it would only be temporary as a new fix came down the wire, that does little to placate me. After all, this is a game where I pay for the time I enjoy it. I don't want to pay to play the game in a state that I don't like. How about you get the full fix in, and then make the change, rather than making me pay for a half done job. That's just my opinion though.

This change would put me in an odd place on my 50s. I can't stand newspaper missions. I like story arcs, but I have done them all. I can only get further story arcs through Ouro or MA. While I will never exhaust all the stories available on MA, the vast, vast majority of them don't drop the purples that I enjoy trying to get, so it's somewhat pointless. Are my needs fairly sharply focused? Sure, maybe. I want to fight the maximum number of purple dropping enemies at a time, in a story arc. That's all I want to do, and for no reason that has anything to do with me, I'm looking at the very real possibility of losing that option. At least with my characters that have builds capable of facing those kinds of missions. It's just a poorly thought out, really bad idea that will make my highest level characters a lot less fun.

I suppose I wouldn't be as concerned as I am, but it just feels like, to me, the best part of SRSLY is going to go away, for who knows how long.

I don't see why. My soft capped builds manage to find challenges still. I just unlocked Viridian for the first time, and so far I'm two missions in and I died in each one. Stacking Vengeance ignores high defense pretty handily, as do multiple Longbow Wardens when Tub Ci decides to agro additional spawns during an ambush swarm. Granted, I am set to 8 players, but that's an option in game. That's the performance ceiling, so to speak. We should be pushing everyone towards it, not pulling the builds that can manage it back down.

We don't need to start invalidating a lot of good builds, hard work, and hard won inf by reworking the whole system. It's both easier and more satisfying to boost the resistance based builds by giving them more and better options.

Where were you when LG was handing out gobs of cash?

I applaud your long term planning skills. I've often attempted to lay such plans of my own, only to be thwarted by my short attention spa...


THAT DOG HAS A PUFFY TAIL!

Here Puff-Puff! C'mere you little Puff!

1) Clearly I was joking.

2) It still takes Hammi-Os and IOs with an End Redux component. I am sure I could still get over 100% end redux on it, to make the joke still hold up. For teh lolz.