Blood Spectre

because given a choice I will simply pursue more efficient use of my limited game play time. I wont lose any sleep over the fact that the decision will not always be Freakshow above all other mobs.

I change what I do because of things I dont care about all the time. For example, this young woman I am waiting on at this very moment could very well have her ample breasts spill out into full public display at any second. She is litterally about to erupt into a boobsplosion. I would like to stare in the event this blessed event should occur. But the consequences of doing so would be a bother, what with the yelling, the hitting, and the firing. I dont care one whit that she might object to my lechery, but I restrain myself because the costs are potentially more bother than they are worth. I dont care about her objection, if her opinion was worth anything, she wouldn't have poured her body into a tank top that is CLEARLY too small for her assets. But her objection would lead to other things, so I alter my behaviour.

Oh hell, she's stretching for something. I'd better go help her out.

Let the record state that I refuse to run the unfun, unrewarding, hugely time intensive Hamidon encounter.

Also, dude, I don't care about the nerf. I really don't. I'm just discussing how it will effect my gameplay.

Goat hits the nail right on the head here.

At least 1 per mission in newspapers, the average paper mission taking about 10 minutes, and for the sake of argument 5 minutes travel time just to be generous. So 4 an hour at a minimum, if I'm solo.

I also run on the even difficulties, because I like Boss fights, and I like having lots of guys in my missions, even if I am on a single target specialist. It's a max loot/minute thing.

Now of course that's just newspapers. This would also effect some of my favorite content missions in the game too.

Doc Buzzsaw, Diviner Maros, Hard Luck, Westin Phipps, all some of my favorite contacts who feature Freakshow heavily in their arcs.

So I'd say, seriously it's a factor in my gameplay decisions. In the same way that my Electric/Electric Brute tears through Malta and Rikti like they are nothing, but can't solo Arachnoid EBs. So yeah it's a factor that will weigh in my decisions as I play, solo. On a team, I'm not as picky. Nobody wants to be the ******* looking down his nose at a team mate's mission, not even me.

Also, my objection to the change is mild. I don't care that the rewards were cut. For minions and lts, the change is sensible. It doesn't make sense for bosses though. That's my position, but I don't care about it enough to fight for it, only enough to explain it.

I don't care because the game is good enough that I can find content that isn't under rewarding for my time to enjoy on those characters that struggle against Tanks. On a character that chews through them, they would be just another option. Whereas before I would take them on, even with a sub optimal build for facing them, because they gave excellent rewards (and they almost never spawn in caves. I gawdamned hate caves!). That and I really like The Freakshow. They look cool on the screen, they have great dialogue, and they generally entertain me. But that's not enough for me to endure them on a character that would struggle with them.

I'm not sure what makes this position so difficult for some people to understand.

Example. Project Dragonfly, my Ninja Blade/ EA Stalker avoided Freakshow whenever possible. Same thing with Nemean, my Claws/ Regen Stalker. Same reason for both characters. Tanks still have more than 50% of their health after BU+AS. That's a lot of scrapping to hack through without crits. In fact, if it weren't for the Stalker tweaks, I think I'd have pulled my hair out doing it with Claws.

In the same amount of time, either character could have been mowing through Carnies, Council, or hell even CoT. It just didnt make sense for those toons to waste time trying to stab what is essentially a big metal bulkhead.

Other characters of course experienced different results. But the core principle of my argument is this; it is very much a common and understandable position that one would seek only to play the game in a way that is most optimal for one's abilities.

If that means avoiding enemies that are just as hard or harder, but give less rewards than other options, then that is to be expected, and is in no way an oddity.

Did you guys want to join as definates or maybes?

Those people will get their turn. And the rest of us will be there complaining that we're not getting new powers or epics when they do. And so the worm turns...

Play whatever one grabs your interest most. I'm thinking that it'll be light RP at the most, basically just a gang of super criminals cooperating for profit.

We do need some aggro management from the looks of it, but play whatever you like.

You do know we're rolling new characters for this, right?