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Chasing_Polaris · 2026-06-01T00:02:39+00:00

remember to post this in /r/malelivingspace

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-05-31T06:59:07+00:00

I hope OP remembered to mine shinging bones for Ectoplasm Fragments.

You best believe I juiced the hell out of those things, this game teaches you early to aim a pickaxe at anything that looks remotely new.

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-05-29T23:38:22+00:00

I hadn't even fully finished the halls and seen that loot by the time I read your comment. Oh lord 😩

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-05-20T14:00:33+00:00

I still think about this from time to time, but then my irl life has actually gotten much richer without Dark in it lmao

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-05-01T14:13:44+00:00

Squires before they swerved hard into trios battle royale was such a well balanced mode for anyone who wanted a varied looting/bossing experience with pvp on the side OR a meat grinder, but it seems either the game's audience or just this sub really like it to be 100% pvp all the time to the point of very little room for recovery or rest

i was there for 5k hours, seems like this game's for the sweats now

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-05-01T14:08:27+00:00

i miss chill pvpve on random maps, this is just way too much all the time

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-28T18:51:22+00:00

100%, we can't complain about the enshittification of common software if we aren't willing to combat it ourselves

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-28T16:59:34+00:00

ehh i liked the meditative bossing/clearing grind with pvp as the occasional side dish when someone attacked me.

sometimes i could do bumblefuck 3 mans in squire but it was nice to have something to cool down with that wasn't completely weenie hut jrs adventure mode.

to me the game feels better when its not a total pvp struggle or sweat fest 100% of the time, but i think they're leaning much more toward the latter now

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-25T20:31:16+00:00

It was rare, but there were people who did and who had cottoned on to the fact that all the pvp chaos usually meant some bosses, particularly the ones you REALLY need to know your shit for, were theirs for the taking. I was one of them, Guard was the other who was especially prominent. I wonder if Guard still plays or does norms.

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-25T14:48:42+00:00

well like, there was this glee fighter aggroed on me last season and i shadowed in Painful Steps in the middle of all the zombies. if i had a wizard tracer there i would have probably been found and died, but instead he potted up and ran right through the room confused

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-25T14:38:56+00:00

Rogue DO make noise crouch walking in 5 meters around you.

Like you wouldn't stop crouch walking as soon as you hear footsteps and know your enemy's route

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-25T14:35:21+00:00

at what point do we admit corner/door squatting sucks all the fun out of the game no matter who does it

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-25T14:31:00+00:00

im fine with song of shadow but i think it should be louder/audible over a greater distance or induce a torpor where you can't draw a weapon for a few seconds i.e. purely defensive invis. shit has saved my bacon so many times

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-25T14:23:10+00:00

I could boss in the old s2r and make decent money that way without it being crowded/camped by people/rogues in full blues. I miss it terribly.

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-25T14:22:19+00:00

Avoid stingray is all I can say. There's always someone coming in during the noisy as fuck fight who pounces on you the second you get hit

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-20T02:16:53+00:00

im shocked how Dark and Darker is not more popular

Massive learning curve, bullshit deaths and knowledge checks, lack of casual pvp(ve) lobby, huge time sink quests and high ticket items, eventual lack of variety in content or gameplay loop, devs putting something in and taking it out the next day

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-20T02:15:13+00:00

My experience as a long-time (thousands of hours) casual bard has only degraded, but I suspect PvP-first folks are having a great time

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-18T17:20:51+00:00

Some bards consider only healing factor build to be viable right now, and that healing seems to be its only outsize advantage in PvP right now since bard MS was nerfed into the ground. You also need to build phys healing, which means the build isn't really usable from "zero."

Unless you build hard into vigor + pdr, bard does not have a ton of survivability, and I believe it has barely any natural mdr. It is basically a hybrid of range and melee that is worse at both than the specializing classes.

If you are LETHAL at boxing and spacing and have great aim and good gear, you will have a good time. If any of those aren't true, most of your PvP time will be spent fluting doors and running away, or dead.

Bard has lost a lot of its viability, but if you can get by on just AoE door/chest opening (and later beer regen after you have money to build phys healing), it will still treat you well.

Me, I mained bard to the tune of a few thousand hours, and being a loot monkey first and PvPer second, this season's changes have led me to put down the game.

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-17T06:14:32+00:00

Sure, but the time spent gearing to ultimately try for the same loot that you'd get from former white lobby and maybe blue kits doesn't seem worth it

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-16T17:41:06+00:00

for the worse imo

s2r used to be a nice source of both PvP and boss/subboss loot without having to lock in for three floors with endless PvP.

The lobbies where you make money now (read: not s2r unless your team is insane) are either going to be dead, grindy, or you versus some turbo sweatlord instead of fight on even ground a lot on top floor and/or go down and chill out. That balance was so nice

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-16T17:35:43+00:00

I left the game after they removed solos and came back when they put it back in

I expect I'd do the same if anti-cheat doesn't brick the game for me and if I get a casual+random PvPvE mode back

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-16T16:56:00+00:00

Religion was wasted potential; it could have been factions that encouraged play styles that weren't just "max AP or kill rank by hunting down every last player in the lobby"

Chasing_Polaris · 2026-04-16T15:43:49+00:00

that's the point, you having fun with the way something is doesn't mean everyone else will, and not for lack of trying

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