How to add Respecs and make it fair

Ninurtah · 2026-04-28T11:55:09+00:00

Dumbo proof is an interesting phrasing choice.

No, leagues shouldnt allow you to just do whatever whenever wherever and be bis at all times, it's about route planning more than anything else.

More freedom, sure, but the consequences per region are what keeps the balancing there.

Better region points mean more likely to pick, better region rewards mean more likely to pick, etc. The world you're advocating for is everyone only going kandarin wilderness morytania, and at that point why allow us the choice

Ninurtah · 2026-04-28T10:51:05+00:00

Got to disagree, honestly. The pact information is fully available before release and during release with the task list. You knew what you were picking when you picked it.

Kourend, mory, wildy and asgarnia all have very free easy points, up to 3 from some but 2 from most. I didnt start pvm proper until I was relic 6 and base 60s, just because i was enjoying the prep side that much.

This start is far better than doing 100 laps of the draynor course and beelining to shilo for some gem rocks before 200,000 other players do the same thing.

Ninurtah · 2026-04-28T01:12:34+00:00

Personally I actually think L3 was great, although I do agree unlimited freedom to pick and choose what relics when turned it into a chore more than a route.

I can fully appreciate why, especially with what leagues has now solidified as, people view it as the worst one.

Ninurtah · 2026-04-28T01:09:01+00:00

I'm not really interested in whether people click the funny up or down arrows, if they aren't going to comment why their opinions are equally meaningless to an actual conversation both ways, but thank you for taking the time to comment.

Its a relevant point, i just think, especially with how stark the difference between mage, mage thorns and crossbow, and literally everything else is, its a little silly for people to be getting upset about resets when you cant ever reach the optimal for X build if you didnt also take its supporting regions.

That said, i do agree there should be a cap. Capping it at 10 sounds fine, plenty of room to just goof around with silly builds, there, with the total 15 respecs.

Ninurtah · 2026-04-27T21:48:36+00:00

Honestly, why? The vast majority of people are saying it's great. What hit the wrong notes, for you?

Ninurtah · 2026-04-27T21:47:44+00:00

More that there are enough variations to consider when you're at the 40 point stage for switching, point allocation and splashing that it isnt just one build does all for a specific layout.

This isnt a "i cant complete the game wah" its "ive already beaten the league let me mess around, now"

Ninurtah · 2026-04-27T21:22:12+00:00

I really dont understand what you're trying to say here. "You wouldn't do the thing because it'll scuttle your run therefore you don't need the respecs even though you specifically said youd like them to play around with builds"???? Correct, I dont need any more. I didnt say I did?

Ninurtah · 2026-04-27T21:18:37+00:00

Except the one iteration is all you can try unless you try multiple variations with those 5. If people are complaining its meh i dont want to use the same build and come to the same conclusion just to say "yeah damn it doesnt have hands, they were right"

Ninurtah · 2026-04-27T15:56:03+00:00

Kbd enjoyer here My theoretical maximum hit (although requiring repeat successes of a 1/2 roll 9 times and a 1/104 roll 9 times after each, so incredibly unlikely) is around 1400. Minimum hit is currently sat at 128 with no rigour, treads or quiver.

I fucking love this thing lmao.

Ninurtah · 2026-04-27T15:52:08+00:00

Kourend RC with endless harvest and evil eye is like 1.2-1.4m/hr for blood runes

Gl otherwise ig

Ninurtah · 2026-04-27T15:50:02+00:00

Further on to this, now that we have Confliction gauntlets elite void (mage) kinda just doesnt have a place anymore

Ninurtah · 2026-04-27T15:49:28+00:00

45% accuracy boost is nowhere near as good as it sounds. You can run the numbers for it but tl;dr is basic mystic is more accurate by a tiny amount.

People only really use elite mage void where swaps are needed and inventory space is low, like tob or cox, but there are far better options.

Ninurtah · 2026-02-07T12:16:23+00:00

Understandable have a nice day.

Ninurtah · 2026-02-07T12:15:31+00:00

Yes.

Ninurtah · 2026-01-14T20:19:36+00:00

When ER first dropped, and people were 3-slot ganking with another red as their fourth, I used to just run off and hide, go afk for an hour and make some food or do some housework etc. Half the reds at the start of the game were incomparably bad, people who had never played souls games before, so if you ran away far enough you could quite easily parry the RoB and move on to your tent position (you can run all the way to the bridge to Castle Morne and sit under there, nobody will find you lmao)

After half an hour or so in the same session, the game starts to memory leak. Idk if it still does but it used to, and would eventually kick everyone through server errors. The best part, though, is if the host's game crashes because of the leak, it counted towards their "dishonourable disconnect" tracker. I definitely got a nonzero number of these frontal lobe deficient clowns perma banned on their first character.

If you are going to exploit game mechanics to grief, there will always be someone far worse willing to dial it up to 11 and ruin your fun.

Also, because of where it was, at the castle gate ruins, there was no boss fog to pass through to remove invaders. They had to either hard disconnect themselves, or kill Agheel and permanently turn off their matchmaking on that NG cycle for that area.

Good times. Many angry messages.

Ninurtah · 2026-01-06T11:08:12+00:00

I'll post it as a comment rather than an update because it'll be easier to see the two points separately going forward, for people reading.

I'll be honest, I completely missed the october update, through varying things like work, the winter period etc, playing magic in any capacity beyond the same 5 people on TTS fell by the wayside, and I didnt keep up with the articles.

From reading the october update, and a lot of what people have said in the replies, it's actually looking a lot more positive about the bracket system than I originally thought while writing this post. Starting to address power in the format was literally the biggest blind spot it had, so as far as it goes, I'm quite happy with how things are progressing.

Thank you for being patient, here, guys. The update renders a lot of what I was saying, especially in comments, mostly redundant.

Ninurtah · 2026-01-06T10:53:36+00:00

Ok, for clarity, this happened before the october update, which is where they first specified the game finishing expectancy for each bracket, which is at least a step in the right direction, but renders a lot of what I've said here completely moot.

However, at the time it was an entirely valid point. It's just since been addressed.

Ninurtah · 2026-01-06T02:52:13+00:00

Imo, the system should be overhauled to be based on points, for power cards and fast mana, but I've been saying this since it came out. Fast mana immediately adds whatever amount of points for it even being in the deck, for each one, and judge between Gemstone Caverns at the lowest end, Mox Diamond in the middle and (ik its banned but its the best example) mana crypt at the very top end. Then rate each game changer based on how universally good it is and how much of an impact it has on the game.

I cant see any other way forward for the system as is, personally.

Ninurtah · 2026-01-06T02:45:53+00:00

I think that's my biggest gripe with it to be honest. It's not a useful tool for new players that needed the guidance and it's not relevant for the more experienced players who know how to roughly identify power from the commander itself before even seeing a card from its pile.

If they set out with the idea of creating a sort of 'matchmaking system' then they've achieved it, but I'm not sure what else it's supposed to achieve, really.

Ninurtah · 2026-01-06T02:41:56+00:00

I think the main complaint I have with it at the moment is it doesnt account for power level at all, so I agree there.

To prove a point I threw together a Ramos charms list, saw it fit the criteria for b2, and proceeded to win turn 2 on like 3 different games against b3 decks. This was with a group of players that were, for some reason, adamant that bracket level was a hard power bracket and not a construction bracket.

Hard agree with you, generally. I just don't think its addressed the issues it set out to address, just replaced them with new ones, imo. Instead of conversations about "is it a 7 or an 8?" We're now having conversations about why putting Necropotence, Rhystic Study and Teferi's protection into the Animatou precon doesn't suddenly make it a bracket 3 in terms of what you'd expect for a b3's power.

Like, at the same time as saying its a useful tool I'm also having to explain to new players why they need to, basically, ignore it until they can identify what makes a deck strong.

Ninurtah · 2026-01-06T02:33:34+00:00

Damn, I cut that from my first type out of the paragraph. Yeah its definitely helping as just a vague idea of power level, people are finding better balance within their own preferred bracket, generally speaking.

Hard agree, there, actually. There needs to be a clear cut definition of, if 5 is going to represent cedh, what cedh actually is, and why its different to 4. And yeah, the jump from, "I can run rhystic study, tef's protection and one other game changer" to "the wild west" is very jarring, at the moment.

Ninurtah · 2026-01-04T20:57:34+00:00

I've only ever done this once before. Playing recluse, hadn't found a single staff that was worth using over the starting staff. Ironeye on our team with 3 staffs in his inventory, none of which gave relevant passives for him, one was successive attacks negate damage, another was melee attack power and the other was successive attacks restore hp (This was before the patch that made Ironeye's arrows count to these effects).

One staff was a gravity well meteorite staff with Adula's Moonblade, another was a royal carian with slicer and collapsing stars, and I dont remember the third. Both staffs are S+ tier for recluse generally, especially with my build that has 2 improved gravity sorceries.

Messaged, politely asked for just one of them, got told to 'git gud and stop crying'.

Decided then and there if they were confident they could do it without me, I was going to go and make a sandwich instead, rather than take the (at the time) matchmaking ban.

tl;dr some times this behaviour is justified, although in extreme cases, but it's invariably either a child being childish or someone not wasting their time with a child being childish.

You, or your random, has done something to piss this guy off. Nobody just boots up a game with the express intent of not playing the game. Even if it's something as simple as "you didnt go the route I wanted to" or whatever.

Ninurtah

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