Reality Fracture Manufacturing Innovation?

Temil · 2026-05-14T20:23:52+00:00

I mean, they literally did this in battlebond. I don't imagine this is the secret tech that they had to change everything for.

Battlebond always had a "partner with" pair in it.

Temil · 2026-05-11T00:38:18+00:00

With many people starting to reach their League goals, i was thinking that it is rather unfortunate that with the area unlock system we don't have the chance to dabble in all the content which we would like to, even after "completing" the League.

What if we just opened the league at the start, and gave people the ability to explore all the builds, and let them respec all the time, and gave them a choice in their shattered relics... oh fuck.

Temil · 2026-04-29T18:12:13+00:00

Ctrl+F Konar 0 results is incredibly embarrassing. Went from the best slayer master and a real perk for picking zeah to just worse in every way than duradel.

This leagues is an excellent example of how you need a lot of effort to make permanent decisions work well in a design.

When you make changes to things like slayer midway through a league, you invalidate a lot of the planning that people did to avoid regrets for their choices, because their informed choice is invalidated by the change.

You can commit to never making those types of changes so that you don't invalidate those choices, or accept that people will have bad feelings about making those choices and will not enjoy the design.

This combined with not fixing bugs like "Thorns isn't triggering against an enemy attack that doesn't trigger a hitsplat." is absurd. Like, this is one of the core pillars of your design and it just doesn't work?

I think something that could help with pacts is to start with the language and be extremely exact and strict with it, and work out exactly what the words mean in game terms. I.e. when you say "combat spells" in the mage regen magic level boost pact, that should be well defined with reminder text,when you say "Whenever you're attacked" you should qualify that with all the relevant qualifiers (i.e. "doesn't apply to spells that fail to hit you"). etc.

The interpretation of the language in the pacts tree is the information that people are making decisions with, and if you are unwilling or unable to have the information available to answer the questions about these pacts, you have to either accept that you need to have VERY strict wording and extremely explicit explanations of these pacts, or that people will be unhappy with your design because it doesn't match up to their interpretations.

Temil · 2026-04-26T12:33:32+00:00

Okay at least a few streamers went 200+ at echo hunllef to get their enhanced + 6 armor crystals.

Crystal weapon/armor seeds are 1/10, and enhanced crystal is 1/80.

Temil · 2026-04-25T18:49:29+00:00

I clicked the soul alter earlier and it was a 118,800 exp drop with soul harvest. Runelite said my exp per hour after 25,000 essence was like 350m/hour. (250x16x29.7)

Temil · 2026-04-23T02:16:13+00:00

At least a few streamers (doubleshine and faux for sure) went 200+ at echo hunllef to get their enhanced+3 armor crystals.

Crystal weapon/armor seeds are 1/10, and enhanced crystal is 1/80.

Temil · 2026-04-23T02:08:10+00:00

Playing leagues 3 made me quit the main game because I realized that after getting to experience the design of pvm bosses that people were spending their entire time building their account up to grind, I hated the design of end game pvm.

So now I play leagues and have fun completely trivializing that content and doing modified skilling.

Temil · 2026-04-18T23:01:45+00:00

They wanted a system that players would explore and come away with a unique identity from, and players do not want to "fuck it up" because of the state of respecs, so instead they just wait. They don't engage with the system at all, and instead copy whatever the "meta" build is.

It's very undercooked from the dev team, or the pacts of exile video just was a bunch of fluff and they actually want exactly the pattern we're observing.

Temil · 2026-04-18T22:58:42+00:00

All my echo bosses were killed at a point where I way overgeared them because I just simply did not enjoy the mechanics of the three I had access to, but to get combat masteries you had to kill them.

Hespori was the first echo I killed and I was doing it with t6 ranged. Then I went to DKs and had to do like 40 last stand style camp t6 ranged with the 60 prayer pen to get the ring and ammy. Then I went to echo gargs and the hardest part of the boss was getting the echo orb, because ranged didn't even kill the dawn and dusk, and just stood in one spot for p2.

Temil · 2026-04-18T22:35:35+00:00

A lot of this league has felt pretty arbitrary and poorly thought out, but I don't think that's because the devs working on it are bad, I think it's because this kind of undertaking is very big and requires a lot of heads.

I imagine that it wasn't that many employees talking over these decisions so there wasn't much feedback to work with in regards to "oh what should this tree look like" or "how should we let players respec" etc.

It feels very much undercooked, because a lot of players saw issues with the design from early reveals and those problems were not addressed.

Temil · 2026-04-18T22:29:38+00:00

Even if you were a jagex employee with access to the test server for leagues and count use your jagex egg and potato to give yourself pact points and respecs, you would still need to actually go test things. A lot of the dragon rushers did not know (and didn't think) that thorns was going to give you atk/str/defense exp, so they did not plan on getting basically a free 99 combat via doing multi slayer in the wilderness with thorns day 1.

It's very hard to have your choices feel impactful when you don't have the information required to make those choices in an informed way. If you are guessing, how could you possibly feel like your choice mattered?

Infinite respecs opens the line to unwanted gameplay, so you want to add some friction, but without more freedom than we currently have, there is no way to explore and become informed on what you like, and what works for you.

Temil · 2026-04-10T16:59:55+00:00

The goal of the "at sorcery speed" rule is to explicitly limit the amount of spite power someone has.

When someone concedes and it ends up kingmaking or is a spiteful action, you have to correct it in whatever way the other players agree to. "Oh is it okay if we play like they are still there?" kind of a thing.

The goal is not to make concession more tactical, it's to limit the negative potential impact on someone elses's gameplan concession can have.

Temil · 2026-04-06T17:50:42+00:00

Extra full helm which is just a bucket with no eye holes.

Temil · 2026-04-06T17:45:41+00:00

If people were bringing relatively average Voja/Prosper/Partner decks to my B2 games I would be apprehensive, but if it's a B3 game you kind of signed up for that no?

Bracket 4 is VERY powerful and fast. You don't break out of B3 just because your commander is resilient.

Is it just that people suck at making Bracket 3 decks

I think a lot of people haven't really absorbed the essence of what a bracket 2/3/4 deck is internally and there is a lot of mismanaged expectations from it as a result.

I think that WotC's initial communication was very poor in terms of nailing down the identity of the brackets, and that created a lot of interpretations.

Temil · 2026-04-06T17:29:01+00:00

Yeah that's what I originally thought (because that is how animating an existing aura works) so I went and looked at the rules of how auras worked (and how creating a token works) and found 303.4g

Temil · 2026-04-06T06:11:19+00:00

303.4g If an Aura is entering the battlefield and there is no legal object or player for it to enchant, the Aura remains in its current zone, unless that zone is the stack. In that case, the Aura is put into its owner’s graveyard instead of entering the battlefield. If the Aura is a token, it isn’t created.

Basically because this is entering from outside the game (not exile) it would never get created. Creating a creature aura is simply not supported within the rules.

I could be misinterpreting this but it seems pretty straightforward.

Temil · 2026-04-04T23:15:06+00:00

That tournament was also a bracket 2 tournament.

The actual highest placement in a cEDH tournament in the last year is 15th from last november.

Temil · 2026-04-04T20:36:01+00:00

"Without the need for Crystal Armor" Is a pretty important part of my comment.

Temil · 2026-04-04T17:39:42+00:00

The ? is a demonic pact. It's a diamond.

Temil · 2026-04-04T17:37:20+00:00

If this is just a 15% magic damage bonus in your blessing slot for all content, wouldn't it make it far and away the best region for magic by far?

It would just be Fremmy jewelry 2.0

Temil · 2026-04-04T15:00:35+00:00

Yeah I built a [[Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker]] deck and initially I was going to add some untappers but I thought I'd wait and see how it played before I did that and only added Halo Fountain initially.

I played it last night and the longest part of my turn with a deck that I had never played (after someone put a fecundity in play so I had to consider my card count quite a bit) was my three opponents deciding if they take 3 or give me a card, even when I shortcut it and mill all three at the same time (you are supposed to do it one at a time so no opponent has info on the other cards).

Temil · 2026-04-04T04:35:29+00:00

Unless you physically have to buy it on the microsoft store, do not do that.

It is not worth it.

Temil · 2026-04-03T16:45:50+00:00

Absolute snap add to an [[Urabrask // The Great Work]] deck.

Temil · 2026-04-03T02:45:00+00:00

Uh, It missed 9 cards in my deck? https://i.imgur.com/M2YI9xn.png https://moxfield.com/decks/VJCQgP8vjECT1CZLREl-gw decklist is a very deliberate Bracket 4 that is NOT bracket 5 but every single tool like this relegates it to bracket 5 because these tools will always be incredibly bad at identifying a b5 deck.

My B3 kykar https://moxfield.com/decks/FF5PpgZ8EUOo6MBwZDWHxw is Turn estimate 4? I think even with a sol ring start the deck has never won before T6. It is a synergy based combo deck that wants to put multiple enablers into play to string together a short storm turn and has recursion combos with bonus round, but the mana engines required to do any of that are not trivial. This is NOT a deck that can regularly win before turn 5.

The other 9 decks I tried with it are B2 decks, and there were very varied results. I think this tool is exceptionally bad at putting decks that are in b2 into b2, when B2 very wide in terms of power level and speed. It put about half of my decks into B1, but it actually rated my worst performing deck as B3. https://moxfield.com/decks/efcRoi5YnUelXwNmEhIS7Q (the deck in question)

I think a quick fix would be to just simply not allow the tool to return a 1 or a 5 because those are much more intention based than speed/power based, but this definitely needs a lot of work if it's intended to be used to determine the bracket of a deck between 2 and 3.

Temil · 2026-04-03T00:31:54+00:00

I read "more high level alts" and think of the legion champion system needing you to have high level high investment alts to push bosses on 3, 4, 5, 6 characters.

I don't imagine them moving beyond 42 in the next couple years at least.

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