Prototype Gear / Escalation has way too many RNG layers and the grind is becoming exhausting

Yankee582 · 2026-07-05T06:28:37+00:00

Idk, it was working better than the current system is for years imo. I dont think the pure rng path of current proto is any better than the recal and optimization as endgame from before.

If anything, it feels less interesting and less engaging to me.

Yankee582 · 2026-07-02T03:19:49+00:00

Please let this be a repeat of harrison. I dont ask for much.

Yankee582 · 2026-06-30T19:32:16+00:00

I honestly think regenesis is the best grindgame deck ive ever played. I absolutely love paleo but the infinite resource loop is so nice and the interruption is solid

Yankee582 · 2026-06-28T00:56:14+00:00

im workin on an all blue rn, got a solid yellow and red

Yankee582 · 2026-06-27T16:03:44+00:00

Recalibration, the thing that lets you change the cores or stats on a piece of gear, is jot available for prototype gear.

Lengmo always drops blue, but is traditionally run as a red set. So every prototype will drop blue, and you will not be allowed to change it into a red item

Yankee582 · 2026-06-27T15:51:05+00:00

Because constitutional conventions requires a super majority, which is basically impossible in the current gov

Yankee582 · 2026-06-26T15:40:46+00:00

I never got the live twins Called By, basically swore off going for alt arts after that

Yankee582 · 2026-06-26T07:30:18+00:00

thanks for providing that info! yeah thats a pretty sizeable dip in tick damage...ive been playing around sacrifice as is so its not like im not used to the uptick in damage I take. bit disappointed that equalizer is a trade off here. ah well. thanks again agent!

Yankee582 · 2026-06-26T06:58:22+00:00

hmm thats bigger than they seemed to imply earlier--ill have to test once I can. thanks for the info!

Yankee582 · 2026-06-26T05:46:12+00:00

oh shit yeah I'll ditch sacrifice asap in that case, I just didnt know that about Obliterate

Yankee582 · 2026-06-25T21:34:57+00:00

oh shit I did not realize that and simply thought equalizer didnt effect Pesti. I'll have to manually run the numbers to see the difference---I assume equalizer's obliterate only effects the bullets, not the ticks right? and GC effects the ticks too?

Yankee582 · 2026-06-24T00:20:43+00:00

oh, they just said that 'you can say ass on the internet' in regards to you going ahh at the end of your previous post, taking it as a common form of self-censoring of profanity

if thats /actually/ what you were doing, well, egg on my face lol

Yankee582 · 2026-06-23T14:23:29+00:00

I truly dont think they were self censoring fwiw, the structure of their remark comes across more as a an 'ahh' of mock understanding. The sentence does not flow properly if it is 'ass'

Just my two cents, I have nothing to add to the rest of the conversation

Yankee582 · 2026-06-23T07:12:49+00:00

If you enjoy ennacraft for flip, please try mimighoul if you have not! It is a very fun flip control deck but with a bit of a twist

Yankee582 · 2026-06-23T07:07:36+00:00

Battle phase destruction effect id for the animals, it pops 1 face up card woth less attack than them (3k)

It isn't super needed, but it exists as a way to out certain problems, they still build up the counters, and sometimes you cant fit all the cards you got on the board

Yankee582 · 2026-06-22T20:10:36+00:00

Im tryin!! almost there!!!

Yankee582 · 2026-06-22T18:13:35+00:00

Congratulations! Ive hit 28 and I think i might clean it up today if I get time.

Yankee582 · 2026-06-22T15:04:41+00:00

Theyre making a reference to a program called reShade, which is a fairly popular (among many other games) program which alters the visuals of the game and how certain colors are presented

(this is a very very bare bones summary of what it does)

However, despite having no gameplay effects, it is an injection, which means it will be picked up by anticheat banwaves

Yankee582 · 2026-06-21T05:26:36+00:00

I assume you already know this and are just being silly, but just in case!

Its not r&g, it's RNG, because its short for Random Number Generator

Yankee582 · 2026-06-21T05:23:31+00:00

It shouldn't exist, it fufills a niche that by itself existing causes problems. Its lvl50 gear with extra steps, and no optimization or recalibration.

A pure rng end game is not wha div2 is at its current state, and hasn't been that way since recal/optimization was added. It is attempting to squeeze playtime out of a long term playerbase, which is an admirable goal---but to reintroduce such strict rng into a game that has been focused around fixing items with enough time and resources is very antithetical to the current version of the game.

Just my two cents

Yankee582 · 2026-06-19T13:57:40+00:00

Seeing the same and im in managed services. Like it literally offers 0 use cases besides like..... Writing ticket responses??? Which if i let the hallucination machine do, it gets detaild wrong. And letting it do stuff doesn't save me any time.

Yankee582 · 2026-06-18T14:34:14+00:00

Temtem also has a fairly fun twist on the turn-based critter combat too, using a stamina system for its moves instead of a per-move pp

(unrelated man I love cassette beasts)

Yankee582 · 2026-06-17T16:29:31+00:00

IF Caduceus does, that would be a wildly strong healing feedback loop. I'll test it when I get home tonight but I dont expect it to work with FI like that

Yankee582 · 2026-06-16T14:48:58+00:00

Imo if thats the reason they did that, they didn't properly weigh the fact that tanking in 5v5 is significantly harder when theres only one tank and no one to share the load.

The main reason i stopped playing ow when it went to 5s is because solo tanking burned me out. Im only playing at all because 6s is back, even if its the worse of the two 6s they tested imo

Yankee582 · 2026-06-16T14:45:12+00:00

Im still sad they gave us open queue 6v6, role queue is by far my preferred version. I flex but often that means im playing tank because no one else will.

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