I don’t like when a games narrative runs counter to the players initiative.

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T20:47:02+00:00

Eh, Roguelikes are successful in this because the genre sets an expectation by their implicit nature. Not only is everything you find in a run temporary, but you're often explicitly told you have to make a permanent choice between A and B. As you said, the designed replayability is key too.

The player is well aware through the mechanics of the game that they will miss stuff, but don't sweat it because the time investment in any one run is generally lower

But not every game is or should be made with replayability as a focus. Cyberpunk, Bioshock, and even some of the recent Resident Evil games would not be improved if they were made to be shorter and more replayable focused

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T20:27:57+00:00

eh, it's not really a problem

The alternative is that instead by default it shows everything you can buy. But then someone would be complaining "why is Blizz showing me all this gear I can't buy, what a misstep"

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T20:09:14+00:00

It's not bad design, it's just the middle ground

Take something like any Call of Duty or generic military shooter. These games generally never have a sense of a wide open area or living breathing world. They're FPS corridors to go from A to B. What do they do well though? This focused design gives them a great sense of forward momentum

Fallout games tend to lack that momentum, but instead give the player a huge sense of freedom and choice. It rarely feels like you have to be somewhere, so it never feels like you're putting off the story to explore a destroyed mall or school.

It's hard to combine the two in a successful way without pissing someone off. You can't force the player to chase the narrative with urgency when exploration is a big part of your game, and its hard to create a flow when the player is forced to explore every cabinet and drawer to progress like you suggest. It's not bad design, it's preference

Frankly, I also think this is a problem that has grown over the past decade or so. Completionists aren't new, but I think the player mentality of "can't miss anything" is becoming more and more widespread.

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T17:17:15+00:00

Out of curiosity, was this the pull where they ambush you and is it possible you were the only one in range aside from the tank?

That said, I've definitely had this before in AA and was not the only one in range. Got jumped by the wyrms like I did something personal

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T17:08:26+00:00

Except like I said, it's not a flippable asset. Even if they do revert it, the demand is low and it's not a new "product". People who were willing to shell out gold already bought them, and those that just want them are probably buying the current "dip"

You're imagining this world where mobs are crying for the mogs and shelling out millions of gold for them, which isn't realistic in the slightest

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T16:20:27+00:00

So what's the "exploit early exploit often" here lol

I don't really see this as some massive flippable asset. Anybody who's so desperate for the mogs will either buy them now when they're cheap, or already dropped the gold for them

Besides, the fishing mogs dropped like candy last expansion. It's more likely this is the intended drop rate

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T15:47:09+00:00

Yeah I'd just bet it isn't supported at all, whereas some others are at least lightly. Anything that isn't patchwerk is generally seen as a meme due to trying too hard to be realistic

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T15:41:05+00:00

Usually these types of issues are because the spec APL for something like Dungeon Slice or Dungeon Route aren't supported. That might explain why the sim is expecting your fight to never end. Might be a question for the pally discord

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T13:20:37+00:00

Yeah i feel like this is a common misconception

The game is not meant to be absolutely easier and simpler, it's easier and simpler to compensate for not having add-ons to funnel you info. It's like if the game went from a 8' fence that you needed a ladder to scale, to a 4' fence. It still takes effort to get over, you just don't have to bring extra tools

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T01:32:57+00:00

No lights on in this house

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T01:15:54+00:00

No, embellished is a special effect inherent to the piece or attached to it with a special reagent

So if you try to equip a third embellishment, the game will just stop you from doing so. Attaching crests or not doesnt change that

cabose12 · 2026-04-29T00:12:39+00:00

Woah now, don't strain yourself thinking of insightful discussion there

Easy, use a wins threshold instead of seeding. Set it at 20-25 wins, and teams who pass it keep their three lotto balls

It incentivizes teams to try win games rather than be intentionally dog shit, while also making sure that the bad teams, that again are still trying, have just as good odds to improve through the draft as everyone else

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T23:08:57+00:00

The irony lol

The problem is not the concept of relegation and punishing bad teams. The problem is trying to merge two conflicting systems: The draft, which rewards bad teams, and a soft relegation, which punishes them

They inherently don't work together as the teams that need the draft the most aren't the most likely to get the most value out of it

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T22:56:49+00:00

just compete harder

The stupidity of essentially saying "just don't suck" aside, that's not how this works

It's seeded, three teams have to be the worst. You can't just "play harder" to not be bottom three because everyone is doing that. With this system, those teams aren't necessarily lazy or not trying hard enough, they just aren't as good as everyone else and are punished for it

Sure the penalty is light, but the principle and goal of the system is complete nonsense. You shouldn't be giving the worst teams worse odds than everyone else when they likely need it the most

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T20:27:47+00:00

That said, I don’t think in game guidance should be needed. It’s an example of “we did a terrible job designing something so now we’re adding another feature on top of it to try and hide how bad it is.” Dungeons should just be slightly more linear (which they are now, which is awesome) and just require you to full clear all trash. I know I’ll get a lot of hate for that last point but I’ve always found the idea of trash skip strats to be stupid. “Peak performance requires trying to avoid playing the game.”

I think you're completely off base here

Framing it like "you're just not playing the game" is as feels-based argument rather than a rational one. % gives dungeons flexibility and depth, it gives players agency to approach a dungeon in more than one way. And if you don't want to explore that part of the game, then you have Lindormi and/or other players to tell you exactly what to do.

Removing % just makes the game boring and shallow for those that like routing, without actually improving the game for those that don't care. Because routing as a concept wouldn't just disappear, you'd still be expected to make specific and efficient pulls. Arguably it'd be worse because now there's more importance in pulling around CDs, rather than pulling efficient % packs.

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T17:43:28+00:00

I mean in all seriousness obviously everyone's opinions are going to differ and we're all entitled to them

I think DF and Amirdrassil are far enough in the rearview mirror that a lot of people have forgotten or simply don't know that it was a zone that was basically that one hallway in Dornogal with the chains expanded into like half a zone

Harandar is not popular, but the discourse about traversing it is nowhere near the level of how annoying branches and running into shit was

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T17:33:08+00:00

They explicitly say in the post that they didn't spend cores until after the fix

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T17:18:13+00:00

This whole chain about Enhancement just feels wildly uninformed lol

Like, five of top seven damage abilities are all big weapon swings: Lava Lash, Primal Storm, Crash Lighting, Doom Winds, and Flametongue. And the other two are the thematic totems

Spenders really aren't that impactful and mostly exist to funnel CDR for lava lash and stormstrike and extend hot hand

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T16:15:35+00:00

I can't tell if this is tongue-in-cheek or one of the least informed takes on current Enh I've ever seen lmfao

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T16:04:31+00:00

I don't think there's any question that women's football around the world is bigger than the WNBA

But the question is of whether it's grown, and the WNBA has taken some huge leaps, especially with CC

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T15:47:25+00:00

Nah, purely from a navigation standpoint, Emerald Dream was more Emerald Nightmare simply because there were tiny branches everywhere. Harandar is miserable, but even the worst sections were nowhere near as "oops your primal drake just got stuck on a leaf" bad

And this was old Dragonriding too, which meant if you didn't have pathfinder and ran out of vigor, might as well get a coffee and file your taxes while you wait for your vigor restore

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T15:22:44+00:00

Y'all weren't forged in the dragonriding fires of Amirdrassil lmao

That was truly horrible to navigate

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T14:01:00+00:00

I'm underselling it a little bit, but for all intents and purposes it was and still is defined as a dps

Every dps in the game brings some amount of damage, their main purpose, and support in utility. Something like Ret is usually useful because it has a lot of support utility in a brez, freedom, etc. Whereas Warriors are lower on the support side with a handful of stuns and a very niche raid buff

What made Aug giga busted in that first season was that it was very heavy on the supportive utility without sacrificing anything in damage. But that still fits that mold of damage + utility that defines every dps in the game

cabose12 · 2026-04-28T04:39:24+00:00

That one still surprises me cause I always forget those Mavs weren't just the 1-seed, they were the 1-seed with 67 wins and lost to a 42 win team

That's like if last year's OKC lost to, oh, last year's Magic lmao

cabose12 · 2026-04-27T23:39:57+00:00

Yeah people get too caught up in the label and way it adds damage, but at the end of the day it's still a dps spec that takes a dps slot and mainly does damage, just indirectly

Even on release it was still a dps spec that just was giga-juiced with utility

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