Originally posted by DoctorNovakaine
Hi, Erika. Thanks for the chest code. A potpourri follows, brace yourself:
1) Even this late into the releases, I'm still having a hard time parsing the philosophy of the 5th runes. When they were held back, I thought that they were supposed to be pretty revolutionary, but the actual result hasn’t really been so. It's true that some of them have made some edge-of-meta crusaders more attractive for experimentation - Bruno, Mycall, Xygallix, Carmen and Petunia in the latest batch are all in consideration with help from their 5th runes, which is really nice and gives incentives to play around with more Crusaders and formation ideas. But these have been by and large the exception rather than the rule. While it would be impossible to bring every crusader up to an equal point, some of these runes seem like they aren't even in the ballpark. I'll point to Aphelion as a particularly egregious example, an already incredibly outclassed DPS crusader, and his 5th rune seems signif...
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Hi DoctorNovakaine,
You're welcome for the code. :)
1) The 5th slot runes were held back so they could be customized to the Crusader, versus just another DPS All, something else based on the Crusader's tags, or buff what their weekend buff buffs.
As mentioned on stream a few weeks ago, the goal is to have a level 10 5th slot rune give around an e10 DPS increase, though there have been a few exceptions, like Bruno (but he's sharing a seat with Odile.) Then level 11 runes and higher could provide a bit bigger of a bonus for the amount of resources they take. It was also a case of tune it low, because nerfing something powerful doesn't go over well either.
Once all the 5th slot rune bonuses are out, we may revisit. I'm pretty proud of us for getting them out in the timeline I originally envisioned, while doing normal content and event updates.
2) I am considering using Garnet's rune to affect Reality Warp, if possible.
3) Idle Champio...
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