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Originally posted by Skitzotech

My thoughts? (dont listen to the big dauntless youtubers that cry about iceborne somehow ruining the game)

I'll be 100% honest I started playing this game early last year and I started it with my good friend friend. We both got a solid month into the game and hit a wall or repetition and big monsters that seemed to oneshot, defy physics, 1 frame insta attack with no tells... etc etc etc.

When we got to the dire patrol karabac, embermane and stormclaws levels my friend just quit out of frustration. No matter the kit we made... how we played... how many tutorials we watched... we would constantly get 1 shotted. And anyone who plays games knows that nothing pisses you off more than insta dying and feeling as if there was no possible counterplay.

Me having slightly more tolerance to rage games than him gave the game a few more days. And I got my hands on iceborne. That cell single handedly kept me playing this game for this long.

Have you guys ever thoug...

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Originally posted by DistinctiveFox

Can you answer whether patrol chests will have some value or should we look to use them up before?

Originally posted by Chad3927

How will gear be transitioned from the arcstone system to the new system? Will we be starting from scratch on our end game builds?

Originally posted by lookinerator

We're also removing the need to farm Arcstone and elemental orbs.

Does this mean that progressing your gear from +0 to +whatever the highest grade there will be will require only behemoths' parts?

This will still require for us to not have an added RNG layer of actually encountering a behemoth we need in this new system - if we need to farm for Koshai tail drop and can't 100% of the time get it as the first encounter in an instance - this new system needs to be tuned to allow for that.

Weapon XP system locks only perks for weapon class, right?

Will we, in the new system, be able to get fully upgraded, let's say, Weapon 8 once it drops, to max rank without grinding for weapon XP with subpar weapon from said class if we have a stockpile of required behemoths' drops.

Thanks.

Originally posted by DerSchamane

So what would the Slayers Path include for example? Do we know that?

Originally posted by Meirnon

1. Lowlife builds are "fine". I think some top-end nerfs need to happen, but they don't need to be drastic. It's the lack of diversity in other archetypes and the continued building of synergy into the archetype that make the problem. It's important to recognize that Lowlife builds are actually generally two very different build archetypes. Lowlife Flawless and Lowlife Iceborne.

Lowlife Flawless, which uses discipline and predator in conjunction with lowlife, is mostly fine. It has a VERY demanding ask of the player's mastery of the game to use correctly. Its main problem is not itself a consequence of its own power, but of many, many factors extrinsic to it that allow it to stack power on power. And even if you nerf the component perks, the remaining archetypes are very close behind in terms of power and hungry to take its spot, without any of other power components that drove it specifically over the edge also being ta...

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Originally posted by GeorgeEmber

i honestly don't want to change my kit everytime i fight a different elemental behemoth, i already have to change my weapon and cells when doing patrols. i don't want to use armor just because it keeps me alive, i want to use them because they complement my build with good cells. besides, if you want elemental (dis)advantages to play a much impactful role, then what are we supposed to do during escalations? die whenever a behemoth of the opposite element shows up?

Originally posted by CrystalSparkz

I agree with the general intention/direction of this post, but what I don't understand is why +6 is always the mandatory max cell perk for all cells, you guys are limiting your own creativity and maybe even potential of new cells and overall balance of the cell system with the mandatory rule that all cells must go from +1 to +6. Instead, maybe weaker cell perks such as vampiric and assassin's vigour can max out at +3 for full benefits, but give more overall benefits compared to +3 perks of +6 cell types. Also, maybe even raise the cap of full cell benefits from +6 to +9 for certain cells, such as iceborn. This rule that +6 has to be the max cell cap for full benefits makes it harder for the cell system to be balanced due to cell perk economic problems. I also have some ideas to how to nerf and buff certain cell perks, but I feel like that should be a separate thread.

Originally posted by GeorgeEmber

i thought the bonuses from attack/resistance power cap at some point. isn't the excess power useless?

Originally posted by WowAUnicorn

I wouldn't mind removing the Capacitor as a source of power, what we need more of right now is horizontal progression, not vertical. Increasing in power isn't fun, getting new tools is. So let's get rid of the gigantic numbers, and replace them with more viable builds and play-styles, because as is, it's discipline or nothing. Low-life builts are the way to go in this game right now, and I don't have anything against them, my problem is that they are the only way to go. Tenacious is a step in the right direction imo, but we're still long ways from getting the amount of diversity the game needs.

Originally posted by Argiatsu

I liked the toggle idea because it gives a large part of the community that doesn't even use reddit a chance to still clear content they wouldn't have otherwise.

I mean some people, even with all the right gear and perks, still can't clear trials. Its all fine and dandy getting a complete nerf to people thst spend hours daily getting good but others who don't have thst luxury spent their time getting to lv25 on each escalation specifically for those boosts to make their short time online easier and more efficient.

Side note - the power creep will have its place when harder content becomes available and newer stronger behemoths gets released. We dont just want the same power behemoths bit slayers get stronger. As we grow in strength, we want to be able to move in the the "next big challenge"

Originally posted by CreativeGuy66

Random question. Are these type of QNA (if u wanna call it that) gonna be more frequent. Like the Ostian Armor topic from yesterday. I really like the conversation on these topics.

Originally posted by SirKeksalot

Just huck the bonus out the window. A multiplicative 22.5% damage buff (which is what we'll get by Resc if you don't can this mechanic) is too much, considering how new UEs and perks have impacted the meta over the years.

The thing is, you don't need to reward us more for reaching Esc level 25. You're already rewarded plenty with both cosmetic and gameplay benefits even beyond Esc itself, as you need to run Esc to get legendary weapons. We don't need another thing making us stronger, especially not a multiplicative buff.

If you're dead set on keeping the power bonus, you could make it so the bonus from Esc only applies to weapons of that Esc's element. You still get that reward for playing that you seem to want, but now it doesn't stack across Escs. So, for instance, maxing out Tesc gives you a permanent +50 terra power to terra weapons, and only terra weapons.

Originally posted by Hushini

meirnon has better answers than any of us could give tbh, but a mix of two and three seems best. scale back the lantern capacitor significantly and cap it. If it feels not rewarding enough, give each escalation capacitor a special non power related boost, of which you can only have one or two active at a time. So shock could be that you have higher behemoth part drop rates, and umbral be a collectibles booster for things like mushrooms and gems. Also having the power boosters be toggleable would be nice, as someone who likes going back to a more difficult challenge without needing to have a entire seperate account where I do not max everything.

Originally posted by MrHorris

Gliders

• Something definitely feels off with the controls for gliders, but I don’t know what it is (using kb/m). My instinct for controlling the glider was for it to be camera-controlled, which led to a couple faceplants. It did not take long to become accustomed to the keyboard controls but for as long as I played it never really felt natural. This isn’t me saying I think camera controls would be better, having free control over the camera while gliding (with the current flight model) is very cinematic and I can imagine it being far more useful if I am searching for a destination while gliding. Maybe it was how stiff the controls were? I dunno, I like how controllable the glider is, but I don’t like how it feels to control.
• The stamina on the glider is a bit on the low side. I get the need to limit our ability to fly around but it was so limiting that I could not explore
• The animation lock after the roll when falling from glider is ...

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