well, i think both of our comparisons are helpful, but maybe not as much as i initially thought. i personally like your suggestion of swapping the current SH and XH HP, though i wonder if it's that simple. even if we do that, it is worrying that most of the weapons for upcoming EQs will be irrelevant compared to nemesis/slave
that doesn't really change that it's due to laziness rather than "NA won't like the difficulty"
also, you can most certainly find videos of people solo clearing PD in 2016 in 20 minutes. heck you can even find videos of an organized MPA clearing it in under 5. your comparison is good, but it's hard to draw very large conclusions from such a small sample size, especially for solo runs where you're only measuring one player. this is further muddled by them having episode 4 austeres (the 13* versions are weaker than nem/slave, i was thinking of 15*) but not the episode 5 balance changes that we have (i will note, however, that in all cases you can tell it's the EQ version rather than the solo trigger from the ARKS support buff)
affix augments would have much less value if you made any slot count transferrable to any slot count. that's simply how RNG drop rates work. furthermore, you would no longer be able to add value by upslotting to make money. (also endgame weapons are not supposed to be tradable. that you can sell nemesis/slave right now is an anomaly)
furthermore, if you learn how to use the affixing system, you should never need insurance. the +40% success rates you can buy at the excube shop are more than sufficient. using 4s/6s insurance to begin with results in a suboptimal weapon when all weapons are expected to be affixed at 8s in the future. there is a case for using it on units, but that is an incredibly inefficient use of meseta imo
you might retain more f2p players with a simpler system, but none of them would ever be able to buy what the p2p players have
please read my post here as to why the complexity of the affix system is important to the in-game economy. i agree that it could use a better tutorial, but if you made affix augments transferrable from any slot count to any slot count, you would crash the economy for f2p players once endgame weapons are no longer tradable. the only things of value would be AC scratch items
the ep 5 equipment being in ep 3 is purely a result of their simplifications to the OT-NT weapon system. you are all overthinking what is most likely just the result of laziness. moreover, UH (current max difficulty) urgent quests also clear in about 10 minutes on JP. the game is far from difficult
@Policroma-Sol i think you have probably just had a more fortunate experience than others so far (or less fortunate for your JP experience, as i've always been able to purchase AC scratch items with meseta). pop singer shadow was in the fresh finds shop for a single day, and it now sells for over 100m meseta despite being only a few million on JP, which should be an indication of the artificial scarcity this system adds
i do agree with you that this system has some benefits, but i overall agree with the topic creator that, because the items are (mostly) untradeable, it is more psychologically predatory than tradeable gacha items
ah, no worries. i made a mistake in this thread too. it must be cursed
Drop of Rain354 is correct that Photon Slayer isn't the optimal use of points (and they made some very good reference posts about it). i only take Photon Slayer over Melee Power Up 3 because i'm using a Fighter tree for both main class and subclass to non-melee main classes to save money (lol), but you probably shouldn't because you already have a main tree and a sub tree
@Drop-of-Rain354 said in Fi/hu build will it work:
Total Mel-Atk with Melee Up build, OL active: 2,431 Mel-Atk
Total Mel-Atk with Melee Up build, OL active: 2,697 Mel-Atk
hey, i assume the first one should say OL inactive. great work, btw
@coldreactive could you pm me a link me to that thread if it's not too much trouble? i'm curious what the full context was