Spiral Knights - Better mission rewards based on difficulty

Better mission rewards based on difficulty

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Tue, 05/02/2017 - 15:41

Aaronixio

Hey, Aaronixio here. As someone who's played through the game entirely on Elite difficulty, I thought it might be cool to give better mission rewards based on the difficulty you played. It's very annoying how you have to, and I know a lot of people complain about this, pay lots of money in order to complete the game. Either that or you spend hours, no, days farming just to gather enough orbs (or fire crystals in some cases) to get 5* gear to do the Hall of Heroes mission. So, here's my idea. Playing on Advanced (Medium? Not sure, not many people use the middle difficulty) or Elite should yield better mission rewards. Maybe like 3 orbs on elite when you'd normally obtain one on normal. Even with that you'd still not be able to get a full set of 5* gear and you'd have to farm for a while, but for a way shorter time than you would've had to before. Of course, most rewards would have to stay the same, like weapons, recipes, evo catalysts, basically stuff that you only need one of. If you happened to play through the game on normal, maybe you could go back and get the items you missed out on? Also, Elite barely seems different than Normal, maybe it needs to have a major increase to enemy damage output and health, and maybe better AI, being the hardest difficulty and all. But that's just my opinion.

EDIT: I improved the part in which I mentioned a harder elite mode, also I just realized you don't even get an Elite Orb for beating the Roarmulus twins, so you only get 2 before the 4* Hall of Heroes mission, which is really dumb in my opinion. I mean, come on, you just fought a boss, you deserve an elite orb.

Wed, 05/03/2017 - 12:48

Fangel

At the end there you mention how elite isn't much harder than normal, yes request for mission rewards be upwards of 3 times more rewarding. Honestly, I'm more of the opinion rarities should be normalized around the current elite rates with slight deviations (4% less on normal, current elite rewards on advanced, 4% more on elite) than this thing where you get a lot of rarities on elite and hardly any on normal.

Elite being more difficult (having enemies with enhanced AI especially) would make it a more meaningful choice anyways. I agree with that.

I don't really agree with mission rewards being enhanced depending on difficulty. More rarities on lower difficulties would be better than making elite allow players to skip through the game at rapid speeds - that's what paying money for energy is for.

Wed, 05/03/2017 - 14:11

Aaronixio

New to the forums, so I don't know how to, or if you can, quote.

I agree that giving 3 orbs of alchemy for playing on elite would be crazy at this point, but part of my suggestion was to make Elite mode harder (my bad for not giving this a more in-depth explanation). Basically, I just want this difficulty to have enemies both deal and take far more damage, and have upgraded AI, as you mentioned, to the point where getting ~3 orbs per mission would be worth it, because right now Elite just feels like you accidentally chose Advanced rather than the hardest difficulty in the game.

I also mentioned that even if you were getting 3 orbs per mission, it still wouldn't be enough to make a full 5* set of gear, because you only get 3 missions in which you are rewarded with an eternal orb. So, you still need to farm (or pay), just not the insane amount of farming that drives most players at hall of heroes missions to quit the game.

You said playing the game on elite would allow players to skip through the game at rapid speed. I agree it would make the game go way faster, but remember that elite would be harder, so only those who've played the game before (and want to restart for one reason or another), and/or are very good at it, should be playing through the game on elite mode. And, well, you wouldn't want to spend days farming on a game you've already beaten, just to accomplish something you've already accomplished. I recently restarted the game because I switched steam accounts (I honestly have no idea why I chose to do it, it kind of just happened) and had I not been so damn in love with the game that I was willing to spend insane amounts of money to complete it again, and not have to switch accounts every time I wanted to play the game, I probably wouldn't have done it just because of the Hall of Heroes missions.

Anyways, I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering just deleting all of this and forgetting about it, so I'm just going to post it before I do delete it.

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