I haven't been on this game for such a long time, but I was curious - would adding 6* star + more gear kill the game?
Would adding 6*+ gear kill the game?
Wed, 06/17/2020 - 16:00
Fri, 06/19/2020 - 22:27
#2
It would be in poor taste. Extremely poor taste.
Mon, 06/22/2020 - 03:27
#3
I think it all depends how
I think it all depends how they will introduce the 6 star gear.How hard will it be to obtain them, the balance of the new gear,what would the missions will be along with the 6 star gear etc,what will be their payout.In short time it will for sure give a boost to the game,many old players who even retired will start to play again in order to obtain 6 star gear.The quality of the work of the 6 star will determine if this boost will have a duration.
Personally I believe that if we see a change it will be shadow lair weapons or limited 6star gear.It seems to me very hard to make such a big project(6star)when the Gms try to keep the game running.But who knows,dum spiro spero
Question,the tier 4 in shadow lairs is a term named from the community or from the Gms?If it was from the gms it hints that we ll get an upgrade in gear but if it is something named from the players then there is a possibility that the whole tier 4 and 6 star gear is a speculation of players and they just wanted to raise simply the difficulty of SL.
Maybe they are not sure if they can manage a big project like that and thats why they do not explain the reason of the raise in difficulty of SL.But then why raised it before they are ready,when so many people complaining about the reward/difficulty balance?They want to hint us but they are not sure if they can manage?I really cannot understand..
Wed, 06/24/2020 - 07:50
#4
a path to balancing
This idea is interesting to me for a totally different reason. The current 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-star gear is quite unbalanced. But it's hard to balance, not just because balancing is technically difficult, but because balancing changes inevitably upset a swathe of players who are invested in the current balance.
But here's a workaround. Make 6- and 7-star gear, and make sure it's balanced. Then discount the 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-star gear, so that players race through it more quickly. So the low-star gear will still be unbalanced, but the high-star gear, where players spend most of their time and resources, would be balanced well.
But I agree with earlier posters that the dungeon would need to be made harder (or the weapons uniformly nerfed).
Adding 6* gear is something that has been discussed for a very long time. As you know, gear scaling usually includes missions increasing in difficulty, such as the move from 2* to 3* gear involving the Jelly Palace and missions that are more difficult. Following this method of progression, then adding 6* gear should have missions of difficulty requiring 6*.
Interestingly enough, this might require 2 sets of missions instead of just one, as usually you have the missions leading up to a Hall of Heroes. You acquire enough gear of that level to progress, and then you can move on to the more difficult missions. What would make the most sense in this regard would be missions leading up to a final boss fight with Herex, as that seems to be where the story is going.
There have been other discussions of 6* gear, but not in any serious sense (that I know of), but we will just have to wait and see. To answer your original question: 6* gear, with Tier 4 content to go with it, would not break the game, but just purely adding 6* gear to the game without any other content would make Tier 3 a little bit of a joke, and generally break the game in terms of people being way too strong for the content that is offered. I do not know if you know this, as you do say that you are just coming back to the game, but Shadow Lairs were buffed awhile back and pretty much the whole Lair was increased in monster health and damage to Tier 4, without any warning or mention of it until a later update, when they said that "Shadow Lairs will continue to be difficult." You may have found the post talking about this already.
Either we will (fingers crossed) get some new gear of higher power that are exclusive rewards from SLs, or we should be seeing a whole new set of missions sometime in the future. (Though GH has said in their original post talking about them taking over the game that they will be keeping the game in a museum status, that has not stopped them from adding the 10-2 mission batch and the new Treasure Vaults. I would not put new missions and gear past them.) I would expect it, as the very last mission we can do at the moment has Kora telling us that she will give us new missions "when we are ready." I would definitely say that we are ready, but time will decide that.
Cheers.