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I want to have to focus while I ruthlessly savage mobs.

If I could give a +1 for all the times I end up doing FSC literally in my sleep, I'd be giving quite a few +1's.

If I couldn't, I'd at least give one +1 to this.

+1

OOO, you are worthy of this fail whale badge! Here you go.

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Edit: Here's proof it's easy, you can solo SNARBOLAX with proto gear. You actually HAD to have better armor back then, but you can just go solo snarbolax with your proto gear. I have no photos to prove this, as I have not taken any pictures of SK and have no idea how to screenshot.

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People have made so many threads about this. I would really appreciate it if the GMs acknowledged them.
The whole "if its so easy go wear proto gear" arguement just gets so damn old.

Poor customer support GMs are being trolled upon now. I'm not mentioning names but I know what these two expert veterans did recently. I was in a run with them. It was suppose to be filed as a bug report but guess what, THEY TROLLED AND ABUSED THE BUG REPORT. Then later called a GM from customer support to just see the bug because customer support wasn't really needed there. They weren't stuck, no need to call them. I AM ASHAMED & DISAPPOINT.

Seriously, you should do this.

I don't think this game should get any easier, but do the Shadow Lairs on a 1-bar connection and then tell me you can "mash the keyboard" effortlessly.

-1

Why? A game should give you fun doing the stages, and fun because you defeated ultra hard enemies while using some energy for reviving isn't an option. I'm proud that the developers have a heart for players, they are doing a great job.

By the way, I don't understand your problem. How about creating your own challenge? Wear proto stuff (yes, old but effective), go into the fire for some seconds until you only have a few bars and much more... In Minecraft players have a huge imagination to create stuff, I would say it's pathetic if players here aren't able to create their own challenge. An old example, in the past I always played Mario Kart 64, but these computerplayers there were often easy, sometimes too easy. What was my decision? I waited some time at the start line, and then I gave my best. People should do the best in situations, but some prefer to cry.

Quoting what I said back in the January nerf thread;

Anyhow the patch really isn't that bad. They removed the legitimately cheap things that were nothing but the source of artificial difficulty like the 'auto-target' on zombies and Retrodes and alphas teleporting mid-attack and unfortunately kept going and further nerfed things past what was required, such as making zombies and Retrodes mini-lumbers and removing the alphas ability to track players when attacking. Even so it's not exactly something that cannot be fixed easily enough, make another update giving zombies and Retrodes their speed back with increase damage, and give wolvers their tracking ability back.

Honestly this reminds me of people complaining about the obnoxious hitboxes in the older Monster Hunter games being fixed, which were almost entirely the source of the game's artificial "challenge" that so many adored it for. People complained non-stop about the games being easier, defending bad design choices and completely disregarding that despite the fake difficulty being removed the games were in many regards getting harder but other factors were preventing this from being apparent (monsters doing less damage, monster stamina, ect). Fast forward to Tri G on the 3DS; it has the tightest hitboxes in the series, and it's also arguably the hardest, and unlike its predecessors it's legitimately challenging and consequently rewarding for it, not hard because Plesioth can hipcheck you from the other side of the map.

tl;dr moral of the story: Artificial difficulty =/= Legitimate challenge and removing the former makes room to actually build on the latter. That doesn't mean Three Rings will mind you, but one can hold out hope.

The problem isn't the nerfs; the 'fake difficulty' SK was riddled with before was neither satisfying to chore through nor was it actually a challenge. The issue is that instead of replacing the arbitrary mechanics that gave the game the illusion of being difficult to unskilled players with actual legitimately hard tension-building situations they've just left the void unfilled.

The game no doubt needs to be more challenging, but it needs to be challenging for the right reasons. The anti-nerf argument so far is split between the legitimate criticism of the game becoming far too easy, and at the same time the flawed idea that the game was fine previously; a case of people thinking artificial challenge is somehow a good design because there's no other point of reference in a game that was entirely full of it. Some nerfs were awful mind you, I addressed the aspects of the January nerf that went too far in my quote, and Retrodes losing health on top of all the nerfs they've already received is entirely pointless (The ones you encounter in the Rescue Camp missions should just have reduced health, there was no need to nerf Retrodes throughout every tier).

I can't claim to know what Three Rings is actually planning to do with future content, but honestly if "Tier 4" or whatever content occurs after D29 ever does come out, it's certainly going to have to be considerably harder than the joke that tier 3 currently is, but without relying on cheap shots and badly designed mechanics to achieve this. And it certainly wouldn't hurt to see both tier 3 and higher ranked missions rebalanced to not be a complete walk in the palk in the while we wait for new content.

They need to buff EVERYTHING, all the enemies are pathetic now. (Except devilites, and gremlins are ok i guess)

Thanks for the nice reply Shidara ^_^ I thought I would get back an answer written of pure evilness.
Maybe it would be a great option if players could choose the difficulty. For example, before you start a mission or arcade group, you will be asked about the difficulty (easy, normal, hard). If someone wants to join a friend, he / she is able to see in the status which difficulty setting the group has. The payouts shouldn't be different between the options because there are already tiers and not everyone wants a hard game. I don't know what you think, but I think that it's a good solution.

For me this is either +1 OR -1, depending on how you look at it.

In other words; making the game harder by adding more fiend is not a good idea (I hate those guys). But considering that I went solo from Haven to the core (first time to the core for me), in 4 star gear without dying, that does seem a little easy. I picked an easy gate, just to see if I could do it, and it went much better than I thought it would. I ran through a couple sections with gremlin healers... those guys are pretty good at what they do, and can be tough to kill if you miss a hit. [by the way, I got 12,500 crowns from depth 0 to 29... really? That's less then 500 crowns per level... pitiful. If they want us in the arcade, it should be a little more profitable. I would have to do 800 levels to get a set of 5 star gear... 800!! If I did 8 levels a day, that would 100 days to get 5, 5 star items. Or to the core 32 times. Sure it's F2P, but dang. (I did buy an elevator pass, twice, and OCH, so I'm not F2P)]

I think that T1 and T2 are PERFECT difficulty! But T3, especially beyond the checkpoint, does need to be a little harder. When I saw the level difficulty indicator turn purple, I thought my journey was OVER! But I didn't have too much trouble clearing the 2 or 3 levels that were marked purple death.

I don't think the early or mid game needs any difficulty increase, it's great. RJP in 2 star gear is quite challenging. Most fiend levels without proper gear are quite challenging. Heck, even Snarby is tough in low level gear.

What I don't like is hearing people complain that the game is too easy, while they prance around with all weapon slots full, two awesome trinkets, and 3 max uv's on every item in their arsenal. To me, that's just poor sportsmanship. If it's too easy, either don't play, don't complain, or use gear that's not so good.

I remember those times when having a shivermist bomber was a godsend. Those were good times...