The tonedeaf Live Letter LXXXVI 86

[YukioKobayashi]

What do people actually want with encounter design? Everyone complains that the only mechanic is "walk to correct spot(s)," and I'm not about to pretend that that's not wearing thin, but back when they tried to do slightly more unique/active things, everyone whined incessantly about uptime and parses. You can't have interesting/active mechanics, tight DPS checks, and full uptime, so what's the solution people are actually looking for?

I personally would like to see mechanics like Nisi or Light Rampant making a return. Maybe not 1:1 the same but something in that direction. Something thats not just Left,Right,Spread,Proteanspreads Buddystacks, Lightpartystacks, 8-Man stacks...
They can do it. They have proven it in the past with tea, e8s, dsr ect.

[HealerStrike]

I personally would like to see mechanics like Nisi or Light Rampant making a return. Maybe not 1:1 the same but something in that direction. Something thats not just Left,Right,Spread,Proteanspreads Buddystacks, Lightpartystacks, 8-Man stacks...
They can do it. They have proven it in the past with tea, e8s, dsr ect.

They won't. The direction of the game is very, very clear: they want to minimize all risk-taking and make the content as bland and as safe as possible.

[Red-thunder]

Im not a white knight with all means but i need now to be honest, people expect improved encounter design while still 95% of the playerbase is to dumb for easy stack/spread mechs in a raw? i guarantee you the left right left right chariot donut thing will 100% wipe half of the party everytime, cant improve anything if people refuse to improve first.

But why is the solution always to stifle creativity and gut everything across the board? Why isn't it to find better ways of teaching players?

And why is the game so afraid of chasing off the "casual" players lol? There is already easy mode for the entire MSQ. Why don't people ever ask "are we chasing off players seeking excitement and challenging by dumbing down everything?"

[MikkoAkure]

Bruh. Why do you keep changing accounts to reply to your own thread.

[YukioKobayashi]

Bruh. Why do you keep changing accounts to reply to your own thread.

HUH? Who? Am I missing something?

[Eraden]

Is make Mao much sad but also make Mao glad that Mao already cancelled subscription. Mao kinda suspected this would happen and Mao was, sadly, not disappointeds.

[YukioKobayashi]

The release schedule for Occult Cresent kinda reminds me of something.

7.2 Area + Character
7.4 Two New Characters
7.5 Area + 2 New Characters

Is this Weebshin Impact or what? Lets hope we get two 5*'s in 7.4.

[Doki]

[TemporalFruitsAndVeggies]

I personally would like to see mechanics like Nisi or Light Rampant making a return. Maybe not 1:1 the same but something in that direction. Something thats not just Left,Right,Spread,Proteanspreads Buddystacks, Lightpartystacks, 8-Man stacks...
They can do it. They have proven it in the past with tea, e8s, dsr ect.

I mean I guess I get it, but also Nisi and LR are literally both "walk." You still don't have to actually do anything other than walk to the right spots. I'll be the first to agree that cleaves, spreads, and stacks are boring as hell, but still the best thing people can come up with is "walk, but more complicated," which I think does more to shine a light on how fundamentally boring the combat is in this game than anything else.

Edit: quote didn't copy for some reason

[CNitsah]

The release schedule for Occult Cresent kinda reminds me of something.

7.2 Area + Character
7.4 Two New Characters
7.5 Area + 2 New Characters

Is this Weebshin Impact or what? Lets hope we get two 5*'s in 7.4.

It's actually really close to the Bozja/Zadnor scheldule, except they advanced the first part.

5.35 Bozja + lost actions.
5.45 DR + DRS + new lost actions.
5.55 Zadnor + new lost actions