I love DCUO so can you remove the stat clamp already?

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YOU DON'T KNOW MY LEVEL OF CARING ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHERS.



You guys need to drop that line of garbage.


I can care about my experience AND care about other's experience.


Ya also gotta stop this "This is an MMO'"..... We ALL know its an MMO.

As if there weren’t enough going on in the world right now to see this thread and feel like hope is lost.

I’ll just pop in the DCUO forum for a brief second to see how the games going and say hi to few people I thought.

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This is a similar system to what EQ uses. You get to whatever the level cap is and then you can continue to funnel exp into AA (alternate advancement) points. Then you choose where to put those points in the various tree categories provided. You can also choose to funnel exp into by 10% increments, so you can run 50% level and 50% AA, or 90/10 or 40/60, etc.

Now this would require a complete revamp of the entire game system in DCUO, so it's probably highly unlikely anything like that would happen. And, TBQH, that system was a ridiculously slow grind, much like the "Kill XXX YYY times" feats for .25 SP

I forgot to add to this that there were guilds that would require minimum AA requirements and certain progression levels. Additionally there were players that wouldn't allow you in if you didn't have certain AA categories already maxed depending on your role. And even if you did, if you underperformed (whether actually or perceived) the group leader could kick you without an argument. Especially after mercenaries were added. They would just run with a mercenary (AI NPC) instead.

But now I'm getting into toxic player attitudes and actions, which DCUO apparently doesn't have.

I feel the same way.. PLUS create a NEW character and it is amazing how fast you can level up when tier 1 stuff is still handing you gear that ups your CR. And it does give you a whole pile of options on what you FEEL like playing that day.

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Ok so how bout this compromise....

Solo instances, drop the clamp and reintroduce loot locks. That will keep players from spamming for loot, allow us to feel super again, and increase replay badge sales. As a solo, no other player is having an experience taken from them.

For open worlds, allow for a phase to be unclamped, just like how one is dedicated to pvp. Keep the loot locks for all missions. This will allow players to go back and grind for bounty feats without having to get at least 7 other players. If you are below a certain CR, you cant join the unclamped phase.

Compromise

Sorry for the stupid question.. but how is this compromise ? This just feels like a work around to get easy marks and doesn't really address much

It doesn't address the concerns of those that are having trouble getting feats done, in group stuff.. etc

It wouldnt be easy marks, as I said reintroduce loot locks, run once get loot, anything after that, no loot for the day or week depending on lock. Most people want to just feel their actual cr in relation to old content, this will give them the experience.

My biggest hang up with the clamp are the open worlds. Anything older than the past 5 dlcs are a ghost town. Sure I have enough sp to spec hybrid and try to take out bounties solo, but even that takes a lot of time and effort. Newer players that have under 200 sp cant do this, and cant catch up on sp tied to open world counter feats.

Group content, alerts and raids, I see both sides. The only thing I suggest there, which is what I suggested well over 100 pages ago, was to raise the top end of the clamp by another 5cr.

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while waiting for maintenance to be completed in another game, figured i would pop over here to see if this thread hit 200 yet...and it did, congratz!!!!

now fix the clamp already!!!!

+10 for Dr. Evil

com·pro·mise
[ˈkämprəˌmīz]

NOUN

1. an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions:
   "an ability to listen to two sides in a dispute, and devise a compromise acceptable to both" · "the secret of a happy marriage is compromise"

We'd be conceding Duos, Alerts, and Raids.... You concede Solos.


We'd get a phase... You'd have a phase... and ne'er the two shall met... unless we choose to.

How is that not a compromise?


Granted... not that I think it's gonna happen....

What is your idea of compromise?
- "NOTHING!! THERE CAN BE NO COMPROMISE!!"

The thing is its not a concession, its simply making unclamped solos the meta way to gear up, and only benefits wallet warriors

1) People don't really gear up doing old content....

2) I'm pretty sure the clamp is that path into the wallets of that type of warrior.
That "stat-piercing" isn't reeeeeally free.

3) Just say you don't believe there could ever be a compromise... so we can take your seat away from the table... and be done witcha.