I might be a minority in this but I for one liked Amazing Mechanics. I liked it for Fire and Mental. I also liked the idea that we at one point had our powers do precision damage besides might. So many things had to change and I get that. I wonder how things would have been if we still had AM but this time we have more ways to do damage such as artifacts and allies.
That's an advanced perspective. I find it rare to pug with players aware of counter mechanics. AM was not so bad. I can't recall if specing precision or might or a mix was appropriate back then. Although it basically made bow a must for everyone other than the tank? I can't racall a balance pass of weapons after AM introduction... might have been one?
I truly disliked AM for most powers. Each power basically had one specific set of a few powers that were meta, and anything else was just garbage. Don't get me wrong, there's practically a 'meta' for most powersets now, but with artifacts there are variants to powers, that will still enable them to be competent.
Well yeah besides that negative aspect of AM I however still admired how the last power can nuke adds such as Mass Terror. It was interesting also to be able to make Galing Eruption a precision attack. Again I understand why those things got taken away, I’m simply feeling nostalgic and curious if it was still around how would gameplay be do to all these artifacts, pets, and Allie’s would change the game.
kind of an odd statement as the OP doesn't mention counters or counter mechanics at all. That having been said, if there were one thing I could u do about revamp, it would be removing counters from might abilities. It broke Atomic Tanking and over!y dumbed down might dps. Actually, it really was. It WAY oversimplified dps and made most powers extremely boring to play.
I get it, it was boring and didn’t make any power unique and made the rest useless. I’m not disagreeing with anyone lol I’m glad it was removed. I’m just talking about the satisfaction of the final attack nuking adds. I wonder how things would have looked if artifacts were introduced. Just thinking out loud As more artifacts are going to be released maybe it wouldn’t be as boring. Maybe they’ll be different setups instead of naturally being a cookie-cutter. I also remember it being easy to do meaning anyone can do decent damage. Trust me they need it xD Jk…. Anyways it is nice to look back at all the changes DCUO been through.
I got one am glad it’s gone. They gutted nature, electric, and worst of all… HL. Even after AM were removed they never gave HL it’s full speed back In all seriousness, AMs hurt the game whether people want to admit it or not.
I'm throwing in counter mechanics into every post these days. for some might say, obvious reasons. (because seemingly too many pugs are not aware of them. I know I know, pugs never visit a forum of an online game) /toast. meanwhile, I do a button combination per situation then and now. It changed, then changed again. A min/max approach had been and will be. I don't do a max build currently for dps role, and typically out perform pugs, that have rank 0 origin augments, no white base/lair mods in gear, etc. Might be alts of a lazy user. might be newbs. yeah, i was/am mental, was fine with AM. the game had needed a power balance pass back then and still does. the max builds these days, no thanks. uses speedster movement and whatnot
Advanced Mechanics were not terrible. The problem was they were lazy with the complexity of each one as they were added. They were playing the buff buff buff game, which just resulted in bad content design. Coupled with the CR Differential that was added shortly after. It made the game just go in the wrong direction.
Gailing eruption always had (before AM) the precision version to hold melee. Rage itself was a precision based power until they changed everything to full might and weapons were precision only. Precision used to be what I would spec into with Rage, as it produced much higher damage than might. I know what you mean though, about the 1, 2, 3, BOOM powers. Atomic was pretty strong then. That power wasn't 'so' bad to use with AM. Rage though, in my opinion, really sucked with AM. So much that I stopped my sub and quit until they got rid of am.
It was interesting back then because now that we have all these new cool stuff like allies, artifacts, stronger pets etc… I wonder how things would be. I agree as well that I didn’t like rage to have precision but the idea was still cool and needed more thought put into it.
Currently, each power still have a set of a few powers that are meta. Take Electricity, all the powers that uses Electrify as a power interaction does WAY more damage than the powers with Polorized. I tested this out for 3 days. No arrangement of loadouts with Polorized came close to the damage Electrified PI does. Same for my Mental, Water, and Atomic.
I dunno about electric and water having a 'meta' currently. I've ran with plenty of electric characters that still use what they thought was the best loadout. Same with water. There's been a few people that have asked about my electric loadout (as it did a significant amount more damage than theirs): and also had some compliments on how well my water dps performed "surprisingly better than they expected." Electric: transformation, Quislet, scrap Arc lightning, Tesla ball, electro static bomb, voltaic (not the dot), rsk, sand circuit breaker. Arc - Tesla - voltaic - arc - electro bomb - voltaic (SC when ready).
I did like the blue flames on fire.....kinda wish I could have that back for certain combos...even if it had no damage/defense impact. Looked cool.
I forgot about that. I to like the blue flames and agree with you. The stronger the fire the hotter it is giving us a certain color to it like blue or white.
there are utubes still available to watch... DCUO advanced mechanics... I was sure the WArhammer Online AOR spawn a dragon included clicking candles in several maps in pvp zones mostly to spawn the dragon. /shrug If the PvP battles in Gotham (diamond heist) or Metropolis (gather lanterns) heroes or villains win 4 matches in a row, it'd spawn a Brainiac form (bottled buildings, continue theme) to fight for a chance at special loot chance and extra pvp currency reward if defeated?
those powers were all electrify pi... again, polorized pi sucks....so your limited to what powers are useful.
Electro static bomb is polarized power. Voltaic and Tesla yes, electrified, and arc sets up that pi. I was merely showing that not all polarized powers are junk, although most are, absolutely!
