Sneak Peak: Tuesday's Game Update

But wouldn't summoning your Ally have been equally useless before? What has changed that has made it worse?

You make claims that the Devs do things for a particular reason, with absolutely nothing to back that up - Allies were, indeed burst damage, but now we get two bursts. It absolutely gives you two chances to get one of them to land, even in the most often-interrupted fights?

And as for Berserk, why doesn't that suffer from the issues of Boss immunity like (apparently) everyone else does? You're saying that Allies will be no good because Bosses have immunity too much (an erroneous claim, since the number of pieces of content where that occurs is very small), but apparently Rage will be doing huge numbers with this update, because suddenly Boss immunity isn't an issue? You can't have it both ways.

I swear you move the goalposts in every sentence to support whatever imaginings you have of why *everything* was bad, is bad, or is going to be bad.

So far in this thread, you've opined that we should be given more Passive Ally slots, more Artifact slots, and a Respec Token to compensate for... something that has literally not yet been released, so you have no idea how it is actually going to play.

It sounds to me like you just want to be given stuff.

Chicken Little must be at it once again. All praises to the blessed ignore function.

Don't think that I'm defending this guy, but there are a few more differences. Two potentially negative differences are the increase in CD from 90 seconds to 180 seconds (yes, allies stay for 60 seconds... but you will call them less often...) and the fact that ... they will be under the tank's feet with their special effects for a whole 60 seconds.

Harley is meh.
Ivy and Starfire are a waste of Favor and Alliances if they're not Passives.

They will update all them Allies...... don't worry.
It is just a matter of when.

Well..... he did predict we would get Power Rings and we got the Sinestro Corrupted Ring Artifact.

We will have to call him BUDstradamus from now on.

True, but this doesn't somehow drastically change how we will summon them, or when. He made it seem like this change will make them useless, when it's probably going to be the opposite.

I would much rather have them out longer with more chances to hit than how it is now, when they're in the field for 2.5 seconds, deal an attack that may or may not miss, and then dissappear (that's IF they attack at all...).

I don't think them being mixed in with the tank will be an issue. They fixed the collision, and I thought Eve addressed that in the video. (Could have been Multiverse, not sure).

Im sorry but this is dumb as hell. You can LEARN the mechanics, the combat locks of bosses. Time your allies better, work around the mechanics, you know, as intended. If you call in your ally whenever its available and it turns out it was a bad time to call it in then thats on you not being mindful and skillful.

Hehehehe hehehehe oh my my hahaha your so silly Budo.

Think you need to inform the Devs that there needs to be in increase in Ally Favor drops considering all Allies are going to be legendary status. The little bit that drops is not enough to sustain all the legendary allies people are going to have to upgrade and get from now it would take years to get allies done.

That's their point of doing it, people weren't buying enough ally favor on the marketplace, soo now they did this.

I also love how they have done one double nth metal since the drought and one double ally favor since the drought (although that was the last one done) and I'm pretty sure that's all the double were getting.

Oh well.

Well, my post wasn't in defense of the guy, but for accuracy...you're both distorting things, he was exaggerating and you were downplaying the significance of the changes. Judging by Eve's and Multiverse's videos, overall the damage of allies will increase, of course...but the flexibility of use will decrease due to the 2x increase in CD.

And I didn't talk about the collision, I talked about the fact that because of the additional 8 characters with their own special effects each, the tank's view is objectively reduced. Perhaps for an experienced tank this will not be a problem, but for a beginner it can become critical. Well, as I already wrote earlier, this is a potentially negative impact, not a guaranteed one.



I will add to the list one change that will negatively affect the average damage level for the time being... transferring all allies to the legendary rank... if each Krypto has to be independently leveled up to level 10... then many simply will not be able to do this quickly, and of course, the alts will also remain with unleveled allies for most ....except whales...

I'll mention it, hopefully they will do something about it

Marketplace sale gives you bonus ally favor for free, cause its discounted

I wasn't going to list every single change... The point of my post was that the new changes aren't going to drastically change how we summon allies. That was it. In terms of summoning allies, we may get one or two less summons a boss fight, but they will cast their signature attacks more often. It's highly likely that the changes will cancel each other out. Yes, the cooldown is increased, but they also significantly increased the combat duration of the ally.

And you didn't specify what you were referring to... I thought you meant collision. If it's effects/clutter, I don't see it being any different than what we already contend with when people summon trinket pets, henchmen, sidekicks, power pets, etc..

Either way, the entire point of my post to Budo was directed at ally summons. It isn't going to change much, if at all. We aren't going to lose out on massive damage due to all of those crazy boss "combat locks", and this change won't make allies useless in that regard.

See, they'll make sure those artifacts are fixed and those allies are coming out but they won't buff PvP gear or give existing powers new abilities. Who calls the shots up top? Anyone know?

They want money. They dont care about power balance, havent since the big revamp. They change the smallest things, like fire tanks not being able to cancel their channeling but still get healing which was in SOBA days. They are just balancing powers with artifacts and allies now because then you are more persuaded to spend money on them. Its diabolical, its why i dont spend money on any of that any more. I only spend money on replay badges now.

Out of all the arguments you couldn’t made to show how they are prioritizing money over balance you choose them fixing a bug that was clearly a bug?

True 100% balance is impossible. The only way to achieve this is to make abilities so strong that everyone is forced to use the exact same loadout and do the exact same rotation. This is currently the direct the game has been going with the release of abilities like spore pod. But then they brings complaints about everything being copy paste. So it’s a lose lose situation. Before spore pod and before omega, powers and play styles have been the most balanced they have ever been. But people like you then complain about things you do not understand and balance is thrown out the window.

Personally I’m not a fan of a lot of the recent changes but same a bug fix is an indication of a lack of direction is wild lol.

You mean the bug they knew about for years but never decided to fix until they decided to start making power specific allies which was eventually scrapped and/or lackluster?

Any word on downtime for this update?