Friday with Means - November 13th, 2009 - Friday teh 13th 110100101!!!

[ephedrae]

Selling 220 opi fix, top geared
taking offers.

[Troxxor]

Now, with Mongo Rage chaining from Mongo Fury, the player has a window of opportunity to realize that MR is coming and do something about it.

Cool, can I have an omfgMRiscoming button that kills my perk queue so I can change to queuing defensive stuff?

... on a 3 minute recharge

[TheMekon]

I am getting more and more of a bitter taste in my mouth from this 'balancing' which thus far is doing nothing than show people the fastest route to the exit.

[Mereditche]

If you (FC) want to see MR as emergency button, why make it chaining action? I don't call it using one perk, then another one after few seconds emergency. If you want it to have warning, better make it orbital strike effect, because everyone has wolf graft, which removes most visible effects.

If it's an emergency button add a hp below 20% check? That would make it emergency button all right.

[Artyomis]

My opinion is that all breeds should have some decent benefits off their breed perks, especially because most of professions can get all the top items in every slots no matter of breed thanks to having so many twinking gear online.

If we'll compare pluses and minuses of being atrox - we'll find out that MR with +1500 aao on it benefits most of professions alot more than hurts (by losing some alien perks which could be spent somewhere else).
So, basically, atroxes, compared to other breeds, got far more superior breed perk against most of professions, than the rest of ones.
Of course, Opifex Secondary Genome with its 5-tick 4s each that absorbs 1 special/normal hit may look good, but, experienced opponent will keep capping special attack and fire it as second instantly after any other (fast attack, fling shot, burst). Which makes such perk pretty obsolete, especially in mass PvP where you get called and hi by multiple opponents.

Imo, nanomages, opifexes and solituses should have their breed perks adjusted and, thanks to them, such breeds should either evade MR, or reflect/ignore it somehow. So all breeds will have each other's perks resisted or ignored thanks to breed specification, and not profession toolset.

[haavarst]

Nanos, Items, Research - These things will also be changed. There are more things incoming than most people realize. =) Heck, you should see what Means had me working on today for you guys...

Went from hate when reading some of the changes to love <3
Amazing what one small response can do when hope seem to be gone
Keep up the good work, wish you all a good weekend!

[navycut]

When Mongo Fury is activated, there will be a visual indicator (the familiar "wobbly body" effect) on the Atrox - When the opposing player sees this effect, they know that Mongo Rage will be coming very soon (MR has a three second activation time, but may be activated at any point while "Affected by Mongo Fury" is running on the Atrox). This gives the opposing player time to activate their own emergency defenses, or attempt to get the hell outta dodge. In this case, the change to Mongo Rage was all about telegraphing the incoming boost in AR to the opposing player.

Please add a float text as well when MF is activated, wobbly effects can be missed when profs are in leet as klod said.




Opi genome looks nice. Think imma have to unperk AI tech 3 and opi primary and get AI 30 and perk secondary genome

[Omutb]

You have totally missed the point of how MR is used.

It completely negates Evades. MA/Shade/Fixer/Crat/Advy/Engies/MPs are ALL at MR's mercy the moment it is popped. That is all Evade and Pet proffesions' toolsets become completely worthless for 15seconds every 3mins.

We tend to look at Mongo Rage as an emergency button - Something that should be pressed when everything else has failed.

Raggehs post combined with Kintaiis shows whats needed.

If Mongo Rage is a "oh crap" button, put it in the same league as Dimach, a LONG lock on reuse.

Every 3mins isnt "oh crap" its "killing machine".

Increase it to once every 15mins.

[Skyelord]

I like the breed-perks.

But why must every breed have an identical damage-perk-action?
Please remove this action. It will provide nothing special or interessting except more damage.

I think there is much to much damage in the perk lines over all.

[NeutOmner]

From what Artyomis said, maybe change Blinded by Delights to a % based on perk level? Like -10% current AR at 10 perks with the same duration.

[Sephiroth56]

Seventh!

Oh, 110100101 hahaha, I get it!

[zartosht]

Nanos, Items, Research - These things will also be changed. There are more things incoming than most people realize. =) Heck, you should see what Means had me working on today for you guys...

This is very disturbing. So you guys give us documentation on half the picture (the perks) and expect feedback while not disclosing the other half of the context? How can you expect feedback from people who do not see the big picture?

As a Nanomage should I be lobbying for the Absorb perks moved to NM Primary Genome and the Offensive ones to NM Secondary or the other way around? This will depend on whether the incoming other changes (Nanos, Items, Research) will solve more of my defensive or offensive problems.

And will you reply to any complaint by saying "but... but... wait you do not know what else is in store for you?". This is a joke.

And while you are at it, for the love of Mongo Rage, please put freakin' descriptions on in-game perks items, if it is not too much to ask.

[Endy87]

Waiting for more info about the engine and the hint you gave.
Good as allways, changes are welcommed. People having to learn new tactics - good. They whine and cry but in the end when everything is fited, adjusted and redefined it truelly will be great!

Looking forward to see AO blossom again with the new graphics.

[Klod9002]

And BTW, thanks for making yet another MP nano (two actually) useless (with adding Synthesize on 1st NM genome).

LOL

[Autohead]

Looking forward to see AO blossom again with the new graphics.

Hahahaha! Funniest thing I've read all day.

[Endy87]

Why? :/

[Tanana]

If it's an emergency button add a hp below 20% check? That would make it emergency button all right.

This, seriously, would be a very good idea to make this perk work as it sounds it was intended.

20% might be slightly harsh?

[Aethyrguard]

Nanos, Items, Research - These things will also be changed. There are more things incoming than most people realize. =) Heck, you should see what Means had me working on today for you guys...

Get over here!!! |--------->


/whistles and wanders off







Will check out the documentation now and post on it later.

[Phargus]

When Mongo Fury is activated, there will be a visual indicator (the familiar "wobbly body" effect) on the Atrox - When the opposing player sees this effect, they know that Mongo Rage will be coming very soon (MR has a three second activation time, but may be activated at any point while "Affected by Mongo Fury" is running on the Atrox). This gives the opposing player time to activate their own emergency defenses, or attempt to get the hell outta dodge. In this case, the change to Mongo Rage was all about telegraphing the incoming boost in AR to the opposing player.

That's a novel idea but there aren't any emergency defenses that lasts for 60 seconds. By giving it a 60s window of execution the prerequisite might as well not even be there in most pvp scenarios...

Edit: Nvm, I see now you need "affected by mongo fury" running to execute mr, wich presumably has a much shorter duration

[Saetos]

This is atrocious, FunCom.


Atrocious.

Almost everyone in the game has asked that Mongo Rage be nerfed. So what happens?

You eliminate the negative aspect?!

Come ON, is this Bizarro World Anarchy Online?