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.. but, but... "the cosmetics may be valuable to someone else, all 3-stars are good!" .. Sigh..

... and they also have 2kk+ HP, yeah. All of that stuff is connected to - how I feel, yes. Solo-dungeons in this game don't feel fair. Every decent developer knows how frustrating it is when the control is taken from the player. It should only happen very rarely and on a special occasion and leave space for a counter-play. See Overwatch for example. And even there there's a recent trend when devs themselves admit they have too much CC (even though with proper counter-play and not lasting for 10 seconds). Solo-dungeons in this game is not a challenge, it's just overwhelming you with CC and that's it. Overpowered and overtuned damage numbers and CC duration isn't how you balance the game, because at that point player feels like "pah.. you know what? it's not a challenge, it's simply not fair, so screw this" - and provided that the player is pissed off enough times and the devs don't react (or make it even worse) - players leave. The situation with the classes isn't helping the case. The first guide I found for Den was starting with "now I'm doing this for Warden and most of the boss attacks is not dangerous for Wardens, but you will need to see for your class" .. practically classes aren't equal in what they can do. So what if SF for instance got "so many iframes" ? You can't iframe when you're CC-ed. And - oh yeah you will be because some stuff constantly tries to CC you for like 5 seconds long. Plus.. guess what? Even if you iframed, you dealt .. right, zero damage! If the dungeons are like that, then give me please a "fck you CC" button and we call it even.. it's not even funny. Oh well.. numbers in the post above speak for themselves. Oh right.. another solution could be "class change" button. Gear is the same anyways, converting it would be easy.

Yes. Lately it becomes so even with hidden players and optimized for combat graphics I get 20-30 fps only. No idea why (and honestly I gave up on trying to fix it because other games which are way more demanding to graphics work just fine on high settings). And ping .. well, no way to have it below 100ms at all for me.

Btw: can we NERF HARD the CC chains in ToI??? It's just ridiculous; example: sin goes CC-chaining you for 4-5 seconds straight, then it goes invis, then it goes another 4-5 seconds CC chain, then it dashes away. How am I supposed to beat that as SF? It has like .5 to 1 seconds of window when you can damage it, often when it's far away, but even if I'm lucky and it appears when I'm near I need more than 1 second to spin up my rotation. And yes, my CC doesn't work, example - skill that should stun for 2 second only works for around .5 second. HOW IS THAT FAIR??? Sigh... not that it will be fixed. Solo dungeons in this game are a trash can of rotting worms in terms of balance anyways...

By definition, something written by a person is a subjective point of view, not objective. Please don't state your opinion as something "correct". (saying "I'm objective" is not an argument, it's a subjective statement based on nothing). My point of view, however subjective it is, on the other hand, is supported by unhappy players (see on the forums, reddit or youtube to see that there are indeed many of them), as it is supported by the lack of common sense from the side of the publisher, and that lack is illustrated in the point above. Sorry, but at this point I don't see this discussion going further, at least with you. No offense, really. You don't seem to get it - in a way that you hear but not listen.

One reason for its existence that comes to my mind: at times on trove you get it and there's nothing else better to buy. You buy it for I think 15 gold there, so that's somewhat worth it. P.S. Too bad most of the troving whales are at GC6+ nowadays...

Aye-aye... it looks like defending the greed of the certain publisher is certain someone's hobby. Can't help that. As can't help but to see my point was completely missed. Just to repeat: it costs them absolutely nothing to fix the pathetic rolls on 3-stars and make them meaningful. Repeat: Absolutely nothing. They don't pay it with any money or other real resource. They can make as many virtual "goods" as they want and not lose a penny. But when they don't fix it, they have unhappy customers. Unhappy customers don't cash in. So short-sight greed beats long-term sense I guess. With policy like that no wonder population is declining.

The reason why F8 is "picky" is combination of entitlement/ego (most of the times) and practicality/performance (least of the times - usually when people want to run multis and so they want fast clears). Honestly, playing on higher end I was never yelled at even if I catch that lag and die - people usually don't care as the clear is fast enough anyways. Only the new dungeon (the WC) is somewhat a threat because can't be bursted down without doing mechs (at least not yet), everything else is about just skipping all mechs because omg-4kk-dps .. Megawhales are those in full-ET SS (and sometimes already with ET weapon), ET badge, 2.1k+ guys with 15k+ crit. I really don't understand what for are they playing the game as there's no content now to do with those stats.

Trying to compare this with a casino is laughable. Simplest reason why: the casino has to pay out prizes to the winner with real assets that casino must get somewhere in the real world. Publisher of any game can create as many "assets" as they please out of nothing. There's really no excuse for having it as bad as to rob people out of seemingly won prize.

I have no idea what are you talking about but I'm glad you've found your answer.

For someone to properly answer, you'd need to link characters. Use https://bnstree.com/ for that for instance. You'd also need to tell what were the circumstances. Couple of ideas from what you wrote, it can be a combination of factors such as: - The person has way better ping on a ping-reliant class (and you have worse ping) - The person has way better gems - You don't do your rotation properly and they do (simple mode has almost nothing to do with it and in some cases can be even beneficial) - Your class isn't great and their class is (yep, such thing also exists, some classes are just... better) - You were playing on a highly CC rotation boss and their class was at advantage (hello wardens): if you avoid CC or are CC-ed, you do no DPS - They have new soul badge and you don't (the one from liberty season) And also some of the irrelevant (or almost irrelevant) factors you've mentioned: - It doesn't matter if it's BT earring level 1 or 7. It will be of notable difference if it's "not 10" versus "10". Or if it's BT vs TT - Same for hearts/souls - you usually see difference when you go full 1 tier up (not one upgrade, but one tier, aka "cosmic" vs "tiger" for instance) Of course, until you link characters it won't be possible to say what's really the reason, everything above is just a hypothesis.

Sigh... modern OS have the disk service on a schedule basis. Mine is weekly. Fragmentation is at 0%. Again, missing the point. Sense of humor isn't forte of these forums I guess.

What I learned about solo-dungeons is that CC is king, so anti-CC is a must. Which class has it easy with CC? Right, Warden. And which class beats all by a factor of at least 2 in the list above? You guess. About SF - it's not hard to get the current status of the class: just press F11 and count how many SF do you have in top list of every category. Usually you don't need more fingers to count than one of your hand has (on premise you still have all of them) I'm actually surprised that summoners did so well. Yes, it's rather old list but still they outdid many other classes. I though they were sort of weak in 1v1 scenarios.

I don't know about the UE4 EULA but regardless of whether one has or doesn't have to pay any royalties, main cost comes from integration of the engine into the game. It's not your regular "apt-get" command (or whichever packet manager you use) to update. It's hundreds of days of development work and testing. In the current situation it's really not very profitable for them to invest into UE4, to be honest. Population declines, sales indeed go down (just look at the trove announcer - it used to be almost non-stop years ago and now it's only active first 2-3 days and then you see new messages only on occasion because all whales trove out in the first days already) I wouldn't expect UE4 honestly, but even if it arrives, it's not magically solving any issues. UE3 isn't a bad product, it's all about how one uses it. If they do same poor quality of implementation, UE4 could easily turn out to be worse for the game.

Contrary to widely spread opinion that higher end players enjoy "trolling scrubs" and bullying weak-geared people, I don't enjoy this. Because what's the point? If I got someone just because my gear is better, it doesn't make me any better. It's like an 8-grader would win in a fight against pre-schooler and boast about it. Titles.. why? Grinding hundreds of hours for the line written above my head isn't appealing at all. What a waste of time. Besides I don't use any titles. It's not like you have the whole space on SDD. So I've chosen to not have BnS here. Anyways, the point was not to complain about not having an SDD.

If I were you I wouldn't expect anything grand. To "match up" you'd need now to get 2 dyads in 200 keys which is really unlikely.

I got 2 dyads, 4 squares and 3 triangular gems in 500 keys. First dyad was I think between 150 and 200 keys. I got a lot of trash 2-star rolls (i.e. cosmetics and useless charms) and 1 trash 3-star (i.e. again cosmetics and charms). I also had 3-stars which are "ok", but without gems (large chunks of ET/TT materials). I had a lot of good 2-star rolls (gc steels/onys scales in a good quantity). Reading forums I started to realise that I actually got lucky.

I thought of PvP. Unfortunately, my ping (best is 100) and class (SF) are incompatible with that game mode

No offense, but... ----------------------------------------------------------------> <you> <point> I was asking about what people do at the end game because doing current content at that stage has only the requirement of SSD (read: sarcasm, stuff just dies too fast)

What do you do at higher end of the game? I have TT gear now and although not exactly at its max, it's still decent and with close to 1.9k I'm facing weird issue now .. even in random groups it's just often to have 2-3 other players like me which means that in stuff like weeklies I literally can't hit the boss - it's dead while I'm running to it. Now, I still can get the reward and weeklies and stuff, but .. I just wonder what to do at higher end? F8/weeklies? It's basically "SSD required" - things die there before completing full rotation (example: DST is often under 60 seconds killing time for both bosses so I spend more on loading screen and running there). Raids? BT/VT can be done with almost any random groups with only the challenge present is holding W for the most of the time. TT? Like.. why? I got stuff from there already. ET? And for what? To do .. ET? I didn't even try it but what's the point if all other content is practically non-existent? Alts? Don't want to repeat the same thing (and the misery of being despised just for "being low" as I remember that attitude towards myself so well) What do you do in the game now at the higher end?

Wait, what? In your F8 they have time to complain? In my F8 it's usually "damn, I don't have the game installed on my SSD partition so I better hurry or else they do it without me" stuff.

Somehow I'm not surprised about high correlation between the release order for the 3-rd spec (at least for classes which happened already) and the amount of the players for these classes presented in F11.

Answer to the topic - NO, at least not from developer or publisher. You may try the guides and hacks for some GPUs but it's often futile (because BnS is badly done and relies on CPU more). You can try external tools like suggested above or have NASA PC, but the game itself will never be optimized and fixed properly. One more thing: UE4. Yes, they have plans. With what's happening so far in game, there is high likelihood it will actually get worse, not better.

No, it does. It lets you feel empty and robbed. If they want to have garbage rolls - so be it. Just call them 2-star then or 1-star (albeit yes - I often was getting 1-star where I was in doubt how is it possible to get such level of trash) Basically, 3-star should matter because it's so rare. Some people don't get even 1 in 300 attempts. So if on 301th you get that trash you will feel scammed. The thing is that they completely messed up the quality of rolls. I saw 1-star better than 2-stars (and frankly, better than 3-star on the picture above, because I could buy 2 scarlet blooms or 1 gc steel from it). I saw 2-stars better than 3-stars by a mile (like 2-star the one where you get triangular gems vs the 3-star linked above). And I've seen 3-stars like above vs 3-stars where you get quad gem vs 3-stars where you get dyad quads and 25 EC mats. So naturally they have way more than 3 tiers there - let then it really be called so. 0-star (when the best you buy is 3 blood fragments), 1-star (usual 1-star here, on the value scale of 1 legendary jewel), 2-star (3 legendary jewels/rare scales or the "3-star" from the screen above) 3-star (lower tier 2-star now), 4-star (mid-tier 2-star now) ... etc at least it will be fair

Yeah, that much is right. I don't say it's a bad move that the reduction + power creep is happening - I just don't see it as a "great" one either. I also suspect that new content (dungeon, ET) will implicitly be balanced around new gear tiers, so it's again - the circle continues.