#suggestions-discussion

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velvet locust
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k

craggy stratus
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movement speed boost

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interesting

cobalt pewter
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The first 2 sentences should be relatively irrelevant with 1.5 changes iirc

zenith hazel
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but like

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stealth is already getting reworked

velvet locust
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?

cobalt pewter
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Ozz did mention about considering making stealth based off velocity instead of standing still for its bonus

zenith hazel
cobalt pewter
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But that was ages ago iirc

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Also each stealth point already gives miniscule movespeed and might be removed with the new movespeed changes

craggy stratus
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for using yharon as an example, isnt flight time and movement more important than
movement speed?

half kayak
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@velvet locust or you do stealth strikes for that amount of time (very strong stealth strikes would be nerfed) like how the crit meter works in overhaul

cobalt pewter
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God no

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Fuck overhaul's """crit""" system

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It's probably the weirdest resource based mechanic I've ever seen

half kayak
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if u think about it it's just slightly stronger rage with any weapon not just true melee

velvet locust
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what im saying is that buff stealth so that it is more useful for run and gun bosses

cobalt pewter
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Also stealth is balanced around only not attacking, not standing still

sharp prism
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^

cobalt pewter
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Standing still regen is intended as a bonus if you managed to take advantage of the situation

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So to summarize

  • The part about Mycoroot should be fixed with change 256 for 1.5
  • Stealth is balanced around not attacking while moving around
  • Stealth already gives movement speed bonus, per stealth point
crude geode
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@velvet locust

cobalt pewter
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holy shit I sound like a major nerd

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Byeah

velvet locust
crude geode
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See three points made above the ping

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The*

velvet locust
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yes

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well

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i wish i researched' more before making that sugg

crude geode
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Always bring up the idea of a sugg here first

cobalt pewter
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That's a good idea if you don't know what you're doing yes

crude geode
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plus deleting it is always an option

cobalt pewter
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The only time, as of late, that I tried pitching a sugg here first is with giving true melee NPC contact dmg reduction means

pine star
craggy stratus
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i pitch a sugg here when i feel insecure

cobalt pewter
pine star
cobalt pewter
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Though

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As I said earlier

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Ozz had the consideration of reworking standing still regen boost a while back

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Not sure how that idea goes now

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Quite an interesting topic, and I wonder if I can pitch it onto sugma now

craggy stratus
cobalt pewter
tawny garden
cobalt pewter
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Dude if the uh

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Dashes from plagued fuel pack and blunder booster

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Can be tweaked to do that

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That's be a massive hilarity

sharp prism
cobalt pewter
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Ah damn ozz isn't online

crude geode
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feedzuh making heavy use of nitro as always

frozen storm
craggy stratus
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atleast feedzuh isnt using animated weeb pfp

ashen warren
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not yet at least

craggy stratus
cobalt pewter
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No, I probably will get something decent for animated stuff

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But until then, it'll be my cats

craggy stratus
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unfortunately, those animations are harder to find than blindly search for all biome shrines in a large world

cobalt pewter
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rip

craggy stratus
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who started the offtopic

crude geode
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~~you, I just made a single off hand comment HDfailure ~~

craggy stratus
frozen storm
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you cant make this to emote

cobalt pewter
crude geode
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@velvet locust you should prolly remove your sugg considering change 256 is a thing

cobalt pewter
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I already mentioned things wrong with the sugg iirc

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  • The part about Mycoroot should be fixed with change 256 for 1.5
  • Stealth is balanced around not attacking while moving around
  • Stealth already gives movement speed bonus, per stealth point
tawny garden
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No suggs about stealth should stay

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I'll tell you that much

cobalt pewter
tawny garden
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Until 1.5 comes out

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The changes to it are too major

sharp prism
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youre hurting feedza

cobalt pewter
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1.5 is too major

eternal escarp
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feedzuh's suggestion is bad?

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how

tawny garden
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This includes both wurm's sugg and Feedza's sugg

cobalt pewter
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@zenith hazel what do you think about what Philo said? I can easily draft my sugg for post 1.5 at least

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if I can remember

eternal escarp
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!remindme moment

tawny garden
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(Ye, Brav is obv more experienced than I am HDfailure)

zealous ridge
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I don’t feel like this should be a no no topic just because stealth is being reworked to scale better

cobalt pewter
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too bad we have no set date

zealous ridge
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I’m trying to come up with a better response here but I might need a sec

cobalt pewter
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Hence why I'm asking Brav yes

craggy stratus
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the more stealth suggestion there is, the more delayed the stealth update will be

cobalt pewter
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He knows dev environment better than any of us

eternal escarp
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the more times feedzuh talks about stealth, we stray further from the update

tawny garden
pine star
crude geode
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Letting it stay up is like asking for potion durations to be extended when it’s already in the changelogs.

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It’s unnecessary

ashen warren
zealous ridge
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that’s not a fair comparison I feel

eternal escarp
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its not, but we get the point

crude geode
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It’s called exaggeration. Gets the point across

ashen warren
eternal escarp
zealous ridge
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the exaggeration makes it inaccurate

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Thus why I’m arguing on those terms

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Tell me what your general point is

cobalt pewter
crude geode
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Considering stealth is already having a major rework next update, why not just wait until then.

tawny garden
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Don't steer up a fight here pls

ashen warren
zealous ridge
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major rework is shown in change logs that’s for sure

ashen warren
zealous ridge
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can you stop spamming emotes please

tawny garden
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quite rich coming from me ig

crude geode
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Can you not Deusity

ashen warren
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yes mam

crude geode
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byech

zealous ridge
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I’m thinking the justification here is quite broad

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mainly , I suppose

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The issue is not the existence of something in changelogs but rather the fact that more is possibly planned

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a lot more, even

crude geode
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What?

cobalt pewter
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Again, that's why I pinged Brav in the first place

zealous ridge
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Meaning the basis of the suggestion is uncertain at best

cobalt pewter
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To make sure that stealth topic isn't off the limits

zealous ridge
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yeah that’s not up in the air feedz

ashen warren
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ur a square

zealous ridge
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I’m just discussing here what exactly might be the issue

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And, I’m thinking

crude geode
ashen warren
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yes ma'm

zealous ridge
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There could easily be a way to distill what the suggestion is asking into a broader statement that won’t be upended by uncertain mechanical changes

craggy stratus
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now we wait for brav's response im guessing

zealous ridge
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the main point is that saying something is off limits because somethings in changelogs is not contributing

crude geode
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The basis of the suggestion is that “stealth is not in the best shape right now” and specifically referring to stealth being bad on higher use time weapons. A problem that 256 directly addresses

zealous ridge
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Not really?

cobalt pewter
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if nothing we can ping ben I spose lole

zealous ridge
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this suggestion pertains to stealth gen

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I’m assuming we’re talking about feedz

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For the other, well that’s accurate I suppose

crude geode
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...I have been talking about wurm doggo

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The one I pinged to take down their sugg

zealous ridge
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alright, my mistake then

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agreeably that’s more of a no no area

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partially, discussion veered towards feedz suggestion being unfit as well due to the same change listed

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which is harder for me to agree with

crude geode
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Yes it’s arguably similar, but different but le Brav has arrived

zenith hazel
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@cobalt pewter I agree

crude geode
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Cool

zenith hazel
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the same goes for balancing suggs

zealous ridge
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mmmm

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alright I guess

zenith hazel
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those are off limits for the time being because chances are we'll cover those during 1.5

tawny garden
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cool

zealous ridge
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the devs have spoken I guess

cobalt pewter
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Alrighty

zealous ridge
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my stance is unchanged

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but that’s that

zenith hazel
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@hollow shell thoughts on pinning something like "balancing suggs are discouraged until 1.5 is released"?

crude geode
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dyou mind exclaiming wurm doggo’s sugg then brav

zealous ridge
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general balance suggestions being no no’s is really iffy for me

tawny garden
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Or putting that in the doc

zealous ridge
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but I mean...

zenith hazel
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w/e works honestly

cobalt pewter
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Deleted my sugg then

crude geode
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Considering how massive this update is gonna be, I think it’s reasonable

zealous ridge
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considering how long this update will take, sounds like a long block of ideas

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I would say suggestions needs another channel breakup, but that may get out of hand extremely quickly

crude geode
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GOD NO

zealous ridge
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Plus I don’t have access to things like tester channels or other stuff like patron channels

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I’m sure they have plenty of venues to transfer info

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Specially tester stuff

tawny garden
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no

crude geode
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~~that implies suggestors have good ideas HDfailure ~~
I think it’s more important for devs to be focused on their own testing and balancing then community balancing ideas

zealous ridge
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again I said it would likely get out of hand

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moreso it’s awareness

crude geode
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for rn

zealous ridge
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But either way

tawny garden
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I am against another split

zealous ridge
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Okay

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I’m not surprised

tawny garden
zealous ridge
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my thought would have been that it be separated from suggestions entirely as a sort of balance discussion chat

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but again

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testers and patrons have this covered likely

crude geode
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it is, it’s called pinging testers

zealous ridge
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Although I have no direct confirmation

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I mean

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That’s kind of my point

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Are there not tester channels/servers?

crude geode
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P sure there are

zealous ridge
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they can ferry their info through that if the secrecy thing is to be continued

tawny garden
zealous ridge
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as in, secret changes that are saved for surprises in the next update

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yeah, as I thought

crude geode
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I wouldn’t mind a pin of testers to ping for balancing tests tbh (maybe? @hollow shell )

zealous ridge
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I mean

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Not horrible idea

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Mainly I just want there to be less offtopic traffic

crude geode
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good luck

zealous ridge
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via a different channel to ask and discuss balance

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part of it is that I really don’t know if a server going on 90k members can deal with this amount of channels

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it’s pretty small all things considered

crude geode
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you think it needs more?? Or less?

zealous ridge
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more

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more channels to diffuse discussion

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Not like, offtopic 2 or something dumb like that

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Never again

crude geode
zealous ridge
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that’s just because some of the regulars here are too good at segues

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offtopic happens in here mostly because that’s just how the types of frequents here like to talk about wider reaching concepts

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Sometimes it’s a big stretch and it goes off the rails

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not as much a blame thing, though, moreso just the nature of how some people discuss suggestions here

crude geode
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Indeed

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So what you’re saying is we need a Thomas rant channel

zealous ridge
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Hardly

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I don’t really know is the issue

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would a balance discussion channel be a worthwhile thing to make?

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or should we leave these channels to the testers?

crude geode
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Tbh it sounds like a shit show in the making, being in the public

zealous ridge
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Would depend on how it’s moderated

tawny garden
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And I fear that a balancing channel might devolve to "pls buff I like op shit'

zealous ridge
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I guess my main question is, if balance discussion isn’t really worthwhile in suggestions, where would it be really talked about?

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cal talk and update talk?

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cal talk is usually crowded iirc

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Draedon update less so

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But balance besides what has been posted in logs might come off as offtopic

crude geode
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If you’re referring to right now, I wouldn’t know for sure

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If you’re curious, you could ask Brav or Rover

zealous ridge
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what, about channel traffic?

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I guess I could

crude geode
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Where balance discussion could go

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since brav seems hesitant about discussing balance in suggs

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The proposed solution is much more elegant than a toggle

tawny garden
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Ye, we have disallowed suggs similar to those that have recently gone to voting

cobalt pewter
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Oh my god

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I was confused

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I clicked on the link bajilion times

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I thought it's Discord being shitty with linking again

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Turns out the sugg is on the top of the screen, cut in half everytime I clicked

tawny garden
crude geode
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pisscord HDfailure

tawny garden
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Probably

crude geode
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Considering something like this was literally suggested not a day ago prolly

tawny garden
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But it's not explicitly rule-breaking

river glen
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ik

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What about making all vanilla true melee weapons larger

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since they suffer the issue

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of low dps

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and low range

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as a true melee wepaon this makes this awfully shit

cobalt pewter
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uh

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Idk, maybe some case-by-case approach can be done? But idk how tedious it'd be

river glen
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well

tawny garden
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Make every true melee weapon like Murasama LETSFUCKINGGOOOO

river glen
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no

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like 20% larger on some

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and 50% on some

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like falcon blade

dapper coral
cobalt pewter
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Yeah that'd require quite a lot of case-by-case approaches

dapper coral
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i don't think a whole list is really necessary

cobalt pewter
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Which might take time

river glen
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orr to much work

crude geode
dapper coral
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i mean

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if you're really struggling to find people, 5 out of 7 mods online right now are beta testers

cobalt pewter
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If the person has at least funne blue role, chances are they're also testers

dapper coral
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exactly

tawny garden
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If you're undecisive, just ping Chetto HDfailure

crude geode
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Fair enough

tawny garden
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mhm

dapper coral
tawny garden
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Or here even

dapper coral
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or here, kind of

pine star
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@rancid saddle Can you give kill times with the reaper and comparable weapons?

cobalt pewter
dapper coral
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i

cobalt pewter
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Also

tawny garden
cobalt pewter
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Rebalancing suggs are nay

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iirc

dapper coral
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isn't this literally what we were just talking about

tawny garden
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Buff sugg

zenith hazel
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funny story

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reaper was practically the best weapon to use against OD in the cool dudes multiplayer pt

cobalt pewter
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gameing

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I find Reaper a good one to use on OD

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When he's moving around

zenith hazel
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funny homing goes brrrr

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anyway balancing suggestions are discouraged, and they didn't provide kill times etc.

cobalt pewter
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Time Bolt devastates the boss when tired out tho like jeez

dapper coral
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reaper is very good for OD anyways, yeah

hardy dock
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Reaper is great

hollow shell
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Regarding both my pings:

Yes a pin listing testers that are available for suggestions would be a good idea

And yes a temporary pin for holding off on balance suggestions until 1.5 would probably also be a good thing (probably not a blanket disallowance though, cuz iirc we're only dedicated to rebalancing post-ML and Stealth and some other stuff, so the pin could be specific as to what's already getting worked on)

rancid saddle
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btw, The Reaper is a rare variant of the valediction

tawny garden
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Wait, I thought everything will be rebalanced

zenith hazel
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we know

rancid saddle
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mhm

zenith hazel
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but we've already said that you should hold off on balancing suggestions until 1.5

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even if that wasn't the case, you need to provide numbers

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just saying "buff this thing because it's weaker than pre-ml gear" doesn't mean much

dapper violet
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doesn’t it also delete DoG

hardy dock
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imma go run the numbers

whole sedge
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Bringing killtimes compared to other items, how easy it is to use etc would be useful

hollow shell
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Yeah
Boss kill times are the best info you can do for comparison

tawny garden
rancid saddle
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no reaper does much worse then valediction

hardy dock
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im checking now

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what's your build?

hollow shell
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compare Reaper's kill time to Valediction and other post-Polter tier weapons
against OD or DoG

hardy dock
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ok

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OD?

hollow shell
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Old Duke

hardy dock
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ah yeah

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ok ill just do dog

rancid saddle
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Whats OD

hollow shell
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Also I was mainly referring to Beesical but if you wanna try too that'd be nice

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Old Duke

rancid saddle
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oh I've never fought him until like pre yharon lmao

hardy dock
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im testing anyway

hollow shell
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understandable tbh

hardy dock
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two sources is better than 1

cobalt pewter
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The Reaper is better on DoG on spam iirc, but Valediction is better for stealth

rancid saddle
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but from my experience, valediction did way better. But I do have to admit reaper has nice homing for events

cobalt pewter
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Don't know if that's changing with 1.5

rancid saddle
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Ritto did a video on it without stealth

cobalt pewter
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Stealth strike produces typhoons at full damage when hitting body segments

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Even though the actual weapon doesn't deal much iirc

hardy dock
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what accessories are you supposed to use

whole sedge
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I mean class setups exist on the wiki and they're not that hard to find regardless..?

rancid saddle
hardy dock
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well im using godmode to test to lessen the pain tbh

hollow shell
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(make sure you're still trying to dodge and stuff, for more accurate gameplay results)

hardy dock
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yeah

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i just dont want this to take a while

hollow shell
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Indeed

cobalt pewter
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Try 4 defensive accs with warding and 3 offensive / class accs with Menacing

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For accs

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You're not supposed to go glass for beta testing from what I gathered by talking with other testers

hardy dock
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yeah ok

cobalt pewter
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even nohitters run jump GOD tbh

tawny garden
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Jump King

hardy dock
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my tests have concluded

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Reaper averaged 4k dps phase 1 and 5k phase 2

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Valediction averaged 11k both times

cobalt pewter
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Killtime is generally more important

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Since dps can be

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Wild

hardy dock
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yeah ik

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valediction still killed nearly twice as fast

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Reaper isn't quite as bad as beesical says but it still does underperform

hollow shell
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mmm

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It should be noticeably better than Valediction, considering it's supposed to be a buffed version of it

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Improved variant, rather

hardy dock
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I think the main issue is its piercing

rancid saddle
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Honestly should The Reaper be buffed or should Valediction be nerfed?

hardy dock
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in terms of balance changing I don't really like to simply alter a weapon's damage but that may be necessary here too

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Reaper should be buffed

hollow shell
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(Actually not sure why we're bothering considering the big 1.5 PostML power flattening)

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(Reaper and Vale are going to be rebalanced)

cobalt pewter
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kekw

tawny garden
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flatten the curve™️

rancid saddle
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not excited for that, will make most calamity endgame weapons useless bc hehe lifesteal funny uwu

cobalt pewter
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???

pine star
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?????????????????????

tawny garden
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what

rancid saddle
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is the flattening gonna make exoweapons do like 20k dps?

frozen hornet
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Perhaps

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But bosses are also getting the flattening

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So boss diffoculty should stay the same,or at least similar

eternal escarp
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so all in all nothing will change mostly

sleek turret
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everything that is post-ML is going to be on the flattening.

cobalt pewter
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It's more on the numbers yes

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Experience should still mostly be the same if not more balanced

sleek turret
eternal escarp
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yeah

hollow shell
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Everything is getting flattened, yes. Both the weapons and the bosses.

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Bosses will take the exact same amount of time to kill and be the exact same level of challenging

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It's just that there won't be such a large power discrepancy between bosses in Post-ML now

tawny garden
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I hope the Vehemence still does 823543 damage because yes

hollow shell
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Vehemence is indeed staying as super one-hit fucker even with the unrelated SCal drops rework. That's its identity.

hardy dock
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wait is scal keeping her gargantuan DR

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Cus it's really funny tbh

unreal viper
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no

hardy dock
river glen
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i hope

pine star
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iirc her health is still the same

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But her new DR would be like 20%

dapper violet
ashen warren
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nerfed to death

gusty geode
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Starting to feel like the "I was inconvenienced plz fix" suggs are starting to get a little excessive
Like, it's too much work to grind for Gel?
The most universally common drop from the most universally common enemy type in the entire game?

tawny garden
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That is a surprisingly good point

eternal escarp
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i think the infinite gel part comes from the fact every main plain ammo type (bullets and arrows, atleast) have infinite versions

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but yeah, i mean

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endgame flamethrowers litterly have like

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90% chance to not consume anything]

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ontop of the 20% buff potion which im prty sure applies

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not sure hoe the percentages calculate but like

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you sureley have over 100% at that point, accesories buffs and stuff

whole sedge
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yeah at that point it's pretty much infinite and gel's something you're likely gonna have in mass amounts the entire game really soo Shrug_DRGN

tawny garden
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Time to consult redcode

eternal escarp
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go philo

tawny garden
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I'm having dinner rn pain

eternal escarp
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you said it in the present tense, so you are obligated to do it now

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no dinner for you

tawny garden
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fuck

gusty geode
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This one sugg I was thinking of putting in for April Fools that was basically a 5+ page essay on why they should remove non-boss enemies from the game entirely feels less and less out-of-place every day

tawny garden
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well, to set the chance to consume ammo you need to override this function

/// Whether or not ammo will be consumed upon usage. Called both by the gun and by the ammo; if at least one returns false then the ammo will not be used. By default returns true.
/// If false is returned, the OnConsumeAmmo hook is never called.
public virtual bool ConsumeAmmo(Player player)
{
    return true;
}
``` as explained in the summary, the function is called for the weapon and then for the ammo, so the chances are multiplicative, not additive @eternal escarp
eternal escarp
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hm

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so wait

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that just means both work at the same time?

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so if both send true, no ammo is consumed

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right?

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or false, that is

tawny garden
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if either send false, it's not consumed

eternal escarp
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interesting

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so there is still a chance for it to consume

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just way lower

tawny garden
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or if at least one of the GlobalItem.ConsumeAmmo hooks returns a false it's not consumed

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so yeah technically there is still a chance

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unless one of these always returns a false

eternal escarp
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which is only if its 100% not to consume, ill guess

tawny garden
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100% not to consume is if it always returns a false

eternal escarp
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ah

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interesting

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well, in any case, it doesnt really matter for the subject from before ig

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gel is still so common

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it doesnt even matter

tawny garden
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yeah

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ech that falls under future content and adding back removed content

winged pilot
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Alright

fossil finch
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M

winged pilot
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I’m just going to miss the old slime god lore

tawny garden
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if you aren't specific, it's not a nono

river glen
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well

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sentries is a sub class

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theoreticly

tawny garden
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but some say that currently there are enough

river glen
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it isnt supposed to have armor

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to it

tawny garden
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post-ML is vast enough to allow it I think

rancid saddle
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Honestly, I feel as if sentry summoner is unexplored post moonlord just to save people's mental health

pine star
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petition for one of the sentries to be 5xx dartling

rancid saddle
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Honestly yeah, there should be more sentry summoner content

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I feel like calamity could do so much work and it could be a fun new subclass; like how calamity did true melee

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Maybe have an accesory that can convert regular minion slots to sentries

pine star
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Dungeon Defenders 2 is a tower defense game
which is why my joke was also about a tower defense game

rancid saddle
#

Hmm, the problem is should sentry summoner be tanky or not?

pine star
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And Glaive

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And Kylie

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And a dartling sentry would solve the problem that summoner is literally just "dodge"

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yes

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!wiki glaive

red stormBOT
rancid saddle
#

I've done sentry provi before, its fun actually

pine star
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That said, the sugg is more about bosses like DoG and Yharon

rancid saddle
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Last sentry is DOG tier

eternal escarp
#

i mean, expanding a sub class isnt really supposed to happen afaik

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but idk if the suggestion is actually fine or not lol

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true melee is more of a gimmick

rancid saddle
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its not

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its so good

eternal escarp
#

since most melee weapons of most sub classes have it

eternal escarp
#

sub class is a weapon type

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true melee exists in various melee weapons afaik

pine star
#

True melee weapons are just melee weapons that don't fire projectiles

rancid saddle
#

sentry weapons are summon weapons that don't move

fossil finch
#

1.4 flails are true melee so yeah
And, yoyo's are not true melee and they don't fire proyectiles

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But what's the discussion about here?

rancid saddle
#

yoyos are true melee lmao

fossil finch
#

Yeah that's fine and pog i won't use them

pine star
#

i would if they were good

rancid saddle
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yoyo bad lmao

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imma do a sentry only scal fight, fuck it

eternal escarp
#

carrion VS scal?

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gl my man

rancid saddle
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Carrion, Endo hydra and any magic sentry I find

grim tusk
#

endo hydra aint a sentry

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guidelight of oblivion is also a decent sentry for Scal

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but good luck if you doing that as it will take ages

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also dont get hit

crude geode
#

Sentry summoner doesn’t exist because vanilla said “what if we gave sentries multiple copies”

cobalt pewter
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Too bad devs won't rebalance ooa stuff

radiant meadow
cobalt pewter
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Sentry slots should behave like minion slots on stuff like Sirius

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tbh

tawny garden
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hmm

crude geode
tawny garden
#

"at certain points of the game" is kinda unclear
does the entirety of Post-ML fall under that?
does the entire game fall under that?

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@hollow shell

cobalt pewter
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I'm saying in the context of slots boosting a single sentry, rather than adding another sentry

radiant meadow
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"sentry playthrough" still indicates that they're specifically choosing not to use normal summons

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which ties into the last sentence

tawny garden
#

ah, that's fair

hard crescent
#

im pretty much leaving the server anyway, and thats more just an opinion of the mod

tawny garden
#

I can't comprehend this

fossil finch
#

isn't this a don't

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the sugg looks like "balance please" as far as i see

hard crescent
#

no one reads that stupid document i hate to break it to you

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its way longer

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in fact

tawny garden
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it's a large-scale rework from what it seems, ye

gray nebula
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cool sugg but I don't get what's being asked

whole sedge
tawny garden
sturdy geyser
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yeah like

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what is this asking for?

radiant meadow
#

sprites are completely separate from the balancing/testing side of things what?

gray nebula
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also bruh instance bruh instance bruh instance imagine not reading the don'ts doc then even calling it stupid

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the sacred texts

hard crescent
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"simplify the 'dont' document
no one reads the whole thing honestly"

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tried posting that but its on cooldown

gray nebula
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speak for yourself

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I think

hard crescent
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ive read it once

tawny garden
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ah yes

hard crescent
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then it got changed

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and then got changed

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and got changed

zenith hazel
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and that's a problem because...

tawny garden
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"delete the rules because they're long"

sturdy geyser
#

it is simple

tawny garden
sturdy geyser
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you are being lazy

fossil finch
#

don't doc is not even long

hard crescent
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its not necessarily a proble, but im pointing out no one reads the whole thing

fossil finch
#

and you can always f3 search

fossil finch
hard crescent
#

im not saying delete it either, just suggesting it gets simplified

fossil finch
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Everyone that suggs does.

gray nebula
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I mean multiple people here are saying they're reading the whole thing

hard crescent
#

im confident saying most people dont read the whole thing

gray nebula
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sucks

tawny garden
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you can't simplify something which is already simple enough

pine star
#

I read the whole thing

whole sedge
#

It was like a 5 minute read as most of the stuff is just common sense so sorry you're lazy i guess? Shrug_DRGN

gray nebula
#

because apparently that's not the case from the people we've got here

fossil finch
#

i do not even sugg and still read the thing lol

hard crescent
#

server just hit 90k people, right?

zenith hazel
#

making a lot of assumptions here

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referring to the "no one reads the whole thing"

tawny garden
#

people do read through it when we point it out

gray nebula
#

do 90k people suggest stuff

hard crescent
#

lets say that like 20% of them are actually active enough to post suggestions

radiant meadow
#

not even 20% are active in the server

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it's more like 5%

tawny garden
#

and btw of these 90K members only like 200 ever speak

gray nebula
#

yeah OK but only less than 1% suggest stuff

tawny garden
gray nebula
whole sedge
#

Most of them don't even suggest stuff***

crude geode
#

This sugg sounds like
A) large scale rework, which is a don’t
B) trying to remove the fact that calamity stuff is much more powerful, which is just...not going to happen without immense work

cobalt pewter
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What the fuck is this

hard crescent
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dont want a large scale rework

fossil finch
#

good question feed

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good question

gray nebula
#

yeah technically no one reads the sugg don'ts doc if you count all the people that don't talk at all and don't suggest shit

hard crescent
#

haha funyn suggestion bad and i should feel bad

tawny garden
gray nebula
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self pity time I guess

pine star
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^^^^

hard crescent
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nah, im proposing future installations go in a different direction

zenith hazel
#

changing the balancing philosophy is considered a big one

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and even then

whole sedge
#

still a pretty big change which is a don't ech

zenith hazel
#

we're gonna rebalance practically every weapon in the mod next update anyway

hard crescent
#

yeah

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exactly

foggy plover
#

yknow I've said this before but

cobalt pewter
#

If you're actively trying to ignore the don'ts doc after being told to read it, then you're just kinda cringe bro ngl...,.,.,.,

foggy plover
#

you guys don't have to be a bunch of asses to anyone who makes an invalid sugg

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comments like that ^

hard crescent
#

calamity is hella buggy i would greatly like to see the mod get that sort of stuff fixed and not "changed arc of whatever from firing 874328972413987 projectiles and instead summoning 35671258 minions"

zenith hazel
#

then provide examples

hard crescent
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im not that offended but thank you @foggy plover

foggy plover
#

this happens a lot

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(every day basically)

gray nebula
#

balance changes aren't really preventing bug fixes from being made

zenith hazel
#

no mod is perfect

hard crescent
#

thats not necessarily true or false

zenith hazel
#

there's bound to be bugs

hard crescent
#

the balancing not hurting bug fixes i meant

gray nebula
#

if there's a major bug the programmers will try to fix it

hard crescent
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time spent doing one thing can detract from doing another, but i get shit needs to be balanced

zenith hazel
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then provide specific examples of unbalanced stuff

gray nebula
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the coders don't test stuff

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that's the tester's job

zenith hazel
#

even though it doesn't matter much considering our plans, it's still feedback

cobalt pewter
#

How is anything taking away from bug fixing or content updates? Like they happen together at the same patch and like wh

gray nebula
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the coders just edit the damage/speed/idk values of the weapons based on the data collected by the testers

crude geode
#

This suggestion is very heavily subjective tbh. Which isn’t neccessarily a bad thing, but when it’s revolving around the balance philosophy of the mod as a whole, you wanna be more objective.

cobalt pewter
#

There are a lot of hotfixes even

hard crescent
#

someone coding thing A means they cant code thing B

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they can alternate

whole sedge
#

Yeah but there's also like what 20 developers? Usually in dev groups one person just focuses on one thing anyways Shrug_DRGN

gray nebula
#

if thing A is litterally just "change" damage=40" to "damage=60"" i think it's not that big of a deal

hard crescent
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nah thats fine

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its silly imo but its fine

gray nebula
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it's balancing doe

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can't have funny weapons shredding bosses because of specific quirks

hard crescent
#

every time i do a calamity run, i check the wiki to build shit. and every update, half of the build is incompatible because its all changed

cobalt pewter
#

every run requires a new build

Isn't that where the fun is!?!?!?

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I-what

hard crescent
#

i like doing new builds

cobalt pewter
#

Oh forced

zenith hazel
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some weps get nerfed/buffed between updates

hard crescent
#

i dont like having a build be wrong because calamity decided so

cobalt pewter
#

I don't really see any forced new builds in that case

zenith hazel
#

this is very normal

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and even then

hard crescent
#

stat changes i cant really argue with

tawny garden
#

don't update then I guess

zenith hazel
#

the wiki doesn't dictate whether your build is bad

tawny garden
#

if you don't want changes

zenith hazel
#

it just recommends options that you can use

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not must use

whole sedge
#

i mean my singular DoG setup hasn't changed since I started playing so i don't really know what you're trying to say here

tawny garden
#

god the Class Setups guide

cobalt pewter
#

Time to share class setups foreword for the 100th time LETSFUCKINGGOOOOOOO

golden narwhal
zenith hazel
#

also, people work very hard on the class setups page

crude geode
#

As for bosses, certain weapons just do less damage against them because the type of weapon vs the type of boss happens to be too effective. Why not just balance the weapon accordingly, and not arbitrarily say "only does x% damage against y" as a blanket fix?

What you want is a blanket fix. Fixing it’s effectiveness against a specific boss prevents it from being useless against other enemies/bosses.

hard crescent
#

i actively avoid that page lol

radiant meadow
#

tbh you should

zenith hazel
#

then what do you mean by "every update, half of the build is incompatible because its all changed"?

cobalt pewter
hard crescent
#

do be clear, although clearly i wasnt before, i am not advocating for previous things to be changed. I'm advocating for future implementations to be better designed in the first place and not be shat out

crude geode
#

...cool, thank you for your opinion.

zenith hazel
#

still drawing a blank as to what you're trying to specify

hollow shell
#

You're complaining about the mod not being well-balanced but you are also complaining that we're making too many balancing changes?

zenith hazel
#

as in, better designed/shat out in what way exactly?

crude geode
#

and your lack of ability to actually receive feedback

hard crescent
#

if a weapon is excessively good or excessively bad, it needs to be reworked. But reworking in such bulk quantities servers very little

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yes lol

zenith hazel
#

yknow we can just

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buff/nerf it if it is unbalanced, right?

pine star
cobalt pewter
#

So you're saying each major update should be bland in terms of balance?

hard crescent
#

nah thats impossible

zenith hazel
#

reworking is practically a last resort

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when it comes to balancing, that is

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if it's not really unique then yeah it could use a rework

hard crescent
#

balanced from the get go isnt possible, but better design from the get go is

zenith hazel
#

better design in what manner?

hard crescent
#

lets say calamity adds somethign after scal (just bear with me)

crude geode
#

Cool, that’s your opinion. Doesn’t mean the devs support changing their design philosophy for one person.

tawny garden
#

uh

cobalt pewter
#

You can try pinpoint which of these need "better design", first off

tawny garden
#

what do you actually want

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I don't understand

hard crescent
#

the new boss is another worm ai right, and they add new weapons or ore or whatever. One of these weapons fires a metric fuckton of projectiles and the like

cobalt pewter
#

What???

tawny garden
hard crescent
#

so instead of just adding a footnote of "this boss takes 50% less damage from this weapon" just dont make the weapon so blantantly overpowered against it

hollow shell
#

He's proposing a hypothetical

zenith hazel
#

are you talking about resists?

whole sedge
#

Yeah this is already what calamity does though..?

zenith hazel
#

that's what we're trying to avoid for next update

hollow shell
#

Also you know those specific resistances are rare and are only done in cases where the weapon cannot be balanced for more than one situation

hard crescent
#

good then

whole sedge
#

Provi had this exact problem and last I remember they fixed that with Elemental Axe i think so what are you trying to say here?

hard crescent
#

thats what im suggesting lol @zenith hazel

cobalt pewter
#

Specific resistances are quite a bit in case of Deus, at least from when I done Deus doc

zenith hazel
#

then that should be the main point of your suggestion

cobalt pewter
#

Or maybe just worms

crude geode
#

It’s worms

hollow shell
#

byeah you can make an anti-resist suggestion

tawny garden
#

balancing suggs are still a no until 1.5

zenith hazel
hard crescent
#

i think it falls in the umbrella of 'balance'

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but if im wrong fair enough

zenith hazel
#

but there will be cases where resists can be inevitable

hollow shell
#

Making a suggestion that says "Do all balancing better", when you're mostly concerned with resists, is not ideal

hard crescent
#

as for specific item changes, iirc vampiric talisman was one?

zenith hazel
#

as more weapons are implemented, the higher the odds of a broken weapon slipping under our nose

crude geode
#

Worms inevitably need resist checks, so they don’t die to anything with the ability to pierce

hard crescent
#

it used to be "gives x% of hp back when crit" and now its "1 hp per crit"

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not a bad balance change

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but enough of a change that imo its a whole ass different accessory

#

im going off of memory here keep in mind

hollow shell
#

Uh, that isn't how it works

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It's still a percent of your damage

hard crescent
#

maybe its the opposite of what I said, at one point it was something then it changed lol

cobalt pewter
#

It's still a % yes

crude geode
#

if you don’t like playing a incomplete mod that’s still growing and developing with content, go play thorium.

hollow shell
#

heh

cobalt pewter
#

Your dmg is just low or you're using spam

crude geode
#

Because things are going to change because that’s how it goes for a mod in development

cobalt pewter
#

Particularly to some of its classes I recall

fossil finch
#

yeah

hard crescent
#

im not complaining about it being good or bad, im complaining about the change being a rework and not as mucha balance

crude geode
cobalt pewter
hard crescent
#

i havent done thorium yet so i cant comment

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going to soon tho

tawny garden
#

(don't mix it with Calamity)

hard crescent
#

god no

cobalt pewter
#

(don't mix any content mods)

tawny garden
crude geode
#

Reworks are a part of calamity, along with balancing, because it’s still actively adding content and can’t meticulously check every single thing in every single update.

hard crescent
#

right, but it maybe should get more breathing room?

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its a shite suggestion so whatever

hollow shell
#

mmmmm I think you gotta get a better idea of what exactly it is you're trying to suggest
You're basically complaining that balancing exists

crude geode
#

^

hard crescent
#

im not against the concept of balancing but im obviously fucking up the wording

crude geode
#

You’re saying a lot without having a central point right now.

hollow shell
#

You can try to rewrite the suggestion if you want, or at least portions of it

hard crescent
#

dont care enough tbh

hollow shell
#

Alright

hard crescent
#

i just finished death mode and im done with calamity as a whole

#

these are more parting thoughts i guess

hollow shell
#

Okie
I can delete the sugg then

hard crescent
#

yeah go ahead

zenith hazel
#

well your suggestion is still riddled with unnecessary-

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alright

hard crescent
#

oh one more thing, and ill fuck off

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god damn yall are pretentious as fuck

#

not everyone and im being a cunt too

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but holy hell

zenith hazel
#

ok?

hard crescent
#

elitist might be the better word idk

#

ight well cya

golden narwhal
pine star
crude geode
#

Well that was something

hollow shell
#

Alright

fossil finch
#

i'd imagine that, even if it was fixed, nobody would actually vote it anyways
however moving on ig

crude geode
#

my suggestion is gonna be alone for almost 12 hours in voting pog

hollow shell
#

(dunamis's sugg is almost valid)

pine star
#

Almost?

crude geode
#

Except for where it breaks the subclass don’t HDfailure

tawny garden
#

uh yeah Rover

hollow shell
#

(but then he whipped out the "sentry playthrough" card)

fossil finch
#

what the heck is wurm doggo stealth sugg

tawny garden
#

I asked you a question above

hollow shell
#

Ah sorry, didn't notice the ping

cobalt pewter
#

Lemme just

hollow shell
#

The Don't is worded in that way to prevent suggestions that are like the example
i.e. adding a subclass weapon for a specific purpose, like killing a boss

cobalt pewter
#
  • The part about Mycoroot should be fixed with change 256 for 1.5
  • Stealth is balanced around not attacking while moving around
  • Stealth already gives movement speed bonus, per stealth point
hollow shell
#

I am unsure if the entirety of Post-ML falls under "certain point in the game" however I don't think it matters much, because the heart of the suggestion is that subclass playthroughs are not a valid reason for suggs

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Now, the sugg as you have it is valid, I think
A bit on the bare side but it gets the point across

tawny garden
#

alright

hollow shell
#

@radiant meadow What do you think

radiant meadow
#

I guess it's okay.

hollow shell
#

Post-ML does only have 3 sentry weapons, so the core of his sugg is indeed justified

crude geode
#

Doesn’t pre-hm have like 3 if you only count the OOA ones as one?

hollow shell
#

(What're the other two?)

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Nah I mean

#

There's Caustic Croaker, the OOA ones, and what else

crude geode
#

Arguably it has less than post ml, because you also have the two from ml (that get immediately replaced by energy staff for some reason)

hollow shell
#

Cursed is sayin that the OOA sentries should be considered "one sentry"

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which is, odd
but, he can say what he feels like HDfailure

crude geode
#

I mean like for progression sake

#

You don’t replace your explosive trap with a fireball trap HDfailure

hollow shell
#

True, I forgot ML dropped two

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so PostML has 5

crude geode
#

Buff em and move energy staff to post provi

#

So there’s 3 pre-hm if you wanna count caustic croaker, ballista, and flame rod

#

And 5 post-ml

#

Then why is post ml a problem?

#

I mean you can get guidelight of oblivion then

#

sentry summoner isn’t meant to be viable

#

It’s a subclass for a reason

#

fabsol likes true melee is the major difference

hollow shell
#

Moving Energy Staff to post-Providence is a good move

#

either making it drop from her or making it drop from Immos after she's defeated

#

Yeah of course

hot zephyr
#

True melee is different from your typical subclass tbh

crude geode
#

That way it the ML sentries aren’t just outclassed immediately

hollow shell
#

Ye so

#

someone can sugg that if they want

crude geode
cobalt pewter
#

True melee is the true subclass

#

It's been here since 1.0

#

It's the oldest subclass

hot zephyr
#

It's also literally a part of every non-subclass melee weapon

crude geode
#

Asianman back at it again with the profaned guardian sugg
If you wanna change your suggestion to moving energy staff you can @ashen warren

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That’s not going to happen. It’s a don’t.

#

Subclass support is specifically a don’t.

#

true melee is weird and awkward

#

You can get away with a true melee support suggestion because fabsol and the devs have been pushing for it to be viable so hard, because it should just be what melee is. There has been no efforts for sentry summoner’s viability as a subclass, so it falls under the don’t.

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@hollow shell The suggestion has been stated to be specifically about sentry subclass viability.

#

unexplored in what way?

hollow shell
#

It's a specific weapon type that gets shafted
despite the fact that vanilla has a bunch a stuff dedicated to it

#

A suggestion to add more stuff of a certain subclass as fine as long as its not facilitating any sort of personal challenge i.e. to only use that weapon type

#

Cuz it's a matter of

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variety

crude geode
#

Alright then, what Rover says goes

ashen warren
#

I feel like the heavenly gale is a bit underpowered. My Ultima is doing near enough the same DPS. Very underwhelming

earnest cape
#

Heavenly gale is rng

craggy stratus
#

you test the dps on scal?

ashen warren
#

Yes. Photoviscerator is like a billion times more powerful

#

Literally puts the heavenly gale to shame...

earnest cape
#

Isnt it getting killed next update

craggy stratus
#

yeah photo getting killed

earnest cape
ashen warren
#

Is anything planned for the gale?

craggy stratus
#

as far as i know, dont think so

ashen warren
#

🙁

whole sedge
#

It's likely gonna be part of the large scale rework so Shrug_DRGN

cobalt pewter
#

stat wise probably will be addressed on major rebalance yes

ashen warren
#

Cool, I'll be looking forward to whenever that may be

river glen
#

hmm

#

it may be very biased, but i think VK need a nerf

#

it does way to much

#

and self-heal is still good

#

even tho its nerfed

hollow shell
#

Haven't used em in a long time
You could nake a sugg about it. Some data would help, if possible

#

ex. How much health you can heal in X amount of time

cobalt pewter
#

Comparing VK to Corpus Avertor is gud imo

#

Since both do essentially the same thing

#

For context, red orbs spawned by Corpus Avertor only deal two fifth of the weapon damage, and the player is healed by 5% of red orb dmg, so each orb would actually heal the player for 2% of listed damage

#

Meanwhile each Vampire Knives projectile will heal for 7.5% of weapon damage

#

You need to have enemies run into red orbs from Corpus Avertor, as they're left by the main projectile, and the main projectile itself gives no lifesteal

#

Meanwhile Vampire Knives is heavily spammable and controllable, since if you missed you can throw another set of knives immediately

#

Personally think Corpus Avertor is a slight bit more balanced in terms of lifesteal accessibility, but that's just me

#

You can only really get reliable healing from corpus if you'd fight provi iirc, since beeg hitbox

#

I'm not only laptop atm, so I can't give reliable lifesteal per second or smth

#

...did they nerf VK in cal?

#

I probably shoulda checked

#

Okay nope, no specific nerfs for the weapon

serene fox
#

apparently it's

#

buffed in calamity???

cobalt pewter
sand umbra
#

why

#

in what universe does this make sense

cobalt pewter
#

None

sand umbra
#

I mean I guess if you consider the tightened lifesteal restrictions in Rev+ but still

#

Vampire Knives are still stupid good support

cobalt pewter
#

Yes

sand umbra
#

especially with a damage buff which means more healing anyway

cobalt pewter
#

So base dmg is 38 in cal eh

#

Considering it shoots like 3-5 knives

#

God shotgun healing

sand umbra
#

7.5%-damage-dealt shotgun healing

#

on average you'll get 2 health per knife that hits

#

(the reason it's 2 is because Vamp Knives healing is always rounded down)

cobalt pewter
#

Without any boosts you'd get 2 healing per knife yes

sand umbra
#

with any damage boost worth its salt that increases to at least 3

#

(it's literally 2 damage points off from that increase)

cobalt pewter
#

Gaming

sand umbra
#

in the end though idk. maybe Rev+'s stricter lifesteal rules make it balanced somehow

#

I haven't really done extensive lifesteal testing myself, and even if I did it was certainly not recently enough for it to be relevant

frozen storm
#

What Reaper?

#

Excuse me?

golden narwhal
#

Valediction RIV

earnest cape
#

^

frozen storm
#

What the hell

#

Reaver is stupidly good

frozen hornet
#

Reaver?

frozen storm
frozen hornet
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Reaver is the armor set,no?

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Reaper is the weapon

earnest cape
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reaper is the weapon yes

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iirc

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the reaper actually

south sleet
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Has anyone ever inquired as to why the Earth Elemental is not part of the Heart of the Elements/does not have his own summon drop

earnest cape
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cause not a waifu

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duhhhhh

frozen storm
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Cuz it is a male

south sleet
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Well i figure that first bit

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But still why not have his own summon drop

golden narwhal
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There have been a few suggs to include him

south sleet
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I thought it wouldnt be an uncommon ask

frozen storm
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But soon when Devs will think about switching his gender

south sleet
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Or push comes to shove

Why not just genderswap the earth elemental

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Ye

golden narwhal
south sleet
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Just make the earth elemental a buff chick

Problem solved

earnest cape
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No

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horny

frozen storm
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Making EElemental boss and then he will drop himself

frozen hornet
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why does he have to be a buff baby chicken of all things

south sleet
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Oh please, and none of the other elementals are?

earnest cape
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you already have a perfect harem do you want more???

frozen storm
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Mech alts arent even alts

south sleet
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Yes

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I'd love to add Clam Soup Supreme Calamitas to it as well

tawny garden
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inb4 your whole screen is taken up by elementals

frozen storm
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Ye

south sleet
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It's the only way

tawny garden
frozen storm
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EElemental is kinda big

frozen hornet
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Just turn off visibility

frozen storm
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Wait

tawny garden
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the Earth Elemental is a Horse btw

frozen storm
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I've just realised that HotE is used for only Rare Sand Elemental and stat boost

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Like others aint do anything but shine like anime waifu

tawny garden
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Ye

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Especially Brimmy

frozen storm
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No

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Brimmy is ok

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Cloud one

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Ram

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At least when Brimmy "hits" it creates explosion

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But it is slow

crude geode
cobalt pewter
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H

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Didn't we had this conversation for

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100 times now

crude geode
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pretty much yeah

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I haven't seen it in voting so I thought I'd throw it in there

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maybe this can be the start of stat stick murder

cobalt pewter
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I would probably isolate the hote stuff in my acc doc

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Haven't got time to develop on that

tawny garden
earnest cape
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hote at least has waifus

tawny garden
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ah yes

cobalt pewter
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There has also been a sugg to cease horn

tawny garden
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HotE is good because it got drawn boobies

crude geode
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how well did that sugg go?

tawny garden
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Not really well CompleteFailure

cobalt pewter
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102 stars

tawny garden
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That's a half

earnest cape
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102 stars desolate

crude geode
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Unsurprising

tawny garden
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I didn't expect it to go anywhere

crude geode
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Same

cobalt pewter
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Not surprising when the last sugg searched with keyword "sexual" before that is to add more innuendos to drunk princess

tawny garden
earnest cape
tawny garden
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It was accepted as a valid sugg

ashen warren
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god how

crude geode
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Times were different

earnest cape
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i will not read that text wall ech

ashen warren
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read the text wall

earnest cape
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no

tawny garden
cobalt pewter
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It's

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Overly specific

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Which wouldn't fly in current system

ashen warren
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Philo would've ended everything

crude geode
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why the fuck are we discussing this

eternal escarp
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that suggestion made me want to rip my fucking eyes out

ashen warren
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there was no need for that

earnest cape
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because why not unless a mod comes here and amites us

tawny garden
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Where does it all come from, Cursed, I don't know.

ashen warren
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speaking of suggs that are not needed, looks like all the recent emote suggs died

tawny garden
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GOOD

earnest cape
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wow who woulda guessed

cobalt pewter
tawny garden
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Oh, sorry, I mean "boohoo"

cobalt pewter
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I wanted to sugg something but I forgot what

earnest cape
ashen warren
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I mean, I did want JunkoNom though

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shame

cobalt pewter
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Stealth is off limits, which ain't gaming

earnest cape
cobalt pewter