Mystic Gemstones - Research Tree Resetting

[glass rock]

Suggestion - Resetting of Mystic Gemstones Research

Now that we have a better understanding of the mystic gemstones and we're starting to create optimizers on what to upgrade in the research tree, can we add a way to reset our entire mystic gemstones research tree to refund us our gemstones to upgrade research in different ways?

[craggy thunder]

Where exactly is this research tree optimizer? I haven’t seen one yet. Only a gemstone comparison tool

And to my understanding, nothing besides gem levels is efficient. Lmao

[tropic flame]

Mystic Research can't really be reset due to the potential for abuse. For example, if people previously had invested all their research points into Gemstone Level and then afterwards put all their points into the various damage bonuses, they would be essentially stacking up double the power relative to someone who wasn't reset.

I can pass your suggestion along to the design team, but it's unlikely that we would do this approach as it has a lot of potential for abuse.

[glass rock]

What about a one-time reset so people that want to focus their gemstones more so on raid strength and less on pushing power can change their setups? Or even a token to reset so it can't be reset at will, kind of like the Skill Tree used to have.

[craggy thunder]

The skill tree reset costs were just a stupid monetization scheme that was terrible for game health, and was as such removed.

The gemstones were released with the precise specifications that the tree would not be able to be reset, so people should have already planned how they were going to use their points.

That being said, the raid damage in the mystic research is fucking awful anyways

A majority of players would gain around 4-8% damage if they maxed every single node

Compared to the x4 damage from Necrobear max raid bodes

[glass rock]

Not everyone is going to plan to their precise specifications that the tree would offer from the beginning, since it was new and hadn't been fully understood what it had to offer. I think most regular players are at the point now that they understand it better. I'm suggesting an opportunity for people to therefore edit their research to do exactly what you're saying the intention was.

If unlimited resets is an issue then that's why reset tokens were suggested. Even if it was a one-time reset for people I think that'd be reasonable too.

[craggy thunder]

It’s not unlimited resets that is an issue. ANY reset is an issue. If players can reset even once, then they can possibly stack bonuses like Lem mentioned, giving them FAR more power than they had any right to, in a way that would only be reversible if it also reset all of their gemstones, which also isn’t ideal.

And “we understand it better now” isn’t a very strong argument. If anyone took the time to actually look through the tree day one, they would have seen that there are some raid nodes. All the information was there. Nothing about the tree has changed since release.

[glass rock]

So your position is, screw the players that didn't fully understand a new update and let them continue playing in contempt by regretting a decision they didn't fully understand? I thought the game was supposed to be for the players to have an enjoyable gaming experience? Your stance is bitter towards them and doesn't advocate for the player, just for those "in-the-know" that have the time to fully research new updates to understand them better than the average person. I call that elitism.

[glass rock]

I do agree partially with your first paragraph that I also don't want there to be an unfair advantage for people to reset huge power boosts and abuse it. Hopefully others can suggest a balance of compassion and fairness.

[craggy thunder]

Ultimately, at the end of the day, there’s really no wrong way to even upgrade the tree. None of the nodes change how many research points you get, so even if you look back and think “oh I wish I did this different”, at this point, it would only take a month or two to get the stuff you would have wanted from the start

[glass rock]

If we're unable to get around the unfair power push issue with resetting I think that is a reasonable conclusion