New pact buffing highest virtue doesn't seem helpful

[dusky jungle]

I'm not sure how much benefit players will get from having an increase in a virtue that they already heavily invested in.

and I don't see it giving hybrid loadouts a meaningful buff regardless of how often you cast the ability, repeatedly casting an ability to buff weapons damage is not the kind of gameplay loop Soulframe needs more of, we already have other pacts for that.
Ultimately it pushes builds towards a singular virtue investment instead of a bit of diversity.

With weapons having attunement caps, the buff is meaningless as some players will already have invested all the points needed in the virtue their weapons need.
And i personally don't think that using the ability simply to reach a weapon's full damage capability every now and then is a valid playstyle.

[ornate cedar]

+1 I think that the slow effect is enough and they could just remove the buff.

[dusky jungle]

bump

[mighty field]

"With weapons having attunement caps, the buff is meaningless as some players will already have invested all the points needed in the virtue their weapons need.
And i personally don't think that using the ability simply to reach a weapon's full damage capability every now and then is a valid playstyle."

But buffing the highest Virtue will also make Courage players have more health, Spirit players have more cooldown reduction, and Grace players have more headshot/finisher damage and stealth ; on top of buffing further their corresponding Arcanic

[summer gull]

Also worth remembering that it’s likely the armour they’re wearing scales with whatever there highest virtue is as well, so that buff also means a boost in armour value for its duration.

[earnest saffron]

I dont think it works like that.

It affects the scaling of weapon DMG on the weapon - It does NOT increase the actual virtue values.

[wild crane]

regarding attunement caps: reaching the cap for normal attacks is rather easy, but any bow wielder who uses charged shots will be happy getting buffed. it also means hybrid builds for normal attacks are more viable

[mighty field]

Why would you think that ?

[storm field]

Joineries add Virtue Scaling, not Virtues

Basically makes it take less points in a Virtue to hit the Virtue Scaling cap

Oh, wait, the buff

[mighty field]

Yes... we aren't talking about joineries here though

[storm field]

Yeah, it should add more stats all around

Sorry, head's a bit fried atm. Spent the day packing and overheated a bit.

[mighty field]

Drink water !

[storm field]

Got a big bottle and the AC running

Enjoy the buffs!

[mighty field]

I will 🙂