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It's still possible to manage without a single trigger, but it would take a lot more experience with the system to instinctively know your cooldowns and costs. Graphical games have the advantage of a GUI that tells you exactly whether or not you can use an ability, and often displays the cost and/or cooldown remaining on the ability's icon.
I wasn't necessarily condoning or advocating trying to automate the usage of the abilities, just mentioning it as an alternative for someone looking to retain some semblance of "simple grinding." Personally, I find it more fun to string it together in one badass combo when I deem appropriate.
I think it makes a lot more sense to not be able to lawnmower mode through everything, too. Though I can see the appeal to being a dragon and wanting to just mow down hordes of creatures.
A few general questions, though:
Are battlerage abilities affected by artefacts/stats?
Does sensitivity affect damage from other battlerage abilities? It didn't seem to on the golem
Plans for BR-related artefacts?
Next batch of changes? I hope it's not a battlerage balance or something, because watching a denizen's health drop by like 30% is kind of cool.
What determines how much rage is generated? I seem to get more from punches and kicks than staffcasts.
Plans to release artefacts that improve battlerage?
Edit: And that will be in today.
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And how much the afflictions help depends on your class. Knights have really great defensive abilities, for both themselves and their allies. Afflictions like amnesia and stun are also incredibly helpful for surviving. Weakness, aeon, and clumsy are really useful at times, but usually not amazing for solo bashing. Charm is great, situationally.
So I suppose this means that they're going to be changed to no longer be balanceless/stringable?
If this is going to be the case, can we also look at decreasing the cooldowns on them? It is harder to stand in rooms with the mobs now, and a 30 second cooldown on an ability that stuns them for 3 seconds seems a bit much (if you can't string attacks!). Also, I hope we are changing to Rage decay rate to be a static decrease depending on the time you hit the denizen last. Right now the timer runs out literally -right- before a lot of times that I can hit. Squinting directions while finishing a mob, walking to the room, ih to make sure it's still there, make sure target is right, type bashing alias rage fades.
Look forward to your response!
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People like this because it adds more dynamic bashing and promotes group bashing.
Easy to 100% manual this new addition, see previous posts on that.
Could not be more wrong. Thiev was clearing all of Dun Fortress, Vertani, Quartz Peak and most of Azdun Graveyard in less than an hour when I was simply following him around for freexp.
You're just punishing people that don't code.
I'll add my voice in with the complaints of battlerage fading too fast. I think that hitting shield should at least maintain rage, however. That can be incredibly obnoxious when you run into a mob that just shields all the time.
Artemis says, "You are so high maintenance, Tharvis, gosh."
Tecton says, "It's still your fault, Tharvis."
People who like this either want that coding challenge or desire the "dynamic" way they have figure out the best string of attacks and then optimize their hunting keybinds, etc. to take full advantage of it. But some of us plebes don't have any interest in mastery of game mechanics. Others don't have access to city channels where people will gleefully share the best hunting strategy because they want their group to be the best it can be. We're left figuring out why hunting is suddenly so damn complicated and hard to do on our own. If you can't be empathetic to that, then just don't respond to the people who feel that way.
I'll be honest, when I saw Sarapis post that there are more changes on the way, I felt a little sick. It's already too slow and complicated for my tastes. This is why I prefer point and shoot or stand and slash games over those that give you 20 abilities and leave you to read through tons of online guides to figure out what you should be doing (all the while people in-game are screaming, "You're doing it wrong!"
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- Check AB files for each of your battlerage abilities.
- Check rage costs / conditions for them.
- #1 priority is using your lowest rage/cd ability; dunno about Shaman but for most this is generally 14 rage / 16second cd
- #2 priority is using your higher rage/moderate cd ability, that doesn't have any conditional damage; again dunno about Shaman but most of the time it's around 24-25rage with a ~23second cd
- 3rd priority is your final damaging ability (usually this has conditional damage, but you can use it if the other 2 aren't available and you have rage)
- Make a trigger for both, with a tempTimer( <cooldown>, [[cecho("\n<red> =<green> ABILITYNAME IS USABLE <red>=")]])
- You're done. Enjoy.
PS. Saying you don't want to learn how the game works, but at the same time want to be as good as people who do figure it out, is just plain asinine. Stop that.Bring on more changes, Sarapis! - Add MORE abilities to the lists!
(This is not sarcasm, I for one find it pretty interesting, more abilities could be fun)
You bitch when you don't know how to set something up... Then you bitch when you get told exactly how to set it up. jfc
If you have 16 rage and corruption isn't on cooldown, use corruption.
If you have 36 rage and haemorrhage isn't on cooldown, use haemorrhage.
95% of the time, that's good enough, you're done, there's nothing else to worry about. If you want to go a little more complex:
If you have 16 rage and corruption isn't on cooldown, use corruption.
If you have 36 rage, haemorrhage isn't on cooldown, and you aren't about to kill the denizen with something else in the next few seconds, use haemorrhage. You might also want to switch this with the first step, and use haemorrhage before corruption. Either way is fine.
If you have 25 rage, vurus isn't on cooldown, corruption and haemorrhage are on cooldown, use vurus if you want.
If you have 18 rage, cesaret isn't on cooldown, and the enemy is under 20% health, use cesaret if you want, to keep them from shielding.
Edit: This is for solo bashing, group bashing has more things you might want to take into account, like someone being able to give afflictions for vurus. But sticking with this in groups will still work fine.
I clearly put in the effort to be good at hunting already. I'm a level 104 dragon. I hunted solo to it. I didn't leech off anyone. I didn't group hunt. I grinded my way there learning how to bash new areas as I went along. But bashing then was fast and fun, not this syrupy feeling of being weighed down by abilities you don't quite know how to use properly against foes that have far too high health pools and are bludgeoning you to death.
We're not trolling. We're significantly unimpressed with the new system and the many challenges it creates, especially those that turn once high-level hunters into dragon newbies. That's neither realistic in my mind or an interesting reward for years of continued gameplay.
Although helpful in some ways, your post lacks empathy and is just unkind. No one is saying they don't want to learn how the game works. There is a learning curve though, and there are many people who aren't even on it in terms of mastering game mechanics. It's obvious that those who have somewhat love these changes.
Jules is right. Some of you really are being jerks about this. Stop being so condescending.
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