Arena (too easy?)

[boardman21]

@UltraboltNovacrunch

Not being rhetorical, do you think this excerpt from the patch release blog suggest the possibility for exactly that (gating a permanent buff?)

I cant answer this.
Im still recovering from being blindsighted with MoF being gated to after campaign.
Try me again tomorrow.

[UltraboltNovacrunch]

@boardman21

I cant even respond to this.

You just did.

[Llama8]

@UltraboltNovacrunch

“Conquering a Timeline grants you the choice of three randomly rolled Blessings which provide permanent buffs inside and outside the Monolith”

Edit: “And, if you’re lucky, you may just find a powerful unique item exclusive to the Timeline you conquered.” <<< sure looks like a “gate” to me.

I somehow managed to miss that in the blog, so thanks for that. It’ll be interesting to see how they handle this. Will it be for every timeline you do (tiny bonuses for timeline #1, growing as you progress)? Or will it be larger bonuses at specific milestones (every 10/20 timlines)?

The bonuses could help the more casual end of the player base progress further.

[Ghostlight]

@UltraboltNovacrunch

If you were taking a CAT test, and were given the option to take the 1000 question test or the 100 question test, and both tests held equal weight, which would you choose to take?

But they could never have equal weight; the 1000 question test would always be the better indicator.

I personally find Arena much more fun than Monolith. If you are going to half my time in there then I want double the keys.

That way difficulty is left untouched, but the guy who knows he’ll get past 500 waves won’t have to endure 499 uneventful waves just to test his build again.

Arena isn’t like that. As you go higher your success becomes more dependant on your skill than your gear or build. And of course on your luck with the enemy types, and how often you get Rust Land (which is BY FAR the hardest Arena due to lack of space and traps, for me at least). When you die it is usually sudden, unexpected and down to a stupid mistake, not because your build/gear got overwhelmed. Put another way, my best Arena char can hit about wave 150. However waves 100 to 150 are never, ever uneventful. If I ran 5 Arenas in a row I might die at wave 80, 30, 130, 90 then my “natural” 150 - the huge variation all being down to mistakes on my part and some luck. If you now let me skip 149 waves and start at 150 every time, I will likely push 200 but it would be completely artificial. I think this is a very bad idea.

[Ghostlight]

Oh btw the votes on this thread are likely meaningless. I pressed the Vote button expecting to be given a choice or poll of some kind, but instead it just added +1 vote to the thread. No idea what I was voting for.

[UltraboltNovacrunch]

@Ghostlight

Oh btw the votes on this thread are likely meaningless

You “likely” didn’t read the replies to this post. Crucial and Macknum agree with the OP (me). Thanks for the bump. This one was almost dead.