Combat and Gear

[Freelancer]

Re: Combat and Gear

You know... this is the kind of info that were supposed to be in the instructions manual instead of us needing to try to figure it out on our own.

[Aeni]

Re: Combat and Gear

Okay, more observations, maybe I'll actually take the time to screenshot (it's so ... bleh ...) everything that I saw.

1. The gear you have may or may not be an upgrade but you cannot tell UNTIL YOU PUT IT ON. This is something I would like SE to address because you're forcing players to purchase the shit before figuring out whether it's good for them or not. A lot of people may chime in and say that a 3rd party site can provide this or that we need to use common sense. LET ME BE THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD to tell you that a lot of stuff, whether buggy or not, in the game do not reflect the properties accurately. The changes I want is making the tool-tip accurately display the stats shown depending on your current class. Of course, it's inconvenient if you have to swap classes in order to see if the item is an upgrade or not, but that is the class system in play so I don't see this as a problem when compared to having to purchase anything before being able to make that decision.

2. High Quality items do not accurately reflect both the properties in the tool-tip AND the stat even when equipped. It takes a bit of creativity to tell the how much of a bonus you can get and I wonder if this is a bug. If you take an HQ class favorable item and you're that favored class and immediately put on an unfavored class item, you will see decrease in stat and you gotta note this down. Then you can figure out your base and then do some napkin math to figure out the TRUE bonuses conveyed by the HQ item over the non-HQ item. Please note this does not seem to work with a situation of an HQ item for an unfavored class ... although it's highly recommended you stick to class favoring anyway.

It's like WoW Stat Sheet 342 with Professor Bingsly all over again.

3. There's an upper limit (glass ceiling) on over-ranking gear even if you're the favored class. What that ceiling is seems to be a point of confusion among players and many players still don't know how big the negative repurcussions are simply because it's ... inconsistent between classes, gear and ... yeah. Not sure if SE is well aware of this problem but they'll need to put someone in sole charge of consistency and QA on items before putting out even more new items.

[Armando]

Re: Combat and Gear

You know... this is the kind of info that were supposed to be in the instructions manual instead of us needing to try to figure it out on our own.

And this would be the main thing I hate about SE.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Combat and Gear

And this would be the main thing I hate about SE.

It's not their customer servise? Really?

[Armando]

Re: Combat and Gear

I wasn't aware they're different concepts.

[Aeni]

Re: Combat and Gear

I wasn't aware they're different concepts.

Well their manual would be created by the very people in charge of productions and collaborated by their publications division as evidenced by their Mook guide released in Japan. It was heavy on art and light on practical data. I think TGM had the same book and had said the same thing.

Their service isn't bad when you don't need it. But their GM call is atrocious. Complex navigation which essentially tells you at the very end to just use their website and fill out one of those forms. Even if it's to report an ongoing speed hack or what have you. Not cool SE, not cool.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Combat and Gear

Well their manual would be created by the very people in charge of productions and collaborated by their publications division as evidenced by their Mook guide released in Japan. It was heavy on art and light on practical data. I think TGM had the same book and had said the same thing.

Their service isn't bad when you don't need it. But their GM call is atrocious. Complex navigation which essentially tells you at the very end to just use their website and fill out one of those forms. Even if it's to report an ongoing speed hack or what have you. Not cool SE, not cool.

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Combat and Gear

Well their manual would be created by the very people in charge of productions and collaborated by their publications division as evidenced by their Mook guide released in Japan. It was heavy on art and light on practical data. I think TGM had the same book and had said the same thing.

The JP guide I have is a beginners guide. The most useful thing in it, for me, are the maps. Since I can't read JP I really can't say how helpful it is but, from what I can glean, it doesn't look that helpful.