Spring spectacular: 925?

[drumpel]

I decided to update my warmage routine to include 519 evoke as the opener instead of stomping 909. Works fine. Not great for mana, and makes my hunt slower since I have to spend 3s RT for 519 instead of instant 909 stomp, but at least I can accrue essence until there's some warmage fixes in place.

I bet if you ask Estild why high mana spells are required to build your essence, he'd reply with that crap "because wizards can leech mana".

I still hate how fucking tedious this change has made it. I can't spend all my waking hours hunting to slowly try to enchant something past 4x. This is fucking stupid. This change actually makes me not want to play because now it feel like a god damn chore to utilize enchant. It's not a fun change to see that several hours of hunting gives a paltry return in my efforts.

I guess I wait to see if anything changes as they "adjust" the spell before I make any final decisions about it all.

[Methais]

I bet if you ask Estild why high mana spells are required to build your essence, he'd reply with that crap "because wizards can leech mana".

This is correct.

[Donquix]

Can't they at least throw us a bone? They want us figure all of this shit out, fine. Great. But at least give us exact numbers (or a small range of numbers) of how much energy we have stored up.

Enough for a +2 enchant tells us almost nothing. That's anywhere from 101 to 199. And it gets even more stupid as you get to the 25+ enchant range because then it's 2400 energy per enchant.

A couple of people asked if we could get a way to track our progress, just in general like "you feel like you are halfway to being full of essence" and his response was, literally, "why would you want to know how close you are to the weekly cap?"

And I just closed discord. I deal with dumbfuck developers that are on the spectrum all day at work, that was enough of that for gemstone for the day. When you have to explain basic human nature to someone, it's just not worth the time.

[Methais]

A couple of people asked if we could get a way to track our progress, just in general like "you feel like you are halfway to being full of essence" and his response was, literally, "why would you want to know how close you are to the weekly cap?"

And I just closed discord. I deal with dumbfuck developers that are on the spectrum all day at work, that was enough of that for gemstone for the day. When you have to explain basic human nature to someone, it's just not worth the time.

Fuck sake what's wrong with these people?

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Naos 🌌Today at 12:34 PM
I don't want people to figure out the numbers perfectly.

[drauz]

Fuck sake what's wrong with these people?

[Methais]

Naos ��Today at 12:59 PM
What is the value in knowing how close you are to your cap?

[Donquix]

Fuck sake what's wrong with these people?

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Naos ��Today at 12:34 PM
I don't want people to figure out the numbers perfectly.

Which is honestly a better tact. Like, "we don't want you to know this so you don't game the system or IMMERSION" is, fucking stupid...but, it's still while stupid, a relatively reasonable point of view. even if, again...fucking dumb.

But not even having the most modest amount of empathy to understand that people want to know they are at least making progress, and a general idea of how that progress is going, is a just straight up sperg bullshit.

[kutter]

Ok, I have this idea in my head about this and not sure how to express it. So my older mage who is 82 trains is a very typical build. Here are his relevant stats:

Arcane Symbols.....................| 216 116
Magic Item Use.....................| 216 116
Spell Aiming.......................| 268 168
Harness Power......................| 185 85
Elemental Mana Control.............| 184 84
Elemental Lore - Air...............| 105 25
Elemental Lore - Fire..............| 90 20
Elemental Lore - Water.............| 25 5

First let me say, the hunting requirement, I am totally ok with. It is how they set things up that has me annoyed. If they take a build that is similar to mine and set up the system so that I can hunt off my gift, and have enchants take about the same time as before, then I would think this change was outstanding. It just seems to me, they should not make it any worse for me to hunt and enchant now then it did before, if I put in a reasonable amount of time. People that hunt more than just their gift will have an advantage, and that is how it should be, but not all of us have the time available to play 12-15 hours a week; just so I can get back to what I was doing at 6-8.

[Tgo01]

Jesus. I was thinking the first quote from him could be sarcasm, because that's totally something I would say if someone suggested something for one of my scripts that was a really good and obvious idea. "Why would you want to know that?!" as I code in their suggestion.

But he is apparently straight up arguing with people now, demanding to know why they want to know how close they are to cap.

At this point I'm surprised they even told us what the weekly and total caps are.

The 925 release in an alternate reality:

"We updated 925. It now uses energy. Good luck!"

I guess we should count our lucky stars.

[Donquix]

So I parsed my logs for how many spell casts I've done since yesterday. Should only be things cast at something. I'm sure it's not entirely accurate but it's pretty close. The number number is # of spell casts I found in logs * cost for that spell. Any AoE was TARGETED at something, so should count

This is with 2x emc, 2x hp, 100 EL:w, 20 EL:F, 0 air, 0 earth

[tearbullshit: Cost for Call Wind: 84]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Chromatic Circle: 18]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Ice Patch: 372]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Cone of Lightning: 1332]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Boil Earth: 9690]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Elemental Disjunction: 5790]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Elemental Dispel: 34]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Elemental Wave: 1910]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Haste: 35] <--- lol typo for 435
[tearbullshit: Cost for Hurl Boulder: 10]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Immolation: 494]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Major Cold: 5432]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Major Elemental Wave: 525]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Major Fire: 40]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Major Shock: 920]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Mana Leech: 1696]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Minor Acid: 240]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Minor Shock: 12]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Minor Water: 1245]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Sandstorm: 14]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Slow: 20]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Stone Fist: 14]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Tremors: 9]
[tearbullshit: Cost for Weapon Fire: 15]
[tearbullshit: Total: 29951]

I am not capped on energy. It's actually missing a bunch of hurl boulders because i was CHANNELING them for a while, dicking around, and I didn't parse that correctly. I just noticed.