Starkjade wrote on Jan 9^th, 2019 at 10:24am:

I'm far from poor.  Clearly, there's a reason you're poor though and that statement is a good indication of why.  You're bad at big picture thinking.

Sure, 225 points worth of tool kits isn't bad at all,  but your point only stands if you just sit at cap on a single toon and TR maybe once every 6-12 months.  Surprisingly, many people don't play that way and SSG hasn't designed the game that way.  If they really wanted people to sit at cap, they'd not have put in 130+ PLs and would release more than one or two end-game raids and mission packs per year.

So it's only 225 points until you TR to a new build that uses different weapons.  Then the total is 225 points for this TR, then 450 points for the next TR.  Then 675 points on the third.  And suddenly, you're 2k points in and realize you're fucking poor.

That's my main point and gripe with the sentient system.  The *legit* leveling rate of the jewels is completely at odds with a game who's 'end-game' is frequently TRing your toon into different classes and builds.  The one grind is completely out of touch with the other, which results in needing to do something stupid like repeatedly run a shitty, 2-min mission 300 times to sync the rates up.


Asheras wrote on Jan 9^th, 2019 at 10:37am:

I don't disagree with most of this, although I'm not even remotely disappointed in with 8-slot sentient jewels.  The filigree system provides a great way to customize a weapon for your build and fill in some gaps.  However, as mentioned above, the problem is the massive disparity in grind rates between TRs and leveling sentient jewels.  Not being able to max out a sentient jewel on day one isn't bad, but not being able to max one out in 3-4 months of normal playing is. 

It should be reasonable to be max a jewel if you were diligent about feeding it the majority of the named items you pulled while doing 2 or 3 full TRs and chilling at cap few weeks before the next TR.  Currently though, the max jewel to TR rate is probably more like 1/15 since the majority of named items you loot during a TR aren't level 30.  Grind is fine in moderation.  SSG just doesn't understand what moderation is.


Zehnpai wrote on Jan 9^th, 2019 at 11:11am:

I would be if there were other options for leveling sentient jewels in a reasonably and timely manner.  There aren't though.

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It doesn't undermine anything. 

You're not considering the opportunity cost of spending that 225 TP on sentient tool kits instead of something else.  I'd rather spend TP on 50% xp pots, slayers pots and raid timer bypasses for example instead of tool kits for a poorly balanced system. 

Starkjade wrote on Jan 9^th, 2019 at 10:24am:



Hmm, you didn't appear to be one the people I was trolling. But hey, thanks for thinking of me. 

I was also told this in a different drama thread:

Rubbinns wrote on Dec 26^th, 2018 at 7:08pm:


Just trying to help a brotha out.


Tspoon wrote on Jan 9^th, 2019 at 12:18pm:



Yes, I get this. But this thread started as an I am angry about.... thread. Then it turned into an I am angry because you are angry about... thread. If that's not something to poke at while bored, then maybe I'm vaulting wrong.

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I am not defending any of it. i was just instigating shit because I have nothing better to do.

Rubbinns wrote on Jan 9^th, 2019 at 6:26pm:


Oh well my bad, carry on then good sir.

Revaulting wrote on Jan 9^th, 2019 at 6:41pm:


I didn't know anger had to have an irrational component.

Where did I say I couldn't do anything legit that your gimp ass had to cheat for Digi? XD I just said I didn't bother with it because I didn't want to waste the time on alts. For someone who can't read you sure come up with more than what's there and nothing of the actual content. I don't have to deconstruct my toons every month that they bother to fix a broken ability to do well at the game, so I can keep one toon around and focus on that. Sorry you need all the hacks, cheats, and mistakes to keep relevant.

Sure I'll believe that you, being on this site, haven't partaken of any other mistakes/exploits/unintended features what have you. How am I jealous? I have a great build that is basically nerf proof and I'm not sitting around whining about how they took away my toys.

You are right though it's not healthy to engage with someone who is impulsive and imbalanced, so I'm going to just laugh when you say something stupid instead of respond to it. Keep living in that world where you're king brotatochip, it must be nice to have an undeserved sense of accomplishment.

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Anger can rationalize pretty well, come to think of it.

I made a couple rose goggles to test and feed....got 10 sentient exp....lol 30 right.

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I can vouch for this!  On Khyber we have all witnessed it, Gramh has absolutely optimized his build to be nerf-proof.  By making it absolutely useless at absolutely everything there is no possibility for a nerf to make his character any worse than it already is.

Chumpkin wrote on Mar 9^th, 2019 at 5:38am:


You might be ok new guy.

Chumpkin wrote on Mar 9^th, 2019 at 5:38am:

I'm not sure he's having fun as intended, though. If gear & TRs won't improve the build, what reason does he have to grind for them?

I'm not judging, Gramh, but if you get banned for playing like this, you basically did it to yourself & have no right to complain.