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In Topic: Who Thought Radiance From Lotro Was A Good Idea
13 November 2012 - 06:11 PM
Valkaire, on 13 November 2012 - 05:49 PM, said:
At the root of it all, I don't see how you can compare it to Radiance/Dread. From what you guys have said dread makes you unable to move and radiance makes you able to move, and that it locked you out of content. Agony (or Spectral agony) deals damage, infusions reduce that damage. One makes you lose control of your character, the other doesn't. Agony/Infusion does not lock you out of this content as it's only needed for the deeper levels (and you need to do the dungeon a lot to get to those levels).
We have been sparing the exact details of dread/radiance but it did work like that. For the first 4 points of dread you lost 5% max hp, -1% healing received, 1% increased damage received and -5% damage dealt per point. It was only at 5 points of dread that you started to 'cower in fear'. Dread was something that built up and eventually overpowered you unless you had the right gear. Even with max radiance the hardest bosses still generally took you to 4 dread. So while the delivery system is different it is doing almost exactly the same thing in general.
In Topic: Who Thought Radiance From Lotro Was A Good Idea
13 November 2012 - 04:16 PM
GSSB Lunaspike, on 13 November 2012 - 03:36 PM, said:
I don't get how you can play GW1 since release and not know how infusing armor originally worked? Originally (when I did it) we had to get EACH INDIVIDUAL PIECE of armor infused. That was 5 different runs to get our armor infused. Sure they changed it later to make it easier, but again when some of us did it it required 5 runs.
I think it was a good change to make it so that all of your armor was infused. Not saying it wasn't, but originally they did put it in so that you had to run it multiple times. You also had to go back and do it again to get new armor infused even after they made it so that it infused all armor at once.
http://wiki.guildwar.../Spectral_Agony
Which makes it similar to what they are doing here. Apparently just having the infusion will reduce the agony penalty. Looks interesting, maybe it's going back a little to what made GW1 so great.
I think it was a good change to make it so that all of your armor was infused. Not saying it wasn't, but originally they did put it in so that you had to run it multiple times. You also had to go back and do it again to get new armor infused even after they made it so that it infused all armor at once.
http://wiki.guildwar.../Spectral_Agony
Which makes it similar to what they are doing here. Apparently just having the infusion will reduce the agony penalty. Looks interesting, maybe it's going back a little to what made GW1 so great.
Yes, you had to do it 5 times but it was easy, could be done solo and once it was done it was done for good. I am not arguing that this was a fun system, in fact it was pretty silly when you had to do it 5 times. They are taking a bad concept and merging it with the structure of an even worse system. I have played GW1 infusion and have played LOTRO radiance and reading about agony just makes me cringe.
