Important information re: equipment and loot

Read through both posts. The loot drop one makes some incorrect assumptions (most notably that any item can roll any of the 84 inscriptions on any of the slots...we already know that not all gear can roll any given inscription and also that major and secondary inscription slots choose from different pools of inscriptions), so the reality is not quite as bad as it makes it out to be. That being said, there are still major problems with the inscription system. The most pressing one is that DPS gear and weapons are absolutely dependent on a single type of inscription (+damage) to be worthwhile. They either need to rethink having +200% damage inscriptions. Alternatively, they could rework the system so that everything has a guaranteed gear-specific damage-augmenting roll of some kind (either straight +damage%, +crit damage%, +fire/ice/elec/acid proc damage, etc) - this way you can just choose whichever damage inscription works best for your build instead of everyone chasing the same +damage inscription.

The scaling issue is complicated. I bet Bioware went with an additive model to avoid the DPS snowballing that inevitably comes from multiplicative models. The poster makes it seem like Bioware just needs to git gud at balancing multiplicative bonuses, but it's not that simple. You either run the risk (read: guaranteed to make happen thanks to min-maxers) of enabling game-breaking builds that are ludicrously out of proportion compared to "typical" builds or you make every single bonus/piece of gear have relatively small bonuses (so that they can't snowball quite as hard), which just gives you a game where no single piece of loot is terribly exciting. The best option here is probably to implement a limited, hybrid additive/multiplicative model. For example, make all bonuses from temporary sources (e.g. MW procs) multiplicative with permanent bonuses (those from inscriptions or components) but all bonuses in one category additive with one another.

Interceptors are absurdly OP and pretty well ruin most pugs (much like silent sisters do in DAIMP). Today I watched an Interceptor essentially solo a GM3 (contract) Escari in about 90 secs. As far as I’m concerned, the best Interceptor is a dead Interceptor. 

I'm enjoying the game so the analytics matter very little as they are what what they are.
If they don't make sense going forward, I expect BioWare will make balance changes, but for now I'm growing in power (I think) and am getting new stuff.

He literally just got his main into full masterworks like, a day ago. it's useless trying to discuss endgame problems with a player that plays at a snail's pace after 100 hours or whatever. It's a fundamentally different player experience, barely even the same game. You can't even have a discussion with one another. It's like a person talking about the pros and cons of the current rules in the NFL versus someone insisting that the NBA rules are perfectly fine as is

This is the truth of it, I suspect. (160 hours so far)

I have yet to attempt GM2.
I have spoken to everyone in Fort Tarsis, collected all the collectibles and watched Korox grazing.

If I feel it's too hard I'll take it down a level and conversely the other way.

This may also be part of the contention, as a 'looter shooter' player could be getting excited over very different things to a 'story action-rpg' player.

Bioware's general RPG system for the design fundamentals of this POS is WANK. Kicked out of dungeon master's underground nerd circle with the bad hand!

Community manager response:



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This fixes the way to "cheat" the system by not equipping an item but doesn't fix the fundamental flaw that it's better to equip a Legendary useless stick rather than a well-rolled Epic item. My god the incompetence is jaw-dropping.

Haha jesus yeah, the banter bug. I'd almost forgotten. Lately I've been crediting DAI as the only competent Bioware Frostbite game but it still had its own share of pants of head idiotic bugs that never got fixed.

It's like in Anthem their solution for people requesting a social space to mingle with other people in their javelins - uhhhh, ok quick, large room, throw in some fort tarsis art assets, few interactable points, and bingo. launch it.