Prestige and the promotion farming apocalypse.

That is a massive understatement.

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That was the only good thing about it.

In the gameinformer reveal, this month, they also explained that you can create custom games. So you can set enemy damage to increase and decrease your damage resistance. This provides more rewards. If they do this right (I.e. If the benefits from promotions are not infinite and scale properly) it could be interesting.

Why do they say "certain types of characters"? Does it mean that promoting some kits is just for rebuilding, while the others give those prestige points that apply to all the kits?

If they do something silly like it were in DAI-MP, it can look like this:

Promote a soldier and get 1% melee damage resistance and 5 hit points
Promote an adept and get 1% power damage bonus and 1% cool down decrease
Promote an engineer and get 1% ranged damage resistance and 5 extra shileds

Obviously, things have to be capped at some damage resistance value like 80% and cool down reduction to 80% but I'm sure a lot of people will hit these limits very fast. And as hit points and shields should have no cap, that means level 1 promotion lords running around in platinum, spamming powers and taking no or little damage.

I just hope they have something non-permanent in mind.

Also, the only difference between Deluxe and Super Deluxe ($30+) are some mysterious Booster packs which might be weapons/armors or some easy experience packs to increase the stat bonuses. We'll know pretty soon, they would obviously have to tell more so that people will actually buy these.

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It depends on how it would work. The idea to somehow gimp the promotion lords for DAI-MP was briefly considered and then hastily discarded as "nobody should take away from players the things they have earned with their hard work" or something like that. Promotion lord is still a promotion lord even with 30% handicap in health, just need to promote more to overcome that handicap.

If there is a system like DAIMP, most likely it will have no cap for those things like health and shields.

The problem with DAIMP for me was that it became impossible to pug after some time. Almost every pug had a promotion lord or baby promotion lord. So, I was mostly playing with moderately promoted friends who eventually either started to promote or quit. I also quit eventually after I got most of the weapons and soloed perilous a few times mostly because the game turned into a grind of random OP weapon drops. It is still possible to contribute up to a certain point but eventually, people will promote so much that it was just ridiculous like running to the middle of the map to get a better view, generating aggro on them and killing everything in a few strikes. The reasonable difficulties of the game were completely trivialized. So, they created inflated difficulties essentially unplayable for unpromoting players with more rewards meaning faster promotions and this got it out of control. They then created another difficulty, even more brutal where one hit from anything essentially kills any non-promoting player and stunlocks the whole group for like 20 seconds without any opportunity to move or do anything. At first, people complained and then, after about a week, some promotion lords soloed it even faster because the map was smaller.

For me, pugging normally is a must. If I cannot pug, the game makes no sense. If I want to play only with friends, I can play some real coop RPG, not a shooter/action game.

Thanks for the explanation. In SWTOR, you only got a bonus like this once by levelling the class/maxing out a companion. If it is cumulative, it's insane. 

$30 extra for one free Recruit Pack every week.



Probably because in ME3MP not enough people were paying cash money for them, so call it a Super Deluxe Edition Bonus and people will be all over it

Didnt really read the full contents of this thread so not sure if this has been posted or discussed already but here's a link to some multiplayer details some dude talked about in this video



Oh and btw OP, you have the best avatar ive seen thus far...

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