Regarding "Intense Balancing"

[Composition]

It’s common sense. Circling was pushing AoE defense ratio to 0, which caused an overflow/infinite loop for target hits due to AoE attack ratio not diminishing. This is why channels were crashing with combinations like Circling+Kunai. It was also broken because it just completely bypassed the entire “AoE attack ratio” mechanic as a whole.

Ehh, it had that behaviour ever since rank 7, so it was that way for 2 years atleast, personally I don’t complaint, but you cannot even begin to guess how IMC will do things and when they will do it.

So people shouldn’t worry how things will be and just enjoy what we currently have. If they shift things 90,180 or 275 degrees, it is a problem for those that cannot accept change, and also it is a problem when it will objectively make things worse. Like transcendance, nothing good came out of transcendance.

So, everything is intended aslong as ktos and Itos function the same, unless IMC says otherwise, that’s the rule in this game world. Players cannot say what’s intended, players do denounce things that make no sence, IMC rarely responds, IMC sometimes nails it, more often than not, fails.

Failure is good, if you were to quickly amend. yet IMC and QUICK don’t go together…

[crevox]

Oh, I’m not saying Falconer is unplayable. Like I said in another thread, Support Falconer got hit pretty hard, but Battle Falconer got a nice buff. Sapper3Falc3 is stronger than ever with those changes. What bothers me is how they change the roles where each class excels.

It’s a nerf, but not really a change of role. The support falconer provides is still amazing, but yeah, it did get nerfed. Falconer is a red class afterall, which means the design intent is for damage. If people out there were literally only ever using it for Circling, then yeah those people might get miffed, but keep in mind even on kToS they are giving out a free rank reset to every Falconer as a result of these changes.

Guys don’t rely on circling it’s clearly bugged and will be nerfed. You’ll regret it I’m telling you.

10 years later circling finally gets balanced.

See! Told you!

Same for bunshin, except that there’s no indication IMC will ever rebalance it.

No one should be surprised when something overpowered gets nerfed. Even after the nerf they’re giving out free rank resets. What is the issue here?

[Csiko]

Man, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single post of yours that wasn’t blatantly in favor of IMC.

You are welcome to view my post history, I have been critical about a lot of their decisions related to events and some other really stupid design decisions. I have been consistent about resets since day 1 though.

How far ahead are you able to foresee things in this game? 6 months ahead? 1 year ahead?

Circling was actually a skill that was brought out and nerfed right out of the gates. And despite that, it was still exceptional. This was long overdue. It’s similar to scout/cloaking being nerfed. And that was a nerf that, while I saw it coming, it changes the way I play but I agree with the balance change for it.

Good rule of thumb, for this game: If a single circle in a class (outside hidden ones, obviously) becomes more valuable because of ONE SKILL than 2 or 3 circles in it, it will be nerfed.

Examples:
Kabbalist
Oracle
Scout
Linker
Falconer

I’ll even throw Miko in there because despite being a hidden class it was too much and got nerfed very quickly as well.

[eralp96]

That came with r9, along with krivis pardoner etc reworks. R9 and first rebalance were introduced at the same time (same patch) as far as I know.

[SMoRuCho]

Man, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single post of yours that wasn’t blatantly in favor of IMC.

Makes sense, after all the mismanagement and abuse IMC threw at ITOS a big portion of players still playing are true hardcore white knights.

[crevox]

Makes sense, after all the mismanagement and abuse IMC threw at ITOS a big portion of players still playing are true hardcore white knights.

People play games that are fun.

[Kihseki]

which is why more and more people are quitting right?

[crevox]

which is why more and more people are quitting right?

People quit because they are no longer having fun, and that can be for many reasons.

[dydxhong]

They won’t care. It is very simple. They ignore thread going against their favor. At this point, just play the game if you are ok with it. If not, just quit and do something else.