Smart move. Now raise the drop rates for elemental primaries plz.
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- Thread starter DrDrizzay101
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Smart move. Now raise the drop rates for elemental primaries plz.
Great, what about Cipher and GG bugs?
El_Fenomeno
Member
Will they lower the drops rates even more now? XD
Edit: does that mean it'll just be gjallarhorns now? So much for the mechanics and shit
Edit: does that mean it'll just be gjallarhorns now? So much for the mechanics and shit
Interesting. Will want to smoke him a couple more times this week.
CB: We want the Skolas encounter to be challenging and require teamwork, only in a more predictable way that doesnt feel cheap. To accomplish this, were making the following changes to Round 6 of the Skolas Challenge:
New Modifier combinations (Arc, Void, and Solar Burn will be removed)
Boss health is reduced (to compensate for the lack of burn)
Minions will spawn at predictable health intervals
Minor adjustment to the unit makeup of the combatant waves
(I figured a copy paste of the details was worth posting. )
New Modifier combinations (Arc, Void, and Solar Burn will be removed)
Boss health is reduced (to compensate for the lack of burn)
Minions will spawn at predictable health intervals
Minor adjustment to the unit makeup of the combatant waves
(I figured a copy paste of the details was worth posting. )
darkistheway
Member
Damn! I won't be on an hour - have to pick up my son. Thanks anyway!
Orochinagis
Member
Now make Skolas always drop a weapon or something, its pretty bullshit spending hours to kill him and gives you nothing in return.
I thought the enemies spawn when you destroy the servitors and after you destroy the bonds
But the burn makes it easier! As long as it isn't arc... hope his health gets a hefty reduction.
Btw, could they make the weapons drop like maybe once out of 329047234049723419085763405723408953475023470523470567 runs. Just want to get 1. Don't even care if it's an AR. Just SOMETHING.
Btw, could they make the weapons drop like maybe once out of 329047234049723419085763405723408953475023470523470567 runs. Just want to get 1. Don't even care if it's an AR. Just SOMETHING.
Twilight Gap
Member
3 gjallarhorns is still going to melt him, no?
unless the primary or special modifier is on, but it's not like those make much difference
unless the primary or special modifier is on, but it's not like those make much difference
Yea, reduced health is gonna make him easier anyway with Horns
Kor of Memory
Member
Well, minions that spawn at health intervals also implies that you can eventually kill them all, and only have the boss to deal with.
Some bosses work like this already in the game, other bosses spawn minions (or adds) at a time interval.
Skolas was the latter before, now he'll be the former.
FadedRevolution
Member
anybody doing a normal crota run today on ps4? would like to do a run for that.
illiniguy05
Member
Yep, this will be much better now. Moving around the map will be entirely viable.
captscience
Member
Hopefully they balance it properly so that the best way to complete the encounter is to actually engage in the mechanics without it being too punishing.
I rather like the hot potato/mine dismantling and the teamwork and communication it requires.
Orthogonal
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ethomaz
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I can do right now
First enemies are probably timed because if you go on ammo runs, the first wave comes out shortly after you kill the second Servitor on the other side of the map so I don't think it's event based. The issue was everything after that seemed completely random: sometimes you'd have breaks in between waves and sometimes enemies just kept coming.
If they want a mechanics fight, random variables like add spawns make it absurdly difficult which probably accounts for why some runs go flawlessly and the same group can take hours on the repeat.
Also kind of funny to see the fight was tuned for burns.
Slammin_Hammon
Member
Pardon my ignorance, but what is GG?
Kor of Memory
Member
I doubt it.
Burns give us what? A 50% increase to damage?
They would have to drop his health by 25% to even it out. I doubt they'll drop it that much. Maybe 10%, 15% at the most.
Of course, G'horn gonna G'horn anyway.
I would pay good money to see video of Bungie internal playlisting and the resulting feedback of the Skolas encounter with arc burn.
Golden Gun
Golden Gun
Orochinagis
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perineumlick
Member
Man, Queensbreaker is a beast in PoE with the specials modifier on! Cleared out the Cabal solo in no time lol.
Why... you saw how they did on the 34 PoE with EVERYTHING ascended in their inventory.
FadedRevolution
Member
I can do right now
Awesome hopefully we can get some more people in. This will be my first run of Crota.
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On my way!
I'd much rather prefer if they get rid of specialist/small arms modifier for that Pilot Servitor...33% damage penalty from being underleveled + 25% damage penalty to every weapon that is not the modifier weapon really makes everything else useless in that fight. That dude becomes the biggest bullet sponge in the game.
Kor of Memory
Member
No... not at all.
Slammin_Hammon
Member
Whoops double post dammit
Darknyss09
Member
Elemental burn is 300%. I don't think you'll be able to burn him down and not deal with adds and mines once they make the change. Unless they dramatically reduce his health.
That was Deej. I want to see the real playtesters, like DrCrispy and his crew playing. They must have skillz. I want to know if they found Skolas arc burn to be easy mode... or what Bungie was really thinking with arc burn and what the testers said about it.
yes exactly
Perfection.
silver.tongue
Member
Bungie is bringing the "sucessor" of the Gjallarhorn to E3 and will show a model of it on the Sony presser. I'm sure of it.
Orochinagis
Member
I hope you like the Grounded modifier
I thinkg they absolutely make a lot of difference because it's 25% penalty on top of your 33% damage penalty from being a level under.
Kor of Memory
Member
300%? Dang.
So they'd have to drop Skolas' health by 66% to even that out.
Obviously not going to happen.
Slammin_Hammon
Member
The major Servitor adds are worse IMO. Black Hammer does decent DPS against P. Servitor even with small arms. The smaller Servitors are a lot harder to get the White Nail proc on, running in with shotguns is suicide and probably not worth it, and so you're left pelting him with a couple of magazines of primaries. Since (most?) primaries don't do great burst DPS it can get pretty tiring.
I laugh when I see people trying to Gjallarhorn during small arms or specialist. You do way more damage with a primary with precision damage or a shotgun than a single Gjallarhorn shot.
Darryl M R
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Anyone doing PoE 32? I just need this stupid armor core. .
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Orthogonal
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Did Bungie even playtest Skolas? How did they not see the same issues with the burns we all immediately saw.