milow
07-01-2005, 05:44 PM
PhoenixPhire wrote:
A group of guildies and I just got out of a Trial of Ingenuity. I know the Master has been DTing pets for a while now but tonight he DTd out Jesters and Servants. Please tell me this is a bug and not a nerf.
It seems that every time there is a patch there is something being done to this trial to make i harder and harder. As if it wasnt the most difficult trial already.
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It's neither a bug nor a nerf. The goal of Ingenuity is to farm the suffusive bane weaponry from the NPCs standing around the room while simultaneously using the weapons to kill the Master (who can only be damaged by these bane weapons). The weapons are supposed to poof periodically, forcing you to acquire more. To delete the items from players, I track how long a player has been holding a specific weapon and then 'melt' it when a certain amount of time has passed. I wanted pets armed with suffusive weapons and charmed NPCs to be moderately useful in the trial, but not so useful as to trivialize things. Unfortunately, due to technical limitations I can't see if an NPC has an item, so the closest possible mechanic is to poof the pet or charmed NPC when a certain amount of time has passed.
As far as the event is concerned, Jesters and Servants are pets and they will be poofed in a similar fashion.
The event has been like this for a long time. As of the latest patch, the only new aspect of Ingenuity is that the Suffusive weaponry is attunable.
-Prathun
A group of guildies and I just got out of a Trial of Ingenuity. I know the Master has been DTing pets for a while now but tonight he DTd out Jesters and Servants. Please tell me this is a bug and not a nerf.
It seems that every time there is a patch there is something being done to this trial to make i harder and harder. As if it wasnt the most difficult trial already.
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It's neither a bug nor a nerf. The goal of Ingenuity is to farm the suffusive bane weaponry from the NPCs standing around the room while simultaneously using the weapons to kill the Master (who can only be damaged by these bane weapons). The weapons are supposed to poof periodically, forcing you to acquire more. To delete the items from players, I track how long a player has been holding a specific weapon and then 'melt' it when a certain amount of time has passed. I wanted pets armed with suffusive weapons and charmed NPCs to be moderately useful in the trial, but not so useful as to trivialize things. Unfortunately, due to technical limitations I can't see if an NPC has an item, so the closest possible mechanic is to poof the pet or charmed NPC when a certain amount of time has passed.
As far as the event is concerned, Jesters and Servants are pets and they will be poofed in a similar fashion.
The event has been like this for a long time. As of the latest patch, the only new aspect of Ingenuity is that the Suffusive weaponry is attunable.
-Prathun