December 18th 2017 Update Discussion

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Fair enough.

I think BNW is an entirely different beast though... under 2 minutes (autoplay) to get to the Dragon King then 3 times longer (manual play) just for the Dragon King... that's what is annoying to me. It's MUCH better now than it was in October, but the Dragon king is still a bit annoying and... please... do NOT.. get me started on the drops.. they still suck.... 285 runs through lvl X in the past week or so and only 2 higher level talismans (1 Comet, and 1 Quake), that's it. A ratio of 285:2 is horrible.

From what I see, NF is taking steps to throw in new characters with some interesting abilities. Edward the Great appears to be a fabulous PvP character... even against PI... I just want to add about 15 more skill shards to him before testing that theory. He kicks ass in PvE though. Paired with the correct other characters... look out. You think PI and Endure is bad now.. wait until you start pairing up against ETG and Edna.. then you'll really complain. (Now where's that starter pack of 50 skill shards??? )

And the Magus droid with it's team invincibility on demand is also one of those abilities that is relatively new. Again, not enough skill shards to fully test it. But in theory on attack.. you could keep your team invincible the entire match.

it's these sort of things that make PI a non-issue to me. It's going to be a problem unless you start thinking defense more than attack. PvP has really been more weighted to attack. PI is the one ability that is weighted towards defense. And changing that single defense ability to aide in more attack strategies just seems wrong. And citing a defense strategy as a "problem" seems counterintuitive to me. That's what defense is supposed to do.. delay you winning.

To be honest PvP sucked for me completely until I had some fully sharded, full talisman, level 100 characters. Anything other than that and PvP is rather pointless and horrible. I suspect it's THAT which annoys players more than anything. There's no chance of even really hitting Duelist III unless you have some full power characters. So, lets not start messing with inherent character abilities that don't require a full skill shard set and full talismans to kick in. It's hard enough to just get the character herself....

In other words.. show some love for Edna.. she's just doing what she's supposed to do