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Deprived wrote: »

Why would you even include people that are just stacking defense to have 17/18k defense to cheese everything in the game and make everything a cakewalk in this? And you're exaggerating when you said you can get 17/18k defense without trying, that's simply false because if that were the case everyone or most players would be walking around with 17/18k defense.

17-18k isn't "stacking" defense. I believe a set of +12 dully armor with mediocre essence rolls, passions on your accessories, a pair of fine emeralds, and a few midrange scrolls will net you right around around 17k, which is well within reach of the average player if they put in the effort. Somebody stacking defense would probably be well over 20k.

I'd say 17k is about average these days for players who have moved past the freebie 90 gear. No whaling required.

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Your argument is generally flawed tbh.

Stripping characters naked does not place them on equal ground. If anything, it pushes them further apart as some characters require certain stat levels to even become baseline functional in the current boss meta. I'd say a better way to look at the characters would be to give each of them the gear required to perform optimally in the context of current content and then let players of varying skill and experience levels pilot the characters to determine skill floors and ceilings on a boss by boss basis.

Character performance analysis doesn't occur in a vacuum. The effort or skill it takes to pilot a character is directly related to the content that character is participating in and the equipment/stats available to them. While I don't play Lann, the question should not be "How difficult is Lann to play while naked?" but rather "How much effort does it really take to get your Lann to a point where his difficulty takes a notable dive?"

It's like... yeah, playing Delia with 30 attack speed is a literal nightmare but nobody has 30 attack speed anymore so that environment is literally irrelevant - we no longer judge Delias on having no attack speed, so why judge Lanns on having no gear? It's not a realistic scenario.

Also, just because it's possible to facetank and spam merc pots w/ exquisite ironhides doesn't mean we all play that way.

ByteStix wrote: »

Remember - this was my first impressions, not an actual "review" of the game. So anyone taking it as such missed the entire point of the video. It was merely to give our viewers a look at how the game plays in 2018 for someone tackling it for the first time.

But it doesn't give your viewers a look at how the game plays in 2018 - that's the problem and the complaint. It gives your viewers a look at the first hour of a glorified tutorial which does absolutely no service to how the game actually plays. Not only that, but you portray it in a somewhat sardonic and derisive manner. Who's honestly going to get excited about that?

What is it they say about first impressions? Oh yeah - your first impression is your last impression. That's more applicable today than it has ever been.

Order5 wrote: »

However, that doesn't oppose my point of her requiring the lowest skill to use.

Having a large kit is one thing. Execution is another. The amount of Delias I see who struggle to land smashes without getting chunked or interrupted halfway through (not due to low speed) is about the same as the amount of xguns I see running around playing at near maximum efficiency with comparatively minimal effort (that is, a lot of both).

It's also highly boss dependent.

Agree to disagree I guess.

Kinda hard to vote without knowing the criteria for skill and reward.

Cloakshire wrote: »

I'm half tempted to see if I can get in contact with the author and get permission to use their review in a video.

I'm the author

I guess I could have worded that post more clearly. Use away.