New update 10/1/2013

"Skill Fixes, misc fixes, ERK insurance, card lock"

Sounds kinky.

what is a card lock?

A lock so you don't accidentally fusion a card? Upper left hand corner in the card details.

A small UI addition where you can prevent yourself from fusing/evolving/discarding/trading away your favorite mercs.

The ERK insurance is a nice touch, auto-reviving the first squadie KIA...

Thanks, Nasty, for the clarification!

Maybe they finally put a restraining order on Canis to prevent him from beating the shit out of his ex, Niobe...

Well done, legend...Canis is now the FF of Ike Turner

Is Lilith damage fixed? Will have to test that

Probably not, I assume that is functioning as intended and not an error. Damage has been SEVERELY tampered with this event, as well as proc rates.

I have only dealt damage in raid for the last 2 days equal to the "bad luck/common number" which is ~8 mil, the "medium number" which is ~14 mil, and "OK ok we will let a few things proc this time" which is around ~23 mil. Every time I all-out hit a boss, no matter my buff/attack proc combinations I hit right around one of these numbers. Obviously Dakota has set a sort of damage threshold based on your squad and has set a few different key numbers that you will hit over and over and over again.

I see that with the new update, in the gift section, there are reminders at the temporary and social tabs that say items/cards will be discarded after 30 days for social and 24 hours for temporary.

Nothing is listed in the general tab. Does that mean that the mercs there don't get discarded EVER?

mamoncrief wrote:

Probably not, I assume that is functioning as intended and not an error. Damage has been SEVERELY tampered with this event, as well as proc rates.

I have only dealt damage in raid for the last 2 days equal to the "bad luck/common number" which is ~8 mil, the "medium number" which is ~14 mil, and "OK ok we will let a few things proc this time" which is around ~23 mil. Every time I all-out hit a boss, no matter my buff/attack proc combinations I hit right around one of these numbers. Obviously Dakota has set a sort of damage threshold based on your squad and has set a few different key numbers that you will hit over and over and over again.

im noticing the same hit 8m 6 times in a row in last srb hour.
seem to hit around half damage on most v3 bosses alot as well

Thalstin wrote:

I see that with the new update, in the gift section, there are reminders at the temporary and social tabs that say items/cards will be discarded after 30 days for social and 24 hours for temporary.

Nothing is listed in the general tab. Does that mean that the mercs there don't get discarded EVER?

about 60 mercs were deleted from my general section bout 2 days ago haha all gone. just some mercs I don't use but still sucks

Ya eventually even general tab loses mercs. I lost a lot of v1-v2 mercs I was going to eventually sell. Oh well

yes, mine hits with certain damage thresholds to... they are limiting what our teams can do, which sucks. work hard to get a better team, then they don't let you use it.

anyone who has access to the JSON able to determine what "skill fixes" were done?

It's good the Social tab is saying that mercs will be removed after 30 days now, even though I have no idea why .. Money I guess.

@raven- no clue. A lot of people assumed it was to fix liliths improperly tuned ratios in raid. I'm not sure what exactly it was.

I assume, it is not just one merc that was "fixed"...I wish the devs would give us some insight into this!

We will never know

If they gave us an item by item list of what they fixed then they would have to tell us when they reduce the proc rates and damage caps haha

Lilith is still broken. Front row OPE Lilith dealing 130k proc hits. Mid Row PE Keymaster dealing 180k proc hits. I'm going to have to pay attention to her damage in PvP and see if it is broken as well...

Yeah I traded mine to raven so I can't test it for myself

What kind of buffers are you running? Keymaster should have more damage per hit, but Lilith should catch up on the 4th hit. If you look at my post on the Lillith thread, keymaster will outperform it as the buffers go up.

yeah, the problem is the math doesn't match reality. Lilith has been hitting for far less total than keys this raid, even unbuffed. That is what they are talking about.

For one of the cheapest mercs Keymaster is a very good merc, you can get them for 1 PS each and when you put 20 AGI crystals on them you get this, unbuffed: 9409 AGI * 3 * 300% = 84.681
Everybody who's starting with the game should run Keymaster.

my first pvp team was 5 rogue assault mechs, which were keymasters before keymasters came into the game

I remember seeing that, I don't know how many people besides you were running that.

It was pretty common when I started. I made a ton of resources early early on in the game because you could sell leveled v2 RAMS for 4-5 ac each, so I would use 1 be to capture 4-5 of them on that level where they spawn as capturable, level and evolve, sell 1 for 4ac and 1 for 1 be and do it again. since they were level 70, leveling went quick, and I could farm for captures and level them at the same time.

Ah early FF, what a wonderful world it was.

If you look at lonley619 on the damage board, Lilith looks like she is doing exactly the damage she is supposed to. His black bot and Lilith are buffed the same, Lilith hits for 780k x 4, black bot is 780k x 6

edluv1 wrote:

If you look at lonley619 on the damage board, Lilith looks like she is doing exactly the damage she is supposed to.  His black bot and Lilith are buffed the same, Lilith hits for 780k x 4, black bot is 780k x 6

wow, what! my lilith is by doing subpar damage by far. How could someone else be doing normal amounts. does anyone with access to the JSON see a difference?

^Its the same info MrPug.
Nothing has changed.

Also a negative on the fixing of Canis. He is still smacking up my own Niobe. Facepalm. What the hell did they actually 'fix' with skills?

Sometimes the illusion of a fix is as good as a fix. It essentially bought Dakota 3 days where people weren't b*tching as much.

I dub this "fix" the "placebo fix"

^ agreed