There's no question, damp rewards players for grinding for gear/promotions that it's rather difficult to sometimes see who is being carried or who is skillful
LOL everything is blown out of proportion in your post. Let me go ahead and deconstruct.
everyone is breezing through perilous due to bis gear and an exorbitant number of promotions
Ridiculous FUD.
There is only about less than 1% that actually has extreme promotions. While no doubt there are more promotions now than ever before, the top end remains the top end, and less than invincible all the time.
unless your a complete imbecile, anyone can do well in damp if they are promoted enough and have the right gear. The game has gotten to a point where you can craft +30 hok as well as supeb life drain rings facepalm.
Most pugs must be complete imbeciles then, because even with Mauls of the Dragon and such, they're dead many times over. They're definitely not promoted as much as I am of course, but why would they be pugging if they were? More importantly, what would explain their deaths ... fighting out in the open completely surrounded by archers outside the player's attack range or the lack of promotions.
You cannot craft Superb Life Drain Rings. You cannot add +30 Heal on Kill. You can only add +14%, after gaining a lot of very rare imperial vestment cotton, which a lot of requires grinding. Anyone who's gotten to that point has already been winning on a regular basis.
any new solo vid questionable because of how the game rewards grinding
New? LOL They've always been this way. The first that showed on the BSN fora had both excellent gear and promotions. There are youtubers that do the same, and they all have great gear and promotes.
Do you perform solo videos? No? You don't get to judge. Your opinion's meaningless because the point is meaningless (in addition to the whole mindset being depressingly flawed and toxic).
You're like the guys who criticize speedrunners for using glitches/ tool assists / skipping entire sections of maps/bosses to shave time. You don't 'get' it and can't imagine the point when someone else is willing to use an advantage.
Personally, I'll eat an arrow if need-be and not care. Luke's nerfed the rolling full draw for everyone. When's the last time anyone's been hit with one of those 1k+ shots? If you were a S&S warrior, with turn the bolt, you wouldn't care much either (guaranteed max ranged defense from the front).
some classes just arent viable solo/group wise without
This is a multiplayer game. Every class is viable with barrier, especially with virtuoso released (barrier being easier than ever). That is undeniable, since there are swarms of keepers & virtuoso's carrying others that would be laughably bad otherwise. Solo is not a necessary nor efficient methodology of playing.
Luke's been doing a decent job at making classes better balanced on a weekly basis. Let's direct our efforts at him furthering that goal. It is his job after all.
so monotonous that pugs often don't communicate through mics.
False conjecture. I've pugged games since launch. They never communicated on mics frequently. That takes effort. Finding & working with people that actually communicate with teamwork always took effort. YMMV, but seriously, can you honestly say all your pugs always talked since launch, or talked moreso? There are always people without mics/headsets and always people that don't listen. Befriending the ones that do is actual work.
There's always FUD about 'concerns about the longevity of the game' that leads nowhere. ME3 is still bloody here, and there's been threads about doom and gloom since its inception. Total BS.
Retour en haut
Really, the average age for a player in this game is like 30. Most of the pugs who have mics on have kids screaming in the background. As to "everyone saw the potential" watch some of the early unofficial reviews. They almost universally declare MP to be tacked on garbage.
