Caylista
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Post by Caylista on Mar 27, 2018 0:02:09 GMT -5
Trying to do the entire plot in one day despite the BD item drop limit. Kinda annoyed that most of the infirmary steps are retired. I hope there's still time for Fyora. I'M COMING TO HEAL YOU MY FAIR QUEEN STAY RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE! Hm, I would have loved to play with the theory that Malum is a tainted King Altador, who found the Darkest Faerie indeed, and came back like this...
except that a tainted Altador would still have that majestic beard. :c DANGIT, SO MUCH POTENTIAL!! If Malum really turns out to be Altador and they don't give us a believable reason for why he is missing his glorious beard and full head of hair, I'm going to draw what I think his design should have looked like. Because it could have been amazing. |
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Post by Ziporen on Mar 27, 2018 4:46:03 GMT -5
I went to fight Kaia one more time to get the Mysterious Orange Coffer, but had forgotten that Snowy blasted my pets earlier. 50% freezer failed twice, so Kii had to take the last hit.
Bye, perfect TWR match record.
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Post by Liou on Mar 28, 2018 14:18:01 GMT -5
If Malum really turns out to be Altador and they don't give us a believable reason for why he is missing his glorious beard and full head of hair, I'm going to draw what I think his design should have looked like. Because it could have been amazing. *stamps seal of approval through the ground* Yes please. And even if Malum is just some other Lupe who just happened to become buddies with Darkie, I'll still be highly tempted to write my own version involving Altador one way or another, so you miiight still get a bit of a story. Oh no what am I getting myself into. Today I went to battle the boss a couple more times on Mighty, just to make sure it hadn't been a dream. I managed it with the Malum Sword and Water Muffins, of all things. Didn't even have to throw the Thick Smoke Bomb; finally got lucky enough to reflect her Wand with my Orb.
If you'd told me years ago that I'd end chucking muffins at the Darkest Faerie in the Battledome...
What, she forgot to bring her Apron of the Muffin Man. |
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Caylista
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Post by Caylista on Mar 28, 2018 16:08:12 GMT -5
So, the "Tainted Minions" we received from defeating Kaia have been relabeled "Shadow Wraith Minions" and their description relating to the Tainted Minions (TCG) cleared. Too bad we already ran into Shadow Wraith Minions during TFR and they look nothing alike(?) |
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Mar 28, 2018 16:27:15 GMT -5
So, the "Tainted Minions" we received from defeating Kaia have been relabeled "Shadow Wraith Minions" and their description relating to the Tainted Minions (TCG) cleared. Too bad we already ran into Shadow Wraith Minions during TFR and they look nothing alike(?) What? It's a Tainted Minion! They got it perfect right the first time, why did they change it? |
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Post by Huntress on Mar 29, 2018 5:40:22 GMT -5
I'ma guess because people complained xP That poor tainted minion is pretty confusing for a plot prize if you (like me) have no context for the previous PS2 game. When it was originally released, I had zero access to it.
The ongoing tragedy of new!TNT is that they're clearly trying to listen to the userbase and make changes when changes feel warranted, except the userbase is huge and divided and every new move has someone complaining, so who should you listen to in the end? (nerf! don't nerf! sucky prize! awesome prize! change! don't change! good item! bad item!) And they're still operating on the ongoing legacy of past!TNT without having built up the goodwill and confidence to be able to just say "we run the site, we make our decisions as best we can, and we write the canon". The former team could bugger up and rewrite things and they were seen as having that right, but the current team is being held against the standard of Getting Things Right - and there is no universal 'right'.
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Post by Herdy on Mar 29, 2018 7:13:52 GMT -5
I've not seen a single person complaining about it? If anything, the Minion was one of the few things people were agreeing that they've done right on this plot. So I don't think it's that.
They haven't just changed the name. They've cleared the description and effectively deactivated the item - if you move it from trades into your inventory, it'll disappear. You'll get an error if you try and take it out of your SDB. Typically, this only happens to items they never intended to release (which isn't the case here, it was one of the originally planned prizes that have been there waiting for release for 18 months), items that are so broken that there's no hope of fixing them (not the case here), or items that need to be deleted to save face (like the Spring Korbat Toy - again, doubtful that's the case here). I can only guess it's been removed by accident, since it doesn't make sense otherwise. You don't need to deactivate an item to change it into something else (like if they were planning to make it into a mini wraith petpet). You can do that while the item is live.
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Post by Huntress on Mar 29, 2018 10:13:32 GMT -5
That's my point - we don't know who they listen to. There's no official union rep for the userbase (now that'd be a sight) so all actual interaction and listening happens by way of them trawling the boards, or facebook, or tickets, or the editorial, and whatever other sources they might have. So it's a huge crapshoot what they react to and why. But whatever the reasons, the name change we can presume to be intentional in some form (unless it's 1) hacked or 2) someone has a really impressive cat-on-keyboard?) coupled with some other intended purpose-change that went derp because of the ongoing codemageddon. There is, of course, the option of Executive Meddling, but that's a strange option, seeing how the item was made back in '16 and had ample time to get meddled with pre-release, particularly during the long wait until Kaia was released as an opponent.
But one way or another, this TNT has become very trigger-happy when it comes to making changes after a release. Particularly contrasted with old!TNT, who could sit on people's complaints for a long time before any changes were implemented (dat stupid expiring NC, various new ways to do the Altador Cup - people might've complained about the new system but then it was likely that they'd change it next year, not immediately). Whether that's a good or bad thing depends largely on how much you like a given change.
(and, of course, the codemageddon :'D Know that thing where you keep pulling at a yarn tangle and eventually it gets to a point where you can't get any more yarn and the tangle has also become untangle-able?)
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Post by Allison on Mar 31, 2018 17:35:35 GMT -5
Slow and steady wins the race. Slow and steady wins the race... I think I still need 4 more days to beat Kaia. Finally finished her off on Friday. Please no more where I need to use Throw Pillows! Please let the next battle (assuming there is one) be a community effort. |
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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on Mar 31, 2018 19:27:30 GMT -5
Slow and steady wins the race. Slow and steady wins the race... I think I still need 4 more days to beat Kaia. Finally finished her off on Friday. Please no more where I need to use Throw Pillows! Please let the next battle (assuming there is one) be a community effort. In a sense, battling 'Kaia' is a community effort. If you go here, you can see how much health she has left. |
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Post by Allison on Mar 31, 2018 21:43:32 GMT -5
Finally finished her off on Friday. Please no more where I need to use Throw Pillows! Please let the next battle (assuming there is one) be a community effort. In a sense, battling 'Kaia' is a community effort. If you go here, you can see how much health she has left. Well, I meant "community effort" in "lose as much as you can to decrease the enemy's strength" type battle. I can lose, no problem... It's the winning I'm having issues with.  |
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Post by Herdy on Apr 1, 2018 7:25:01 GMT -5
It's not really a community effort in the 'beat Kaia as much as you can to reduce the bar' sense either. Like the Infirmary, it is highly likely that JS are just moving the bar when they feel like it to the values they feel like.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2018 8:49:20 GMT -5
So I'm using the throw pillows strat on Kaia and she got down to 1 HP. Can any experienced battledomers tell me if my pet can tank an attack from Hardmode Kaia to get that one hit in with her stats and weapons, and give advice as to which combination of attacks I should use? Or should I just play it safe and wait until tomorrow?  |
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Post by Zoey on Apr 3, 2018 9:43:47 GMT -5
So I'm using the throw pillows strat on Kaia and she got down to 1 HP. Can any experienced battledomers tell me if my pet can tank an attack from Hardmode Kaia to get that one hit in with her stats and weapons, and give advice as to which combination of attacks I should use? Or should I just play it safe and wait until tomorrow? she can easily hit 700 hp in one hit. I'd play it safe and wait until tomorrow. |
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Post by Breakingchains on Apr 3, 2018 10:10:36 GMT -5
Themeguy Definitely wait. This lady loves to OHKO you into outer space.
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