phantasmalWordsmith

No, I promise you, if you saw what I saw you'd get it. I have no doubt there were Shards in there, but there's also the potential of Natural Talent, Speed Drift, and the one thing I could see was getting the Madurai casting speed buff. I'm also certain there was a Macro involved cause it was rediculous how quickly he was casting Dark Verse.

I'm not usually one to comment on nerfs and buff for a Warframe because it is what it is. However Just gotten out of a run of sanctuary onslaught where a Dante which jacked up Casting Speed - looked like he was using Madurai, who knows about the mods - was able to spam abilities so quickly that it actually caused framerate issues, and even worse, my buddy I was playing with got so glitched out of the game and unable to kill anything before it died that it triggered the AFK measure, and they did not get their drops. And that wasn't their fault. It wasn't the Dante's fault either, he's built it up as is their right, but there needs to be a change otherwise Dante can seriously hamper the enjoyment of the game Put a hard cap on Casting Speed. Add a Line of Sight check to Final Verse Maybe tweak the energy cost of Final Verse. I love casting spells, but I do not want my buddy's game to be ruined by an overzealous build.

I'm normally one to embrace change as good and important, and I think this is a good change for the new players. However, I really don't like the extra time it takes me to find the stats I'm interested in. Some weapons should have stats like Reload time right in the forefront - the Trumna and the Sobek spring to mind - as the Reload time to Magazine Capacity ratio makes a big part of how a weapon feels. Its a good change, it really is, but its not for everyone and its so strange that there wasn't a legacy mode toggle right from the outset. Warframe is a very customisable game, you can tailor so much, it truly baffles me this was just set down with little to no warning.

I think Eclispe has been needing a change for a very long time, even before Helminth entered the Conversation, but I'm glad we're having it now at least. Personally, I want the Change approach. I - personally - never use it on Helminth cause (1) Roar is right there and far more reliable (2) I don't enjoy using "number go up" abilities like Roar and Eclispe cause they're just kinda... Boring? Like I've played for a hot minute now, I'm past that phase where I just want bigger numbers, I wanna do more... Interesting stuff? Having access to controllable pair of buffs makes it a way more interesting ability to me cause I can think of quite a few Warframes that could do with just a bit more survivability to help them prosper at higher levels - Mirage included - especially since Overguard makes a lot of Crowd Control dependent Warframes a harder sell. I realise wanting more ready access to the damage resistance very much means I'm not in the majority. I think being able to toggle between the light and dark bonuses fits Mirage quite well - Hall of Mirrors and Prism are both described as the manipulation of light, so if Mirage can bend Light at will couldn't she naturally darken and brighten the light on herself anyway? So here's my take Let Mirage toggle herself between Light and Dark modes. Could do it like, you cast it once and get the buff dependent on your surrounding light. Cast again during the duration to switch it. Or you could have it so that you Tap the key once to get Dark Mode, Hold to get Light Mode, its already Recastable so you can switch between without much trouble except the cost of Energy. Or vice versa but people can tweak that to their liking. And then when its Helminth'd in to other Warframes, they get the current version of the ability where it depends on lighting - cause other Warframes don't have Mirage's Light Manipulation abilities so they're completely reliant on the ambient light. It makes sense from a Lore perspective, it means there's less need for a grand overhaul, and shouldn't disrupt its current relationship with Helminth. You could also do the thing where it just has a diminished strength or duration, and that would knock it down a few pegs on the Helminth tier list, but I think that'd be kinda boring and wouldn't go down well. However, I do wanna also throw out this very wildcard idea with the full knowledge that there's bound to be some very important and good reasons as to why this is NOT a good idea but I want to throw it out there anyway - change Mirage's Helminth ability from Eclispe to Sleight of Hand. Cause if we're already on idea that Roar serves the role as a catch all damage boost, and Eclispe is too unreliable to be able to reap the full flexible benefits of it, then why bother? And then you can change Eclispe to have a toggle so that she gets the control she deserves for it.

The rewards are cool but I still miss the stories and lore they brought. I think stuff to the level of three actual NW stories was right to be dropped, but I dunno. Something? Like maybe just some stories read to us by Nora, a la Grandmother's stories about Naberus and Dagath. "Hey Dreamers, got a story for you all." Proceeds to talk at us for like, a minute, two maybe, telling us about this one group of rail agents out smuggling goods past the Grineer. Maybe tell us about the Ice Pirates. Maybe some antics of Clem & Darvo. Small little anecdotes about the Origin System outside of the Tenno's usual view, so we can see what we're really Fighting for. Would also make it feel much more like a rogue radio signal we tune into

I don't think its an inherently bad idea but I can see a lot of ways it could go wrong - like what if someone maliciously gifted it a friend who did not want to story skip. What then? So how its implemented is super important so here's an idea. Don't show the Story Skip on the New or Popular or Featured or on any part of the marketboard. Instead, a player has to put "Story Skip" or some variation into the search function to see it. That way no one stumbles into it, the people who go looking for it are looking for it with intent. Put some warning screens up just in case with one of those "Type OVERRIDE to confirm" bits. And don't let people gift it willy nilly like other items; make it so you can only Gift it to another player if they have the Skip in their Gift Wishlist