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There doesn't really seem to be a design space for more Umbra. Mechanically there's no space. Excal Umbra was used to fill out the prime shaped hole in most players' roster. For the rest of the frames we just have primes. Design wise I'm not sure the concept is broad enough. Putting a scarf and loops on 50+ frames would quickly become boring and samey. Kind of the problem they had with primes and only using white/gold.

Yup that is exactly what I do myself currently (as it's the most efficient). But that is why I said the change would be more thematic. If you want to become trusted to the highest level with a syndicate you have to actually run missions for them. Now this will not matter in the long run (where you'd most likely default to only running missions for two) but it does give a little flavor to start off with.

So I’ve just watched Dev-shorts 3 and when Rebb announced the change to gaining ranks with the syndicates that was the first question that came to mind. Now I know that you’ve (DE) have probably already made the change and are just waiting to upload. And to be fair it doesn’t really affect me as it’s been a long time since I became allied to all of the syndicates, but might I offer an alternative solution? Rank 1: Resources Rank 2: Credits Rank 3: x tier 1 medallions Rank 4: y tier 2 medallions Rank 5: z tier 3 medallions See I always thought that you guys had a reason for insisting that it had to be prime parts (some sort of “tutorial” or incentive to learn to trade) but seeing as you went with Aya, something that doesn’t even need one to run a fissure I think one could do something more thematic. Right now one can become a close ally to any syndicate without ever “helping” them. Just be a friend of a friend and that is enough. Changing the sacrifice to a syndicate specific medallion means that one has at least run one mission (probably more depending on the value of z) for the syndicate you’re about to be allied to… just seems more fitting to me. Anyway, just my 2 cents.

Well I took less issue with that part then the part about Void keys offering "Player choice".

Well you did choose to go "remember the keys?" instead of “I’d like to have my choice of mission for fissures”. The player's “choice” in regards to the Void keys was severely limited. That was the point I was making. The “good old days” weren't that good if you ask me.

Oh yes I remember the joy of getting to choose between the orokin tile set, the orokin tile set or the orokin tile set. God I still can’t play void defense without hating every single second. And sure I could farm with just one key for hours… unless the part I needed was in the f***ing sabotage mission. Nah give me the relics any old day. Also pretty sure the reactant “gimmick” is a flawed but, by DE deemed, necessary mechanic to stop AFK relic farming.

Um... what? Like I seriously don't understand your point.

It’s pretty clear that DE wants us to spend a bit of time fighting their bosses (The Sargent and Phorid notwithstanding). Classically DE have done this by giving their bosses brief periods of vulnerability and long periods of them being invulnerable (i.e Sargas Ruk) but lately they’ve tried to do damage attenuation instead. And maybe it’s just because I’ve spent way too much time the last few weeks pouring damage into a stone slab but I think I might prefer the more classical method. What about my fellow Tenno: Invulnerability or Damage Attenuation? And no, DE has made it pretty clear that you can’t chose “neither” 😝

I’ll add two, one easy and one hard: 1: Add more maps to sanctuary onslaught. We got at least 3 new tilesets (Zariman, Duviri and Labs) and you could probably find something in Railjack as well 2: Let me buy Eidolon and Arbitration arcanes at Onko and Arbitrators. We can buy ourselves past the RNG on almost all other arcanes. You already have the shop and resources. You also have mechanics for time gating and spending limits if you’re afraid of players getting them too fast. So please? (and no I don’t think that the new dissolution mechanic is a good substitute).

They do have a point. Rebb and Steve look at things very differently.

See that the thing. DE can do great story when it's onlyt the writers. But try and put it together with the rest of the game and it gets some what wonky and unfocused.

I don't have a problem because I suddenly want stuff I can’t have. I’m running a few assassinations on SP each day solo. I got all the arcanes that I need from Scarlet spear and about a 100 tri-caps (More than enough to know I don’t want to do more). I’m farming the event so that I can have a rank 5 Arcane healing for completionist reasons. So no, the reason I give a “profanity” is in fact that the mode has changed. It comes down to how much more optimal and how much more rewarding the Steel Path is becoming. From the start I got more from SP than the regular versions. I got more regular drops (less important outside of a few farms), more mods (an ok bonus) and Steel essence. Then DE started to give me even more stuff for doing SP. First +20%, then +50% and now +100% of un-boostable drops in addition to Steel essence. And the last increase came at an event where I honestly can’t feel much of a difference between regular and Steel path versions. It takes me basically the same effort to get twice the rewards and that just seems wrong. So yes my question is a little faulty. I should probably have been “How do you feel about how much more optimal SP is becoming”, because it’s starting to screw over newer players who then feel a need to rush for SP because it is sooo much more efficient.

Even without the latter part of the text they're still slightly less good prime mods. Why do they need more power?

It would also give you a reason to target some of them for farming. Right now it's more of a completionist checklist.

It's prime mods you don't have to wait for basically. They cost a bit more but have a little gimmick attached. The gimmick is bad because not a lot of frames have abilities that qualify not because of the mechanics. Probably why you aren't showing Archon Vitality. All in all these are ok. They're not "warm coat" or "ammo drum" useless