D-Shear

Please enable level cap for Alchemy and fix acolyte spawns ._.

I also got both of them. Melee Crescendo is the clear winner here, although a low rank is kind of weak rn, but once leveled it will be insane. Melee duplicate sounds nice, but is really weak if you look at it closely. It only works on yellow crits and due to how the melee mod works, giving you x2 on heavy, it quickly becomes very inconsistent to use. The only frame that can somewhat make really good use of it, is Voruna with a status zaw, if you don't run Wrathful Advance, but how useful is that, if the prominent meta for pure melee builds is to run Wrathful Advance, which disables the arcane completely.

The new faction is definitely vastly undertuned in comparison to your uber fire rate corpus and energy leeching/toxin proccing infested. They are literally target dummies and the only enemy type, that does give you a bit of trouble in SP, are the rogue necramechs, because as of right now, they cannot be armorstripped, have a 4 status cap and can only be sufficiently damaged by weakpoint hits. But even then, they are kind of "harmless" with their weak AI, barely any fire rate and slow melee attacks and movement.

Very bad idea and concept. You can already bypass every mastery grind with platinum, which is incredibly easy to accumulate by either trading, or well, farm something else to sell for the stuff you want... wait a minute... See what you typed up there? But as someone who grinded and crafted every single mastery item in this game in a very short time span: Just focus up. Prepare a spreadsheet, count all resources and then sit down and grind them down source by source and you'll be done with it in a very quick manner. I absolutely hate Duviri with a passion, but getting the resources is so quick and easy, except maybe for that one plant and clamps of course. But you are LR1 already anyway, how much can you possibly miss, that you can't knock out in a handful of planned out sessions?

I'll pay for actual fun content

There was a time, where one could really get mad about a charm nerf, but after they gutted Teshin's shop, does it really matter at all? Steel Essence is massively devalued nowadays any way and all that is left is that slight tingle seeing that multiplied number on your screen, but then the realization settles in, that you can't do anything with that stuff anymore. I honestly don't know what their plans on averaging the "loss" is, but my guess would be, they implement the endless fissure bonus to non-fissure as well, since directly tweaking the base drop can't really be done. going from to 2 to 3 and 4 to 6 with booster at base seems a bit overboard, that's far more a smeeta could ever rake in today.

Honestly, they just need to fix Bladestorm. Casting and execution of the shadows need to be instant and attacks need to be performed simultaneously. Right now, it has the damage potential, but is just far too slow and clunky to replace shooting your guns or just simply melee. We are still talking about a permanent invisible frame, which are already VERY problematic balancing wise, due to the stealth mechanics in general. For all that his kit is already extremely strong with a full strip and a crit modifier.

same, bricked two of my endurance runs today. Any usual fix to operator bugs didn't help and it leaves you completely unable to play. Only option is to abort the mission...

Jesus, they literally nabbed all that money from the community, just to delay Whispers in the Walls? This is the reason, why I will NEVER again spend a single dime on this game and this company. It literally just goes to private pockets instead of finally developing this game into something more than a fashion simulator. I made my Zenith package purchase dependent on the new update. I would have bought it, if I was delivered nice content. A standard transaction basically. You deliver, I pay. Now, the fomo pack will probably have been long expired by the time we get to see the next update. What a shame.

If you are selling prime junk, you are literally scamming yourself 100% of the time, even if the prices were doubled. If you are buying prime junk, you are smart and make piles of platinum every single day without even playing the game. It's time to switch sides.

DE won't change their course. They grab into pockets of the casuals and this is why content is catered to them. Veteran players generate no money for them, because of how monetization works in WF. Veteran players sit on tens of thousands of plat they will never be able to spend on anything, the tennogen offer is also pretty limited compared to other games, so only a finite amount of money to be made there. Their last straw was that despicable heirloom package to squeeze something out of the people, that can't leave the game. This is why steel path is not rewarding and the shop is very limited. The casual players will always complain of the "unfair advantage" the hardcore player will have, the same will go for raids and any difficult content you want to introduce into a game, where 99% of the playerbase doesn't know what they are even doing ingame. Don't get the wrong idea though, DE has the numbers down like no other company. They just generate that much more money by constantly advertising for new players, get them into the game, squeeze a few bucks out of them and rinse and repeat. That doesn't work as well with veteran players. And yes, Warframe is just a Pokedex game. At the end of they day, the only tangible goal set within the borders of the game is to collect everything and fill up that mastery xp. You can set personal goals, sure, but they don't come with a tangible reward. But, to be fair, it has been that way for 10 years now.

And what are those arcanes that powercreep the eidolon arcanes? care to name a few?

It's exactly the opposite. The reason why all the new arcanes, especially duviri arcanes, are bad and useless, is because Eidolons need to retain their relevancy to have big ticket items on the market incentivizing platinum purchases. Every rare Eidolon arcane is still meta and Arcane Barrier/Aegis will jump right back to the top with the next update. Energize,Fury,Strike,Acceleration,Velocity. You name it. These are all the meta arcanes in the games with Zariman Arcanes like Molt Augmented, Efficiency, Reconstruct supplementing them. Also, Arcane Energize is still a Eidolon only drop, it was not moved to the duviri portal pool like the others. And moving them did not impact their price at all, because guess what, nobody plays that, since the pool is diluted with all the useless duviri arcanes.

I mean, yea it's going to be annoying now for sure. I always do the hunts solo with ivara, skipping every mechanic, but I'll say that: What does it matter in the long run? It's a 5min activity every WEEK. If it takes 7mins now, because I have to sit through those dogsh immunity/add phases of the activated archons, so be it. It honestly won't tickle me. Also the xata's whisper/gen1 incarnon perk combo will probably still bypass damage attenuation, so yea, I am pretty sure with those we get nearly the same results as before. Also peeps, don't forget, there are other enemies in the game using damage attenuation, for example acolytes. I'll suspect you can still overkill them easily with the usual big hitters, but they should be much easier and faster to kill with all the high fire rate stuff.

The shield changes will do nothing for frames, that do not already have shield gimmicks (hildryn,harrow,protea,etc.). You will still never build for shields or god forbid use any of those useless recharge mods. It just needs a ticking slash procc to completely halt any shield regeneration and make those mods useless. The buff of shield DR from 25 to 50% is also overhyped. Shields right now are already paper, if I add another layer of paper on it, guess what it's just two sheets of paper now. It literally does nothing in the reality of actual gameplay. There was a reason why shield gating was a needed introduction to the game, because the bulk of the frames do not have any form of survivability outside of rolling guard and are strictly impossible to play otherwise in endurance steel path. All these changes will do, is buff all shield gimmick frames, nerf all glass cannons by stripping them of 1 mod slot to get back the old shield gating and push all invis frames and revenant even further, which is completely dumb. Invis and revenant needs to be deleted from the game in a first step before touching any of the survivability tools that are needed by the bulk of remaining frames.