[DE]Rebecca Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Dev Workshop: The Arsenal Divide Tenno, When choosing weapons for a mission, the Tenno have a lot to consider... Which weapons are strong enough for me to fight at this level? Which weapons are best against this faction? Which weapons are the most efficient and easy to use? Which weapons do I have the most fun with? Which Mods make these weapons perform best? The average player will ask themselves at least one of these questions (usually more) before making a selection. Not all weapons are built equal, but ideally there are several answers to each query, so that Tenno can make their own choices from a variety of options and keep things fresh. If one category of weapons outclasses all the others, or makes them feel redundant, then we as developers want to step in to make sure choice exists for the sake of fun. Enter melee weapons, and equally importantly, the Mods you can use on them. Tenno have spent years sharpening their blades, but as a result, we’ve seen Primary and Secondary weapons collecting rust. And the longer we avoid addressing it, the worse this divide will become. We are changing Melee and Primary in for the singular purpose of making the combat experience more balanced, especially at high level play (Steel Path, etc). Generally speaking, we feel that gun stats are in a good place, but it's the Mods that are lacking. Inversely, some Melee Mods are too strong. We intend to address these issues in two ways: firstly, careful nerfs to a handful of Melee Mods; secondly, by offering greater strength for the rest of your Arsenal with Primary and Secondary Arcanes and new Galvanized Mods. Our goal is to encourage you to use your entire Arsenal in-mission. Switching between Primary, Secondary, and Melee weapons should feel like valid and strategic options, in contrast to the uncontested Melee dominance that exists in the current meta. We want Melee to be fun and powerful as you rip and tear your way through the solar system but we want players to have that same level of fun and power with Primary and Secondary weapons should that be their preference. The option to choose is key here -- one that is lessened by the current divide between Melee and everything else. Our approach to lessen this divide will be through changes to existing Mods, the addition of new Mods, as well as introducing new Primary and Secondary Weapon Upgrades. TABLE OF CONTENTS Melee Mod Nerfs Weapon Changes Primary and Secondary Weapon Arcanes Galvanized Mods Login Items If you’d rather watch a video going over this Workshop and the Sisters of Parvos Update at large, check this out: Melee Mod Nerfs We have 5 categories of changes coming: Berserker Bloodrush Condition Overload Glaives Kuva Nukor Berserker: Attack Speed increases for Melee are part of what makes it so dominant. This is especially true when the conditions to reach animation-breaking Attack Speed are as simple as current Berserker: ‘on Critical Hit’. Infinite Attack-Speed Uptime is possible with a single Mod, and the result is animation noise with no distinction between hits, coupled with massive Damage output. We still want to support the ability to increase your Melee Attack Speed and Damage Output, just not to the levels you currently can. Berserker is changing from: +30% Attack Speed (Max 75%) for 24s on Critical Hit To: Beserker Fury, cannot stack with Fury. On Melee Kill: +35% Attack Speed (Max 70%) for 10s. Stacks up to 2x. This is important because: - It decouples it from Critical Chance. - Adds a more defined ramp up using ‘On Kill’ instead of On Crit (which frequently meant 0 to ‘Max’ in one swing hitting 3 enemies). - Renamed to Berserker Fury to communicate that it can no longer be equipped with Fury / Primed Fury. Blood Rush: Blood Rush’s maximum value is being lowered.This changes the achievability of consistent Red Crits from just one Mod (on most Melee weapons, some High-Critical exceptions), and now additional help will be needed via Mods, Arcanes, or Warframe abilities to achieve consistent Red Crits. One Mod alone generally delivering the best tier of Criticals felt too powerful. Blood Rush is changing from: +60% Critical Chance stacks with Combo Multiplier To +40% Critical Chance stacks with Combo Multiplier Condition Overload Condition Overload’s maximum value is being lowered. It’s been some time since we originally changed this Mod, and in this time we’ve decided we’re still not happy with the way this goes up against other Damage Mods (namely Primed Pressure Point). We’ve reduced this to 80% to make it almost as good as Primed Pressure Point, and 3 Status Types back to where it was originally. It remains true that even though the maximum potential damage is lower now, we think it is still an extremely powerful Mod in its latest iteration. There should now be a more meaningful choice: do you want front loaded damage or a build up from multiple Status Types? Condition Overload is changing from: +120% Melee Damage per Status Type affecting the target. To +80% Melee Damage per Status Type affecting the target. Weapon Changes Glaives In late 2020, we reworked the Glaive melee class to be more powerful and comfortable to use. Overall, we feel these changes had their intended effect as weapons like the Glaive Prime skyrocketed from obscurity to the top of the pile with their newfound ability to inflict huge damage using heavy attacks. However, these changes also introduced a common issue: players with high melee attack speed would sometimes accidentally throw their Glaives when trying to perform simple melee strikes, and the “catch and release” mechanic sometimes resulted in multiple unintended throws. In reviewing our Melee system, we felt it was a good opportunity to address this concern, while also doing a balancing pass to reflect the power in this newly reworked melee class. That said, our two changes to Glaives go hand in hand: First, the heavy attack wind-up speed is being increased from 0.6 seconds to 1.2 seconds. With more time on the wind-up, it is much harder to accidentally throw when you are trying to swing. With this increased wind-up speed, players are also more capable of performing quick throws. Right now the damage on quick throws is very close to fully charged, so in order to encourage more meaningful choice, our second change is to reduce quick throw damage to approximately 50% of the maximum charge. Exact number changes are as follows: Cerata Direct Hit Damage from 366 to 201 Radial Damage from 549 to 333 Falcor Direct Hit Damage from 460 to 250 Radial Damage from 690 to 345 Glaive Direct Hit Damage from 210 to 116 Radial Damage from 315 to 190 Glaive Prime Direct Hit Damage from 328 to 180 Radial Damage from 492 to 296 Halikar Direct Hit Damage from 298 to 163 Radial Damage from 447 to 225 Halikar Wraith Direct Hit Damage from 503 to 263 Radial Damage from 621 to 329 Kestrel Direct Hit Damage from 168 to 92 Radial Damage from 252 to 126 Orvius Direct Hit Damage from 390 to 215 Radial Damage from to 520 to 293 Pathocyst Direct Hit Damage from 524 to 288 Radial Damage from 786 to 393 Xoris Direct Hit Damage from 240 to 120 Radial Damage from 480 to 250 Kuva Nukor We are indeed touching 1 non-Melee item in the series of Nerfs, and likely to no one’s surprise it’s the Kuva Nukor. It’s a dominant Secondary with incredible power, which is warranted given its acquisition. It’ll keep all of its signature behaviour, but the general output is being notched down slightly with the following change: - Chains targets reduced to 2 from 4 Onward to Primary & Secondary… With all the information about how we are lessening power in some ways, let’s move onto the way we are increasing the power available to Primary & Secondary weapon options. Primary and Secondary Weapon Arcanes We are going to start with the biggest change: You can now add Arcane Slots (name not final) to your Primary and Secondary weapons, and fill the Slots with new Arcanes that enhance and reward diverse gameplay. Our entire approach to making Guns a comparable choice in your Arsenal orbits around the notion that Gunplay is fundamentally more varied than Melee: there are pinpoint accuracy guns, AOE guns, and high fire rate Guns (and everything in between). There’s reload times, magazine sizes, and more. We want to make these varied options better at what they do by rewarding you for using them well - thus, Arcanes! Because the Gunplay falloff is more of a late-game problem, these new Upgrades will be earned through late-game content systems -- namely, the Steel Path. You’ll be able to get the Arcane Slot Unlockers from Steel Path Honors, whereas the Arcanes themselves drop from Acolytes in the Steel Path! The spawn frequency of Acolytes is also being increased, meaning you’ll get more Steel Essence, as well as more chances for the Arcane you want. All Acolytes will drop them! There are 6 Arcanes (3 Primary, 3 Secondary) that you’ll be able to rank up and put to put into the new Slots:PRIMARY: The first Primary Arcane is designed with Primary weapons that perform well as AOE or high rate-of-fire weapons. This Arcane will reward kills with the following stats at Max rank: PRIMARY MERCILESS On Kill: +30% Damage for 6s. Stacks up to 12x. +30% Reload Speed +100% Ammo Max The more you kill, the more damage you can build up. Groovy! The second Primary Arcane is designed with high precision weapons in mind. Make your Headshots count for greater performance (excluding AOE headshots)!:PRIMARY DEADHEAD On Headshot Kill: 120% Damage for 24s. Stacks up to 3x. +30% to Headshot Multiplier. -50% Weapon Recoil The final Primary Arcane is designed with using your full loadout in mind, enter Melee synergy: PRIMARY DEXTERITY On Melee Kill: +60% Damage for 20s. Stacks up to 6x. SECONDARY: Secondary Weapons will receive the same options as Primary Weapons for their Arcanes, but with their own version. In practice, you’d be able to equip yourself with a Precision Secondary like the Knell, a high-fire rate Primary like the Grakata, and select the Arcane that will reward each play style best! The stats are the same for the Secondary versions of the New Arcanes: SECONDARY MERCILESS On Kill: +30% Damage for 6s. Stacks up to 12x. +30% Reload Speed +100% Ammo Max SECONDARY DEADHEAD On Headshot Kill: 120% Damage for 24s. Stacks up to 3x. +30% to Headshot Multiplier. -50% Weapon Recoil SECONDARY DEXTERITY On Melee Kill: +60% Damage for 20s. Stacks up to 6x. Ultimately each Arcane stacks up to the same amount of damage, but it’s how you choose to get there that counts. Precision? Spray and Pray? Melee synergy? Your choice! The “Arcane Unlockers” themselves are an item you’ll need to install on the weapons you want to take further, and you can find the Unlockers in the Steel Path Honors. Galvanized Mods Our observation that Arsenal imbalance becomes obvious at higher level content means that we want your progression to this content to matter for your power level. We want to give you the tools to progress to optimal play with a new series of Mods: Galvanized Mods! The general approach to these Galvanized Mods is that the unconditional upgrade is not quite as good as the non-Galvanized original, but the On Kill conditional increases them well above and beyond what is available with ‘conventional’ Mods in your Arsenal. These will be available from Teshin’s Steel Path Honors. Login Items As with many of our large-scale reworks and changes in the past, we want to honour the investment of time and resources our players have put into their Arsenal! Since these changes are both wide-sweeping and precise, we have a general login inbox planned for all players, with a few bonuses for those who meet certain conditions. With the release of Update 30.5: Sisters of Parvos, players will receive the following upon login: All Players Mastery Rank 5 and above will receive 5 x Built Forma. All Players Mastery Rank 5 and above will receive a 3-Day Affinity Booster. Any Player who owns a Kuva Nukor will receive an extra 2 x Built Forma. All Players who owned ANY Lich Weapon at any point OR have a Converted Lich OR have an active Lich get 1x Requiem Ultimatum (a new item to taunt a Lich or Sister into battle)! Players who have Converted a Kuva lich OR vanquished a Kuva Lich will get OULL, which is a Requiem Wildcard Mod! In closing… Sisters of Parvos will bring these changes on all Platforms. The delivery of these changes is rooted in our goals, and if we miss the mark we’ll be watching for what to tweak. Keep in mind what our goals and visions are when you give feedback after playing! EDIT: FAQ:This FAQ section will be updated throughout the next week and beyond! Can you buy Arcane Unlockers with Platinum? - No, this is not a Platinum Market item. They are earned items through the Steel Path Honor’s store for 15 Steel Essence each.Where do the new Arcanes Drop? - Acolytes on The Steel Path have a 100% chance to drop 1 of the 6 new Arcanes. Do Kitguns get 2 Arcane Slots? - Yes, one for Pax only, one for the new Arcanes! June 22 Updated Information: Tenno! Since The Arsenal Divide Workshop launched on Friday, we’ve been busy developing, testing, and reading responses. We have some preliminary changes to share with everyone! We’re posting in a separate thread to highlight the changes, and will do all necessary cross posting in the originals to keep them up to date. This means that June 22 onward has the latest information on The Arsenal Divide! In the days that passed, we’ve addressed 3 areas (as well as a 4th bonus one)! Each one is covered in detail below: 1) Arcanes: Primary and Secondary Dexterity Arcanes: - Added +60% Holster Speed Why: We are including a Holster Speed benefit within the Arcane itself to ensure the whole ‘Dexterity’ aspect of it is clear with the whole Arsenal being easier to use! Primary and Secondary Merciless Arcanes: - Reduced MERCILESS Arcanes Duration from 6 to 4 secsWhy: We’re simply continuing to balance these (even after posting)! In practice, we felt lowering it was a better start given the pace of true Merciless enemy killing!P.S the body of the original Dev Workshop missed this, but it was present in the video! Dexterity Arcanes: +7.5s Combo Duration 2) Galvanized Mod Properties: Primary - Galvanized Scope - Mod Capacity reduced from 14 to 12 - Galvanized Aptitude - Mod Capacity reduced from 14 to 12 - Galvanized Chamber - Stack count increased from 4 to 5. Mod Capacity increased from 14 to 16 Shotgun - Galvanized Acceleration - Mod Capacity reduced from 14 to 12 - Galvanized Savvy - Mod Capacity reduced from 14 to 12 Galvanized Hell - Base Multishot increased from 80% to 110%. Mod Capacity increased from 14 to 16 Secondary - Galvanized Crosshairs - Mod Capacity reduced from 14 to 12 - Galvanized Shot - Mod Capacity reduced from 14 to 12 - Galvanized Diffusion - Base multishot increased from 80% to 110%. Mod Capacity increased from 12 to 14 Why: We reviewed feedback about build and Mod options when it comes to Mod Capacity, and felt it was a good idea to change Mod Ranks. Overall we’ve lowered the required Mod Capacity as a whole per category by 2. We also changed the Galvanized Chamber so that it is at parity with the Shotgun / Pistol Mods by virtue of maxing the stacks. 3) Galvanized Mod Acquisition: Moved all Galvanized Mods to Arbitrations from Steel Path. Why: This change is rooted in the depth of the new items we’re putting in Steel Path with this Update, and the hope some players had about being able to earn the Galvanized Mods before they even arrived on the Steel Path. Since Arbitrations also require a completed Star Chart, but are a step up in difficulty from that base Star Chart, we thought (and so did many of you) that they’d be a good stepping stone for earning some of the new Upgrades! Bonus: Beam Weapon Mods! 4) General Beam Weapon Mod Change: Ruinous Extension and Sinister Reach are now slottable in the Exilus slot and their text changed from "+X Range" to "+X Beam Length" Why: While we are in the revision process for all things Mods, some well reasoned suggestions made it aboard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttylerrocks4u Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 This post so hot i might just burn myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)TheWayOfWisdom Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 With Condition Overload being nerfed, can you fix some of its bugs? There are 2 major ones to my knowledge: It doesn't work on Glaive throws, Quassus/Arum Spinosa's projectiles, and Desert Wind's waves. Condition Overload doesn't interact properly with heavy attacks. Its damage bonus is not affected by the combo multiplier on heavy attacks. It should go like this: base damage x (1 + Pressure Point + CO) x Combo Counter Currently, it goes like this: base damage x [ (1 + Pressure Point) x Combo Counter + CO bonus] With Blood Rush also being nerfed, can it and other Acolyte mods finally be allowed on Exalted melees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circle_of_Psi Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Can we remove the Age Block?, not everyone wants to sell their information or give their credit card details to YT, this effects even logged in users Edit: Even with the restrictions off, YT is asking for Credit Card Information or an ID (No one wants to do that) @[DE]Rebecca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nash Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 It's time to judge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy. Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Looks interesting. Melee changes tune it down a touch. These new Gun mods and Arcanes look good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)DabsInTears-_- Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Yay.. Attack speed will be even more meta now. PepeLaugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldain Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 ...Here we go with the power creep. So many of those mods/arcanes stack too many times, seriously...30% times 12 on that arcane is just insane...also it will flat out make the Kuva Bramma and other such AoE weapons even more insane, even if you put them behind Steel Path they're obscene. The Galvanized mods also aren't sidegrades, they're flat out better after ramp up, which is the exact problem you just tried to fix with Condition Overload, especially the Status Chance ones. Edit: Also while this is all well and good for Steel Path, it just reinforces that the baseline content of the game is intended to be an effortless AoE fest. DE, I love you guys, but this doesn't solve the Arsenal divide, it just reinforces aspects of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldenrevolver8 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 is the "+ damage" from the primary and secondary arcanes primary damage and secondary damage respectively? I assume so. Otherwise primary and secondary dexterity don't make any sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanchezjoax Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I love the gun changes and the melee nerfs seems perfectly fine to me. Will have to test them out but all in all you highly exceeded my expectations and I feel like this is a very positive change for the game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kontrollo Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 At first glance I'm cautiously optimistic, at least regarding bringing guns and melee closer together. Melee nerf: no surprise, they had it coming. Gun mods: hard to say how that plays out just by the look of it, hope you let people test them before you finalise it. This doesn't address three things though: Imbalance between weapons of a class is widening whenever there's new mods because everything is multiplicative. Are you going to touch up on elements again? I might be wrong, but thought that was still on the plate. High-end damage is already through the roof. So for everything below Steel Path these changes hardly matter even with current gun mods. What are the plans in that regard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fo3nixz Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 not to sound negative or rude: nope , thanks ill stick with melee in sp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saghzs Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Nice. Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuyver Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 What about hammers and other slow melee weapons? It's going to hurt them without being able to stack fury and berserker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boll Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Who is going to play braton, athodai or Sh it like that when you can use staltha, spectra vandal or phage. You say 'We are changing Melee and Primary in for the singular purpose of making the combat experience more balanced, especially at high level play (Steel Path, etc). ' But it will make a even bigger gap between great weapon and the ones that are bad. Take each weapon, balance them for once and for all, do same things for rivens: gg Melee nerf is really good tho but why would you stack attack speed mods when you have arcane/volt speed/ (insert attack speed buff) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)TONI__RIBEIRO Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Not adressing stat sticks? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deminisis Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 These "On kill" arcanes and mods will push explosive weapons further up in usage than the single shot weapons. Maintaining the stacks will be more convenient when we can kill multiple enemies in one shot. Melee mod changes aren't quite as bad as I thought, but nerfing the Nukor like this is disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SephirothWS Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Great, another secondary I enjoy using getting nerfed into the ground. Time to find a new secondary once again just like when they killed the Catchmoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)RWalls91 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Well these changes suck. Couldn't they just add the primary and secondary stuff to bring them up to speed? Also it seems with the new arcanes and galvanised mods you're going to make guns stupid, and have the same meta divide again just flipped around. Should have just left melee as it was, or maybe cap condition overload stacks or something so people wouldn't overly rely on the nukor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
di0n08O8 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 This looks very nice! I think the right things got an appropriate nerf and the new ways to make guns better look very interesting. I like that the Arcanes all have the same max damage increase, but require different amount of kills to achieve it. I can't wait to try all this out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldenrevolver8 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 1 minute ago, TheGuyver said: What about hammers and other slow melee weapons? It's going to hurt them without being able to stack fury and berserker. quickening still exists. so you can run quickening and berserker for 40%+70%=110% instead of primed fury and berserker for 55%+75%=130%. they didn't prevent stacking attack speed mods, they just made berserker a fury variation. so this is not a big change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kahrain Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 This seems like a start, but something feels off. I'm not a theory crafter, but some of the changes here seem to be potentially huge unintentional buffs. Arca Plasmor meta back in business? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)RWalls91 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, TheGuyver said: What about hammers and other slow melee weapons? It's going to hurt them without being able to stack fury and berserker. Rivens will be the saving grace I guess. But shouldn't have to rely on rivens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loza03 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Cautiously optimistic is definitely the term I'd use. I feel like this is something you guys are going to need to keep a finger on the pulse for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTraw Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I am surprised to see Condition Overload and Nukor nerfed in the same patch. Or maybe not. Nukor is actually not that greatest on its own, so I figured nerfing Condition Overload will be enough to put it in balanced spot. But with that AoE nerf I guess I will just pick Epitaph instead. Glaive nerfs are... weird. I honestly suspected the only problem child among glaives is Glaive Prime so nerfing them all around is another weird choice. I guess it's not big deal, Imma just switch my Aura to the one that speeds up heavy attack speed. I don't have comments on the gun changes yet but they sound incredibly strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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