People are starting to really catch on that higher resonance and using all 5 star gems is bad not only for PvP but PvE.
Most if not all youtubers are now telling players to work on 2 stars and some 1 stars and ditch resonance.
I do not think this is something that is going to help your sales and if you guys want to keep selling orbs and crests, something is going to need to change because even whales are dropping to using vipers, pain clasp, FF, and a few other non 5 star gems.
I think its time to rework some of the older 5 star gems to not make them trash compared to 2 stars or make it so that resonance actually is positive again and not a waste to chase.
Yes. Bcs with 10k resonace u waiting for BG Queue often 10-30 min. Than u have MM that isnt fun or u are on OP side - this is the first reason why they reduce resonance. Lower reso ppl doing 3x BGs in the same time what they need for one.
Second reason: Necros are so much OP bcs their imunities with pasive damage doing them immortals - so there is absolutely no point in dealing with resonance (for survive and flat damage stat), but they only focus on maximizing damage, which works beautifully with 2* gems.
I agree it just unfortunately doesn’t do well for keeping the game progressing. Sales go down and they ditch efforts to improve the game.
But it seems TBH that really isn’t even an issue since we have already pretty much stalled on anything keeping long time players and grinders interested due to devs lack of adding content or increasing gear levels, new dungeons, new ways to improve your character, etc…
This lull period has now carried on for months without any update from the devs saying “wait guys big things are around the corner and here are some sneak peaks”
instead we got cosmetics, and radio silence as far as any content coming, and a “dungeon update” that was just a damage meter added to dungeons.
It is just sad to see such a good game that was on fire go straight into the ground NOT due to players wanting to quit, but due to developers lagging in creating content for players.
Same BG and pvp as first year, same dungeons for a year, same events recycled, no changes in pricing to push players to spend again, no gear updates, etc…
I am seeing more and more people quit by the week than last month and there are only so many more days I can log on, do dailies in 15 minutes, and then log off because there is nothing left to do until sunday.
This is factually wrong, for pve there is a point where resonance outshines every 2 star gems and for pvp the only area where it counts is the roe, bg doesn’t matter at all. Whales are smurfing to have a reasonable queue time not because they are so much stronger with less resonance.
As someone who went from near f2p using 1 and 2stars to dolphin pay, that whole move to 2stars idea is rather overblown.
Yes, 100% there are some 1 and 2 stars that give better % damage bonuses and can let you punch above your res, but only if you are doing content at or below your cr. Depending on phase of the game, this can be a near nonissue or huge issue. They also reduced the benefit of 1s and 2s by letting you awaken at rank 5.
For example, back in the day with low res I could crush crifts up to say 50% damage reduction and then I brick walled. People with higher res that I could outdps in a raid could not only clear a higher crfit due to cr, but also go up to a higher % damage penalty. Or I’d be too low cr to even do the helliquary gauntlet and those higher res people would be able to carry one.
If you want to push new stuff the moment it comes out, paying for res is the only way.
And res is obviously a huge advantage in pvp modes that aren’t matchmade, like Vigil and Rite.
All that said, reworking some of the trash gems would be cool. There’s obvious power creep in the 5stars and most of the old ones suck.
First, the reason I said. He does his videos vs a dummy which is scaled to you. % damage bonuses are great when you don’t need to worry about cr at all. Pve content gated by cr is easier with res.
Second, I believe he only owns a few K res, he couldn’t personally compare 2stars vs a 10k setup anyways.
why are you trying to prove a point for 10k res players? they already have their gems to r10 so this is about people spending money to still level their gems, even 10k res players are dropping their gems to go down in res for better matchmaking and a r10 FH or spiteful blood or zwensons aint doing crap in PVE neither is a conc will on a non dash build and a r10 pain clasp is going to outperform the 700 resonance difference using a hellfire or starfire or maw of the deep or howlers and the above mentioned gems.
Youre basically arguing I am wrong because some 10k players do more dps which is arguing about the .5%, who already spent the majority of their money, really doesn’t make sense except to argue just to argue