First Legendary in days and it's exclusively for the Colossus when I'm Storm. Thanks I guess.
Is the There be Giants event still on btw? Trying to find one more but no luck.
I also got a Colossus legendary on my storm yesterday evening, not the first for the wrong class since the patch. When it happened a 2nd time and it was the same component (Reinforced Hull), I checked reddit. Found a few threads on the subject, one saying playing Storm, got Colossus component and a later edit said it was a known bug (but I can't find any actual evidence of that). One of the replies said a Colossus got a Storm component, too. Maybe I should have played more Colossus if I wanted to strive for a pointlessly higher power level for my Storm :/
Midday GMT, so I think that's 04:00 Pacific / 06:00 Central / 07:00 Eastern. A little over three hours ago in your timezone, basically. :p
I also got a Colossus legendary on my storm yesterday evening, not the first for the wrong class since the patch. When it happened a 2nd time and it was the same component (Reinforced Hull), I checked reddit. Found a few threads on the subject, one saying playing Storm, got Colossus component and a later edit said it was a known bug (but I can't find any actual evidence of that). One of the replies said a Colossus got a Storm component, too. Maybe I should have played more Colossus if I wanted to strive for a pointlessly higher power level for my Storm :/
Any good boss killing Storm builds out there?
My Chaotic Rime + Pocket Infinity (or whatever that lightning attack is called) is good for both killing mobs in GM1 and GM2 but I hit a wall as soon as we get to the Stronghold bosses. Chaotic Rime no longer freezes bosses and the lightning attack takes forever to recharge and only does around 20k damage with all my elemental and gear damage perks. Which i guess isnt bad considering the fact that its almost quadrupaling the base damage which is around 4.7k but still.
I found that Glacier Spear is a lot of damage to a Boss' crit spot. It recharges pretty fast too, but it's a detonator, not a primer. which means i need to swap my Pocket Infinity. But i dont know what to replace it with.
I am also running two elemental storm components (one epic, one masterwork) that increase elemental damage by 35% and reduce physical damage by 35% which means my weapons do shit damage to bosses. i find that its better to run two of those than waste a slot on a Ice, Fire or Lightning component that only gives 5% extra damage.
Haven't heard a word. They said it was a server side thing and doesn't need a patch, but they didn't announce anything.
thanks, I tried it yesterday afternoon (EDT) and got nothing after 20 nodes with ~300 harvest. Guess I'll try again later. Also random side note, having an SSD in my ps4 pro is a godsend for this game. Shaves so much time off FT and forge loads
Yeah in GM3. hmm i didnt have any luck on, just in my best harvest gear. maybe I should do a luck set insteadGM3, right? There's definitely a correlation between masterwork embers and luck, and GM3 naturally boosts luck.
I got about 100 embers last night in about 75 minutes time. Before 1.0.3, my rate was slightly better but that could be chalked up to RNG.
Is there a good way to get guns? I know Strongholds for gear, and Legendary Contracts for Components, but I need some Colossus weapons!
So is there a definitive answer when luck stops being effective? I have a build that gives me +232% luck, is that overkill?
Not really, no. Just keep doing strongholds/legendary contracts/freeplay and pray you get MW/legendary drops from enemies or chests.
Regular Contracts that you pick up from the three faction leaders never end. After finishing the faction Agent Missions (which it sounds like you've done) unlocks the ability to do a Legendary Contract per faction, per day. You have to pick up 1 regular contract each day for each faction before the Legendary Contract pops up. Where the regular contracts appear on the boards as yellow icons the Legendary Contracts appear as purple icons.do 'Agent Contracts' constantly repeat or do they have an end?...I've been doing the same type of Contracts for awhile now and after I finish them they don't show up under my 'Completed Quests'...I'm not talking about the Agent Quests but Agent Contracts...I've also started getting Legendary Contracts even though I'm not at Lvl 30...how can you tell if the Contract is a Legendary one before accepting it?
Legendary Contracts will show up as purple not yellow. And I think they are all never ending.do 'Agent Contracts' constantly repeat or do they have an end?...I've been doing the same type of Contracts for awhile now and after I finish them they don't show up under my 'Completed Quests'...I'm not talking about the Agent Quests but Agent Contracts...I've also started getting Legendary Contracts even though I'm not at Lvl 30...how can you tell if the Contract is a Legendary one before accepting it?
Regular Contracts that you pick up from the three faction leaders never end. After finishing the faction Agent Missions (which it sounds like you've done) unlocks the ability to do a Legendary Contract per faction, per day. You have to pick up 1 regular contract each day for each faction before the Legendary Contract pops up. Where the regular contracts appear on the boards as yellow icons the Legendary Contracts appear as purple icons.
Once you complete your daily Legendaries head back to the boards and pick up the regular contracts. Do not finish them. When you log on the next day you will notice that your Legendaries are ready to be picked up right away. There is little reason to ever do the regular contracts again, the faction XP earned is paltry and rewards... lol.
i am thinking about starting new classes. i have seen collosus completely wreck shit and interceptors deal insane DPS during my GM2 runs. Collosus especially makes GM2 a breeze.So really. What is there to do after getting fully decked out in Masterwork gear? I feel like the grind for legendaries is just not worth it.
You may need to complete, not sure tbh.good to know...thanks...I thought I read that you needed to be Lvl 30 to start receiving Legendary Contracts but I guess that's not true...so I don't need to complete 1 normal contract before the Legendary one pops up?...I just need to view the normal contract?
Regular Contracts that you pick up from the three faction leaders never end. After finishing the faction Agent Missions (which it sounds like you've done) unlocks the ability to do a Legendary Contract per faction, per day. You have to pick up 1 regular contract each day for each faction before the Legendary Contract pops up. Where the regular contracts appear on the boards as yellow icons the Legendary Contracts appear as purple icons.
Once you complete your daily Legendaries head back to the boards and pick up the regular contracts. Do not finish them. When you log on the next day you will notice that your Legendaries are ready to be picked up right away. There is little reason to ever do the regular contracts again, the faction XP earned is paltry and rewards... lol.
You open the other two after finishing the main quest.When do other Strongholds open? I still only have Tyrant Mine.
Dear /u/Darthchrisshaw I just wanted to pop in here and apologize for a terrible player experience that I am directly responsible for. As the Stronghold lead the buck stops with me. I can offer explanations but at the end of the day, that doesn't change the experience.
What I really want to do is come in here and explain what we are doing about this so you don't continue to suffer these situations in the Strongholds.
Again I want to reinforce none of this is an excuse and I truly do apologize that we weren't able to correct this prior to launch or until now. I can only promise we will do better by you and the community in the future and try to win your trust back.
- We've disabled every "backtracking" fog wall in the Temple of Scar and Heart of Rage. So as of the next patch, forgive me for not having the exact dates as I'm at home, it should be the next scheduled patch in March. Internally it's called 1.0.4. So once that patch lands you should never run into this situation again in either of those strongholds. (This is different from forward-blocking fog walls which are necessary, those remain in place.) I'm not currently aware of any back-tracking issues in Tyrant Mine, but please call me on it if I'm missing an issue.
- Going forward we won't be using these types of setups unless they are for some reason mission critical to the mission. I've yet to see a mission-critical backtracking fog wall so my expectation is that you'll almost never run into this again. And if you do it's likely a bug.
- We will continue to strip these out of the existing content as we move forward with continued bug fixing and quality of life improvements. I can't offer specific timelines for when we'll have a complete pass on the game at this time.
- Until the patch lands, if you end up in this situation bring up your map and hold down LS (Left Stick) on the controller or Y on your keyboard, this will respawn you and should put you on the correct side of the fog wall. I have yet to see this fail to respawn you in the correct location.
First, I want to thank you for writing this up. I appreciate the honesty of how you (and others) feel about the current state of things. I also want to say that I can't talk about everything, simply because it is not my area of expertise, or because I don't have the information you're looking for. I stand by our statement of being transparent though and will continue to do so here and on other channels.
Now, I want to address some of your points that I can:
Communication -
Pre-game release vs Post game release –
To start, things used to be a lot friendlier here for dev team members who normally don't talk on social channels or forums. They could answer questions, give information and know that they aren't going to have people getting upset at them. Why would a dev team member take time away from working on the next update to post when they know it's likely to be met with hostile replies, or they get flamed because can't answer other questions that players are asking? I don't mind posting here when things aren't so nice, but that's because it's my job. For the devs it isn't their job, and I'd like to ask that people remember that when replying to them. When some people say "be nice or the devs will stop posting" it's 100% true. Be respectful and constructive with your feedback and more team members will likely reply.
Aggravating the community by acknowledging trivial things over major issues –
I have been acknowledging issues that aren't the major ones you mentioned, but that's because I can quickly check in on those and work with the team to see how fast we can get them fixed. I also report major issues, but until I get word back on them there is nothing else I can say. Issues like the Masterwork Embers not dropping I can quickly bring to the attention of the team and we can get fixed. I think it's better that I address the things I can as quickly as I can instead of nothing at all. Also, I try to avoid saying "thanks for the feedback, I'll share with the team" too many times in reply to posts 😊
Loot though? All I can do is point out what studio leadership shares on channels. They are very aware of all the conversation going on around loot and when they have more details to share, they will.
Now for the EA Help Tweet about Quickplay. The reason we asked for this information is to help us track down the remaining issues players are experiencing in Quickplay in one location, and to get more specifics on what they were doing when they encountered the issue. Having all of that information helps the team track down the bugs faster, which means they're more likely to be fixed in the next update, which means they can move on to other parts of the patch sooner (other bugs, content, etc.).
Being confidential about the patch notes –
I said this before, but nothing was hidden on purpose in the patch notes. The truth is patch notes come together late in the update process and I do everything I can to ensure they are accurate, but sometimes things slip by with all the moving pieces. I'd much rather put together patch notes even if they are missing a few things instead of doing generic ones that just say "various bug fixes and improvements". I'll work with the team to get this process better, but we still may miss something from time to time, especially if it is something that gets added to an update late in the process. We will never hide a nerf or change in the patch notes on purpose, even if it's something we know the community won't like. And if we do put in something that the community doesn't like we'll do our best to explain why that particular change was made.
Not Learning from previous mistakes –
I'm not going to comment on the first two points because I didn't work on Andromeda and I know how some players feel about EA, but I do want to talk about you addressing how we're handling feedback.
For feedback, we've made a large number of changes based on what players have told us. Not wanting to run to the Forge every time to launch an expedition? We added the ability to launch anywhere in Fort Tarsis, that was because of player feedback. Wanted to visually see loot drop from bosses in Strongholds? Added because of player feedback. If you are talking about feedback on loot in general (and I'm pretty sure you are) I've already said that the team is discussing and that more will be likely be shared in the coming days. I know everyone wants to know when, but I don't have that answer. We do not ignore any feedback from players, sometimes it just takes a bit longer as things need to be discussed for a longer time. We don't want to say something we can't do or give incorrect information. Like Chad Robertson said in a Tweet, we aren't happy with where loot is either, so know that it's high on our priority list.
Discarding Feedback –
Honestly, reading this stings a bit because I never discard feedback. I love this community and am very thankful for everything that has been brought up such as feedback, bug reports, funny posts (༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ Summon the loot update ༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ) and everything in between. I'm open to feedback on what you'd like to see the community team do to make you feel welcomed and appreciated. We do our livestreams, blog posts (like the inscriptions write up), patch notes, helping out with issues when we have the info and more. I am always listening and willing to make changes so please, let us know.
Lack of Content –
I'm not going to go into this too much as it's areas that I don't have control over, or I don't have the exact info on how the team is addressing. Know that I relay the feedback from the community to the team on ALL of these issues. The team is aware, and they are doing a lot of work to address these concerns.
Turning a good game bad –
All I'll say on this is that Anthem is here to stay. Do we have a lot of work to do to fix parts of the game? Yes, and the team is committed to making improvements and releasing new content.
Conclusion –
Again, I want to thank this community for everything. The team is listening to all of your feedback for Anthem on how you'd like to see the game improve, or how you'd like to see us engage with the community differently. I know that players want to see updates faster, but these things can take time to make sure they are done right. We're very appreciative of this community and look forward to the days, weeks, months and years ahead. Strong Alone, Stronger Together.
None of the javelins have MW support gear yet.are there like NO masterwork support gears for rangers or what? ive had the same epic one for a LONG time.
Well, Bioware posted two big responses to some reddit threads/concerns.
The first was about the invisible walls in Strongholds: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheG...t_legendary_drop_locked/eihady9/?context=1000
Big response from the community manager for a huge list of complaints: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheG..._bioware_whats_going_on/eih2azb/?context=1000
I got 2 masterwork drops on Tyrant mine and the game crashed when we killed the boss.
I'm tired, frustrated and disappointed.
Can't seem to get weapon mw drops tonight, nothing but abilities and components
what difficulty are you playing on?Can't seem to get weapon mw drops tonight, nothing but abilities and components
This is good.Well, Bioware posted two big responses to some reddit threads/concerns.
The first was about the invisible walls in Strongholds: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheG...t_legendary_drop_locked/eihady9/?context=1000
Big response from the community manager for a huge list of complaints: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnthemTheG..._bioware_whats_going_on/eih2azb/?context=1000
Look, I'll repeat again the same thing I said previously, take it from me, as a player who brought into Rainbow Six Siege in he beginning, at this point no form of feedback, from unconstructive statements to essays on the loot will solve the problems like lack of content and reworking systems. They will take months of work, of Dev time, and the result is your not gonna see instant change. On Reddit particularly, I see a ton of responses regarding the player population fading away, pleas for Bioware to do something but the simple fact is that this content needs time to be made and nothing can be done to change the game here and now.
If you can't play the game anymore cause you finished the content, drop it. If your frustrated, drop it, if your spending your days waiting for new stuff, just walk away. Check in every so often on Reddit if you want, but don't spend your time focusing on the game in the hopes things will change immediately. There are plenty of games to enjoy and the best thing about GaaS is that you have maybe 50/50 Anthem will be supported long term. If your feeling ripped off, I can't smoothe that than to warn you about preordering and buying new games. If it makes you feel better, I brought Andromeda at full price....on one hand I sympathize with criticism about the game, on the other, alot of people need to walk away and accept the current situation as is.
There's a small pool of MW items that drop in hard that include 8 weapons (9 if you're playing colossus) so that's a decent way to get a few, and as an added bonus you can get through the content nice and quick. Once you have all of those though it's GM1+ and pray to RNGesus.Is there a good way to get guns? I know Strongholds for gear, and Legendary Contracts for Components, but I need some Colossus weapons!
The point of QP is to backfill missions that are short, so in that mode you have a chance to drop in after the start (and possibly/probably) with a bugged mission. If you select it just from the SH menu it *should* start you from the beginning. So until QP gets more stable I wouldn't do it unless you a) could use the XP (pointless at the moment once you're max level) or b) you need them for the Challenge of Valor.what's the difference between doing a Stronghold in Public matchmaking versus doing a QuickPlay Stronghold?...aren't they both the same thing?...I know you get more XP/bonuses with Quickplay but what's the difference in terms of matchmaking?
I'm going to assume your wording here isn't the best, but as far as I'm concerned toxicity can NEVER be justified. Of course people can be (and are) justifiably disgruntled with their experience and are welcome to share feedback on it, but there's never an excuse to cross the line into toxic behaviour.