Opinion Poll ~ are the new Past Life feats good enough?

[Wizza]

You must be coming into the Epic Reincarnation conversation late

the first thing that many players were upset about was they did not want more DC increases for the reason that it would make the Epic past lives mandatory for DC casters and that newer content would be adjusted to that new standard

Is that the same for Spell power?

(Please don't answer by pointing out the +3 Enchant weap, it's laughable)

Or Caster levels?
Or Sneak Attack?
Or Tactics?

etc etc.

[Oxarhamar]

Is that the same for Spell power?

(Please don't answer by pointing out the +3 Enchant weap, it's laughable)

Or Caster levels?
Or Sneak Attack?
Or Tactics?

etc etc.

No its not at all but, I do think its funny that the majority was opposed to increasing DC before the Past Lives were announced now everyone is asking where the DCs are.

[Miow]

So . . . when are we going to throw a funeral for our alts?

I refuse, i like my alts i don't have many but i will not jump in this rat wheel, the cheese is not pungent enough for me.

[lyrecono]

Though I guess I was lucky enough to have my streaks erased by running CITW and FOT. Was nice to see a character lose a streak of over 1500 when I had done the raid before on a higher difficulty and was just running a quick normal run.

Raids should be removed from the bravery bonus imho.

As for the passive past lives, somewhat ok-ish if you grind all 3 ed'3 three times
martial sphere:
45 ac is still useless to all classes exept tanks, but what quest/raids actualy needs one of these punching bags these days?, keeping agro of monchkers/shiradi sorcs is a lost cause anyway.
Worthless!

Primal:
15X9 hp=135hp, not sure i would grind for it.
Ok-ish to have i guess

Divine:
3X9=27 prr, good to have for evasion melee's, my current tank would gain 3% dr out of 9! past lives, realy?
Worth it to some, worthless to those who needed it the most.
Why in the nine nether realms are these related to the divine sphere?

Arcane:
9X1% absorbtion
Hahahahahahaha, realy?
Not weven worth breaking it down for. Cap this and go back to the drawing board

Bladeforged:
15% fort, far too low to be noticed

Morning lord:
9 positive spellpower, nice for healers i guess, never saw an issue there...

Emo clown race:
3% dodge
I might farm 3 of these lives gave 30% instead and were given a free pumpkin head to cover up their faces.

PDK
3X3=9 prr
Ugh same as the martial passive past live usefull to a small group, useless to actual tanks.


Active pastlives:

Doublestrike:
wortwhile to most melee's

Skill mastery:
Underwhelming tbh

Fortification:
30% is nice but compaired to what it needs to compete with? underwhelming.

Doubleshot:
meh...

Fast healing:
Too low, too little, too much time in between.

Colors of the queen:
I didn';t have time to check these, what exactly do they proc?
is it all beneficial or am i neg leveling my partymembers and do i get kicked for grieving?

Healing power:
More healbot love! i guess those 30 spelpower points are worth the grind?

Brace:
+3 to saves are nice, not great, but nice

Block energy:

Blocking is rarely used, the server flakes out to much to make real use of it.
Does it realy stack with the heroic Shield Deflection feat and the ED energy blocking ?
This would result in a 100% energy absorb if it would stack. All one would need now is a feat that caused you to be considered blocking all the time XD

Energy crittical:
Not worth the grind

Enchant weapon
In a game where mob hp inflation is so rampant, this is not worth it at all.

Arcane alacrity:
i got nothing, seems underwhelming for the grind though.

Bladeforged:
Why isn't this passive?, not worth it unless you're blade/warforged in your current life

Morninglord:
Nice, should have been the pasive one...

Emo clown:
Too much time in between, see passive

Pdk:
More movement speed is nice, assuming it stacks as it should. The saves are too short a duration

All in all; underwhelming
most actives should have been passives, durations too short/cooldown to long, the martial passive line should have been 5 ac (by lv 30) and the 3 prr or 1% dodge.

[Teh_Troll]

I refuse, i like my alts i don't have many but i will not jump in this rat wheel, the cheese is not pungent enough for me.

The cheese needs more Ghostbane.

[Atremus]

Who is going to grind out that much XP for such a small benefit? 217million XP...The rewards are too small to justify the time invested. I still think Heroic TR has bigger benefits than the epic TR. The rewards for Epic TR are hardly Epic

[ArcaneArcher52689]

So far, i'm actually looking forward to a few of these past lives. So far, I see my favored soul warpriest wanting 3x morning lord pastlife, 3x colors of the queen, 3x doublestrike, and oddly enough 3x enchant weapon(because +15 longswords may actually be fun)

And i think most of these are fine. Fast healing could use some work(have the healing occur 60/45/30 seconds),
Skill mastery should add +1 sneak attack die. +3 to skills and +3d6 sa is not that much compared to 9% doublestrike or even +3 enhancement bonus

shadarkai- I suggested elsewhere that this be changed to +5/10/15 bonuses to hide and move silently, and I think it could increase you assassinate DC?



Also, not sure if anyone mentioned, but double strike/doubleshot/energy criticals have been upped to 3% per stack, and colors of the queen once every 30/20/10 seconds. And the healing spell power now gives negative spell power as well.

from the release notes:

You gain an Epic Past Life Feat.
NEW: Healing Power has been renamed to Power over Life and Death. It now grants Negative Energy Spellpower in addition to Positive Energy.
NEW: Colors of the Queen cooldown triggers has been reduced significantly, from 60/45/30 seconds to 30/20/10 seconds.
NEW: Bonuses have been increased to 3% for Energy Criticals, Doublestrike, and Doubleshot.
NEW: Added note to “Block Energy” Epic Past Life Feat that blocking does not require having a shield.
The Karma you spend will determine which Epic Past Life Feats are available for you to choose from.
For example: Spending Arcane Karma allows you to select an Arcane Epic Past Life Feat.
This stacks up to 3 times.

[Vargouille]

Thanks for the all the feedback.

[Archangel_666]

Short answer?

For me, nope.

The only thing that even vaguely piques my interest is Fast Healing, but even for that I can't justify the grind involved.

As it currently stands I'll be passing on the Epic TR system.

[Teh_Troll]

Thanks for the all the feedback.

Are you keeping the borderline insane 9x stacking?

You know this will kill alts and people's sanity.

[Leclaire1]

You must be coming into the Epic Reincarnation conversation late

the first thing that many players were upset about was they did not want more DC increases for the reason that it would make the Epic past lives mandatory for DC casters and that newer content would be adjusted to that new standard

I agree with the problem of too many things being mandatory to get meaningful DCs and spell pen, what I want is ways to get them other than multiple heroic past lives and highly specialized gear which can be difficult to obtain. Its pretty much impossible to DC cast in Epic Gianthold, for instance, on a first life toon. If Epic TR is supposed to provide another way to build a character, there should be other ways to obtain these other than grinding out multiple heroic lives. The DCS are already way out of whack for newer and first-life players- allowing more ways to get a meaningful DC only provides more options, which I think this system is aimed at. As to newer content being adjusted to make these mandatory additions, that is up to the devs to maintain balance in said content. I'm sure the trolls out there will want the devs to plan now assuming a future failure on their part in this regard, but reasonable people will see that it would not be wise for them to build a game this way. It is not unreasonable, of course, that endgame characters be required to have some sort of boosts in these areas, but allowing for them to come from equipment, heroic, or epic past lives only adds greater needed flexibility to the system.

[Phoenix-daBard]

Are you keeping the borderline insane 9x stacking?

You know this will kill alts and people's sanity.

There are sane people in this game? o.O

[DrakHar]

Okay, I need to ask. Why is everyone asking "OMG WHY IS PRR IS THE DIVINE SPHERE?!!"

You know, the sphere that has the defensive destiny? Unyielding sovreign? I think it's pretty obvious why PRR is in the sphere with the defensive destiny.

[RobbinB]

Are you keeping the borderline insane 9x stacking?

You know this will kill alts and people's sanity.

Agree 100%.

It should be a single past life for each epic destiny, not 3 per. The benefits should be more based on one PL but less than the 3 stacked PL's.

I have like 10 alts and the 9x stacking per sphere has me depressed and it hasn't even been released yet.

[SirValentine]

To me, no, not good enough.

The only one interesting to me is not compelling enough to run in an off-destiny for 18 million XP for. The ones within the sphere I'd normally be using are not at all interesting.

Of course, they could coerce me into doing them all if that was the only way to get a 4th twist slot, which by itself is better than all those lame past life feats put together. I would hate the painful grind while I was doing it, though.

[Silverleafeon]

Thanks for the all the feedback.

Thanks for reading, and thanks everyone for all your posts here ~ past, present, and future.

[memloch]

I think there is a good balance. Enough to keep you on a hamster wheel for some time without making ETR mandatory. They want to ensure none TR toons can still play the end game whenever that comes out.

[Theolin]

Benefit/Grind is to close to zero

[SirValentine]

the first thing that many players were upset about was they did not want more DC increases

Yeah, I saw a few people saying that, but they do NOT speak for all of us.

newer content would be adjusted to that new standard

That's the issue, right there. Turbine needs to stop being jerks about such things and screwing over the first-lifers. First life characters should be able to reach competence. Past lives should not be the difference between can't-do-it and can, but between mediocre versus excellent. Boosts are FINE as long when Turbine DOESN'T overcompensate to the expense of first-lifers.

[memloch]

The thing is you are playing the lvl 20 - 28 quests anyways. So if you are doing a TR or not the same quests are being played. Why not get some benefit from playing the quests.