Ok let’s try to tackle these statements.
Are they trying to reward dodging? Absolutely. As I stated before, noobs will remain the worst at dodging.
As the developers have stated, the express purpose of the combat system was to cause more player deaths.
However, thanks to Oryx 3 we know exactly what to expect if a massive amount of deaths were to occur.
Let’s start out by stating the obvious. The introduction of Oryx 3 has killed far more players than the vital combat system ever will.
Have all these deaths due to Oryx 3 improved the health of the game? In my opinion the answer is no. I don’t see any significant influx of players in the realm doing regular stuff. If anything, the massive amounts of death due to Oryx 3 has gotten players to go on farming/rebuilding crusades with keys at their disposal.
The fact is that the elite players of the game have many characters to spare. If you are a new player, you will find it significantly harder to complete O3 than a seasoned veteran with 30 character slots. This is because an 8/8 character can farm pots faster than a level 1 character ever possibly could. Thus, I believe that the inequities between old and new players remains unchanged as a result of the update.
Regarding the steamrolling comment, I completely understand that the purpose of hp scaling is to encourage players to complete dungeons that drop from event bosses. However, we can look to Oryx 3 again. From my limited understanding, Oryx 3 has HP scaling that favors smaller groups. What we are now seeing is small groups of approximately 15 players who are steamrolling through Oryx Sanctuary.
Many players make the mistake of thinking a steamroll can only occur in large groups. That is false.
Definition of STEAMROLL (verb): to defeat or destroy an opponent completely
This is a steamroll! Lacroix in particular got absolutely destroyed. They dealt so much damage that O3 portals didn’t even spawn.
Thus, it is my firm belief that the vital combat system will push people into elitist discords (like the one in the video above) who will then optimize content by recruiting a small number of competent players. And again, noobs will be excluded from them.
To reiterate, steamrolling is not removed with these PT changes. Rather, steamrolling will be accomplished by excluding players.
On a final point non hp builds did not see any improvement on the PT at all (aside from dps builds that already exist ingame right now).
