**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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for me re-doing it normally saves 4 units and get to have WP and coag for daily questing.
for attack this change is great
Full Loadout for AWD - Max MD, Limber, Stand Your Ground, etc.
~90% Loadout with Recoils - Probably leave the Despair tree open and everything after Willpower.
~80% Loadout without Recoils - Most flexibility here. Leave off Willpower and Dex as well as the Despair tree.
In all seriousness, solid change. I would’ve been happy paying 1-2k units for a slot with free swaps. But 35 units per swap is worth making a switch when going between WoW and other quests vs arena grinding.
Personally, I didn't expect mastery switching to be free, nor do I think it is even desirable for it to be completely free. For it to be a) more convenient, b) cost less, and c) have a way to eliminate the *need* to switch for one of the most common use cases is... hmm, actually this is something I suggested years ago. Right down to the AWD specific settings. I called them "mastery profiles" back then.
In effect, the slots in BG are mastery profiles: mastery configurations that are specific to BG. Using those, we don't have to switch masteries at all just to use a different one for BG. We set it once, and then BG automatically uses that one. We will now also be able to set an AWD one, and then AWD will automatically use that one. In both cases, there's a cost to actually set up the mastery configuration, but from that point on there's no cost to "switch" to it: the game simply uses that set up in that mode regardless of your mastery set up elsewhere.
For all other game modes, we will have a shared set of profiles that we can switch between for less cost than it would normally take to completely redo our masteries. If we primarily use just two different set ups - outside of AWD or Battlegrounds - our switching costs are now a flat amount, and switching is now far more convenient.
Hate Kabam all you want. If it was up to me, we'd have had this capability long ago. But you wouldn't have gotten free unlimited mastery switching from me either. Nor would you likely have ever convinced me it was a good idea.
If that’s the case they should add a timer that is good for 4-6 hrs where we can swap back and forth for only 35 units.
I suspect they are rolling this out initially with AWD as the most obvious mode-specific use case, but I would bet better than even money that arena will get its own checkbox eventually. Eventually might be a year or two away, though.
2) Arena is the biggest reason why many players, myself included, uses the recoil masteries. Having to pay 35 units every time I go to arena, then another 35 when going back to questing, AQ, or AW attack is ridiculous.
3) I never said things have to be the way I wanted, let alone demanded it. The only thing I did was sharing an opinion on something that I saw happening many times before, but of course a white knight would get triggered by the fact that someone shared an opinion they don't' like.
So you pay to switch to slot 2, but then switching back to slot 1 doesn’t have a charge?
How would this process cost less than 70 units?
Very good job on the update, only one concern I have regarding the 35 units. Its definitely cheaper than before but when you consider the fact that when you swap to a temporary loadout for a given quest and then switch back, it’s going to be 70 units each time.
Say, I’m about to the CCP avengers challenge, I dont need MD, i may want to temporarily switch it out for Collar Tech. But after that, MD is what I would normally use.
Alternatively if i want to do the Tigra Challenge , I may want to have max Deep Wounds etc.
The possibilities are numerous, but the point I’m trying to make is it would make much more sense for us to be able to disable points in certain masteries to be able to spec points in other ones. That way we don’t have to pay to spec the whole tree or pay 70 units via the loadout switches
Let me know your thoughts
and if i turn off full suicides just for placement, does it see that as a game wide change or just for AW? guessing it's game wide.
ideally i want to create a custom defensive AW setup, pay the 35 units once, then run it permanently while having whatever other setting outside of it.
2. I myself suggested mastery profiles over six years ago (and many times since then), and arena and AWD were the specific use cases I called out at the time. Characterizing the current system as a "turd" and implying that this sort of implementation is "why people hate Kabam" is another example of "my way or else" that you claim you never said. And also privileged foolishness. It would be far easier to advocate for the arena to get its own profile option now than it has ever been in the past, and the game and the way it is developed and managed change in incremental ways. It is lauding when things actually improve in both reasonable and positive directions.
3. Of course I'm a "white knight." Because in spite of claiming you never said things have to be the way you wanted, not only did you assert that several times, anyone who disagrees with you or points out your hypocrisy must be a white knight. It would be inconceivable to you for anyone who disagrees with you or perceives a change Kabam makes positively could have a legitimate point of view. No, there has to be a tainted driver of that, because not only must everything be your way, everyone must think your way also.
It can't possibly be that I might perceive this change as a positive change because I've been asking for it for years, over and above many objections by Kabam as to its plausibility or viability. I was here before Kabam was here.