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Mystic Dispersion still not up Sept 5th
Kawlidgestudent
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Didn't Kabam say that Sept 5th would be the day that we could test the new Mystic Dispersion changes? I still cannot access my MD and mine still says level 99 required.
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- On September 5th, with the release of our next update, we will activate the new version of Mystic Dispersion.
- You’ll then have 6 days to test out the new Mystic Dispersion, ...”
Not once did it say they would lock out mystic dispersion as a usable mastery, all they said was they’d lock the ability for you to purchase more levels of the mastery.
And today we should have been able to start testing the new version of MD cause on the 11th that new version becomes permenant.
They need to clarify why we can’t use this and fast.
Check the circled section.
Dr. Zola
They locked it, so if you took it out after, you'll have to make do until the 11th before getting it back.
I get that it sucks, but it was avoidable by not taking MD out after the 31st.
Though it is a good lesson to maybe do it differently next time a mastery gets changed to where you can at least buy it once the update hits live, that's true.
It is in these notes though.
they need money so they won't change it to passive buff.
You are incorrect sir. It is complicated from a production rollout perspective, but simple from a programming perspective. Kabam is doing the RIGHT thing by the community/user base in this change. Some people like myself spent serious amounts of units to unlock MD4. Maybe we don't want MD4 anymore with the new change because it isn't useful. Kabam will refund us in a very honorable way and allow us to make the choice to purchase it again.
And by the way, don't talk about computers like they are magic boxes requiring many people to figure out something that is relatively simple. It's like nails on a chalkboard to any person with a computer science degree. If I knew their DB schema, I could knock this minor change out in a couple of hours. Basically, they keep transaction history in a database (and make backups periodically, e.g. prior to maintenance or major changes in case something goes wrong). For issuing refunds, all they have to do is write some SQL to figure out who bought what in relation to unlocking MD and what they paid with + how many cores they have in their inventory from the transaction history tables using the database snapshot they made (basically acting as a cutoff), and then they update everyone's MD mastery to locked and insert the new transactions into their transaction history tables to give us our refunds.
This is standard. It's not very hard to do at all and these scripts are simply run once across the entire player base to calculate what is owed from the backup DB and again to issue what is owed and reset everyones masteries in the production DB on Sept 11th. The application code change to dexterity will be included in the Sept 5th update and made available when new MD version is available to unlock on the 11th.
That’s not completely what it says: it says MD will once again be available to be purchased and ranked up again—after they have removed it completely from every Summoner during Maintenance.
It doesn’t say anything about preventing players from testing it (assuming they had previously unlocked it) from 9/5-9/11–which is what everyone is pointing out.
Dr. Zola
Fair enough, it can be confusing. I did interpret it as such though.
We lock it, it won't be available until... so taking it out means it won't be possible to put back in.
I made the connection with that meaning if you remove it it won't be back until the 11th.
Not everyone did obviously.
Let’s just chalk it up to the fact that the forums announcers seem to have an ongoing struggle with the English language.
Dr. Zola
The only way to test a mastery is to take recover points and try it with less or more and see how it responds. If you ran 5/5 before like me I want to see what 4/5 and 3/5 is like. Maybe put those 2 points to max dexterity etc. you can’t do that if once you collect them you are locked out for a week.
Totally agree, and I think the vast majority of the players read it the same way (and it would make sense to have it work that way). If there is an official response or apology yet, I haven’t seen it—just the one from Miike saying there was no mistake locking it down.
Dr. Zola
Because if that was the case it would still be broken. Need proof? HOOD! I know it’s been done to death on the forums so I’ll keep it simple:
Upon the expiration of stagger Hood siphons the enemies health.
Now mystic dispersion was activating whenever a buff expired except it considered “refreshing” to count as expiring.
They are worded in game as near identical yet if they both worked identically Hood would be far higher in the tiers possibly even demi god or just below it given how often he can place stagger.
Clearly not reading the line about August 5th.
On September 11th, Mystic Dispersion will once again be available to be purchased and Ranked Up again. Apologies for any confusion. Please check out the announcement thread for all of the details. If you have any more questions or feedback about the change, please contribute to the discussion thread here.