Thought, if you were an AO balancer, what would you balance out and how would it be balanced?

Decrease the damage of dragonfire carronades. Most other dark sea ship parts are sort of balanced, with them mostly just mixing together the stats of other items to make something strong. The archaic mortar is powerful but has a big downside, dragonfire carronades are just death to anyone close to you

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id delete metal magic from the game

The reason?

one small issue: 2 insanity, 2 drawback, and painful speed

Make scalded actually good

give second magic and fs tiers a buff to 1 under first magic or fs
most mage seconds are useless cause theyre so small

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they literally made it unusable
just because it was broken doesn’t mean they should make it ass

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True asf, second magic is basically non existent for me

just make 2nd magic tier scaling same as 1st, theres no need to get an extra 40 magic levels to get up 1 tier compared to 1st magic

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hopped back on my intensity light thermo warlock for the first time in forever, why is it so awful now
crash is useless, what the hell happened. revert it, very simple.
you lose heat over the fight instead of gaining? isn’t the whole point of thermo fist to gain it as you fight instead of depleting it like sailor? thats why i always used to think it was unfair to start a 1v1 with full thermo as you’re starting with a maxed resource that 's meant to build up over the fight. Now thermo fist feels like you’re trying to minimize your heat bar being lost instead of building it up, because its just not possible to build it up. This is also an intensity build?? who thought of these thermo balancing, because if they ever tested these changes they would realise just how awful it is
ranted a bit too much there. i think you can just fix it by reverting the changes

warlock has the issue of shot and beam being functionally the same, not much of a problem in the future i guess. smash and explosion have slight differences that make them different enough at least.

If m1s are meant to barely be used then why is that the main focus of cannon fist. situational m1s outside of pvp, terrible in every other aspect, i think everything except for m1s should be reworked but thats not something an ao balancer can really demand

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didnt say it was a good nerf

you probably cant find anyone who believes that the thermofist nerfed was deserved at all

balancer!taitc’s handy dandy three-step-plan to make ao balance good again

  1. revert savant to it’s original op stat distribution capabilities
  2. threaten anyone with their ip addresses if they ever were to change it
  3. send in resignation letter

I’d balance the balance team

Double their intelligence stat and clear their (mushroom induced) insanity

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I’d balance the game by removing fighting styles

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Some tester named Dreay said that during balancing he tried to prevent this but the other testers said “keep Thermo down”

arcane odyssey becomes truly arcane, remove strength and weapons and vitality so everyone will be wizards just like the good old days

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@Dreay you’re on my KOS list now

Regardless all fstyles were gutted even if thermo wasn’t nerfed it would have definitely fallen out of the meta on its own because of the cone detection bs

Why? He tried to save thermo from being trash, look what happened now

cuz thermo has been good since the beginning. It can be useless for 1 meta.

That’s not a good balancing mindset, the goal should be to bring something to a balanced level rather than intentionally leave it underpowered just because it was overtuned before

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