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Grrl Power #1146 - Pressured selection
🕑 Added 2023-04-20 10:01:00 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
I am pretty bad about picking skills in RPGs, but I blame this on games these days as much as myself. In most games, if you want to really maximize your damage output, you have to spend a zillion levels buying up these tiny incremental skills, and then luck out with a good unique drop that complements what you were working toward.
I'm not suggesting that games should let you pick a few skills in your first 5 levels and then you just breeze your way through the game, but it does feel like leveling up is this really incremental experience and you rarely feel any oomph after spending a new skillpoint.
Of course, a lot depends on the back end systems. There's a huge difference between:
Str: 40 TIMES 1.45% from a series of strength enhancing skills, PLUS 32 points of additional strength from gear
and
Str: 40 PLUS 32 points of additional strength from gear, TIMES 1.45% from a series of strength enhancing skills.
Most systems use the first one, because doing it the other way means that stats can get out of control really fast, and then it becomes more difficult to balance the game between the casual players and the critical skilltree path 'sploitzers. I get it. It's just more fun for us minmaxers the other way.
I think it'd be cool to read a LitRPG where the special gift the Isekai Goddess gives the MC is the ability to rearrange the order of operations for stat and skill calculations. MFer would be OP by level 10.
Anyway, Sydney doesn't have these problems because her mysterious super powers have poor documentation. Also she can't ALT+TAB over to youtube and find some channel with 30 different optimized builds for the latest patch, so she's stuck just throwing darts at the board with a blindfold.
Comments
John
I love how the circle is centered on the tip of her nose!
John
That would also be an excellent vote incentive image for me!
John
Any chance we can get an updated Skill Tree Wallpaper (with these two (all the) new choices included?) I still use the previous skill tree wallpaper on my desktop.
IvyReed
WOW! Panel 6 looks absolutely cute! but her giant blue rune circle is in the way!
BJ
Maybe, but they're not labeled.
Xandra
Shouldn't there be one for like, improved energy recovery or something like that?
J. Kevin Carrier
I just recently got around to playing Final Fantasy X, and I feel Sydney's pain...
John Chidester
I can't help but wonder now if the center dial is something akin to power reserve. Maybe if she dials that up she can fly longer/burn more/recharge her shield faster etc.
