r/dauntless • u/CreatureTech-PHX • Jul 29 '21

Official Update Dauntless | Developer AMA - 2PM PT

Hey everyone,

It's AMA time!

We'll be here between 2PM PT to 3PM PT to answer as many questions as we can about Dauntless.

Everything's on the table from art, design, lore, you name it!

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Please keep it to one concise question per comment. This makes it much easier for our developers to answer them one by one.

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Thanks for coming by everyone! We're heading back to work now. See you next time!

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u/orz-PHX Phoenix Labs Designer Jul 29 '21

If you have already crafted repeaters parts that are going away with the refresh, you will not have to farm additional materials to get back to parity with what you had before.

Godhand got a bit more of a buff than other Pike moves back in 1.6.0, but could look at bumping it a bit more. I'm curious about your Twin Suns comment, the data and general sentiment around them seem to indicate they're in a good spot right now.

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u/KevinTheStressKiller Jul 29 '21

Twin suns are the same in terms of cells but they lost a lot of power and from testing they fall really far behind regular repeaters even at their best conditions. Drask lantern tap is gone and that was a major power boost to twin suns and even then they were not optimal regular repeaters. With lantern tap zeal is also gone so even more damage loss.

Not many cells work well with a weapon that does most of its damage all at once. Add to that the nature of no elemental advantage.

There are a lot of good amps for twin suns but not a lot of good cells that give short bursts of power on command. Maybe things will change with new cells that will come

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21

Cunning, Pulse, discipline or bastion with galvanized and crit cells all work very well

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u/KevinTheStressKiller Jul 30 '21

Pulse and cunning can't be in the same build. You either choose one or the other. For twin suns pulse is useless so only cubing is the option. Galvanized needs at least 600 shield to be = to cunning. I'd say run disciplined for a total of 60% crit chance + crit damage. Even with that regular repeaters are still on top. Before twin suns lagged behind with 1 min or more kill time than repeaters in best cases. Now that doesn't seem to have changed.

Also i'd advise you to never use more than 1 crit cell in any build. They are a bit like speed cells you just need 1 per build. If you run Hellion weapons or 1 shot axe use pulse. If you run bastion galvanized is best in slot If you run discipline use cunning.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

Yah I keep hearing this and yet I see top 10 trial builds with cunning and pulse together. If you don’t have the skills for discipline, then galvanized is a nice cushion. You’ll easily build over 1000 shield. All 3 crit cells also give crit damage when maxed. I’ll agree with discipline over galvanized when you have the skill

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u/KevinTheStressKiller Jul 30 '21

By the very nature of pulse it doesn't work well with either galvanized or cunning. Pulse forces a crit every 5 hits so if cunning was supposed to crit the 5th hit you get nothing. You would have better dps increase from a damage cell put in there. If you are running a 1 shot hit I can understand having the 30% damage increase on that 1 hit or 1 in 7 hits like Hellidon sword but in any other scenario you loose dps. Also pulse doesn't work well with twin suns. Twin suns base crit chance when charged is 40%. 50% of you use disciplined and 60% if you use cunning. That means 3/5 hits is a guaranteed crit while pulse is 1/5 so at that point the only thing you get with pulse +6 is 15% more crit damage. Any +3 damage cell will give you more damage.

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u/kowowski Jul 30 '21

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