Update about Synthesis League Changes

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Please note that we're still testing and iterating on the above changes.

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Bakudan wrote:

Even if they need 1 month to fix and change this, its all good, enough time to test builds, do other things since there is allready a lot of content.
I understand people are so impatient and frustrated but the mad part is mostly the Betrayals bugs and at some points maps drop that was blocking people.

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magicrectangle wrote:

I mean, that's going to be better than nothing, but doesn't really fix the main issue, which is that I have no reason to give two shits about the memory board, it is just busywork that gets in the way of killing shit. If anything being able to move memories around on the board is going to increase the amount of time spent in that busywork instead of killing.

The most busywork intensive leagues have been synthesis, betrayal, and talisman. None of them have been popular with players. The most popular leagues are the ones where the mechanics just get out of your way and let you kill monsters. Breach, abyss, beyond.

About the most management you should need to do is Delve. With delve you've got a couple resources to balance, a route to plot, and upgrades to do. They're all fairly streamlined though, and you're rewarded not only with good loot and experience, but a sense of permanent progression, as you upgrade your cart, and gain depth. Only problem with delve right now is the central shaft doesn't go deep enough on starting a new league, so you're forced to grind through content that it way below your level.

This league mechanic won't magically become popular with these changes. The entire memory board concept would need to be reworked to cut down on the bullshit. One option would be to give unlimited (or huge) space for memories, hide the memories from the player, and just let zana plan your routes. You click the node you want to travel to, zana checks to see if she has pieces she can use to make the connection, favoring the highest zone level pieces. You could open your memory inventory to modify the routes zana plans, if you don't like something about it, but otherwise you just go.

Completely remove the memory modifier nonsense, make memories rewarding at a base level, give them only one use (no decay, you already stabilized this memory when you acquired it), and having reaching the reward nodes be the primary goal.

The concept that was revealed a while before release for this league, where memory chains passed their mods down the line to make harder and more rewarding memories was way better than the one that went live, with all the memory modifier bullshit. You've created a mechanic that requires as much time spent planning as actually playing the game. Absurd.