In praise of one of the things Synthesis league actually got right

Note that this isn't a thread claiming that Synthesis was a great league, so don't jump down on it just cos it's a positive Synthesis thread. Anyway, in Synthesis we were actually encouraged to do high level content. This league? Nope. It's all Glacier all the time. Sure not all of you may be following that trend, but the league itself isn't responsible for that (you're going against the grain, as it were). I suppose it's a step up from endless Quarry farming or Harbor Bridge runs, but not by much. Even the toughest emblem fight - the 5-way battle - isn't typically worth it (unless you have a HH). So it'd be better to just do more lower tier emblem fights, even to the point of only running the 4-way battle to unlock the upgraded map device and then forgetting about it. Synthesis may have had other issues, but its promotion of players pushing towards high level content was a design element I think all leagues should strive for.

Wow, great read, fantastic thread, I absolutely agree. (You seem to have missed adding in everything else about synthesis being better though)

Edit: vvv Such lul, I'm sure I'm pissing off enough people already.

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BloodPuddles420 wrote:

Wow, great read, fantastic thread, I absolutely agree. (You seem to have missed adding in everything else about synthesis being better though)

I may or may not disagree with that, but either way that'd just distract attention away from the main point of this post, which is that the game should encourage high level play. Any other positive takeaways from Synthesis can get their own threads (feel free to make your own, if you want).

Doublepost

i didn't engage in synthesis much at all, but how did it encourage high level play more than normal?

high level play is still encouraged in its normal ways. shaper, uber elder, high ilvl bases, better potential drops etc. legion gives better rewards in higher level play here as well, more maraketh, better incubators etc. but it just so happens that low level farming is EASIER and way more braindead without investment needed, aka less micromanaging and stuff

i don't really see it much different from delves quarry farming, or betrayals harbour bridge stuff.
i'd say its better than betrayal actually.

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xMustard wrote:

i didn't engage in synthesis much at all, but how did it encourage high level play more than normal?

in order to get the best synthesized items, you needed tier1 rolls on your fractured items. these only come from high level content (for example : 35 movespeed boots requires ilvl 86, which turned into Onslaught implicits)

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Thror2k5 wrote:

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xMustard wrote:

i didn't engage in synthesis much at all, but how did it encourage high level play more than normal?

in order to get the best synthesized items, you needed tier1 rolls on your fractured items. these only come from high level content (for example : 35 movespeed boots requires ilvl 86, which turned into Onslaught implicits)

Not to mention you were making crafting bases. Low ilevel crafting bases were counterproductive even with great implicits

I tried running all the glaciers I had, about 30 of them and you know what? That's great and all if your character can't do red maps easily but when you can, you may as well just pick red maps with open space.

The one thing synthesis did right was automatic door.

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nononononono wrote:

The one thing synthesis did right was automatic door.

that was Incursion.