Tota is easily best League mechanic of all time and it's not even close.

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Luciusdesg wrote:

Far away from the best to me and since it was an out of map league it almost felt like it was standard most of time, thankfully it wasn't completely because of tattoos and sanctum.
I interacted with tota with 3 builds, one high dps minion one, one basic cheese and one dot build (RF).

The minion one was ok until I started reaching high ranks where the leaders got scaled up so hard that trying to kill them was a mistake, killing my minions WHILE killing my units since they tend to have a lot of AOE, obviously my super tanky AG died from a simple unit with the explode accessory and the matches started taking forever since i wasn't able to clear the enemy units as efficient as the enemy leader, well since tota rewards are based on high highs and low lows, taking forever to do a tournament made it all feel boring and annoying, i hated tota.

But dang then i did a cheese build (rerolled my necro into elementalist with void sphere) and the league became a money printer, would you look at that, did tournaments fast, could do multiples in a hour, got a hinekora lock, multi proj, etc etc. Wow.

And after weeks of this i went to another normal character and goddammit I went back to hating it.

To totas fans, play a common build for one hour in tota to see how useless your tankiness and dps can be and the tournaments becoming a chore for minimal returns, reminder that the void sphere and curses combos are very susceptible to nerfs if it goes core.

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fostaa wrote:

Spoiler

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SunL4D2 wrote:

There are barely bugs and AI is actually non-issue.

This is a ridiculous statement and people would say you haven't even played any TotA matches. But anyway. The AI is very clunky. Escorts are just fillers. I mean literally useless. And it's really not fun watching a few of your "defenders" not being able to disrupt 1 enemy monster that's draining your totem.

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SunL4D2 wrote:

120k EHP? What's your max hit without temporary buffs / chance mechanics? I don't get one shot on my tanky character.

First, the actual fact that you can get one-shot a few times in a single match is humiliating for the intelligence of the player. These random one-shots happen too often without you knowing what caused this. And even if you knew, you can't really do much to prevent such damage.
Yes, our characters don't really die or lose XP but it's brutally annoying and humiliating. People spend days to plan their build, weeks to develop it - just so they are being one-shot multiple times in a single match that lasts for a few minutes. If you're ultra tanky, it means you cannot delay opponents by slaying them. If you're a glass-cannon, then you will just die too often. If your build is balanced on both damage, endurance and versatility (like 95% of all my builds), I can say that you barely have enough of anything to play the matches normally - at least not in the later and more rewarding stages. And the AI is not efficient enough. It's ridiculous.

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SunL4D2 wrote:

So you took no that AG struggles in TotA but didn't realize that TotA is overall great for minions? Minions are good for Tota, because they are body blocking and distracting. TotA makes minion builds shine.

You totally didn't get the point, did you. I literally made my minion build because of TotA. Then my ultra high life doppelganger AG dies for no reason... This is the problem.

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SunL4D2 wrote:

You and the walls. Never seen anyone complaining about them so passionately lol.

Apparently you don't play a minion or a melee build this league.
And you clearly haven't paid any attention why I mentioned walls as an issue, as well as reading my arguments about it.

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SunL4D2 wrote:

Lore is literally notes in other games meanwhile it's actually voiced by professional voice actors in TotA. That complaint makes no sense.

Now this is surely something that confirms you're a new player and you're not involved into this matter that much. I didn't say they don't make efforts. I said they are bad at presenting and developing the story good enough. We barely see any actual content from the storyline in years. The last actually important content was in Metamorph when Sirus was added. No self-respecting lore-lover accepts Maven, Exarch or Eater as part of the storyline. We barely know the stories of all nations in the world of Wraeclast. We barely visited anything related to the Ezomyr, Maraketh. And now we just visited something that's related to the Karui although it's in the 'afterlife' and not actually in Wraeclast but it's a good step forward. We only visited parts of the Vaal Empire so far. There are even more nations and territories that exist in Wraeclast which most of the audience haven't even heard of.
I won't even go into more details.
Also, the cinematics in this game are scarce beyond description.

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SunL4D2 wrote:

If your understanding is lacking your conclusions will be lacking as well.