Does anyone else kinda miss the way TFD was when it started? I still like the game it's currently my most played game. The only game that could've been close to the amount of hours I've put into this is probably For Honor. Although I won't lie it feels like it's lost it's "identity" in a sense. I'm mostly talking about characters and how their roles used to matter, but it feels like descendants are all just being made, or at least trying to be made into power houses.

When the game first dropped characters felt like they had rolls in team set ups like any other looter shooter:

- Lepics/,Viessa were elemental damage dealers you'd bring for specific encounters

-Ajax would be the teams defense when you needed protection to get a teammate up

-Yujin was the medic keeping members from going down in the first place, or getting people to faster than anyone else

-Enzo resupplied the teams ammo

-Gley was raw damage

Then there were more niche options that you'd experiment with to make a play style you'd prefer like:

-Kyle

-Blair

-Freyna

-Valby

While yeah Ajax, Yujin, Enzo can still do what they do it hardly feels like they have jobs because most mobs and bosses are getting atomized by 1-3 other people that are doing 1,000,000,000 and killing everything before they even walk in a room. Plus some of the descendants (excluding Viessa,Gley, and Valby) barely if at all keep up in this massive damage ecosystem. It used to feel like your character had something to do to offer to your team, or playing solo was you testing your own skills and understanding of your descendant. Now the devs either turn descendants into death incarnate, or they attempt to make them 1 person armies only to still not be able to keep up or at least not be as good in terms of damage with the ones that are (looking at the recent Freyna and every male descendant). I still like the game, and this isn't trying to be a "The game is dead", kind of post, but I kinda wish we weren't in this "everything needs to hit hard to be viable.

i was so excited for freyna's rework, i thought it's going to be like blair's rework, strong damage, cool new red mods, and new ability rework, but it wasn't any of that, because freyna still struggling to keep up with the other strong descendants.

there's a lot to talk about, but the 3 main things that's annoyed me is

• her damage is still weak even with 3x gold, 1- AM.
• she's scales from MP
• one of her builds are dimension!

like... why???

we waited months and months just for nothing.

Guns should not change anything about a player's skill damage or skill crit rate. And they shouldn't have cores that change a player's speed.

Guns should just shoot and have interesting effects on the enemy, like tow or stun.

We have hundreds of external component sets, and 90% of them are unused because they don't increase damage. I think external components would be more interesting if speed and skill damage buffs where were only available from them, instead of gun stat-sticks.

I also hate the idea that I have to hold a rocket launcher to make Freyna's skills do more damage. It just looks stupid.

I honestly thought this rebalance would finally bring her up to par with the other meta options like luna or raven maybe blair. Instead it feels like we got a lukewarm adjustment that completely misses what actually makes her struggle in endgame content her skill damage still falls off a cliff even with good buff on OS4 and Trials , i do feel some improvement on bastion of immortality clear time but i were hoping for proper scaling adjustments on content like OS4 and trials.

Okay so serious talk, for the past 2 years we've had Halloween, Xmas and summer pools at Albion but for some reason this year we didnt have the pool and now we are halfway through October with a Halloween pass and not a single decoration. What exactly is going on??

Decorating Albion during the holidays completely changes the vibe of the game and really makes it more lively, dont they have the assets? The absence of the pool was already weird but now Halloween? If we dont get any snow for December than this game fully lost its soul.

It's just all around terrible...

Freyna:

• Catalyst Zone Immunity - The fact that enemies go immune to continuous damage for 2 second after you cast it just feels terrible. If it was just a single pulse effect, maybe it would be okay, but this is a skill with a 15 second duration... Meaning the 2 seond immunity CONSTANTLY REAPPLIES!? What in the actual F where they thinking? So you cast it and then for for the next 15 seconds, you're no longer consistently doing the one thing she's supposed to do.
• The whole invis thing - What was their design intent with this? You cast some skills, go invis, and then wait amongst enemies for them to die??? Because doing anything while you are invisible breaks the invisibility, so I don't understand what's the intended playstyle here?
• The obvious thing I thought they would fix - Freyna has always had the problem of her 1 and her 3 being the same skill, but with different numbers. They did nothing to address this.

Gley:

• Explosive life - Someone else pointed this out as well, but it's SO dumb that they made this a full skill build, but then forgot that both her skill damage skills (her 2 and her 4) require custom resource to use... Custom resource that you can only get by killing enemies!!! So it's the only "Full skills damage" build (their words, not mine) that forces you to rely on killing enemies without skill damage to cast your skills. Not to mention it just literally doesn't work on bosses if there isn't trash enemies to kill so you can get custom resources.

Enzo:

• Dunno, I don't play Enzo.

I dunno, it all just feels rushed and poorly thought out. I don't know what these guys are doing, and this is coming from a person that has historically defended and supported them.

I'm sure there's many more, but these triggered my ass.

Yes, I have everything turned off in gameplay setting.

I was trying some of her trans mods with the new trigger module (double gold) in trials and the results just weren't good. With good buffs, I could get an 18min run. Most runs took over 20min. She absolutely needs all the good buffs she can get to pull off a time some characters can get with bad RNG.

Toxic Misture seems to be one of her worst mods. It just doesn't have enough AoE and DoTs to deal with crowds.

Toxic Stimulation, Venon Synthesis and no trans mods essentially play the same. Nothing exceptional about them.

Contagion is your go to for low level content, if you're trying to clear a daily quickly.

Neurotoxin Synthesis was the best one I tried, however it needs some QoL. You can mark enemies with 3 and then kill them with 4 for some AoE shenanigans. It deals good AoE damage and was the only mod that managed to kill enemies in some rooms so quickly that the FPS dropped until all 300 enemies were pulverized in less than 6 seconds.

The problem: You're constantly shooting your 4, which slows down your movement to a crawl and makes you a sitting duck for melee and ranged enemies. Her 4 absolutely needs a much higher movement speed or, at the very least, knockdown/knockback immunity.

You might say "just use her 1 to push enemies away", but that isn't smart. Her trigger module has a long cooldown and you don't wanna waste the effect and put it on cooldown just to push trash mobs away. You need her 4 up as often and quickly as possible with this trans module.

Another problem I noticed, but needs more testing, is that the DoT seems to be able to steal marked kills from her 4. As in, I'm shooting a marked enemy, they die, but they don't spawn the Decay Fragments, which I can only assume is caused by something stealing my marked kill (could be a trial buff or a DoT, or both).

I haven't tried Venom Injection, so I look forward to any post describing the experience with it.

Freyna's rework was a letdown to me. I just don't see myself using her even for fun in her current state. Unless devs do a quick round number buffs, I'm only dusting her off for tech/toxic kill dailies.

There's just a level of bad that it's hard to have fun with, imo.

Nobody going to use that unless there is a Transcendent variant coming. Or is there?

I mainly play raven and dia so i was wondering if this means that all of the descendants that have released since these came out will be receiving some

Context: Explosive Life got changed to become full Skill build with bonus crit, with this change they removed all gun buff related off Explosive Life kit aside from infinite ammo skill

Her main skill is the 2nd skill, it detonate Life Orb(create upon enemies death with 50% chance), which means in order to kill enemies, she needs to kill enemies first

How will she kill enemies to create Life Orb? By using the buffless gun that the mods just remove all their buff to kill of course! And since it's a skill build so you better use your ATR 0 for that damage buff! But better not use that infinite ammo buff or you gets Barrel Wear and gets damage reduction so you can't kill the mobs to kill the mobs! Or, get this, have a teammate kill mobs for you so you can start playing!

Explosive Life gameplay is pretty much doing damage after teammates kills enemies so you can get a 50% chance of each kill to be able to use your main kit, you practically at you teammates mercy so she is a sub DPS with this mod lol

Also, they didn't touch Massive Sanguinfication at all so, this is a skill build we stuck with, yay

First sub DPS in the game because she is a DPS that can't do damage on her own lol

I hope Dev will start playing their own game before new year, most of the problem can be easily notice with 5 minutes of gameplay, seriously

Pretty fun, lots of synergy.

🎶 Halloween in Albion 🎶 🎃

Kinda disappointed but

I know someone will say "She already has insane AoE clear, they have to balance her in some way! So they kept the old values"

Oh, she also doesn't get any MP scaling on any of her abilities, with Contagion equipped

• No mod equipped
• Venom Synthesis
• Neurotoxin Synthesis
• Toxic Stimulation

All these have MP scaling

30 minutes before the maintenance a nice surprise popped up for me completing my current Transcendent weapons collection before the new weapon inclusion

So using the eastern mythic gley skin I ran into a visual glitch caused by the tunnel leading into the main area and it made several parts of the skin glow green i was thinking it looks really cool but wish I had control of what was neon and the color we already have things like shiny metal and matte colors and a few other textures so why not for example neon clear red and it actually glows

I just got the this drop with a good roll and substats so I wanted to test it out on gley. This is with no catalysts and this was easily the best I ever felt using weapons in Trials.

Still want to test it on the Ship and a couple of other places but man this gun just feels really good.

Might even be the best thing about this patch LOL

I’ll forever miss my snow camo raging light.

I played a bit with Enzo today. He feels better, but still feels a bit clunky for most of his builds. I like the halving of the number of rounds that he needs to fire, but the bigger issue is still needing to swap and fire 2+ weapons. That is just way too much ramp up.

All of his builds should require only 1 prep effect.

Focus Fire is the only transcendent module that they made only require one prep effect and it is a skill based build.

With how easy Raven is to play and given how easy it is for Valby, Viessa, Gley, and Ajax are to build as Gun Descendant, I don't know why they are making Enzo have so much ramp up time to build his power up. He should be the best at this next to Gley.

I tried him on the Extreme Colossi and he doesn't compare to Hailey or a Raven. He can help others do more damage though using Supply Firearm Enhancer. The most damage I did was him using the new Transcendent sniper, but that boss has so much weapon resistance.

He can do really good in the Axion Plains Infiltrations. If you're playing with a mid tier group, he can dominate, but all it takes is one good Raven or Ines and he won't have a chance to setup since you have to rotate through multiple weapons which requires you to aim and shoot for a bit which means Raven is already onto the next room and your firearm buff duration is running out while you are biking around.

Raise up my Enzo mains we shall eat today

My second upload of my lore channel for TFD!

This time i'm going over the Vulgus, their structure and how each legions differs
There's frustratingly little on them when it comes to deep lore.

But hopefully what i made can give everyone a real look into how they operate 🙏

https://youtu.be/Z2JFvoQ4-lE?is=NrGQSZwuuRrZx-G3

trials keep holdin ppl back in the previous rooms!

nexon you can go ahead and break me off 700c so i can buy this stupid halloween event pass cause this trails bs is severe garbage