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shneancy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
in most games i tend to ignore weapon/armour effects like that
unless i have enough to start making them into broken combos of gear my only tactic is smash. can’t die if you kill the bad guy first!
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Not only do I refuse to engage with unfun min-maxing like this, it will usually cause me to drop the game outright.
If the designers expect you to care about barely noticeable effects then I posit that they don’t respect your time, and will absolutely pad the rest of the game out with grindy bullshit.
Exception being if this level of detail is core to enjoying the game and is promoted in this way (for freaks who can tolerate min-maxing).
glimse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Counterpoint: including optional ways to minmax gives the people who enjoy that sort of thing their fun without taking anything away from those who don’t.
I haven’t played Cyberpunk but I think I’d love that aspect of it
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I enthusiastically concede the point.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, I used to love min maxing. I wrote an addon for wow back in the day that would compare theoretical dps from switching an item you looked at by comparing all stats from your other gear and how it would affect frostbolt spam because I didn’t want to roll on stuff I didn’t need but also didn’t want to have to pull up a spreadsheet or something for any gear that dropped to be sure it wasn’t an upgrade before passing (for figuring out if it’s better to have 1% hit or 1.2% crit or whatever).
These days, I don’t have the patience to even figure out how all the different stats affect each other (in a different game) but realized that my character killed pretty much just as effectively when I switched to my resist gear even though the dps dropped by a lot and that min maxing was a waste of time and I shouldn’t worry so much about small differences.
But it did use to bring me joy (and tbf wow had dps meters where it’s essential to be at or near the top).
glimse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I play Brewmaster so I’m rarely near the top of the meters B]
In WoW, I get most of the right gear and talents but I’m playing for fun so if something isn’t enjoyable, I’m not getting/doing it. I don’t want hanging out with my friends to feel burdensome.
Some single player games, though, I love to break. I don’t look up guides on it but if I figure out how to abuse something, I will probably do it. I blame playing FF8 when I was a kid for that