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[Snazzy Dragon]

All joking aside I am making myself multiple music playlists- PTS wait times have always been pretty atrocious.

What are the first things you are planning on trying/doing with the tree, though? What do you look forward to most? What are your biggest concerns? Discuss!

The first thing I will be doing is tinkering with armor/structure bonuses for mechs

I look forward to seeing the new megacheese build akin to the 7 LPL banshees that ran around dishing out doom in the last PTS

My biggest concern is that speed tweak might be locked behind a lot of "fluff" and that lights will have to invest too heavily in not so useful skills just to get their speed up, since that is one of their biggest saving factors both offensively and defensively

[RestosIII]

I'm going to see how expensive Advanced Zoom is first of all. I've always been triggered by the fact that it isn't a base option for mechs. After that though? Max structure for every mech I own.

[BLOOD WOLF]

I wish you would have halted on telling people to put on their tinfioil hats............

[Snowbluff]

I'm worried bout the IS, structure in particular, for using XL engines. D:

Clan mechs kind of work becuase of the better tech base, but the IS use quirks to catch up.

[Gas Guzzler]

I have a TON of concerns.

[Orbit Rain]

I'm looking forward to it because it'll let newer people get a greater variety of mechs into a competitive state.

[Bombast]

Skill Tree is either going to be an awesome inclusion in this game, or a catastrophic mess. I'm withholding judgement, but rest assured - I'm staying limber for a potential riot.

[C E Dwyer]

If it happens, it happens, if it don't, it don't, if it works o.k fine, if it's crap I just leave.

I'm done with getting emotionally involved with this crap, it's really not worth it

[naterist]

I wanna put all my points into being able to chaingun fire an srm 6. I want that recharge time at -99% recharge time.

[Bombast]

naterist, on 01 February 2017 - 02:32 PM, said:

I wanna put all my points into being able to chaingun fire an srm 6. I want that recharge time at -99% recharge time.

The Quickdraw - Master Of Skill Tree 2.0

[Lostdragon]

I plan to not play on the PTS but post my unfounded opinions in all the inevitable threads anyway.

[Composite Armour]

I'm wondering what on earth is going to happen when things like Kodiaks and Timberwolves suddenly have access to weapon quirks.

Unless I've misunderstood how they plan to implement the skill tree.

[stocky0904]

I dont think they will give those mechs weapon quirks. But lm an optimist.

[Bradigus]

Has the potential to either make older, underused mechs actually viable options again or to relegate them even further back to being worthless.

How badly PGI intends to gut possibilities for clan mechs, will remain to be seen.

[Sjorpha]

Information is so scarce on this thing. I suspect another ED/IW thing with the PTS revealing a completely broken halfbaked mess causing massive backlash and then either gets scrapped or pushed through causing a major mess.

One way for it to be that broken is if it's equal skill trees for all mechs + blanket quirk removal, which will throw faction balance out of the window beyond the window it's already been thrown out of.

If the skill tree is equal to both factions they need to keep all the quirks and add some more (since IS is currently way below Clan), if it's unequal skill tree between the factions and that's supposed to create balance then it's a **** way to balance because that leaves unskilled IS mechs inferior to unskilled clan mechs, which isn't ok.

I also hope I'm completely wrong and the new skill tree is great and makes IS vs Clan tech balanced without quirks, PGI please make me wrong in all my fears.

[Quicksilver Aberration]

Sjorpha, on 01 February 2017 - 03:04 PM, said:

I also hope I'm completely wrong and the new skill tree is great and makes IS vs Clan tech balanced without quirks

Tech balance shouldn't depend on a progression based system. The ideal here is for IS and Clan to be balanced without quirks AND a skill tree.

[cazidin]

I'm fairly certain that these forums are both well stocked in pitchforks, torches and other riot gear AND more resistant to bad ideas, all because of me.

[MechaBattler]

I'm curious to see how much of an effect the jump jet tree will have. If it will return them to their old performance. Which can be justified by the investment you have to make.

I'm concerned about the idea of Clan mechs with armor and structure. Granted they may have to lose out on performance, heat efficiency, or other. The top tier Clan mechs have a lot of other things going for them anyway.

Also by how much of the quirks are getting baked into the base performance of the mech. Seems to me like the easier thing would be to give under performing mechs extra points to start with that don't count toward the total. Thereby letting the player quirk their mech. Which is kind what the whole skill tree is anyway.

[RestosIII]

The only thing I'm truly hoping for is that they don't have a damn event going on while the PTS is up. They need to stop doing that.

[Gas Guzzler]

I'm worried assaults won't be able to get speed tweak skills anymore.