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uraciouse
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I have noticed several people wondering how increasing mob HP increases the difficulty of the game. At first I thought that the answer was simple.
The longer the fight lasts the more difficult it becomes to sustain both damage output and health regeneration. That IS how it works in most other RPG games I have played (like WoW).
Then I realized that in my experience with STO if you can survive the first 3-6 minutes you can survive indefinitely. Due to this, higher mob HP does not create a more difficult scenario, it creates a grind.
Therefore I ask, should there be a mechanic introduced in PVE which causes the difficulty of a fight to increase as time goes on? Some options might be to slowly increase the enemies damage output, resource bars, or perhaps a limited amount of times you could use each ability in a fight before incurring diminishing returns/increased cooldowns.
What do you think?
(p.s. obviously my options have several problems that would have to be ironed out)
(p.s.s. this would only apply to Elite and maybe... maybe Advanced difficulty)
The longer the fight lasts the more difficult it becomes to sustain both damage output and health regeneration. That IS how it works in most other RPG games I have played (like WoW).
Then I realized that in my experience with STO if you can survive the first 3-6 minutes you can survive indefinitely. Due to this, higher mob HP does not create a more difficult scenario, it creates a grind.
Therefore I ask, should there be a mechanic introduced in PVE which causes the difficulty of a fight to increase as time goes on? Some options might be to slowly increase the enemies damage output, resource bars, or perhaps a limited amount of times you could use each ability in a fight before incurring diminishing returns/increased cooldowns.
What do you think?
(p.s. obviously my options have several problems that would have to be ironed out)
(p.s.s. this would only apply to Elite and maybe... maybe Advanced difficulty)
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With, for example, resource bars, the dps race would be against your own ability to manage your resources rather than a timer you have no control over.
(With that in mind scratch my idea for scaling the mobs dps up slowly)