This is nonsensical, do you even realize that?
Ever heard about “the purge”?
Thralls are obviously and undeniably meant to be a base defense.
That’s the sole reason why even a solo player can have so many of them.
The devs themselves said that multiple times. So i don’t get why that’s even open to discussion.
Nobody wants them to be invulnerable, it’s simply time and effort vs. benefit.
I can farm the material for hundreds of bombs in a few hours, it takes much longer to level and equip an army of thralls. The time and effort has to pay off.
That’s called good balancing.
It is difficult to balance a game like this with different modes on top, but it’s not an impossible task.
Besides noobs pretty much everyone is able to solo most of the content.
But feel free to lecture us clueless buffoons how easily you soloed the rocknose purge.
Besides the awful combat changes and other “new content” (basically just reworking the same mechanics over and over), maybe because there is no defense of any kind left.
Even on PvE and PvP-C servers you can exploit the purge to destroy other players bases, and grab their loot.
How bad thralls actually are, you can see that if you take a look at the area chamion.
Npc’s deal a lot more damage now, what boosted her to Wonder Woman-god tier level when it comes to the damage output.
… but she is still easier to fight than ever before, because you can simply stunlock her to death.
And with our thralls it’s the same.
So… they’re still useful in boss battles (if the poor AI doesn’t space out), but against hordes and enemy players they are SH¡T!
Hyper armor wasn‘t very realistic or immersive, but at least it worked.
Better AI would be the much better solution of course.
But how many years are players asking for better AI? And what did we get?
I‘m sorry for working at a restaurant and not being able to be online every day, 365 days a year.
So i have to agree with you there!
Those PvP-cry babies simply shouldn’t have a job or school or studies and what not.
Nevermind a real life. 