Dark Sector Review

[Klacee Sawatzky]

Browsingthrough the wiki and I noticed that there is no High tier weapon affinty bonus darksector for shotguns. Shotguns only get up to 18% while pistols and rifles get 25% and melee gets 21%. It gets weirder though, there are 2 melee 21% locations, potentially a long standing oversight or maybe it just dates back to when we had very very few shotguns.

In total this is how the 26 dark sector nodes break down for weapon bonus':

10 melee nodes

7 rifle nodes

6 pistol nodes

3 shotgun nodes

0 heavy weapon nodes (obviously because they didn't exist back when dark sectors were created)

It might be time to shuffle around some of those node weapon bonus'. Our arsenal has expanded substantially since they were added, especially shotguns. you could arrange the bonus's so melee, rifle, pistol, and shotgun each get 6 locations and heavy weapons get the remaining 2 since you don't get the resources to make those till much later so they don't need to be spread as evenly throughout the starchart.

I believe the main reason they have different values and affinity boost a lay back in the clan war days, which only the very longest severing tennos can remember. Also the extra was something to balance the fact infestation gave less affinity to start with compared to affinity from grinneer. Nobody uses these nodes for leveling as we now have faster places to level such as sanctuary or liches. Seeing as DE has removed dark sector entries from codex its a probability they will remove the bonus as well.

I explained it badly: things that might be added in the future. I was meaning when you add new things, add them to relevant stuff. Not that they should have planned for heavy weapons when dark sectors were released, that is unrealistic. But when heavy weapons were released they should have looked at adding them in to the bonus there.

my bad I output the line above when I was typing out the thing. the melee location directly above the shotgun location in the list is 21% I'll fix that. The darksector nodes give both bonus affinity (30% at top level) plus weapon specific affinity bonus on top of it. Which I'd like to keep because it makes a substantial difference.

Yes I was there when dark sectors was added the imbalance of the affinity gains and what items gained it was part of the draw of the high value nodes. However we are so far past that original intention now. The star chart has even been moved around since. Ceres used to be one of the highest level planets, that's why it's credit amount is so high compared to other early darksectors, it was never updated for the planets new location.

People do use them for leveling. I use them for leveling almost exclusively because I don't like onslaught and I want to fight things other than grineer. More options for farms is never a bad thing and I can get credits at the same time. You could also argue that fissures took their place but fissures only really become better if you want to do long runs which are physically unhealthy.

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Once upon a time, the Universe was just a hot soup of particles. In those days, together with visible particles, other particles to us hidden or dark might have formed. Billions of years later scientists catalogued 17 types of visible particles, with the most recent one being the Higgs boson, creating the 'Standard Model'. However, they are still struggling to detect the hidden particles, the ones that constitute the dark sector of the Universe.

Scientists at the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have proposed a hypothetical portal that connects two possible dark sector particles; their research could open a new perspective into the murky understanding of the dark sector. Published in Physical Review Letters, this study has implications in cosmology and astroparticle physics.

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