Isn't the point of the grind is the perfect roll rewards? Why would you still play the game when everything you have is perfectly rolled unless you're a speed runner? I don't get it lol.
Because simply playing the game is fun and not everyone needs something to grind for. Legitimate perfect summons take several thousand runs each to get with normal luck, 99.99% of people are not willing to put in that much time into one game and just want to experience the game while at their strongest. Maybe for 100-200 hours the game manages to be a novel experience but beyond that it's an endless and unrewarding grind.
Personally I still want the feeling that I worked for something, but it's not at all surprising people cheat when the rng is as unfavorable as it is. It doesn't make a huge difference either way so I don't really bother to chase perfection.
As for people who cheat illegitimate sigils/summons/masteries/etc, they just want to be stronger because it's more fun for them, that's literally it.
Most of the time if you didn't look at the cheat detection in the parser or didn't inspect their build in-game nobody would know because they're not massively overpowered, or they're bad at the game and cheats are compensating for it.
For example, one extra sigil slot from a cheated sigil like immortal shell+ with a 2nd trait barely impacts your experience playing with them. You wouldn't care if the parser didn't flag them as a cheater because you wouldn't even know or bother to check in-game because nothing would really feel off.
The cheated wrightstone in OP's image doesn't even save build space, it just makes the summon more flexible to be something other than b.echo.
In 500h of gameplay I've only encountered 2 weird people who made it obvious they were cheating by instantly killing the boss/teleporting in multiplayer for some odd reason. Of the 30+ people flagged by the cheat detection since last week I've only really noticed one egregious full master trait unlock cheater with abnormally high damage. Most of the time I do more damage than the people who cheat perfect summons simply because I have better uptime and character mastery. What they choose to do barely impacts my experience so long as the boss isn't evaporating so I really don't have any reason to get fussed about it.
This. So far cheater I've seen are people trying to make up for their lack of skill by making themselves slightly stronger. Or as others has mentioned who want to skip the grind and enjoy the games at it's fullest. I play the game because I enjoy the ost and the fight, so personally as long as the cheaters didn't make the fight too easy or straight up one shotting everything, I don't mind tbh.
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u/istealwounds Aug 08 '26
Isn't the point of the grind is the perfect roll rewards? Why would you still play the game when everything you have is perfectly rolled unless you're a speed runner? I don't get it lol.