Randomness of data disks
Ruins the mode. Pure luck on what data disks are given and they change the game mode entirely.
Forum Discussion
1) Passing up a valuable buff disc on an early node was a mistake.
It was the first node, it was a white buff disc but a green speed disk. Both are valuable but since
1) the buff disk doesn't come into its own without a disk to reset cooldowns on buffs, its immediate use was less
and
2) it was white (low quality) while the green disk was, I don't know, "normal" quality on the white to purple scale?
The speed disk was an objectively reasonable choice and certainly not a mistake. Now there might be more than one objectively reasonable choice. Which is best was **subjective**, but what I chose was not a mistake and was reasonable at the time. The 3rd time I got a choice, I had other options and did choose something other than speed. But the 2nd included only 3 options where 2 out of 3 (there were only 3 because the other path wasn't data disks but consumables) were speed and one white disk that inflicted dots - which wouldn't have helped me since I was completely outracing my opponents and they weren't getting many, if any, turns. I can't remember every option available in the 4th choice, but I do remember that 4/6 were speed disks and that the only Blue disk was speed. Since that was a higher quality speed disk with more speed for the single equipped slot, I chose that. I'm sorry I can't reproduce from memory exactly what the rejected choices were on that node, but again, four out of six were speed disks. There wasn't a lot of choice to begin with. Oh, I do remember that one of the two others was a white disk that provided the leader stat buff. I chose not to grab that one because the Blue speed disk could replace my white speed disk, while it was likely that I would get a higher quality leader-stat-bonus disk later, as those disks were common in normal mode. Why take a white disk that's going to get replaced with a better version of the same thing?
So, no. The initial choice between buff disk & speed disk was not a mistake. I simply did not successfully predict the future superabundance of speed disks because I'm one of those extremely limited people who lives constrained by linear time.
