A tale of integrity.

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Boem wrote:

Don't forget, adjusting the price is not the same as removing the mod, they are upping the "buy-in" threshold for these weapons, which in fact is something that will mater at the start of next league and for players joining the league late, really this price change will do nothing, which is exactly why it is a dumb move to pull mid-league.

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YellowMage wrote:

There's two things wrong about directly changing the price of the meta mod, which asks very important questions:

Firstly, is the meta mod imbalanced? If it is imbalanced, what needs to be done in order to correct it - the behaviour of the mod itself? Changing the price doesn't change the power of the meta mod itself, it just makes it prohibitive or players won't use it if it's too expensive. One notion of how it could have been corrected that it could only allows two other master mods (3 in total) as an idea. I believe this has been already suggested...

If the mod itself isn't considered imbalanced, the thing that is glaringly unbalanced is how many of the cost of crafting mods don't scale and makes mods on some items really expensive or really cheap depending on what items you use. Low level crafting doesn't really happen because the cost of the mods are sort of bad. High level crafting happens a lot because it's worth the cost of currency items.

The cost of bench crafted mods should change based on the itemlevel of the item it's being used on and additional costs for other master crafted mods. This would make any additional master mods you add with the master benches significantly more expensive with meta mods. Master mods should be at least relative to the level of the item it's being used on not just the level of the mod you're using. This should be the case for EVERYTHING. Elreon would also make additional master mods more expensive.

The jim-jam solution is just make it so you can only put it on rare items so you roll to regal...

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Boem wrote:

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nikals wrote:

Vendor prices aren't unintended mechanics. Snapshotting is. That's how I'm assuming GGG is looking at it and thus taking different actions in these two different scenarios.

This thread is not about the price, neither about the effect of the mod.

It is about the action taken against it in the middle of a league.

(also what you call snapshotting is a mechanic introduced into the game that players creatively worked with, which is exactly the same as the multicraft mod, a mechanic introduced that players got creative with both resulting in unforeseen scenario's by GGG)

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Zanixx wrote:

I KNEW this would come up eventually.

I haven't got multi-mods yet as my master isn't high enough but the way I view it:

Those who have invested more time early have been able to take advantage of a change that will now become more expensive. Thats their 'reward' for being dedicated and active.

Thats it.

No whinging, no crying, no 'waaa waaa I missed out and people have spent less than me waaa waaa".

Grow a pair ffs.

PS. I hate the new cost as I'm SF. Completely unreasonable.