Essence Metamod Crafting

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TreeOfDead wrote:

So, we just get another "coins" and another rng time wasting + scam material to make rich ppl more richer faster, bcs its gonna be high speculated currency.

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TreeOfDead wrote:

so much tired from trading bullshit

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Haanns wrote:

Well there goes any motivation for me to do more crafting than outside of using masters.

I was really excited by the thought of a "Crafting League" where it would be possible for the non elite to craft awesome items. Currently using exalts to add mods for me is a no no because its too expensive for me to risk my currency. This new Essence League had added a whole new level of excitement not only for me but the silent majority.

I find using the excuse that powerful items will be too readily available to be a weak reason to nerf Essences. The elite few always corner the market in powerful items anyway, so by having crafting allow more to be made, would make the non elite able to compete. Also using people in standard will be butthurt is also not a good reason in my eyes as GGG have always said their main focus is on moving the game forward not stagnating it due to the standard league

The leagues are 3 months long and many people only play these, so by making crafting more accessible would have been great. Now i find myself about to go into another league where i can play the whole 3 months without using the awesome new "ESSENCE" feature because it is no longer awesome.

I feel this is an opportunity lost. Perandus with all of the uniques readily available was one of the best leagues in recent memory, precisely due to the fact that the uniques normally out of peoples reach became obtainable for all. Did it upset people? Sure it did. The very vocal minority that couldnt make currency off of uniques.

This Essence League was billed as all about making crafting accessible for all with a bold new mechanic. If it didn't work or was too powerful then not rolling into permanent or watering it down afterwards (like all the other leagues mechanics rolled into core game) would have been seen as the norm.

By nerfing the mechanic before the league even started because the player base got excited is a real shame. I think the person before me said it best

> Fun detected!
> Fun denied.

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CliveHowlitzer wrote:

Isn't this just one more situation where something doesn't apply 'just because' without any in-game explanation for those who don't check outside sources? I know that doesn't apply to most people but I am sure there are those who just play the game and would be in the dark regarding these sorts of situations since there is never anything in-game explaining that particular things don't work in certain situations even though they function normally in all others.

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Zrevnur wrote:

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TreeOfDead wrote:

So, we just get another "coins" and another rng time wasting + scam material to make rich ppl more richer faster, bcs its gonna be high speculated currency.

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TreeOfDead wrote:

so much tired from trading bullshit

Play SSF if you dont like trading?
Being a successful trader does not imply scamming or otherwise bad behaviour. And yes there are people getting rich via scamming. But being rich does not imply scamming.

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Exzir wrote:

A simpler solution would might have been once an essence is used it wipes out the masters mod and is replaced with the essence roll.

So you would get that meta mod only once. If you tried to apply the crafting mod again it would say you already have this type of mod...

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Chris wrote:

At the end of the day, this master metamod Essence crafting was something that less than 1% of our players will be wealthy enough to attempt, but would dramatically affect the rare item economy for everyone. Essences already apply a large boost to the potential of rare item crafting, so we feel that this particular case was a bit too far in the direction of "the rich get richer".

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AdFinitum wrote:

Do I understand it correctly ?

You call Essence spamming ( a slot machine with 1 fixed slot ) crafting since you removed any way to actually craft.

I would prefer to gain access to a slot machine in my hideout over calling this crafting - hey how did you craft this opop item ? "I Essence spammed it - what else...".

LUL

<sarcasm>For sure this will benefit the players who do not play 1000 hours per league</sarcasm>
The other way around actually would have made crafting worthwhile for the non rich / no lifers - if spending 3 exalted orbs would yield something at least remotely useful people might actually dare to spend that much currency into crafting for once. Now you turned all "normal" players into Essence dealers for the top 1% no lifer / rich / market manipulators.

- Love the game but not everything is great. Even though I agree master crafting might have been extremly powerful without restrictions this change makes Essences almost pointless imho. Just another toy for the top 1%...