GGG team are clueless about their own Game?

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morbo wrote:

This could be easily translated into: Since we have EQ and Reave is not total garbage, it's ok if all other Open Beta melee skills are bad and underused.

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Perq wrote:

1. Yeah... I've seen Ziggy's interview with them, and they seem absolutely oblivious of the current state of the game. I mean, seriously, saying that life can compete with ES now is absolute bollocks.

2. Again, oblivious. Why there isn't any of the pro players of the scene (like Etup, ghudda, your-idea) in the QA team is beyond me. How can you balance your game if you cannot take care of the end-game properly.

3. This is... very bad. I think it was Rory who said something along the lines they do not want players to use one skill from the beginning of the game, to the end, with no progression.
I ask only one question - why the fuck not? Really, is there any good answer to that? Why some bosses can roll Dual Strike (Atziri Trio) and be good with them, but players have to change their gems all the time? Gem progression is done by leveling them up - not by switching them out. Why would you limit the amount of possible builds?

4. It would be true if Shaper was actually a hard, rare to kill boss, and there were very few of those items. And that would actually work, because these items would cost a fortune. But given that they can be CHEESED AS FUCK with SOME BUILDS, this is absolute bullshit.

Honestly, the whole I'm such an asshole theater PT was creating, where there was no one watching, and now being a coward is sad sight. He had soooo much to say about how bad GGG's dev team was doing, including name calling and angry rants. He had soooo much to say how clueless they were.
And where is this all have gone? Oh, because he actually has to talk to them now, and there is his new-found streamer carrer at stakes, so he'll pretend everything is ok. This is not PT I was watching some time ago. :/

Gotta admit I was very happy with PT going into full-time streaming and being more relevant because of his a little more direct attitude (while a little bit cringy with the I'm pretending that I'm an asshole thingy), he seemed to have gone safe-zone damage control, to not anger GGG, so he can get Chris on the podcast.

Sad times, indeed.

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Fruz wrote:

Well, he said that a melee overhaul was incoming ( through melee targeting ), and explained why it just cannot happen all in one big patch ( and how difficult it is ).

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SunL4D2 wrote:

dudiobugtron, if you don't see anything wrong with item that gives as much AOE as entire Tree (and 2 extra projectiles for any Skills which is unreachable in the Game without Damage penalty) or Sword that is stronger than any other unique weapon and almoust as powerful as Mirrored item and gives Life, 20% AOE and phys can shock, then we have quite different views on balance or you don't care about it in the slightest.

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Before saying that someone being wrong, you need to back this up. In this case with timestamps.

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dudiobugtron wrote:

Your third point (Chris thinks its OK for most skills to be useless) is a pretty big misinterpretation of what was said. Chris said that it's OK for some skills to be worse than others. Also he said that homogenising every skill so that they are all equally viable doesn't actually make the game better.

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dudiobugtron wrote:

Flask is high-tier but there are much better flasks out there, even for builds that use AoE and projectiles.

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Just my perspective on this. And yeah, I find it interesting that they take inspiration from MTG, yet MTG grows their game and develops it by constantly drawing opinions from current or former pros, with the R&D teams comprised of some former pros or people with high game development experience.

Instead, we get 3 months of Reach of the Council/Voidheart, directly followed by Path of Blade Vortex.

Kind of sad, really.

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SunL4D2 wrote:

dudiobugtron, if you don't see anything wrong with item that gives as much AOE as entire Tree (and 2 extra projectiles for any Skills which is unreachable in the Game without Damage penalty) or Sword that is stronger than any other unique weapon and almoust as powerful as Mirrored item and gives Life, 20% AOE and phys can shock, then we have quite different views on balance or you don't

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dudiobugtron wrote:

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SunL4D2 wrote:

dudiobugtron, if you don't see anything wrong with item that gives as much AOE as entire Tree (and 2 extra projectiles for any Skills which is unreachable in the Game without Damage penalty) or Sword that is stronger than any other unique weapon and almoust as powerful as Mirrored item and gives Life, 20% AOE and phys can shock, then we have quite different views on balance or you don't care about it in the slightest.

I see plenty wrong with the sword. So does Chris, in fact. Which is why he said so in the podcast.
The sword is dumb. It's too strong, and BiS for most 2-hand-sword phys damage builds. Like Chris said, it makes crafting 2h phys swords a bit pointless.

Flask is high-tier but there are much better flasks out there, even for builds that use AoE and projectiles.

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Before saying that someone being wrong, you need to back this up. In this case with timestamps.

Tell you what - if you provide timestamps for your claims, and then I will provide timestamps for mine if I disagree with you.