Game has huge flaws, developers making bizarre choices
" This is so true. I am so discouraged when they adds two useless stat into an already deep stat pool. This is a direct nerf to almost every currency in game, and yes, some may find + light radius useful but in the end + light radius adds NOTHING to your character strength and this means @%#* you if you're not low life build. What GGG should do is to raise orb drop rate, because they are adding niche stats to %$#@ up game progression. | |
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Light Radius and +Accuracy could be desirable if it was sufficiently powerful.
The Light Radius part: 1. Is a quality of life luxury in all but low life builds. 2. Is obtained in place of other mods that aren't luxuries. 3. Only has use in about half the areas in the game. Those three things mean that the light radius mod needs to be quite powerful to be worth it. But GGG's balance team is clearly very conservative. So we have 3 tiers, at 5%, 10%, and 15% light radius. Unfortunately, I have a couple of pieces with light radius. The difference isn't even noticeable. Try something like 40%, 50%, and 60%. Whatever it is, go big. Seeing further in half the areas of the game isn't going to be a gamebreaker, especially since the thing that restricts our vision the most, the isometric perspective, isn't affected. The Accuracy part is less of a luxury, but is still obtained in place of other important mods. Like the light radius part, the accuracy part lacks oomph thanks to conservative balance. We get 10-20 Acc, 20-40 Acc, or 10-20% Acc. I think it's probable that none of those values would even make a 1% difference in chance to hit. This part of the mod doesn't just need a buff. It's actually the accuracy system in general that's terrible and should be modified. For more discussions on how terrible accuracy rating is, see threads like this one. Last edited by StarlightGamer#6805 on May 13, 2013, 10:24:56 AM
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" So I thought about this for a while... I simply do not believe you. There is certainly a COMPLETE lack of honesty surrounding the intentions of your company here, regarding stuff like this. It wasn't to help low life builds. Like four player on each server use those builds, and again the affix is common. This response is not sufficient. For whatever "several" players you find who "like the new mods" there will be several THOUSAND players who will happily point out that the new mods are fucking useless. Some honesty would be nice. That was one of my main points in the original post. 1) Why the hell did you put these new mods in this game? 2) Why are you lying about the reasons? Honesty, please. And the honesty point doesn't just apply to this specific case, it applies to many of the things I listed, including the point about reflect damage and thorns (which you evaded discussing except to point out that you had, in the past, discussed their mechanics before which is irrelevant). Last edited by HopTortoise#6758 on May 13, 2013, 10:34:53 AM
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Just for once maybe not take it over the top, you can write why you disagree with Mark or think hwy his motivation have been wrong, but to call him a liar, like what you are doing is very impolite and immature. We could also go to the state of forums which is common for all the large game companies and that is to have 0 interaction with the developers.
The light radius and low life build players have been very vocal and some great posts were written about the issue. If you think that Mark and GGG drew the wrong conclusions to fix the problem than build that up with arguments. I haven;t seen anyone mention the impact on the game flow. I find one bit of mull's post interesting: " I would have written it as: Since more mods can roll and it has become more difficult to craft the gear you need, the orb drop count to craft said gear should be increased, to keep the same game flow. This might seem so, but it will not satisfy everyone, because of the random nature to crafting. Even if there are more orbs available you can still have a bad or unlucky crafting streak. Others could feel more wealthy with better crafts and more orbs to spare. The mean over teh community would be the same, but with extremes possible it will be a patch on top of patch on top of the broken leg. That is my take on it. |
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" I understand that it's harsh, but lying and dishonesty are the only logical explanations for this that I can think of. Just look at the thread. Sure, there a couple people running low life builds in here. One of them said the light radius "helps." The other one said "doesn't help really, would prefer a real mod" It's a RARE build. " There's not much to argue about. This whole thing is incredibly simple. It makes no sense to add a common affix to help a niche build... UNLESS you are deliberately trying to water down the item pool with trash. Which is obviously their intent. The fact that they will not even admit to this is worrying to say the least. If you really need to add an item affix to assist a build where people are running around with Shavronnes and heaps of incredibly expensive ES gear and other uniques... If those are the people you are REALLY TRYING TO HELP, to HONESTLY HELP...then the affix should be roughly as common as the people playing builds like that. Which is to say: rare. All their gear is already rare and expensive -- surely they can afford to go hunting for the O-Holy Light Radius affix that they so greatly need and is of DIRE IMPORTANCE to their build. If it was that good for their build, they would look for it even if it was rare. Don't punish everybody in the whole server just to "help out people with shavronnes" Last edited by HopTortoise#6758 on May 13, 2013, 11:02:20 AM
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" And many players have complained about their utter uselessness. Are we to justify every decision because "several players have requested it"? Well in that case I request more currency for rolling maps. So have many others. Why are these opinions less valued than the rogue minority that thinks light radius is a good mod? Last edited by UnderOmerta#1203 on May 13, 2013, 3:20:59 PM
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This game is slowly becoming a fucking joke and developers have little time to get their shit together.Grim dawn is coming.
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" If only GGG was making changes to Path of Exile soon. |
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" Not sure how that is relevant, as none of those changes seem to have anything to do with my original post. [except the buff to melee, but they have already done that about 10x and melee still suck - so pardon me for being skeptical] Last edited by HopTortoise#6758 on May 13, 2013, 3:52:22 PM
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" " does that mean what I think it means (Scepter Of God, and Dominus)? also, I hope "includes some tweaks for solo loot as well. Alva: I'm sweating like a hog in heat
Shadow: That was fun |
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