The case against Eternal Orbs and the benefits of removing them

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Veruski wrote:

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SL4Y3R wrote:

It's an orb. Not a node. Not a unique. Not a skill. At *best* they could be made legacy. But they will never be deleted through force.

then what is there to discuss? why are you in this thread? why are you posting here?

Slayer said it won't happen, so clearly it won't happen...

Spoiler

it's not like your credibility isn't zero or anything...

Well, care to name a currency or item that has been forcefully taken from people's accounts across all leagues? You can't. Because we have already seen they prefer the legacy route.

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grant_m wrote:

Has GGG stated anywhere that they see any of this as a problem? Having said that they're making the game that they'd like to play, perhaps this is going exactly as planned and intended.

Never know.

(If they've said otherwise, I retract - I don't keep a close eye on reddit)

There is still nothing GGG stated about this matter.
Perhaps its going fine in their philosophy, who knows.

In relation to legacy concerns I think a much better solution would be to change the function of these orbs instead of removing them.

You can have eternals in the game that don't make imprints or do anything that's otherwise harmful to the overall state of the game.

One thing that comes to mind is for it to take any item and make it 20% quality and fill up all remaining affixes but make it immutable (call it eternal, otherwise same as corrupted/mirrored). I mean it's an eternal orb, makes sense for it to turn an item eternal, max quality and max affixes and no further changes.

Unlike a Vaal Orb it wouldn't mess with your links or sockets.

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Taganov wrote:

Mirroring items costs a mirror fee, which last I bothered checking, was around 200 exalts.

What the hell are you mirroring that has a 200 exalt mirror fee in it?