Why Atziri's Acuity is actually balanced! (For those who don't know game balancing)

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schraegstrich wrote:

They need to buff vaal pact period.
40% is useless and those gloves are a joke.
Couldve bought them for 58ex 2 days ago now i will never own them.
Really dont know how to survive without VP..

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schraegstrich wrote:

They need to buff vaal pact period.
40% is useless.

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mazul wrote:

Many of you seem to wrongly be under the impression that those gloves were not balanced, when they in fact were.

Whenever you design a game and there is a lack of resources (money and time), you need to make choices in regards to balancing. You need to ask yourself: "What is the main focus of our game?" and "How much resources can we spend on balancing?". It makes sense to at least try to keep the main focus of your game balanced.

Ultimately, this means that every game, yes even League of Legends, end up with parts with of the game that they attempted to balance, parts that are not balanced, and parts that are utterly unbalanced.

In League of Legends the answer to the first question is: E-sports and thus that's where they focus their balancing as well.

In Diablo 3: permanent leagues, so that's where they focus their balancing.

In PoE: Challenge Leagues (temporary 3-4 month leagues), so obviously that's where they will focus their balancing.
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"Balancing by scarcity"

Balancing by scarcity is an interesting balancing paradigm that states that it is okay to introduce something that is extremely powerful as long as it is super-rare.

This is the method by which Atziri'z Acuity is now being balanced.

This approach is good in games where there is a severely limited timespan, such as Challenge Leagues in PoE.

This approach is bad in games where, for all purposes, it behaves as if it was never-ending in time: Diablo 3 is a good example of this.
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So I can just applaud GGG for choosing their focus wisely and sticking to their guns in balancing it appropriately :).

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Charan wrote:

I think it was the least terrible option.

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Malone wrote:

VP works perfectly fine, leeching instantly roughly 3 or 4 % of your damage for example is already good. For a random 20k dps build, that's already 800 hp/s , that's huge.

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TheAnuhart wrote:

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TheAnuhart wrote:

Here's a far less terrible option.

Acuity mod now is 'Vaal Pact'. This would affect all Acuity, as it is a mod, not numerical change.

Vaal Pact (both tree and gloves) is increased to 60% effective.

Acuity gloves would still be absolutely insane, saving the points required to pick up VP in the tree is MASSIVE.

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Charan wrote:

Edit: you're still talking about creating a legacy version, right? I know they cleverly cheated with Crown of Eyes by modifying the mechanic behind one of its exclusive mods, and I suppose they could have done the same with Acuity's.

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TheAnuhart wrote:

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Charan wrote:

Edit: you're still talking about creating a legacy version, right? I know they cleverly cheated with Crown of Eyes by modifying the mechanic behind one of its exclusive mods, and I suppose they could have done the same with Acuity's.

Absolutely they could have.
And it would mean NO legacy version.

Now why didn't they?
Maybe because VP now sux balls? I think so.

Why does it suck balls? Because Acuity.

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TheAnuhart wrote:

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Charan wrote:

Edit: you're still talking about creating a legacy version, right? I know they cleverly cheated with Crown of Eyes by modifying the mechanic behind one of its exclusive mods, and I suppose they could have done the same with Acuity's.

Absolutely they could have.
And it would mean NO legacy version.

Now why didn't they?
Maybe because VP now sux balls? I think so.

Why does it suck balls? Because Acuity (VP was obliterated at the exact time these gloves were implemented).

There was a perfect fix they could have done working from both ends, buffing VP, nerfing Acuity and still the gloves would have been an insane point saver bonus.