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

balancing through scarcity ?

that's totally absurd.

how about balancing by, you know balancing.

that means giving OP items like acuity an OP drawback so that using them is not such an obvious benefit.

The devs are big on you "making choices". they should make it so that these items actually do require a choice.

and, BTW, scarcity is now artificial since a small % of the game players own the majority of them.

GGG has successfully ingrained monopolism into the game.

it's not good for the game and it's not good for player retention.

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Doitfrlulz wrote:

league of legends -stop reading here

Here's the solution -

Change the drop rate for the new leagues as planned.

Keep standard drop rates the same. Those who want the gloves and cant afford them yet don't get crapped all over with a sudden massive price hike and those who have managed to obtain 50 pairs of gloves don't get three times richer over night.

Seems pretty simple.

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voxdeus wrote:

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Nice post.
The bitter truth about these gloves is they shouldn't even exist.
And if they do, then VP node had to be re-buffed. Completely agree with Chunda about that.
Scarcity is not the way to balance. What's gonna happen are the same broken crit acuity builds and price going on the top of the roof.

The major problem with acuities is their synergy with the most powerful attack modifier (crit, broken as fuck), leading to OP recklessly high damage suicidal for the rest of the builds, combined with attack speed and leech abuse (LL).
Are incoming changes gonna help about that ? Not at all.

Acuity = shav N:2 in terms of lack of balance. The irony is, the synergy between these two broken items enables the most powerful builds nothing could compete with.

1. They souldnt post patch notes, before FS launch. This way they avoid acuitys farming
(actually going one)
2. Nerf it

Balance via scarcity is a horrible philosophy because it doesn't apply anymore when the player finally acquires said item. At that point, there's literally no point in searching for something better, because they have the best possible anyway.

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mazul wrote:

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.

In order to insure that only the elitest elitists would be able to afford it.

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Boatsniper wrote:

Balance via scarcity is a horrible philosophy because it doesn't apply anymore when the player finally acquires said item. At that point, there's literally no point in searching for something better, because they have the best possible anyway.

It does work because by the time you acquire the item there will be limited time left in the league for you to benefit from having it.

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Charan wrote:

I think it was the least terrible option.

If they nerfed them in a way that affected all of them, people would flip shit. If they made legacy ones, people would flip shit. If they made it stupidly rare, people would somewhat flip shit. Precisely.

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BoltThrower87 wrote:

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Charan wrote:

I think it was the least terrible option.

If they nerfed them in a way that affected all of them, people would flip shit. If they made legacy ones, people would flip shit. If they made it stupidly rare, people would somewhat flip shit. Precisely.

Excellent summary. :D