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

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RagnarokChu wrote:

People getting richer in a fictional game isn't a "game balance issue", it has nothing to do with the BALANCE of the game. RMT is illegal and a massive issue to begin with, saying they can't make balance changes to the game because it effects illegal RMT is retarded. I ignored the point because people wealth in the standard leagues they do not balance around, on top of that rich's people wealth isn't something you balance around.

No most people are not capable of saving up to 60 exalts, Most people struggle to have 5 exalts.

Game balance isn't about how other people have an easier time, it's about the game becoming better. Atziri Acuity does absolutely nothing to the game while all of the gem buffs + skill tree changes and so on literally benefits everyone.

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SayyadinaAtreides wrote:

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giully wrote:

Please dont gimme that bs. Acuity was 100% unnecessary and only there to promote uber atziri which otherwise drops very mediocre items compared to the challenge that it certainly is for most players.

I'm not trying to defend the initial introduction of the item. I believed at the time (and still do) that Atziri's Acuity is an unnecessarily powerful item to introduce into the game. The question now becomes "how is this best dealt with?"--and the simple "make it less powerful" that would have sufficed when the gloves were introduced has too many negative repercussions at the moment.

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giully wrote:

Imo acuity should have been either leech for both hp and es or simply "crits cant reflect". The first option would actually open up new possibilities for hybrid builds which are currently only viable with aegis.

It's worth noting that all of the passive tree changes and bench crafting via Masters make this no longer the case. I personally feel that life/ES hybrid builds have been viable before now, too, but they were certainly incredibly finicky to build and required extremely specific gear.

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giully wrote:

The nerf of VP (even ggg's balancing team could spot that issue) and then the addition of an even better mechanic (instant mana leech) with 0 drawback on a very strong item (700 armour and 80 int is huge) is like taking a big steamy pile of a dump on the overall balance of the game. Power creep like that is simply unnecessary but it seems GGG doesnt care about that anymore.

And this comes back to my original point: the "overall balance of the game" has a trivial connection to the fate of Acuity when it was a concern for at most 0.1% of players (considering that GGG's said only ~1% of players ever even make it to 66 maps). Making it more rare only makes this more true.

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SayyadinaAtreides wrote:

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RagnarokChu wrote:

People getting richer in a fictional game isn't a "game balance issue", it has nothing to do with the BALANCE of the game. RMT is illegal and a massive issue to begin with, saying they can't make balance changes to the game because it effects illegal RMT is retarded. I ignored the point because people wealth in the standard leagues they do not balance around, on top of that rich's people wealth isn't something you balance around.

No most people are not capable of saving up to 60 exalts, Most people struggle to have 5 exalts.

Game balance isn't about how other people have an easier time, it's about the game becoming better. Atziri Acuity does absolutely nothing to the game while all of the gem buffs + skill tree changes and so on literally benefits everyone.

I'd probably differ a bit with that notion of game balance, but I agree with all of the important stuff in this post. I also wouldn't bother responding to pengant anymore since it clearly doesn't do any good. XD

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StormHunter wrote:

Bloodseeker is a trash vendor uniqe

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Malone wrote:

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StormHunter wrote:

Bloodseeker is a trash vendor uniqe

rofl, how many trash vendor unique allows you to kill uber atziri ?

If you don't know, refrain from commenting.

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Aim_Deep wrote:

Then every item that has ever been made legacy is balanced. 1000 HP Kaoms was scarce after all.