Is Reach of the Council TOOO good?

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sneakyJ wrote:

Disfavour has no drawbacks whatsoever

Just gate the bow behind an uber pale council.

Except Disfavour comes with a massive drawback - it's a melee weapon.

IF I was rich and cared I would be buying all these reach bows and hoping they go legacy and if they do u would be sitting on thousands of ex

Maybe you should try coming over to hardcore..lets see you do that there:)

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TheAshmaker wrote:

Since everyone else keeps ruining all the fun builds like CoC and chaos conversion etc I will be vindictive and say yes. Good dps bow with free GMP and no downside. Can't nerf soon enough.

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It's not too good; no freaking way.
It's just too funny.
If they nerf i just leave this game lulz, worked so hard to get one.
People are just jelly they don't have it or have better/preferred builds.

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Zaanus wrote:

Raid of Arrows, Blast Rain, Caustic Arrow, basically all the bow skills that don't create projectiles but instead place aoes

Ok, technically it "works" but their mechanics are such that it's kinda pointless vs items at half the trouble.

So long as the meta is "shoot LA into a frost wall" or "stack dat poison with tshot" then sure, this will be a very strong bow.

But change the meta, and this doesn't look as good (but still good). It's what happened to CoD and countless other good uniques that didn't really need nerfed, or didn't need anywhere near the nerf they got.

if anything this game needs are more items like reach to make it actually fun and not a garbage man economy stimulant hug your monitor simulator cirlejerk fest until you´ve that one buildenabling OP item that costs 100% more than reach to steamroll but isn´t being talked about cough any coc build 6l.

the only reason people are upset about RoTC is because it rekt their rare bow hustle market and are afraid that standart economy is going to crash in the bow deparment.

PEOPLe ARe HAVING FUN

BUT MY ECONOMY

and this i why this game is slowly dying and by slowly i mean it doesn´t have even half the players it used to have 2 years ago.

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ps: if you would care about game balance instead of items added - we wouldn´t have this onesided conversation in the first place.
the only person to blame is GGG being anal about their "economy" and making over 90% of balance decisions around items based on economy.

once the economy is taken out of the equation we won´t be stuck with stack aoe run fast meta anymore.

why was reach made ? so something outside of mirrored harbinger bows and taxic could be used for almost any bow skill.

why was disfavour made ?
so anyone without a mirror or 150 exalts could enjoy the pdps of an almost mirrorworthy axe that also does bleeding with increased range.

why was acuity made ?
so peopel dont have to take vaalpact and instaleach on crits as if it had vaalpact (right after they nerfed vaalpact as an "economic stimulant"

why was volls devotion made ? so coc dischargers could gain sustain and deal absurd dmg without looking at the monitor.

why was kintsugi made ? so evasion builds wouldnt get randomly oneshotted if their evasion roll check fails.

why was voidheart created? so EQ could kite and deal even more absurd dmg it already does and to open up new ways to play melee such as crit reave , icecrash , sunder etc any other melee skill that is not really melee because its more like a melee caster build.

i could go on and on.

GGG has lost their vision in PoE a long time ago and i could write a book about what´s wrong with the game but i´d always start and end it at the fact that a forced economy by the developers which is merely "partially" controlled by the playerbase is not making anyone happy in the long run besides people that wake up play poe go to sleepe while doing questionable things ontop that im not allowed to adress cause i get muted for it on global or banned from the forums yet has been plagueing the game for years.

has literally nothing to do with economy.

that rhetoric is so tired it's hilariously bad.

some people care about balance, you know. but nah, never mind. I think this might be a foreign concept. girls just wanna have fun, I guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A

dont nurf pls, this one is standing as a trophy on the last page of my stash with all the other league uniques i am not using, it will become worthless as those too if nurfed

the real question is should i buy as many as i can on standard?

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Kechop wrote:

why was volls devotion made ? so coc dischargers could gain sustain and deal absurd dmg without looking at the monitor.

Wait wut ? Devotion was made before CoC was introduced /facepalm

It will with out doubt get the legacy treatment, however theres a chance that as its not a mechanic changing item(like the non reflect chaos items) it might not be retroactively changed again like the chaos items were.

So buy them all now? Maybe but then I play SSF and always have so what do I care lol.