Game Balance Development Manifesto Post

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Ashen_Shugar_IV wrote:

2.0.0: "Melee is taken care of"

2.4.0: "Melee has been addressed"


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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

What I think GGG should do is make a check list of everything that might need rebalancing before doing any rebalancing.

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Entropic_Fire wrote:

Not reading through this thread, seems nasty, so apologies if someone brought this up already.

Chris has talked about top tier skills in the context of Magic the Gathering seasons. In that game (as I understand it, never played) you can only use a certain subset of cards in any given season. This forces players to keep buying new cards to keep participating in tournaments, but it also makes the game easier to balance because you only have a couple dozen different cards to consider instead of many 100's.

They want skills in PoE to function the same way, at least since 2.0. When they released Bladefall they made it crazy OP so that everyone would try it, then nerfed it later. When they released poison they made it crazy OP so that everyone would try it, then nerfed it later (sort of). They consider the new OP skills part of the active 'season' of PoE, and they intentionally cycle through which ones get the limelight.


I personally hate this development philosophy for an ARPG game, but they have to keep people coming back for new leagues somehow, and it seems they decided imba skills are the best way to do it.

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Qarl wrote:

Patch 2.4.1:

• In the Racecourse map, the Crusher of Gladiators now only reflects 15% of damage taken, rather than 75%. He now correctly displays that he casts a Damage Reflection ability.