With the Lycosidae nerf GGG is really saying
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"We don't care for budget builds." I agree the drop rate had to be decreased but not to the point where it becomes a 5ex item. I feel bad for all the new players that did less than 10 challenges in harb. What about them!
Last edited by HappyRogue#6160 on Dec 6, 2017, 7:18:10 AM Last bumped on Dec 8, 2017, 11:18:27 AM
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They want players to feel like they accomplished something more than simply finding a cheat on-line.
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Phew glad I have 2.
~ Please separate the PoE1 and PoE2 forums.
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Pfff. I was waiting for that, because get on Lvl11 shield such powerfull things... was a bit weird.
yes, now it will be 1+ex item, on start even more, but.... so much things to play around, elder/sharper items, new jewels etc etc... And yes, this is nerfing my SRS+shield build, but - hey, I will look in other directons, how to make my SRS goodly :) |
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you know you can always you know .. invest in accuracy.... its a thing.
lycostae is hilariously powerful it should have been a 1 exa + unique item. some builds literally get 80%+ more damage with it you know Last edited by Saltychipmunk#1430 on Dec 6, 2017, 7:49:27 AM
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" what build has 55% accuracy on it? |
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" Crits negatively double-dip on lacking Accuracy. When you land a Crit, the game rolls a second Accuracy check; if it fails, the Crit is downgraded to a normal Hit. Once you start stacking a lot of Crit Mult, the difference between even just 90% and 100% Chance to Hit becomes so much bigger than it seems. The more Crit Mult you have, the more Damage you lose on having sub-100% Chance to Hit - and that's how Lycosidae can become 80% "More Damage". Last edited by Vipermagi#0984 on Dec 6, 2017, 8:06:18 AM
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Lol, need to roll more of these with ancient orbs.
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" Accuracy can be extremely difficult to get for a lot of builds. Templar and Marauder both have very little access to accuracy in the tree and no Dex to speak of, and spending four billion chaos on the 5-odd 300+ Accuracy rolls you need in order to be able to hit the broad side of Doedre more'n one swing in four is often quite punishing on one's gear allotment. Lycosidae was over-present in the last few leagues, yeah. Every third build I saw was using it, which is too much. I can see that, considering it's a quality-of-life unique and not a build-enabling unique. QoL uniques tend to be rarer and more difficult to get ahold of, they're supposed to give you something to chase. I get that, and I'm not really complaining about the Lycosidae drop nerf even if it's torpedoing my Abyss plans. C'est la vie. I can use Poacher's Mark on the build I was planning anyways, that should patch the problems until I work up the exalts needed for my cheater shield. But the reason it was used so much is that getting accuracy on left-side builds sucks fucking rocks. It's expensive, it's hard to do even if you have the money, but until/unless you do it anyways you get the Feels-Bad-Man spectacle of watching half of your attacks whiff like rotten eggs. It's Not Fun, and is a primary reason why I often prefer spellcaster builds when venturing outside my right-side haunts. Marauder and Templar melee, without Lycosidae or RT, feels awful without that accuracy investment, you can't make that investment until endgame, and if you don't get a gigantic Accuracy roll on every freaking piece of gear that can roll accuracy you may as well have named your character Captain Miss Panda. The enormous popularity of Lycosidae, its omnipresence in the game and people's flat-out eagerness to use a shield that otherwise kinda blows goats and does nothing for their build, might maybe be a signal to GGG that it's time for a few more accuracy-centric uniques? Maybe not as powerful or omniplicable as Lycosidae, but we've otherwise got, like...two That garbo gasmask helm whose name I can't remember and Hinekora's Sight, which is another of my favorite items for similar reasons of "Equip this, accuracy stops sucking". We don't need more 1k accuracy pieces, but would a couple of inexpensive, reliable uniques with a steady 250-odd accuracy roll I could use as stepping stones really be that much to ask? She/Her
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This item was immensly overpowered... so instead of nerfing it to Shit they made it harder to get. I like this approach. Imagine they would just remove the Mod and just add 350 Accuracy Rating! You all would spit fire in the general direction of New Zealand.
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