The fate of Stygian Belts ....

Don't rly see a good solution here. Guess they will just transfer all existing abyss items to std as is and remove abyssal mode from maps. So all abyss items will effectively become "legacy" like 70 crit multi ammys with 20 all stats, it will definetly have a huge a impact on crafting but there is no good solution at this point. Would prefer if they made all stygians and abyssal jewels "corrupted" though.

PPL who balanced abyys league should be fired xD , it was the greates power-creep since ascension

And the hardest content in game is still UAtzi which is how many years old?

Anyways all old "mirror" gear has become irrelevant with all new shaped and elder affix.

I don't see abyss returning as a map mod, the jewels are just far beyond the usual power we get from the built in uniques in a league, it'd skew the end-game goal of characters to be farming probably zana 8 then farming eyes again so you could ramp your character up appropriately it just smacks of bad design.

I had fun with them but i'm probably happy for them to go.

^This jewel is hoping abyss jewels get nuked from orbit.

Stygian belts where probably the worst designed rare items together with the new one-hand "added" value modifiers of this league.
They are perfect for the newly targeted crowd though, you need absolutely no insight or thinking to realize they outperform every single belt base short of a few niche cases.

Peace,

-Boem-

Honestly the only thing that really surprised me about stygian belts was their rarity.

When I first saw the teaser for them I was thinking "Yeah it's probably going to be a super rare base like steel rings or opals"...

Then the league starts and I get one from my first 5 abyss.

I think they fucked up on the rarity of the base. Having them drop like candy while leveling was a bad option... having them even show up before yellow maps is probably bad too.

They just fucked up a lot of the rarity of stuff in Abyss. That's why Abyss feels like such a half-assed league to me.

I mean who put in Lightpoacher with low-tier rarity an figured yeah it's fine?

That shit should have a ridiculous price point and really it drops like candy. I have like 7 of them in SSF. (I actually created an SSF char because i wanted the abyss uniques in my SSF stash lol).

There is no way they will continue to have abyss items in future temp leagues. They invalidate too many items in the game. It would just be silly.

Yep. Not quite silly enough to warrant voiding the league, but pretty close to it. I know that it will be really hard on people to have to go back to regular jewels and belts, but there really is no other rational choice. Leaving them in would be the bigger mistake.

I guess they could double down on it and re-do the belt mods to compete with vises, but that leaves jewels to fix as well. Not a great position for them to be in.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Yep. Not quite silly enough to warrant voiding the league, but pretty close to it. I know that it will be really hard on people to have to go back to regular jewels and belts, but there really is no other rational choice. Leaving them in would be the bigger mistake.

I guess they could double down on it and re-do the belt mods to compete with vises, but that leaves jewels to fix as well. Not a great position for them to be in.

imo the belt implicits getting buffed is a solid option if stygians were left in the game in any capacity.... there is still a place for normal jewels depending on the build tho just much rarer % increases work with 2h phys for example since the flat phys adds much less... those running a singular ele damage type or chaos damage also will benefit from the normal type of jewels as well... life% jewels make sense should you remove shroud, tomb and bubon

i feel sorry for those in std who dumped thousands of exalts in belts that they intended to mirror tho

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The_Scourge wrote:

The mechanic will be relegated to a map mod, as is the fate of most league gimmicks these days.

Or not. Breach was implemented as occurring occasionally only in maps. It could go either way until GGG makes a decision near the end of the league.

Stygian Belts = Gone.

You cannot make an entire gear slot redundant and not expect to be removed.

I said it in another thread - if trade is the core design premise of the game, you cannot make a single, easily obtained piece of gear dominate a slot.

I hope they keep the eye's though, I like them as a jewel slot option in the tree. But the eyes without the belt seems odd, so I expect they are gone as well.

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Slaanesh69 wrote:

Stygian Belts = Gone.

You cannot make an entire gear slot redundant and not expect to be removed.

I said it in another thread - if trade is the core design premise of the game, you cannot make a single, easily obtained piece of gear dominate a slot.

I hope they keep the eye's though, I like them as a jewel slot option in the tree. But the eyes without the belt seems odd, so I expect they are gone as well.

you said it yourself "you cannot make an entire gear slot redundant"

eye jewels largely accomplish this as well as stygians, with the exceptions i made in the previous pages post... eye jewels also go part in parcel with the abyss belts and uniques of this league... this is one of those cake and want to eat it scenarios