So, its time to get rid of Damage Reflect mod on maps

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Shazamarang wrote:

My reply earlier was sarcastic, since I don't think everyone picked up on that. I don't actually think damage mods should be removed, no shit, and they are entirely different to reflect mods.

However, I still don't think reflect needs to be removed as a map mod, aside from maybe reducing the frequency it appears on 8 mod maps or removing it from unidentified maps. Reflect as a rare mod should absolutely still be a mod, and I'm still pissed off the community managed to cry hard enough for them to remove it. Fuck, I'd be happy with reflect auras back in the game. Same for volatiles, but that's a different argument altogether.

My problem with removing reflect isn't because I think reflect has a good enough justification to exist in the game. If it wasn't already a thing, I probably wouldn't add it to the game. My problem is removing difficulty from the game to appease the people who don't want to play around it. They removed volitiles, they removed reflect as a mod on rare monsters, if they remove reflect from maps then the next thing to go will probably be curses, no regen or the experience penalty. Fuck, I'm surprised people are bringing up reflect before no leech, which is far more of a brick than reflect is. At least you can play around reflect.

And yes, reflect is 100% an aspect of difficulty. Reflect either makes you invest currency into not running it, in this case rolling past it, or it makes you adapt your build so that you can run it, in most cases forcing you to play less efficiently. Being forced to play or do something inefficient is the very definition of difficulty in this context.