If you nerf Headhunter midseason..

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Garfunkel wrote:

Thanks God i skipped this league. Another one with 1% of meta nolifers farming 99% of all valualbe items in game. Now them emblem fights... lol . Fuck it

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Shagsbeard wrote:

They don't nerf stuff like this until it becomes "required". At this stage of the game, its not. You can go from "ridiculously over powered" to "So over the top over powered that it makes you wonder why you're still playing" with this item.

But you can't go from "crap" to "overpowered" with it.

So why bother to nerf it?

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Tsokushin wrote:

As for Chris Wilson's comment not too long ago that players ought to "temper their expectations", ought he not to temper his expectations on what the majority of his players can/will accomplish? Ought he not to temper his expectations on what makes for reasonable playing experience?

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

dunno why anyone cares about headhunter tbh. If ur a league player then itll either stay the same or get nerfed after this league and then next league u either still want one or you dont, who really gives a crap? thats why u play leagues right? its a fresh start in a slightly different game.

if ur in standard or u care about standard then u should have had enough money to buy multiple headhunters years ago if u really wanted one. If you like the item uve owned it for ages and had fun with it, u dont care if the new versions are a bit shit.

i really dont get what all the fuss is about, chris clearly said on many occasions they will do anything they can not to make a nerf mid season.

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Essem wrote:

Headhunters downside has always been endgame bossing/encounters. A good rare belt is better, which has somewhat counteracted the super op'ness that Headhunter is in rest of the game.

But now with the Emblem fight, this has gone out the door. Which makes it the single most stupidly overpowered thing in the game to the point that it ruins it.

Why dont we send in a stream rare mobs during uber elder, shaper, uber atziri, delve bosses while were at it. Theese so called endgame bosses are nowhere NEAR as lucrative as a 5 way emblem fight is for a HH build, which makes them irrelevant for currency.

Breachstones handled this so much better.

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Xavathos wrote:

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Tsokushin wrote:

As for Chris Wilson's comment not too long ago that players ought to "temper their expectations", ought he not to temper his expectations on what the majority of his players can/will accomplish? Ought he not to temper his expectations on what makes for reasonable playing experience?

There is a very long and detailed response to this somewhere in my mind, but as of right now, this will have to do; No.

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Tsokushin wrote:

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Xavathos wrote:

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Tsokushin wrote:

As for Chris Wilson's comment not too long ago that players ought to "temper their expectations", ought he not to temper his expectations on what the majority of his players can/will accomplish? Ought he not to temper his expectations on what makes for reasonable playing experience?

There is a very long and detailed response to this somewhere in my mind, but as of right now, this will have to do; No.

I disagree.

Main point of that quote was arguing against the balancing of content on the top players in any other factor than mechanical difficulty in accomplishing that feat is a bad decision.

The complete truth here is that no matter what barriers short of flat our removing it from the game, or burn out on their part, players like I_NO are going to get it. There's no stopping it.

The other simple part of this truth is if players like I_NO wanted to feel accomplishment of wresting these feats from the developer's hands, then they wouldn't be trading for it, and they wouldn't be using "meta clear speed builds" for it either.

It is in this way that balancing around them is completely pointless because in the end the only people who deal with the brunt of the changes are the average players.

And, it is in this sense that Chris Wilson needs to temper expectations.