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DarthSki44 wrote:

Well without knowing if there are adjustments to the Ascendency nodes themselves, this has the potential for significant damage increases as Neph mentioned earlier in the thread.

He didn't point out anything, he just explained the mortals in here what the "Transfiguration"-buffs grant.

I've played with both Transfiguration of Mind and Soul, and the buffs themselves are pretty minor. They MAY be OK'ish if you REALLY spec into them. But to REALLY spec into Soul, becomes pretty useless unless you're ES/CI, and the base of the armor is too low for that. Body is pretty useless all over, which leave us with Mind, which - as we know - you can already get from two other sources.

I guess you can somewhat combine Mind and Soul as a hybrid character - or an EB character. But "OP"? Not even close. "Good"? Maybe.

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dyneol wrote:

Just the typical you-have-never-killed-shaper-while-i-did kneejerk contributing absolutely nothing of substance to the argument. It's safe to ignore those.

Depending on the argument being debunked, Dismissing your input based on Game Progression can be valid.

For example, if you are arguing that the game is too hard, then your feedback is potentially useful even if you never kill shaper or elder; because the fact that you are unable to progress to those points are indications that for you, the game is indeed too hard. That's not to say it's proof that the game is too hard, but it means that you can't just dismiss the point based on your lack of progression either.

But on the flip side, if you try to argue that the game is too easy; and you have not killed shaper or elder, then you have a heavily diminished basis to speak on, and pointing out your lack of progression is a much more valid dismissal.

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Phrazz wrote:

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DarthSki44 wrote:

Well without knowing if there are adjustments to the Ascendency nodes themselves, this has the potential for significant damage increases as Neph mentioned earlier in the thread.

He didn't point out anything, he just explained the mortals in here what the "Transfiguration"-buffs grant.

I've played with both Transfiguration of Mind and Soul, and the buffs themselves are pretty minor. They MAY be OK'ish if you REALLY spec into them. But to REALLY spec into Soul, becomes pretty useless unless you're ES/CI, and the base of the armor is too low for that. Body is pretty useless all over, which leave us with Mind, which - as we know - you can already get from two other sources.

I guess you can somewhat combine Mind and Soul as a hybrid character - or an EB character. But "OP"? Not even close. "Good"? Maybe.

I agree with you

This will be 'OP' for bad builds. Which is fine. Most things that could make great use of this helm already have competitive helm options in Indigon, Memory Vault, and Crown of Eyes.

For most popular builds (including the upcoming 'new meta' of bows) this is whatever. Add to that the fact that it's a unique, so if your build 'needs' a helm enchant, good fucking luck.

If you insisted on getting the most out of all 3 things you're probably playing a templar that uses CwC or CoC with MoM. Not exactly super meta rn.

It's an ok helmet, nothing impressive but interesting since it changes the passive tree routing.

Maybe some MoM/life build can use this but the value's at 1/3 are very low and easily replaced by a few nodes on the passive tree even when your pushing it.

They should have given it a unique modifier that increased the value's to 1/2 or something to increase it's appeal. Or perhaps allowed "this can stack with itself" so you could anoint an amulet and go heavy on one specific atribute.

Peace,

-Boem-

I mean, it's a good helm for a mana guardian I guess? Should you be getting at least 250/300% mana + 150 - 200% es on a build like that?

That's at ~150% increased damage from a helmet, which isn't bad.

It also frees up the amulet for a different annoint.

Yes, I know most people go for something like Memory vault, but who knows.

And this allows you to spec even harder into defence on that build, while still getting some offence.

I'll definitely be doing some testing, as the mana guardian I played this league was one of the more fun chars I've played.

What I've wanted to know (but haven't bothered to figure out), is if these transfiguration mods also apply to the % bonuses you get from items like shaper's touch es% from strength.

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Farystar wrote:

Yes please, because they will start increasing difficulty of the game overall and endgame even more. So this is very reasonable.

You've never even killed the shaper, endgame balance has nothing to do with you.


To be honest I'm not super opposed to this item, stuff like Devoto's is way more unbalanced for anything except bossing.

But it does seem to be a pretty juicy item for bossing.

So you are saying i'm not a good player and i don't deserve in the future to reach true endgame with such item, that might finally help me reach the goal on Hardcore !

He says that to everyone. Don't worry about it.
Killing shaper on softcore is an achievement to him for some reason.

Cool looking item. Probably never drops though.

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Phrazz wrote:

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Farystar wrote:

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DivineChampion wrote:

Either this item is incredibly OP or i don't understand something about it.

It is OP 100%, will probably be very rare drop !

Please explain to me how this item is OP, because I'm clearly missing something here.

For MoM character this item gives 16+5=21% inc. life/es, 16+5=21% inc. mana, and, with reasonable amount of investments into life/ES and mana, at least 100% inc. damage (depends on the type - life+mana=attack damage, ES+mana=spell damage). Basic defenses of the item are also strong - 1k armour and 130+ ES. This is very strong.

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Farystar wrote:

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codetaku wrote:

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Farystar wrote:

Yes please, because they will start increasing difficulty of the game overall and endgame even more. So this is very reasonable.

You've never even killed the shaper, endgame balance has nothing to do with you.

So you are saying i'm not a good player and i don't deserve in the future to reach true endgame with such item, that might finally help me reach the goal on Hardcore !

This is not what he said. What he said is - people should only talk about something they experienced with. No Shaper kill = no experience with endgame, and i personally agree with this statement.

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dyneol wrote:

Just the typical you-have-never-killed-shaper-while-i-did kneejerk contributing absolutely nothing of substance to the argument. It's safe to ignore those.

I'm not surprised that this toxic response made by player who haven't killed Shaper by himself. Which is safe to ignore.

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Fapmobile wrote:

He says that to everyone. Don't worry about it.
Killing shaper on softcore is an achievement to him for some reason.

I've killed Shaper in HC and:
1. I don't think it is an achievement even on HC (at least it is not an achievement that worth mentioning as an argument).
2. I agree that people who haven't killed Shaper (who is the basic 1st step of the endgame in PoE) should not talk about the endgame.