ignite damage over time....HOW DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE?

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Draegnarrr wrote:

you lose alot of game when you try to reach some common goal for whatever you decide the average player is

PoE could stand to lose quite a bit of game, if not necessarily a lot. ;)

Diablo 2, specifically, but I think most worthy ARPGs, go to pains to balance accessibility and complexity. When you fail to do that, you run the risk of allowing a 'complex' game to become a 'complicated' experience. And I think that's really why people say (and are largely correct when they do so) that GGG themselves don't play much PoE. It's not just that it's no fun to play what's become work for you: plenty of devs play their own games, I'm sure.

It's that it's not fun to play your own work when it's work just to play it.

GGG never figured out how to make their own game fun for themselves. They can marvel at its complexity, its ridiculous number of layers, its brilliance, its MAGNIFICENCE...but when it comes time to actually have fun, even something like Candy Crush Saga probably delivers a better hit than PoE.

It's not easy to make an ARPG fun, but the key to it is probably something like realising players don't want to find themselves in the shower wondering about the game's convoluted, occasionally befuddling technical language...you want them in there build-crafting, humming the town music, itching to get back to their favourite boss runs. Not thinking (absolutely correctly): ignition is a momentary event that results in an ongoing state of burning so why does ignite do damage over time ARGGGGHHHHH

That's not what this guy is on about. He's picking nits on the use of the term "ignite" because that's not a good descriptor of something doing damamge over time in real life.

People at this point are just bitching to fill time.

Well, where did you find Zombie in real world?

Also, WTB gem

WTB Player's respawn mechanics.

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ExiledSarin wrote:

WTB Player's respawn mechanics.

That would be weird when respawning in another world when you die from HC Earth

English is a hodge-podge of fuckedness in any case, regardless of GGG and the curious way they word many things.

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DoubleU wrote:

English is a hodge-podge of fuckedness in any case, regardless of GGG and the curious way they word many things.

In the past they have Brunt Ground and Burning Ground to refer to the same thing

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Friendly reminder that someone at GGG thought the name 'ethereal knives' for a spell that does *physical* damage made sense (ethereal means 'intangible' or 'lacking material substance'). Or that the notion of 'iron reflexes' just...doesn't work, when you actually think about it. Iron Fist Tournament? Sure. Iron Monkey? Why not. Iron Maiden? \m/! Iron Chef? Absolutely. But reflexes are meant to be everything iron is not. Turn your reflexes to iron and...you can't move. Literally.

...And don't forget, in the batshit crazy world of PoE, 'increased' and 'more' mean two very different things, whereas they're synonyms in what I like to consider 'plain English'.

And it's been that way from the start. They didn't care then; they surely don't care now.

As with a LOT of PoE that isn't straight-up big-brain number crunching adorned by its own infuriatingly arbitrary language (mastery of the user-unfriendly is confirmation of one's genius, you know), it's better if you just accept it makes sense to someone and that someone has much bigger fish to fry burn ignite than this.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I MENT sorry for the lack of clarification .......

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im_a_manatee wrote:

so i was thinking just randomly("seems i been doing that allot trying to make a build from the uuber nerfed skills ") how does ignite over time work....i mean from a real life standpoint...heres a definition of ignite:

ig·nite
/iɡˈnīt/
verb
to catch fire or cause to catch fire.
now correct me if i am wrong here......but in order for something to "ignite" it has to be set on fire right? therefore ITS BURNING what is ignite damage over time......if you arent burning....all i can imagine is some one litterally flicking a lighter at light speed over and over again please some one help me make sense of this cause it confuses the hell out of me

I will not venture in to that realm to try and make sense of it on that level. My answer is, they stuck with the name of the source.

However, I can tell you this. Ignite builds are a lot of fun right now. So get leveling and enjoy it, as it's almost a given that it will be featuring in the next nerf-festo.

Guys.. if you consider the wording of some stuff strange in the Original... you really should see the german localization...^^