Are players misunderstanding where Scourge leagues' rewards lie?
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One change i'm hoping they revisit is allowing an item to have only one krangled mod of any one tag at a time. So if it would get "+1 to socketed lightning gems" it cannot roll "You deal no lightning damage", or "-2 to duration gems" because in each case the brick mod shares a tag with the upside mod.
This would help cut down on the number of absolute bricks but also trim the top off the power level for items that have more than one each of upsides and downsides, e.g. maps. As for whether that makes leveling with scourge any more appealing, can't say. Most leagues push the league mechanic on you to some degree by clawing back normal currency/progression drops and gating them behind league gimmicks. They do, after all, want you to beta test the new material. It's overtuned and abusive to keep the rip clips pouring in and the ladder chasers entertained. Later they may tone it down and turn off the taps for the tainted currency drops while restoring some of the normal currency drops. They're aiming for something that is about the same time investment as Ultimatum but has overall better payout than either Ultimatum (walk away with nothing after a bad gamble) or altar (brick or poof). [19:36]#Mirror_stacking_clown: try smoke ganja every day for 10 years and do memory game
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" I've already pointed out that this would turn the "you deal no X damage" into a bonus rather than a bad thing. You'd be able to narrow down the mod pool simply by getting a penalty that didn't apply to you anyway. On topic... they should add a vendor recipe for a set of Scourged gear. Maybe a couple Vaal orbs or something like a random new currency. Last edited by Shagsbeard#3964 on Oct 26, 2021, 10:03:10 PM
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" That last would be juicy. And a good way to get some krangled currency to work on non-scourge corrupted items, or scourged items you get through trade. [19:36]#Mirror_stacking_clown: try smoke ganja every day for 10 years and do memory game
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Have a T1 map almost at T10, will be fun indeed. was the first one i took after i unlocked the dream furnace, for testing purposes.
One map mod reads: take 9000 lightning damage when shifting in and out of nightmare. edit: Imo the best way to use the blood crucible is with linked white armour items for a a free corrupted alch an hope some good mods roll. Already crafted or good items will likely brick with the bad rng of this shite blender. So using it on white items is not much of a loss. Masterpiece of 3.16 lore "A mysterious figure appears out of nowhere, trying to escape from something you can't see. She hands you a rusty-looking device called the Blood Crucible and urges you to implant it into your body." Only usable with Ethanol Flasks Last edited by gandhar0#5532 on Oct 26, 2021, 10:14:49 PM
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I mean no I don't think people are. The rewards lie in randomized loot drops which means that they lie mainly in trading, which mean that the rewards mostly lie in accessing things through a function that was intentionally clunky and bad for a game that was made over a decade ago.
At the end of the day leagues with good rewards mostly involve giving you enough of said reward to make you forget that everything in PoE's reward system is built around you trading constantly. Not seeing the reward constantly basically means that for a lot of people it actually just doesn't happen at all, that's the nature of the game, anything that you're not bombarded with is probably not real for most people. Also if something isn't dropped with loot 2.0 it's going to be garbage for you personally 99.9999999999999999% of the time. Last edited by j33bus#3399 on Oct 26, 2021, 11:00:54 PM
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The power of the league is in krangled maps. You get a lot of stuff from that. You can also use the krangle stuff on the very very end game items to add another level of insanity but that could get really expensive to gamble for :P
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i like how the best advice on krangling your shit is to only krangle expendable gear
congratulations youre fighting some of the most dangerous mobs in the game just to play a round about simulator of spamming vaal orbs on trash equipment |
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Scourage maps has big potential (every 4 simple maps you can add 1 corruption level so it's not that bad), but corrupting items is a totally poo poo mechanic.
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The problem with the rewards is that the league only gives them at the absolute start - alchs on white items in early acts, and then at the endgame - yeah, krangled maps are great, but getting them at a reasonable pace requires zooming through red maps to make up for the involved rng while doing high scourge stack in each map.
Anywhere inbetween that, krangling maps takes forever, and getting them to high tier is rippy as hell; and krangling items has too low chance to generate anything sellable, much less something that feels impactful (getting +20 str / -10 mana on a cheap unique does make it better, but it doesn't exactly feel like any meaningful reward/upgrade). I'm really enjoying the Scourge gameplay though, so I like the league. But that doesn't mean the league rewards aren't garbage. The core game changes + league gameplay more than make up for it for me though. | |
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good thread
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