Why is effigy and stormstrider still a thing?

Let me preface this rant by explaining that when I refer to Dev, Dev Team or GGG I am speaking only about the person or people that make decisions about what is or is not in the game. My post is not overly negative, its appropriately negative as I am annoyed about these two things specifically.

Serious question, and I would appreciate a serious answer from GGG. Why, on gods green earth are these two mechanics still in the game?

Do I like AN, no not really. Is it manageable at this point, with the exception of these two things, yes for the most part. I have had to adjust my playstyle, be more defensive and less offensive but I can manage at this point.

Effigy and Storm strider (I may have the wrong AN mods, but the one that spawn 50000000000 lightning guys to chase you around) are straight up unfair gotcha mechanics and they need to go away.

These two mods are just not right, at all. Run into a pack of mobs with effigy, poof your dead. Nothing you can do about, you just die.

Start smacking one of those storm guy AN mobs, get 500000 lighting guys on top of you. With all the screen clutter going on, chances are you wont see them, your dead. If you do see them, you spend the rest of that engagement running around in circles like an asshole trying not to die if they get close, oh and by the way, every single time you attack, you get more of them. So you get to run around even more.

Seriously, remove these two things and AN would be okay, not great, still not what I would define as amazing and fun, but it would be okay.

There are piles and piles of people asking for you to remove these, why, just why has this one thing not been done?

Someone at GGG, please, I am begging you, do something about these two.

They are delusional. That's why these were put into the core game in the first place. Nothing has changed.

Archnemesis mods are not fun to play against, not interesting in most cases, and totally invalidate builds-especially the interesting and unique ones.

GGG took a game that was approachable, interesting, and scaled challenge in a decent way. Added even more challenging endgame content.



And also totally ruined the whole game by injecting a bunch of turds into our collective smoothie.

storm strider has an obvious audio cue and effigy has a debuff icon that looks like a weirdly coloured rift tear and a red tether to the post and it doesn't activate until like 4s after its first placed. You can obviously just kill all the mobs and its irrelevant too.

I still get paranoia about effigy and i get the vitriol about it but storm strider (or lightning mirage as it was) have been around for quite a while and while I personally find them pretty annoying they toned the numbers down considerably and it is well telegraphed if your paying attention.

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Draegnarrr wrote:

storm strider has an obvious audio cue and effigy has a debuff icon that looks like a weirdly coloured rift tear and a red tether to the post and it doesn't activate until like 4s after its first placed. You can obviously just kill all the mobs and its irrelevant too.

I still get paranoia about effigy and i get the vitriol about it but storm strider (or lightning mirage as it was) have been around for quite a while and while I personally find them pretty annoying they toned the numbers down considerably and it is well telegraphed if your paying attention.

Yes, definitely toned them down and its much more manageable I think for effigy versus week 1.

Problem with lightning mirages is how common they are. Everything is swarmed with them. Sometimes you are almost infinitely spammed by them. You run into 10-20 each map. Not even a single delirium wave without them. Almost every crop in harvest has one. Every abyss. Every breach. Every legion.
But magma barrier is far worse. 4-6 very fast magma orbs spawn around you and kill instantly if you stop running like mad for a moment or stuck in something.
Also there is some kind of shit which cuts your shield and heath in half when close to you.
And what really makes me paranoid is corpse detonator. I was oneshot multiple times in blight maps after killing boss or rare mob even when there were no anyone around. I'm sure it's one of these mobs detonated corpse. Probably is the worst thing you can get in blight encounter or map. Maybe after hasted juggernaut with stun immunity.

Some people have battered wife syndrome and think this is ok.

stormstrider is great addition to delve, lightning mirages spawn/spam on top of you without line of sight. well thought out and properly tested, as usual.

At this point they might as well design t-pose rocks as enemies, only the mods would matter anyway.

Adding random properties to EVERY magic/rare does not make them engaging, it makes them more dull and unrewarding for what they already are.