3.20 - the best league since Ultimatum?

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

It's a video game. It doesn't matter if it's nerfed or buffed and there is no conspiracy of them being master manipulators. They think the game will be more fun like this, and that's it.

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shadow_rps wrote:

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Kiss_Me_Quick wrote:

It's a video game. It doesn't matter if it's nerfed or buffed and there is no conspiracy of them being master manipulators. They think the game will be more fun like this, and that's it.

Of course they manipulate opinions and make hype. Preleague is money season.
You hype, you bite, you dissapointed, you whine, you hype... Eternal cycle of stupidity, copium and bad memory.

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Xyel wrote:

Well, Lake looked really damn awesome before it launched.

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Xyel wrote:

Well, Lake looked really damn awesome before it launched.

I mean, Lake introduced into the game a legendary character, Kalandra, which together with the memories of other NPCs were to greatly expand the game's lore.
Scourge made its return with tainted currency, so we were about to be able to, once again, easily 6-link corrupted items.
Harvest got itemized, so we were about to be able to reroll suffixes/prefixes without needing to deal with TFT.
GGG used lessons learned from AN and Sentinel leagues to greatly rebalance AN modifiers to make fighting rare monsters great again.
A massive unique item rework and drop rate rebalance was about to re-ignite the excitement from dropping unique items.
And lake itself was going to offer as-if-maxed-out encounters from old mechanics, so one could experience them all in spite of having only a few on the atlas.

Even now, this would be amazing.

And then Kalandra had about as many lines as Tujen while her story lacked the finale and the ending. The memories are one-paragraph tidbits that repeat four times as one goes through the memory's four maps. Scourge was overtuned, feels like shit to focus on because it stops spawning with the boss, the currency shipped at super-low drop rates and came nerfed to the ground, especially tainted fusings.
Harvest had its most important mods removed.
AN modifiers were the same dumpsterfire they were at the beginning of the Sentinel league, but brought in the loot goblin on top of that.
About 97 from the 100 reworked uniques were vendor trash, which may have been used for leveling, except that the overall 90 - 95 % nerf to unique drop rate ensured one didn't drop any leveling uniques while leveling.
And most of the Lake tiles focused on league mechanics drop nothing of value even to this day.

So... while I do respect GGG's ability to create hype, I find myself sceptical.

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Xyel wrote:

Well, Lake looked really damn awesome before it launched.

I mean, Lake introduced into the game a legendary character, Kalandra, which together with the memories of other NPCs were to greatly expand the game's lore.
Scourge made its return with tainted currency, so we were about to be able to, once again, easily 6-link corrupted items.
Harvest got itemized, so we were about to be able to reroll suffixes/prefixes without needing to deal with TFT.
GGG used lessons learned from AN and Sentinel leagues to greatly rebalance AN modifiers to make fighting rare monsters great again.
A massive unique item rework and drop rate rebalance was about to re-ignite the excitement from dropping unique items.
And lake itself was going to offer as-if-maxed-out encounters from old mechanics, so one could experience them all in spite of having only a few on the atlas.

Even now, this would be amazing.

And then Kalandra had about as many lines as Tujen while her story lacked the finale and the ending. The memories are one-paragraph tidbits that repeat four times as one goes through the memory's four maps. Scourge was overtuned, feels like shit to focus on because it stops spawning with the boss, the currency shipped at super-low drop rates and came nerfed to the ground, especially tainted fusings.
Harvest had its most important mods removed.
AN modifiers were the same dumpsterfire they were at the beginning of the Sentinel league, but brought in the loot goblin on top of that.
About 97 from the 100 reworked uniques were vendor trash, which may have been used for leveling, except that the overall 90 - 95 % nerf to unique drop rate ensured one didn't drop any leveling uniques while leveling.
And most of the Lake tiles focused on league mechanics drop nothing of value even to this day.

So... while I do respect GGG's ability to create hype, I find myself sceptical.