Your thoughts on Ruthless replacing regular for league events?

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6_din_49 wrote:

Finished the campaign in Ruthless SSF, I'd say it was as easy as a regular league start for my build (Cold DoT). Damage was ok for the whole campaign without support gems, tankiness was also ok, the only issue was that I did not have boots with movement speed until act 10.

But in maps it's getting grindy... XP penalty is quite high after level 72, map sustain is bad and master missions are a lot harder to get. After reaching T5 maps, now I'm back to T2 because I'm out of T3/T4/T5. Kirac's inventory has only maps that I completed and I don't have any missions to reset his inventory. I guess I'm stuck in low tier maps for a while.

Very similar to my experience. I played a build that ended up being a ballista totem Explosive arrow. I had plenty of damage. The end game just wasn't fun due to the lack of maps. I stopped playing at level 79 or 80 because of it. The endgame progress was just boring shit, IMHO.

I had lots of fun in the storyline though. I never did get a determination aura. Auras shouldn't be so rare. They should also make movement skills available, IMHO. Perhaps just make the cool down period super long? Going through Control Blocks area for example is just a stupid pain without a movement skill. I also agree with your master missions point.

League events are already niche that tends to cather to the most dedicated players, just like ruthless, maybe they just figured the two crowds likely intersect significantly

Its really not a sign they want to replace ruthless as the main game, they themselves acknowledged that it was a niche mode, so it would be plain retard to still force it on everyone

This one event with coin was also a bit different: its an experiment, even openly said so, so its possible they just decided to make the testing on a very controled enviroment and puting it on a place where only the most dedicated players would go could allowed them to tinker with it more freely than if it involved a bigger crowd. It could also because they wanted to have the new mechanic in line with ruthless scarcity, so theres smaller risk of it either breaking the game because its too good or becoming irrelevant because its too weak(start with it on a low level, and adjust by buffing as needed, rather than start OP and nerf after damage could have been already done-like happens with crafting leagues at a rather alarming rate)

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feike wrote:

League events are already niche that tends to cather to the most dedicated players, just like ruthless, maybe they just figured the two crowds likely intersect significantly

Dont know what they figured. But based on the ladders (level at 15k ladder position) the event seems to be much more popular than any of the 4 Ruthless leagues - maybe more so than all of the 4 Ruthless leagues together.

Ruthless Gold event @15k: Level 50 (*)
Ruthless @15k: Level 35
HC Ruthless @15k: Level 6
SSF Ruthless @15k: Level 8
HC SSF Ruthless @15k: Level 10


(*) This despite it only running for a short time (9 days according to this site) yet.