Ingenuity belt?

Is it even worth the slot?

20-30? With perfect vaal hit, this is what? like 36%?
(Doubled this is like 72% of a ring stats?)

Considering breach rings 40 quality max, is this even a thing now?

I mean, it was best in slot, no doubt. Nerf is justified.

But even the good rolled ones will be worse than the old 2 divine dog-tier vaal fails.

And this comes from boss only drop unique that will affect the price of whole mechanic...

Am I the crazy one here?
Is this not design brain fart?

Nah it will probably not be used at all. maybe if it was useful to the 3rd ring slot from ritualist but as of right now if there isnt disgusting charm buffs ingenuity wont be used.

98% Ingenuities on "standard" because they wont be nerfed are being sold for 8-12 mirrors because of this change lol

either way ingenuity is probably dead, wouldve been fine with first patch notes of 30-50.

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Malgeo318#2320 wrote:

Nah it will probably not be used at all. maybe if it was useful to the 3rd ring slot from ritualist but as of right now if there isnt disgusting charm buffs ingenuity wont be used.

98% Ingenuities on "standard" because they wont be nerfed are being sold for 8-12 mirrors because of this change lol

either way ingenuity is probably dead, wouldve been fine with first patch notes of 30-50.

I am not even sure the belt will affect the "extra" ring slot.

My concern is that unlike ingenuity, headhunter cannot be boss farmed. And I feel like this will be the new Astramentis.

Definitely the most stupid design decision, despite the serious competition of multiple stupid design decision being made on daily basis.

ingenuity cant be used with 3rd ring slot it says it in the notes.

Headhunter isnt much better and actually got a shadow nerf because they added rogue exiles they took away 1-2 rare mob modifiers so youll be getting less modifiers per rare you kill.

They might add some new insane belts though so idk.

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Malgeo318#2320 wrote:

ingenuity cant be used with 3rd ring slot it says it in the notes.

Headhunter isnt much better and actually got a shadow nerf because they added rogue exiles they took away 1-2 rare mob modifiers so youll be getting less modifiers per rare you kill.

They might add some new insane belts though so idk.

Yes yes, if you suggest that they will do something stupid and add something without even a hint of balance, I am totally gonna place my bet on it.

I am wondering why nerfing something so bad? I mean, wouldn't it be better to disable the item, and replace it with something else?

So there is still a reason to farm this boss?

I mean, it this moves from:

"I hope the belt finally drops this time."

to

"No fucking belt drop. Please no fucking belt drop".

Am I the only one seeing it or what?

Yea thats how i see it too. the belt will be extremely niche if its used at all. it will become like the belts from maven or elder in poe1. maybe 10ex and probably hide it on your filter if you are rich enough.

so now the only thing that is exciting from audience would be From Nothing jewel which only has a real drop chance at level 4.

Only saving grace tbh is because ingenuity will be worthless that the audience with the king will become cheaper meaning you can actually max out that tree earlier and hopefully farm more omens for crafting.

as much as it 100% needed a nerf i think this type of nerf that just delate an item -or skill for that matter) are just bad and reduce the player option. Maybe i'm wrong but i think ingenuity will go from best in slot to actualy no utility at all wich is kind of a shame for a late game boss loot.

Dont forget that it will have extra charm slots and charm modifiers.
There is a change to stun and elemental aliments mechanics. Heavy stun will be 3 seconds instead of 1 s. I think charms will be much more important in 0.2.

Is there even a reason to run The king of the mist anymore?

Unless pragmatism becomes meta with all the stuns it sounds like we are getting.

With a 3 charm belt you can be immune to stun, freeze, and slows?

IMO it's definitely not worth the slot. The changes show it as up to +30% increased effect from the left and right rings, but you'll note that that is the same as an ingenuity before being 30% overall.

So even a perfectly rolled ingenuity will be like 1/3rd of a ring. The added charm effect is pointless, because charms are garbage (unless they are re-working them). Maybe if ingenuity acted like a mageblood and gave you your charm effects 100% of the time, then it'd be good. But charms are bad.