PLEASE explain Soultaker to me!

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Inexium wrote:

Poeple are so envious :


Somone has 300 ex : NERF PLEASE
Some weapon has OP mods : NERF PLEASE
Somone reach high level by partying : NERF NERF NERF

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Faerindel wrote:

The thing with melodramatic communities (every community is melodramatic, actually) is that the drama passes quickly. A couple "I QUIT" ragethreads that will go back in a week, a few left for real, and more noise than anything. It never should stop a balance fix.

Specially with things so obvious.


@Shada: Because of power creep. It hurts long term viability of games.
(in case you are not familiar with the term:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PowerCreep
http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/power-creep )

Also because the game is meant to be challenging at all levels. If you make the game challenging for people with things like Shavronne's, Kaom's or Soul Taker, then for people who don't have them or the handful-in-all-the-server equivalent rares, the content is almost impossible.
And nerfing one thing is way more easier than buffing everything. Also nerfing keeps power creep at bay.

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Inexium wrote:

I can't take you seriousely sorry and will never.

So i will not give you an answer.

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Shada wrote:

I played diablo 2 for years and and their were dozens of BIS items, they were just easier to get. I get your point but I think BIS are needed in games otherwise their are just overpowered rares like the mirror worthy chests/shields/helmets/weapons and maybe a lot of you forget that a mirror =~ 70 ex, a 6l shavronnes=~ 50 ex. A perfect physical bow and axe = a mirror or70 exalted, soul taker =~ 25-35 ex and a 6 l lioneyes =~25-30ex

And don't tell me a mediocre chest and weapon cost less we talk about BIS items

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Deceptionist wrote:

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Inexium wrote:

I can't take you seriousely sorry and will never.

So i will not give you an answer.

Look in the mirror and doubleback that statement.

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Faerindel wrote:

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Shada wrote:

I played diablo 2 for years and and their were dozens of BIS items, they were just easier to get. I get your point but I think BIS are needed in games otherwise their are just overpowered rares like the mirror worthy chests/shields/helmets/weapons and maybe a lot of you forget that a mirror =~ 70 ex, a 6l shavronnes=~ 50 ex. A perfect physical bow and axe = a mirror or70 exalted, soul taker =~ 25-35 ex and a 6 l lioneyes =~25-30ex

And don't tell me a mediocre chest and weapon cost less we talk about BIS items

D2 was a single player game with a multiplayer option on top of it. Balance were just a matter of "is it hard/easy enough?". And after some patches, it was totally blown out of the place and gone to ridiculous extremes.

BiS items will always exist, by definition. Even if it's a thing with like 20 ES, if there are nothing better it will be BiS. :P
A endgame rare needs a top ilvl base item and a combination of 6 specific mods, of the highest tiers, and a good roll at those.
There are so many layers of rng on a rare that makes them awfully rare (verbigratia).
If you allow fixed mod items like uniques to be on the same level as the best rares, you might go all the way and erase the rare item system thing completely and go WoW-style with handcrafted by developer gear only.

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Inexium wrote:

Your face :

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Faerindel wrote:

And what do you go for after getting your BiS unique?