General Discussion - Chris confirms to go through mid: Scion or bust - Forum

Thinking from a solo player perspective, I'm wondering if there will be enough life% nodes available from the marauder side to keep melee as a possibility in higher difficulties. Other than that, I look forward to trying the new tree out. If it ends up not working well overall, GGG will probably adjust things. Relax people. It's a game, not life and death. :)	Posted by Deleted on Oct 10, 2013, 4:38:45 PM
Personally I like the change. Anything to make class choice matter is great in my book. I'm not even going to bother with Scion...I'd rather be strong in one area and weak in another rather than mediocre at several things. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul...	Posted by Tuftronic#5835 on Oct 10, 2013, 5:05:43 PM Quote this Post
Using a ranger and IG isn't really the best example. There's a gem for that.	Posted by SL4Y3R#7487 on Oct 10, 2013, 5:08:58 PM Banned Quote this Post
They should just do a full wipe on release. Then there will be no more complaints about nerfed characters. :> CliveHowlitzer wrote: I am now too addicted to that feeling of being kicked in the nuts when you die.	Posted by Alros#7572 on Oct 10, 2013, 5:14:21 PM Quote this Post
" Alros wrote: They should just do a full wipe on ase. Then there will be no more complaints about nerfed characters. :> I wish they would wipe everything except for character levels, but give you the option to pick quest rewards you already finished again. (b) Personal abuse, foul language, inappropriate subject matter, obscene, harassing, threatening, hateful, or discriminatory or defamatory remarks of any nature ... are not permitted. - PoE TOS.	Posted by bhavv#7360 on Oct 10, 2013, 5:24:02 PM Quote this Post
" Gravethought wrote: Chris_GGG wrote: "They either need to play Scions or to go around the long way. In order to not have this create millions of Scions, we're moving some passives around so that they're not necessarily on the wrong sides of the tree from each other." I REALLY dislike this change but I'll give ggg the benefit of the doubt here. This breaks several of my characters current builds in half, thankfully I play ladder leagues and those characters are dead to me anyway, BUT I know many people will be shocked by this decision. What do people think about the mid being cross-able by scions only? link to the dev post of him saying this	Posted by Danoga#3881 on Oct 10, 2013, 5:24:08 PM Quote this Post
Its on that raptr thing where hes answering people questions, and there's a picture of the new scion starting area on the home page. For every class other than scion, the middle is now totally ruined. (b) Personal abuse, foul language, inappropriate subject matter, obscene, harassing, threatening, hateful, or discriminatory or defamatory remarks of any nature ... are not permitted. - PoE TOS. Last edited by bhavv#7360 on Oct 10, 2013, 5:28:30 PM	Posted by bhavv#7360 on Oct 10, 2013, 5:27:43 PM Quote this Post
" ScrotieMcB wrote: 3. My version of the center Note that passages through the middle are possible, but they all tell the player "hey, you could have made this build as a Scion." So no class would ever be better than Scion at cross-tree stuff, but you could sometimes pick different classes for aesthetic reasons, so it's not a non-stop Nicole Kidman fest. Spoiler Almost the same travel distance. I feel it maintains the sense that you don't have to be Scion to cross the center, but that she does still have much more versatility when doing so. Will it encourage more build identity compared to what we have now and the release candidate seen in the interview? I don't know.. It might be best just to make the middle exclusive to Scion. Devolving Wilds Land “T, Sacrifice Devolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card and reveal it. Then shuffle your library.”	Posted by CanHasPants#3515 on Oct 10, 2013, 5:36:51 PM Quote this Post
The centre tree in those screenshots is just ridiculously bad compared to the current one. (b) Personal abuse, foul language, inappropriate subject matter, obscene, harassing, threatening, hateful, or discriminatory or defamatory remarks of any nature ... are not permitted. - PoE TOS.	Posted by bhavv#7360 on Oct 10, 2013, 5:43:42 PM Quote this Post
For me the scion will have a major weakness, and it is the ability to specialize, whereas other classes can specialize if they want, but scion seems to be more of a jack of all trades, or be good at least 2 things instead of great at 1. Of course you could already do this with other classes, but this one seems to force you to do that. I actually like the overall design of the character and the backstory even though we dont know everything yet, so I will probably play due to that and not because I am expecting her to be overpowered or not.	Posted by steelsoldier#1482 on Oct 10, 2013, 5:45:56 PM Quote this Post