OP Legacy Uniques are the worst decision i've seen from the devs thus far

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HenkCCAA wrote:

Why would new players want to run a facebreaker or any other nerfed unique based build, when they get the inferior stuff from now on? Really hope the new stuff will make up for this.

Here's a cookie. Hell, here's a whole jar of them.

How about we all take this veiled advice and play the new paradigm.

The problem is it is completely screwing up trade. Everyone is afraid to sell anything for less than 15 exalted because it could be a legacy item soon. Trade chat is flooded with "Legacy Kaom's - 500 exalted. Legacy Rainbow - 180 Exalted."

So trade is fucked, RMT is in heaven, people will resort to RMT because who the fuck has 500 Exalted on Hardcore? Maybe like 2 people?

And when people play video games, especially online games, they play them with the expectation that - some day - they will be able to finish a character. If you play HP based, and use a bow or a two hander, which both are getting buffed, a finished character would use a Kaom's. I'll never be able to afford one. I just found 2 Exalted this week, having my extreme luck that I do, and traded orbs for a couple more. But 500? I'll never have enough, and I've been having GOOD rng.

Point being, you keep it up with these legacy uniques, and eventually, people just get discouraged because every interesting, powerful item is multitudes more expensive than 99% can ever afford. People who actually want the items resort to RMT, people who don't either quit because they get sick of seeing "500 exalted" after every item in chat or probably never cared for the items in the first place.

Honestly, it is less about QQ and being jealous, and more about the economies being totally jacked, creating RMT heavens on the permanent leagues. I almost feel like the devs are doing it on purpose to pressure people into playing the new leagues, but whatever.

There should not be legacy uniques without legacy builds. People invested just as much time fine tuning min/maxing builds as they put in grinding for OP uniques. Yes, I have OP uniques, but the loss of time argument no longer holds merits when builds just got broken as well.

I don't intend to play standard/hardcore.

But this is just wrong.
Open beta players are in so much better position than the players starting at launch. We have the ultimate not-obtainable-anymore items that are game-breaking.

Absurd.

legacy items are pure garbage and indifect buff to RMT. strange from company claiming that they do t want pay2win

id also like to raise an issue of re rolling buffed uniques with divine orbs. please allow re rolling with chaos. who will ever re roll 1alch uniques with divine orbs and get 1chaos items?

the only worth more than 1div after rerolling is hynri iire or whatever it is called but still


legacy items are a very bad idea. just take the realm down for 5 hours and re roll all items for everyone

but this like fixing desync wont happen

I don't care if other players have better items than I do. Never have, never will. Doesn't make my character any less fun to play knowing someone out there has better gear.

What I find disheartening, is watching the prices in trade chat. I realize just how inflated the supply of high-end orbs is, and makes me feel as though no matter how much I try, the value of orbs I save up will always deflate faster than I can acquire them.

What is unfortunate about this, is that the standard economy does have a slow-cascading effect on the standard challenge league economy. By the mid-end of each challenge league, people start thinking "hmm, this item is worth x more in standard" where the value of an exalted is worth much less (and will continue to be worth less and less over time) compared to its value within the younger challenge league.

I feel like Tantalus-- no matter how far I reach, the fruit will always be just outside my grasp. Solution? Play self found only? That is also disappointing because I otherwise enjoy trading.

Good thing I kept like three pairs of rainbowstrides.

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ARPGfan wrote:

IMO Beta was for testing purposes.

Heya, how's your 6L'ed Infernal? Nice and cosy, I'd hope?

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wisdorin wrote:

hey i dont get where the problem is. Do you really think you need the legacy uniques? There were Legacy Uniques in Closed Beta & open Beta too. There are still a lot of rares and other uniques which are build enabling. You know i play standard too, mainly because a lot of my friends are there. But i really dont get why it should be a problem if some guys have legacy uniqes. There will be new Uniques every 2 weeks.


Is it only because you want to be rich in standard and you think you cant without legacy uniques? I know you dont need them for your builds....But i really dont get the problem with them. The economy is already broken, because of Anarchy merge...

pls explain it to me...

i love this game and i dont think that standard is a dumpster league, because the most players who died in hc/hc challange league and those who came after the anarchy merge will go away after release.

I have always believed that overpowered uniques are bad for the game (unbiased opinion, I could buy what I wanted I have 7 geared characters and a lot of currency dispersed among them). Making these uniques legacy has made the OP problem worse. It makes me feel like standard really doesn't matter much to the devs.

Now I have to shake my head everyday at seeing WTS Kaoms Heart 1000 exalts. Its horrible

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wisdorin wrote:

My BET 4 weeks from now, nobody will cry about legacy uniques....

Honestly I will always complain about them. Believe it or not it is possible to care about game balance and not really be competitive. One big reason I play standard is because I don't care about competition, and yet I do still care about game balance.

I dont want no stinky legacy items, such bullshit GGG, nerf them retroactively.

But 500hp Kaoms? ROFL, that is too low, make them 700HP and nerf it retroactively.