Is a Bringer of rain nerf coming?

To me the BoR is already balanced. It is an insanely powerful item, granted, but you can't wear a chest piece with it. Which takes away a extraordinary amount of potential defence, such as armour health and resistances.

Risk/Reward.

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JohnNamikaze wrote:

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Nephalim wrote:

I am not advocating a nerf on any of the things I listed. In fact, I wish GGG would stop with the systematic nerf of all high usage skills and items in the hopes of homogenizing and equalizing builds. What I was expressing is my predictions for future nerfs.

Considering the tremendous albeit unwarranted backlash from the codt I doubt they would dare nerf anything for at least 2 more patches which is why i based my estimate for about 2 months.

I know, I am not trying to lash out at you. ;)


I am just defending the items since the nerf road can be contagious once it is caught on, and as of late GGG, have been going into a slippery slope, and while their decision is not bad, it is not a good habit to have. GGG has already step on a couple of mines, and eventually they will slip up (GGG co are human beings), and pretty much blow everything sky high (metaphor), if they continue with this trend.


At the end of the day, GGG can do whatever the hell they want with their game, but they CANNOT do whatever the hell they want with the players. ;)

For a company that relies solely on players donating money for cosmetics and stash tabs, keeping the general populace somewhat happy is critical. While I dont think the codt crybabies quit the game, they might be slightly less willing to donate in the future. This is the only reason they did not retroactively nerf uniques like koams.

Obviously, they should nerf things that are broken and game changing like spork and codt but for other nerfs that really do not hurt the metagame, they should really find less invasive means or at least keep nerfs to newly released content only. Im talking about repeated nerfs core skills like purity.

I agree however GGG must never simply go based on popular majority because this will lead to ruin.

If it gets nerfed then I will quit the game.

If the bringer of rain was imbalanced then I would be the first to say so. Its obviously balanced and has one of the biggest downsides of any unique.

The biggest reason for its popularity is cookie cutter facebreaker builds.

All of you people who complain about nerfs know nothing about game balance and just want to faceroll everything. Quit whining.

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jdilly23 wrote:

GGG is somewhat new to this, they dont know how to manage a giant game like this

Obviously they are making mistakes and making people uncertain, but its kind of expected

I wouldn't say they are new to this. With all due respect they have been working on this game for years and have done an incredible job. The game is addictive, challenging and always changing. However, I don't agree with the Queen of Hearts philosophy they have had lately of, "Off with their heads" nerf spamming. Unlike most companies at least they listen. Hell, Chris responds to support emails from time to time but I digress. This discussion actually has a few good opinions so I will keep it going. :)

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Atlas305 wrote:

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jdilly23 wrote:

GGG is somewhat new to this, they dont know how to manage a giant game like this

Obviously they are making mistakes and making people uncertain, but its kind of expected

I wouldn't say they are new to this. With all due respect they have been working on this game for years and have done an incredible job. The game is addictive, challenging and always changing. However, I don't agree with the Queen of Hearts philosophy they have had lately of, "Off with their heads" nerf spamming. Unlike most companies at least they listen. Hell, Chris responds to support emails from time to time but I digress. This discussion actually has a few good opinions so I will keep it going. :)

note how fast they reverted the change to high level uniques dropping only on ridiculous high level maps. not even a day after they released drop data were they forced to revert the change due to 20 pages of outrage. So yes, GGG will and does listen to the community.

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ebrl wrote:

All of you people who complain about nerfs know nothing about game balance and just want to faceroll everything. Quit whining.

Who doesn't want to faceroll everything? Isn't that why we grind gear?

BoR is probably the best example of how a powerful unique should be balanced,it has a serious downside,there's no reason to have it nerfed.