Dear Rory

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PrimordialDarkness написал:

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mazul написал:

Cyclone is the only melee skill that is performing good enough in Closed beta. Buff rest rather than nerf Cyclone.

Your logic goes right over the GGG "balancing team"'s heads. Whenever faced with something that is stronger or better in any way than other options, they have always resorted to nerfing that, instead of bringing everything else up to that level. What do you think the reason that all of us are complaining is?

Just look at all patches since release.

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mazul написал:

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PrimordialDarkness написал:

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mazul написал:

Cyclone is the only melee skill that is performing good enough in Closed beta. Buff rest rather than nerf Cyclone.

Your logic goes right over the GGG "balancing team"'s heads. Whenever faced with something that is stronger or better in any way than other options, they have always resorted to nerfing that, instead of bringing everything else up to that level. What do you think the reason that all of us are complaining is?

Just look at all patches since release.

Rory has pointed out in Ziggy interview that Cyclone is indeed the only skill with proper clear speed and that he very well knows that clear speed is a current major issue with most other melee skills. Rory is not out of touch, he knows the melee issues. He has access to metrics such as clear speed and survivability.

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Avu написал:

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goetzjam написал:

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Making mandatory gem significantly less achievable by masses does not really make it less mandatory.

Actually it kinda does, if most people can't use the gem in temp leagues people will build around not having it available.

Mandatory for what though? If you want to be competitive and do atziri or whatever new endgame that gets introduced you'll need it, because it is power without cost. And no 1 gem slot does not compare to the power a new aura or 3 gives you. The ones that can kill the most lucrative endgame content fastest and most reliable will be the ones that get rich, rich enough to afford fun builds you know the ones that take an arm and a leg to gear. Because the not fun builds where you keep dying? Well the average player is left with those and those get nerfed all the time. Sure the average player won't be able to afford a leveled enlighten in a new league he also won't be able to afford most any fast clearing fun builds.

Why does ggg hate people who can't play 16 hours a day and restart every 3/4/x months. Why does ggg hate people who can't or don't want to party? The new aura nerfs? They sure as hell don't affect parties. From like 20 people who used to play all the time I have one friend that still plays somewhat and a couple of others that check the game when the hype is high all the others left over time. They all realized the game does not want them to have fun. Many of these guys played a full time permadeath sandbox mmo that took months to years to build a character but it could be lost in 30 seconds of being caught at the wrong place and the wrong time and they still didn't think poes grind was worth it.

No fun allowed for casuals. That's poe for you. Well unless you acquire your new shiny op/mandatory/broken new toys through out of game means. Then it's fun for everyone involved. Except the fools who try to get gear the legit way. Heck even the semi whales with mirrored helms gloves and boots that play standard can't be happy with you turning a red gem into blue and eating up a mirror or three in the process. But I guess the spice must flow no?

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Rory написал:

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Snorkle_uk написал:

If youre expecting a mana fueled build to need passive aura investment to function with 2 auras then you create a system where theres 2 types of builds, ones where the natural tree placement of their passives makes those nodes very convenient to get and ones that are now shit builds because its a nightmare for them to make that investment. The way around this is a 50+ exalt gem.

Im not even talking about aura stacking builds that are built around 4+ auras, just builds than run 2 simple auras and go nowhere near aura passives are just gimped by this change by having to drop either their main damage or defense aura or spend 8+ passives pathing to reserve nodes while random similar builds that happen to path right past something like sovereignty are merely taxed a couple of passives for business as usual.

Unless you are rich... and thats what gets people. Its gone from if you are poor you cant have the same gear to now if you are poor you cant have the same passives (jewels) and you cant have the same auras either. Its taking away power from poor players, things they used to be able to rely on being universal for all players.

I agree, builds that get a large bonus from a couple of auras that bring them on-par with other builds but can't afford the cost now will suffer from this change. Ideally, they can sustain the cost with minor investment, but sometimes that option isn't available to core build paths. We're working on granting these builds more low cost mana investment. If there are specific 50% auras that you're considering mandatory, please let me know, as we can introduce lower cost alternatives or give builds ways to easily compensate for the loss.

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rjt197197 написал:

You actually already have this feature in the game. It's called "Reduced Mana".

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MrTremere написал:

This whole story brings another question : why was the Enlighten bonus so dramatically low?

If you do the maths, you directly understand that it's a really bad choice.

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dEus__ написал:

I play may be ~15h a week mostly solo ... but I still want to experience end game maps

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vangrandson написал:

Aura change is fine so stop that whining, just run 1-2 less auras.

Problem solved