Dear Rory

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davidnn5 написал:

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ScrotieMcB написал:

Balance is not about making everything similar, but about making variety viable. In this context, I literally cannot think of anything which was more overpowered in PoE than the relationship between Reduced Mana and reservation skills.

The two sentences do not follow. Balance is about variety, so reduced mana is bad - what?? How does that follow. Are you suggesting that there should be multiple ways to reduce mana reservation via gems (i.e. more variety)?...

I'm used to you putting more thought into your posts and explanations Scrotie. Please explain why reduced mana is bad. As it is, most people seem to be agreeing that the change doesn't promote diversity. People in leagues will be forced into playing with 1 aura + 1 herald, 1 aura +2 heralds and blood magic, or 3 heralds. They might add one more herald or aura late in the piece once they've travelled all over to get reduced mana reservation. Low-life rich people will still be stacking nearly as many auras as before but will need multiple level 4 enlightens to do so (they mostly already have +1 gem items so that won't hit their bank accounts).

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ScrotieMcB написал:

I feel it is a good start to allow more supports to be created without each being disproprtionately powerful, but we need more supports to finish the job.

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PrimordialDarkness написал:

Here is another idea: current Reduced Mana gem goes legacy, as the new one is useless anyway (nobody ever would use up a gemslot for reduced mana cost of skills), Item Quantity style.

New gem, "Reduced Mana cost" introduced in its place.

People in Perm leagues are happy because their builds still work.

People in temp leagues are happy because they get the new stuff.

Yeah, Legacy Reduced mana will be OP with new values in Auras, but the people who MIGHT give a shit about that will not be in SC anyway. It's no different from other OP legacy items anyway :>

Not the best from a balancing perspective, but it's no worse than what GGG have already done, and CERTAINLY no worse than what they are doing now. Middle ground.

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ScrotieMcB написал:

1. RM on auras was worse than GMP on Freezing Pulse in terms of support gem dominance.
2. A level 5 Enhance (max level, level corruption, +1 level from gear) is a 16% less modifier (4% per level beyond 1). It is grossly misleading to say the rich will still be able to run as many auras as before.
3. Less auras per person does not necessarily mean less variety of auras chosen. It is situational. The basis is combinatorial math: if there are four "viable" choices for a build, you get maximum diversity with "pick two" (six combinations) and less with both "pick one" and "pick three" (four combinations each).
4. I do not believe this change alone is enough to encourage sufficient build diversity from an aura perspective. Auras still have precious few support options, making even a nerfed version of RM a ridiculously strong option. I feel it is a good start to allow more supports to be created without each being disproprtionately powerful, but we need more supports to finish the job.

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grepman написал:

so, you might want to consider educating yourself on how software development process works, since you already have the eloquent speech part down.

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raics написал:

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grepman написал:

I very much doubt gems will go legacy anytime soon. there was no precedent before and those that could go legacy(phase run for example) were simply removed. yeah that was before the OB so it was elegant that they were simply wiped, but still...

You probably missed Item Quantity going legacy. Phase run got phased out (it's a pun!) when they performed the last wipe, that's why it hasn't went legacy.