Eternal orbs.. Should they come back?

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torturo написал:

Sid, without mirrors, eternals serve the only purpose of fixing items and working around risky crafting projects (the end value of the items could be eventually economically unjustified). Isn't it balanced as risk-reward?

Once again, perfect items cannot exist without mirrors. Eternals don't play a role in this case.

BTW eternals varied 2-4ex back in days, 3 on average. That's an acceptable price to fund small crafts and adjustments on your own. It's not as expensive as you make it look like. Crafting from scratch/crafting certain weapon types is different. This can truly make you broke. But at the end it's decision of the individual anyway, if to take the risks.

Mirrors have nothing to do with crafting of items.... Also eternals were 6-8ex before they went legacy.

Of course mirrors have a lot to do with crafting perfect a.k.a. mirror worthy items. Without the ability to infinitely dupe a certain item for a fee, crafting such an item is economically unjustified - some weapon bases may eat 4-5K exalts in the process.

Price of eternals in std/HC varied 2-4/3-5 before the statement of legacy status came out. Dunno about the leagues.
There were times when value of exalts fluctuated for some reasons and botters sold packs of eternals on std at 2ex, as people who play this game for a living monitor the price of exalts closely.

I would love to see them in the game, but I must say I wasn't playing PoE yet when they were. From a distance, it seems like the mirrors were the root cause of the commodity of power. So I'd want the mirrors to change. One copy per item maximally, as suggested earlier in this thread, looks like a good deal to me. Perhaps even make the original non-tradeable.

The thought of gathering materials over time to create that one powerhouse of an item that uniques can't ever touch feels worth an enormous farm. Such items would still lose power as new tiers become available as the game expands.

But the investment would reward with the power of the item, not richdom alongside it nor a spread of that power. So without adjustment to how mirrors work, I'd rather not have them in the game.

2ct.

play league

get mirror drop

tell me, what is there to mirror in league?

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pichapie написал:

play league

get mirror drop

tell me, what is there to mirror in league?

Hahahah that's the best part they took out the fucking eternal orb for the sake of standard where it's already damaged that's the amazing fucking part.

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好的男 написал:

Bring them back as they was, increase the droprate, add a "eternaled"-Flag if used on an item.
That flag means "Can't be mirrored and/or Corrupted".

Why not corrupted? Corruption is the last milestone in crafting an item and it's an all or nothing case.

Instead, it could be changed so that eternal orb can't reverse corruption, so that corruption retains it's high risk/high reward value.

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Apos91 написал:

Instead, it could be changed so that eternal orb can't reverse corruption, so that corruption retains it's high risk/high reward value.

Or simply bring back eternals and leave them alone.
Instead, make duping possible once per item, both the original and the copy get their icons reversed to avoid scams, done.

With temp league flushing items into standard league every few months I feel the best solution is: restrict mirrors to temp-league only i.e. they only drop and function in league and end up as nothing but a shiny trophy in standard and bring eternals back as a standard-league only race-reward at like 750 points. Here's why.

Mirrors - It's a temp league it almost impossible to craft those "perfect" items; unless it's a guild-wide effort or you;re a serious no-lifer or botter, you simply don't have enough time and currency. There are however some decently crafted items in league that a mirror could be useful within the league but would be overshadowed by standard league gear standards. And tbh if you're able to yolo exalt a perfect piece of gear, props to you, you deserve to be able to charge for mirror service.

Eternal Orb - Honestly it's a permanent league you should be able to min max your build. By eliminating mirrors via the above you slow down the amount of perfect gear flooding standard. By implementing Eternals as a race reward you still allow people to get perfect weapons it's just harder now.

Like it really matters if they came back, I had well over 1k hours played before they were removed and never saw a single one.