0.10.8 Information and Race Updates

Huh, just when I thought "What happened to the frequent news updates?", this post comes along.
Thx Chris, thx GGG!
And @desync guys: go read the manifesto and stop repeating the same questions over and over again, acting all pissed and whiny. If you can't stand the de-sync - go play something else but don't bother us with your attitude.

A new upcoming wave of skill re-balancing?

*prays to the dark forces the minion skills don't get touched too badly.*

Can't wait for the rebalance of old skills! Please please please remove the minimum travel distance on Lightning Warp and make it uncastable before the travel has occured. Just changing around the numbers will really not make it any more attractive! Keep up the good work GGG!

Cannot wait for all the complaints about the new area levels. The same people who gave a +1 or quick "ya sounds good" are going to be the ones losing their minds on the forums because act 3 merci will be hell to get through. Just imagine while leveling you jumped into an easy mod lvl 66 maps middle of act 3 when you clearly aren't ready to handle mapping. You will be stuck grinding act 2, then city of sarn, then getting frustrated at docks, then in lunaris then once you have enough lvl 68 maps (as all that grinding will give you alot of 66s and you'll be close or over 80 so what's the point of starting at 66 maps, vendor them up and take RNG out of it) you'll finally reach the end game, where you can grind for gear to do lvl 77 maps (ofc you have to find them first).

It's grinding so you can grind. Not even being most effective either, just to allow yourself to progress. This is one of the reasons D3 was so frustrating, you farmed act 1 inferno to allow yourself to farm act 2 inferno, to allow yourself to farm act 3 inferno then you hoped to get gear 1% better to speed up your clear speed in the slightest. All of this knowing that 50m upgrade you just bought will only be significantly improved by a 2b gold upgrade.

I'm begging you, don't do it. I was so happy you did away with it in alpha, please don't bring it back.

Mods are asleep! Quick post desync QQ.

I was threatened by a mod to stay on topic yet these people get away scott free.

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Sent: February 27, 2013 6:57 PM
From: Septile
To: THEHORNEDRAT

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THEHORNEDRAT wrote:
Right, now can you fix the desyncing and disconnecting that has been getting worse since the security patch was implemented a week ago?



Not the place to voice your concerns on things not covered by the patch.

I am so very extremely happy you are looking to rebalance skills. It is such a shame that the current majority go unused.

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Misterfister wrote:

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quickey wrote:

good job, but you guys should focus on the desync problem a bit more.

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Minzy wrote:

Have the massive lag spikes that kill off HC characters been fixed yet? No? Shocking. Bye.

Both of you, fuck off. Bye.

Another troll bites the dust. Face desyncs and won't be so "badass".

I just added a leader board on exilestats for the signature race tracker, it should automatically stay up to date as the races continue :)

I am very happy to see the skill rebalancing and the rebalancing of Merciless Act 3. These are changes that needed to come, and will greatly benefit the playerbase. The game is currently unpolished, and working on the skill system is a good start to getting more players interested in the content. I would really love to speak with you directly about my own thoughts on the skill system, but I think that I will make a forum post in General Chat directly focusing on those 4 gems that you mentioned. Hopefully that will help to generate good feeback for those gems outside of their dedicated skill threads, because I know that many players do not check there anymore, and a lot of the content in those threads is outdated.

I am still upset to see people posting about how the team should "fix desync" in every patch. I just returned to this game after a hiatus, opened up a hardcore character, played for a few hours, and guess what? I had no problems with desync at all, even in a party. (Though I did notice framerate drops whenever I tried to cast Raise Skeleton.)

These changes are good, but desync needs to get a top priority issue and fix it as soon as possible. I'm sad.