The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Harmful Content

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reboticon wrote:

After thinking this over for a while, I really don't feel like there is much of a problem with any of these items. I think there should be Godly stuff in the game. Trying to get a lot of that stuff is the reason most people keep playing. The real problem, in my opinion, is just how hard it is to roll a good rare and the diluted affix pool.

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The only problem I see here is that you are nearly required to respec into CI in the mid/late game if you're going into CI at all. If there were more flat ES values on the board and near CI, and if CI were a gradual change by spreading out the conversion over several points, then it would be possible to go into CI during normal gameplay without requiring respec points.

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Veta321 wrote:

Finally read this thread. It was informative and comprehensive, I commend you pneuma.

Maps have a lot of unused potential with regards to build parity. What I mean is, players already hold mapping efficiency as the ultimate goal of any build. So why not design map properties with strong and weak builds in mind. Perhaps some properties are particularly deadly for characters using CI. While other properties are a breeze for characters using melee EV. Of course we don't want to reduce mapping selection to a binary 'can' or 'cannot' do. But properties certainly could be more targeted in what they favor and disfavor. The effect would be build parity without diminishing the importance of choice.

One thing I've been considering lately is the viability of curses. There is great upside to curses and little downside. They, much like auras, are build flexible. I do not think that is beneficial to gameplay because it forces players into including them or playing suboptimally. The exception being characters so powerful that curses are superfluous. Instead I would prefer curses have some sort of trade off or build consideration. In that way curses would be a build choice rather than an obligation. But I am curious to hear your opinion pneuma as you are much more familiar with these issues than I am.

Keep up the good work.

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casval776 wrote:

This is not exactly true, concerning curses.

For example: Frostbite, Flammability, Conductivity, and Elemental Weakness all have great upsides but against the mobs you probably won't one-shot or fear to begin with, they probably have 0 effect just from the way their reductions are calculated.

Another example:

White mobs are probably getting one-shotted anyway. Magic mobs might take another hit or two but are probably not a threat anyway unless it's a pack of Magic Rhoas or something. Rares and Uniques are the ones where Curses are assumed to have a great impact but this isn't true.

Piety resists Lightning. If you're a sporker, you're probably going to cast Conductivity or Elemental Weakness to compensate. In reality, you're doing 0% more damage from casting the curse. Resists are capped at 75% but that's only for the sake of damage calculations towards the end of the formula. So, really, Piety could have 200% Lightning Resist for all you know and when damage is calculated, it's lowered back to 75%. At the time the Curse reduction is calculated, the Lightning Resist is still 200%, then reduced by the curse amount, then soft-capped to 75%.

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Rusery wrote:

On Chaos Innoculation -

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The only problem I see here is that you are nearly required to respec into CI in the mid/late game if you're going into CI at all. If there were more flat ES values on the board and near CI, and if CI were a gradual change by spreading out the conversion over several points, then it would be possible to go into CI during normal gameplay without requiring respec points.

I have argued in posts before this that CI needs a progression to 1 life 100% Chaos res.

Easily solved as the key stone being changed to "lose 50% life, gain 50% chaos res". THEN 3 more nodes giving more chaos res at the cost of % amounts of life up to 99%. Augment it this way and you wont need to sacrifice so much early on.