Open Beta - design changes

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Dave830 wrote:

Didn't alpha have a 40% more ES node after the CI node? Was that removed?

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Qarl wrote:

Skill Changes, and “Nerfing All the Builds”

We sometimes get feedback that “nerfing” is a never a good idea, and we should just leave everything as it is, and only improve underused skills.

This idea doesn’t really work. If we constantly improve skills, then the game just gets easier. Making the game easier really isn’t our goal. And if we just make the game harder to compensate for making certain skills/builds better, then that’s just a very roundabout way of reducing the power of the others.

Some skills and builds have been much more effective than we intended them to be, which is fine - after all, we want a game where looking for power that emerges from intersecting game systems is the way to play. However, if a gameplay system is so powerful that is becomes dominant - or worse, boring - we will attack the power of those skills/builds.

We also want to make players earn their power. If there is something that allows a player to succeed with no effort, and without working hard to ensure all their passive choices, gear choices, and play choices line up with it, then that game element will be changed.

We also want the metagame to change over time. We aren’t looking to find some perfect balance and then call it done.

We are going to be adding skills and items and changing things for a long time to come. We will be giving you more interesting interactions. There will be theorycrafting fuel for years. There will be new overpowered builds, and your established characters may need tweaking to deal with changes to their skills.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Here is what CI has become. Lose all your life. For 25% resists. That's ALL that keystone is now.

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ReZar wrote:

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Here is what CI has become. Lose all your life. For 25% resists. That's ALL that keystone is now.

Please stop talking when you don't get the changes - chaos will be like the elements now, non CI users will have -60 chaos resistance at the highest difficulty, also Ci has othere benefits like no downsides to bloodrage and such.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

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ReZar wrote:

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Here is what CI has become. Lose all your life. For 25% resists. That's ALL that keystone is now.

Please stop talking when you don't get the changes - chaos will be like the elements now, non CI users will have -60 chaos resistance at the highest difficulty, also Ci has othere benefits like no downsides to bloodrage and such.

And such? What's the and such? BR could be countered with a LL gem for casters.

And no, they won't have -60 chaos resistance at the highest difficulty. They will have -60+x resistance from the tree and their gear. They could get 75% to chaos.

This makes CI, +25% resistance to chaos, but you lose all your HP for it.