WORLD FIRST USE of Vaal orb

"

deusapollo wrote:

"

Lord_Kamster wrote:

Anyone defending GGG over this and blaming it on the players takes white-knighting to a whole new level. It's not right for a company to pull this on the people that support it, in many cases with hundreds of dollars.

this

"

Futon wrote:

I find it impressive how many fan boys GGG has. You're convinced this was a good move because it makes you laugh? You're enjoying this because you like to laugh at other peoples misery? These are the people that GGG is catering too? Did I stumble into a game full of 12 year olds?

and that

Are poorly thought out, knee-jerk reactions.

Its like blaming Ford because someone wrecked by driving 100mph through an off ramp. You're telling me that it wasn't 100% foolish to use a new orb with completely uncertain results on the best item in your stash, right away without experimenting yourself or even checking the forums to see what happens?

"

Ismaell wrote:

FUCK THIS GAM EI VALE ORB MY 6L CHAVRONE AND IT MAKE INTO A FUCKING MANTLE

FUCK U CHRIS WILSEN FUCK U FUCK U I QUIT FUCK U !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I laugh'ed so hard omg :)))

this looks like one of the best moves GGG ever did.

Vaal orb is the purest kind of gambling there could ever be in this universe.

"

Antnee wrote:

Are poorly thought out, knee-jerk reactions.

Its like blaming Ford because someone wrecked by driving 100mph through an off ramp. You're telling me that it wasn't 100% foolish to use a new orb with completely uncertain results on the best item in your stash, right away without experimenting yourself or even checking the forums to see what happens?

no - i'm not, it was a bad idea.

but consider this: many people dont read in the forum too much or even check reddit etc and for those there should have been a clear warning.

actually GGG and the player both acted wrong, but from GGG we should expect better ;)

There is a VERY clear warning, right on the orb.

Modifying it unpredictably

"

deusapollo wrote:

"

Antnee wrote:

Are poorly thought out, knee-jerk reactions.

Its like blaming Ford because someone wrecked by driving 100mph through an off ramp. You're telling me that it wasn't 100% foolish to use a new orb with completely uncertain results on the best item in your stash, right away without experimenting yourself or even checking the forums to see what happens?

no - i'm not, it was a bad idea.

but consider this: many people dont read in the forum too much or even check reddit etc and for those there should have been a clear warning.

actually GGG and the player both acted wrong, but from GGG we should expect better ;)

You don't need to read the forums to know using Vaal Orbs is taking risks...because, let's me quote the patch notes for you.

"

Added a new currency item: Vaal Orb. It corrupts a target item, modifying it unpredictably. Once an item is corrupted, further currency cannot be applied to it. This includes restoring imprints. There are many possible outcomes of corruption, some of which may be undesirable. Consider its use carefully!

These orbs are gonna make the forums fun to read for quite a while lol

"

minus4 wrote:

You don't need to read the forums to know using Vaal Orbs is taking risks...because, let's me quote the patch notes for you.

"

Added a new currency item: Vaal Orb. It corrupts a target item, modifying it unpredictably. Once an item is corrupted, further currency cannot be applied to it. This includes restoring imprints. There are many possible outcomes of corruption, some of which may be undesirable. Consider its use carefully!

getting a bad stat when using an Ex is undesirable

actually if they would have said:

"some of which may destroy the item"

it would have been fine. but "undesirable" just doesn't fit reality here and fooled these players by concealing the real risk

"

Inexium2 wrote:

I don't care about communication, i care about THE GAME.
Unsocket + unlink + reroll + lock => OVERKILL nonsense.

^ This

I remember a post centered in PoE crafting system where someone talked about certain Korean MMO crafting system where you had a chance of destroying your items or improving them. All posts were negative comments like "what a stupid thing, crafting destroying your items, such a retard game *haha*".

Now GGG release a system where your items can be totally destroyed, all that I read is *clap* *clap*. What the...?

Yes, I know, its optional, noone forces you, and you can use that orb in non-valuable items and gems, where loss-factor is much lower, like I will do. But, honestly, all people here thinks that this system is good to the game? We dont have enough RNG that we like to add another RNG layer that doesn't even let you change your socket colours to modify/improve your build?

Is not like I don't like the orb, but it shouldn't destroy your item. The worse thing that it should do is *nothing*. Its more than enough to dont let you change it at all after corrupting it. There are also a lot of non-desirable mods that can appear after using it.

"

demivion wrote:

Did you ever find some gear that could be amazing but is just lacking that "special something" so you just vendored it? Thats the item you use a Vaal orb on...

Find a crappy unique that some people use but is so common that everyone just sells them for 1 chaos? Thats the item you use a Vaal orb on...

Find a gem that is in high demand but you don't need personally? Thats the item you use a Vaal orb on...


If you use a vaal orb on a GG item you're a retard, that's like using a chaos on a perfectly rolled rare.


Items i'm planning on using a vaal orb on, if i ever get one in the dumpster:

currently playing on ambush but these are the types of items that are crappy enough not to be missed but good enough that a YOCO could make them very desirable

Someone ignored the fact that you have to socket, link & chrome them first to a state that you never want to change again.

Not as simple as you make it sound.