Possible Fix for Minion Snapshoting?
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I've thought of something interesting, and I'm not sure it's possible to work this way.
Right now the prefixes / suffixes act in a way that allows players to snapshot their statistics and modifiers over to the minions. They can then gemswap for different gear. While I still like this unintended mechanic, I think somewhere down the line it needs to be fixed. Why not treat some of the mods as a buff/aura? At least behind the scenes. You create the range of the buff/aura to be slightly larger than the "Leash" range, so your minions will always have the modifiers. That way when you remove the item, the aura no longer applies because the item is not equipped. The question is can the developers code the effects of the mods onto a buff/aura to work this way? "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."
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The only real way to fix snapshotting is to have all information update whenever you change an instance, and that doesn't fix snapshotting inside an instance.
However, having to keep up to half of your inventory full of snapshotting gear would be a strong deterrent to snapshot, especially for maps. |
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Theyre working on something. I think it would be the easiest of removing gear also destroys all minions.
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Don't agree with this!
Snapshooting is very interesting way of game mechanic that provides you some more powerfull skill combinations and options. Also, almost every character class and skill can be powerfull enough if you know what you do, especially after included many Vaal gem skills, new uniques with powerfull stats etc etc. Snapshooting makes this game unique and opens new possibilities with almost all classes, and I'm sure many of us would not like this to be removed in any way. If you don't like particular Class or skill, simply dont play it. If you don't like snapshooting, simply don't do it. Play something else , and find your combination to make it powerfull enough. And just couse you don't like it, does not mean that something have to be fixed. As I said, totally disagree with this. Cheers Last edited by Sehaxxxx#5726 on Jun 5, 2014, 6:18:36 AM
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I'm not opposed to snapshotting, it's just GGG is going to do something about it sooner or later.
I was just curious if they did something like this would work, at least temporarily. If they changed weapon swap feature to gear swap feature, where players could wear two sets of gear, I would use that. If that would allow snapshotting... I've barely got enough room on my summoner for all my gems I want. In fact I can't use consecration without sacrificing another active skill, like desecrate. Can't use a unset ring because I would lose a lot of rarity, and there are no belts that provide a gemslot. "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."
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What if minions update to reflect the owners current equipment whenever they reach their maximum tether range and warp to the owner?
"If they actually showed gameplay with it zoomed out and then zoomed it in for the real one I think there would be actual riots in the street. I think that people would burn the building down."
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hm, I see what's your point Krinny.
I could agree in that case, maybe it could be interesting in some way, but I think thay wanted it intentionally to be " that tricky ", so we have to make sometimes choose what to do probably as a matter of chalenge or whatever. Damn, I needed so many times that " extra slot " :D. Anyway , at this point I could agree with. cheers Last edited by Sehaxxxx#5726 on Jun 5, 2014, 8:10:31 AM
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Its not a feature, its an exploit and has always been one in any game unless it has bound to character equipment people will always bitch about exploit fixes though because they cant play the way the devs intended it to be played.
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" This wouldn't cover weapon swapping. " I don't want to take longer than I have to. I don't want to die more than I have to. I play to win. Snapshotting is in the game, GGG has had years to do something about it, so I use it to my advantage. It makes me more powerful, but it's tiresome to set up. If GGG finally solves minion snapshotting, I will lose that power and that alone will make me sad, but I won't mind the loss of snapshotting because it was a pain in the ass to deal with. If it was gone, I wouldn't feel like I was missing out on my character's potential by not using snapshotting. If summoners end up noncompetitive in endgame as a result, then it will be easier to rally summoners in support for appropriate buffs. I do not consider snapshotting inherently interesting. There is no real choice or cost beyond the boring setup time required. Please, do away with it so I don't feel compelled to waste my time doing something boring to save time doing something fun. |
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Minion snapshots MUST be deleted from game!
Its not fine when you can has x1000 time more stronger minion and be FULLY tankie as boss... |
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