Patch 1.2.4 Delayed to Tomorrow (also: Race Season Nine items and Melbourne Meetup)

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Apokalyxio wrote:

Really looking forward to the patch! :D

Seems a bit weird to me, that the last reward still requires a total of 1000 points even though the season will be shorter?

Mors and other top will for sure get the 1000 pt as easly as the other seasons because they are already top racers and best players.
And us average racers will get even less rewards. GGG is once again creating an elite class.

Can someone at least tell me what Lightning Tendrils does exactly? I will probably respec my witch because I'm not satisfied with Spark and I want to know if this could be it.

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GoodLuckEbolaChan wrote:

my guess is
10 - fencoil
40 - ilvl 100 lightning ring
100 - pyre
250 - rumis
500 - bor
1000 - marylene

my bet is the 1k reward is a devotion you cant reward an item wich noone uses on 1000 points

ohh and if you didnt notice the new race reward sytem is a big "fuck you casual racer" thx alot
getting rewarded every 4-5 races was pretty motivating considering a casual grabs 7-8 points a race+
this is far from motivating

but whatever you will see for yourself how hard the playercount will drop for races huge step in wrong direction imho

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lolozori wrote:

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Apokalyxio wrote:

Seems a bit weird to me, that the last reward still requires a total of 1000 points even though the season will be shorter?

Mors and other top will for sure get the 1000 pt as easly as the other seasons because they are already top racers and best players.
And us average racers will get even less rewards. GGG is once again creating an elite class.

Agree with you, every patch more discrimination between elites and 99.9% of player base.
Heh and after that some ppl dont know why more and more hard fans leave game, bcs even they see discrimination and wrong (injustice).

Wheres Melee optimisations? GGG add Spells every patch and nothing to fix imbalance for melee chars, Ranged/Spell/ST are godlike vs any melee but GGG didnt try to fix that. And btw that nerf Marauder was unfair (no LL, no Max res, no short way to mid tree, no notable nodes, nothing at all) when Witch/Ranger/Shadow was HARD buffed.

Plus more and more gap between NORMAL and elite players, lets just kill Melee/Marauder and make elites more elite.

Less than a month-long race season? Unless the points structure has radically changed in the new formats, that doesn't provide much opportunity for "also ran" racers like myself to achieve significant points totals. I am also concerned about the race dynamics introduced with the "enhanced" Brutus and Merveil fights. They are definitely gonna create some difficulties for more casual racers, and I expect a big shake-out as a result. ='[.]'=

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There are fewer than a regular season because we're experimenting with a shorter season.

But the highest one still needs 1000 points? ney!

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TehHammer wrote:

Measure twice, cut once. Good move, GGG.

EDIT:
2 hour fixed seed as the signature. At least it's fixed. 2 hours is a bit long for my tastes, but at least I know map hacking people aren't at an advantage.

map hack bro its called memory theres only a couple layouts for each area that it can potentially be if uve ran the first 2 acts enough u should be able to have a good idea of how to get through them quickly

Sorry, GGG. I am definitely disappointed as well. All you have done with this season is make the casual, working class players like myself want to race even less. 1000 points in less than a month is ridiculous and makes it impossible for anyone with a job and family to accomplish that even if they were to get zero sleep. All you have done is cater to those college/high school students who play POE 15+ hours a day and alienate the rest of the racing fan base.

EDIT: ...and 2 hours is horribly long for a signature race.

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Raycheetah wrote:

Less than a month-long race season? Unless the points structure has radically changed in the new formats, that doesn't provide much opportunity for "also ran" racers like myself to achieve significant points totals. I am also concerned about the race dynamics introduced with the "enhanced" Brutus and Merveil fights. They are definitely gonna create some difficulties for more casual racers, and I expect a big shake-out as a result. ='[.]'=

85dps on a atk + at least 50% cold resist and 450+ hp merveil should be doable get around those stats asap numbers based on personal experience

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ventiman wrote:

ohh and if you didnt notice the new race reward sytem is a big "fuck you casual racer" thx alot
getting rewarded every 4-5 races was pretty motivating considering a casual grabs 7-8 points a race+
this is far from motivating

but whatever you will see for yourself how hard the playercount will drop for races huge step in wrong direction imho

Thats right, GGG start to make big fails and they didnt see it.

OR they do it special to CLEARLY say to every casual or just normal player: `"FUCK YOU! LEAVE US ALONE WITH ELITE CLASS! WE DONT WANT TO SEE YOU HERE."`

Maybe thats why GGG "cant" make balance for Melee? GGG just saying: `"Go play Ranged/Spell caster OR LEAVE THAT GAME YOU FILTHY MELEE!"`

Just for example...