State of the Beta - Post #2

great news, cant wait!

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drachale1984 wrote:

Take your time! Thx for the update

THIS! Id rather not even get it till end of summer if need be!
With so many changes to the game id rather see them come together perfect than rushed!
Quality over Quantity! \m/

EDIT: Removed and posted under manifesto.

Latest State of exile talks about the RM change

I'm for the change, the extra gem freed by not using RM allows me to run the auras in a 1-hand weapon or shield, frees up a 4 slot for something new. Don't think Enlighten will be all that necessary contrary to popular belief, unless you specialize in expensive auras. Excited to theorycraft around this!

It's the lockstep I am most interested in :)

Awesome!

june/july? SAD!

Curious question: Will there be a wipe once Lockstep is in?

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Well here I was thinking that this was finally going to be an update to the game where all my characters were not made weaker, I guess I was just dreaming.

I was liking what I saw from the new melee fortify buff for my melee characters as well as the golems that were added but I also have not yet made it to high level maps to see how they hold up there and I should also say that I think that the item filter is the best thing you have done yet.

I also didn't come across any horrible changes to the passive tree yet and the jewels (at least what I have come across so far) seem to allow for some slight improvements.

So I guess I should have been expecting there had to be some bad things coming and to me the change to reduced mana so it will not affect auras is just that. Not only that but you also make the enlighten gem take its place in that regard? To me that just means more nerfing of the poor and possibly little change (or maybe even more buffs) for the rich.

So if I have a 6linked atziri axe with a lvl 4 enlighten and 5 aura gems in it and am wearing alphas and have the reduced reserve passives what will that allow me to run? (I should also say I do not have 6linked axe or lvl4 enlighten in even the standard version I was just wondering)

Right now with the passives, alphas and a lvl20 reduced mana it used to change 60 to 23, a 40 to 16, and a 25 to 10. Which allows me to run 3 60%s, 1 40% and 1 25%. I guess I will have to wait until it is pushed to live server to see what enlighten will do instead but don't say you are freeing up a gem slot or making up for it by lowering bases since anyone that used any amount of auras will need to change colors of the sockets and replace it with enlighten. As far as I am concerned all this will do is increase the price of the already expensive enlighten and make reduced mana near useless, at least for any of my current characters it will be not used at all.

The lowering of the base reserve amounts does not near make up for this change. Now the ones that used to reserve 60 now 50, those 40 now 35 and no change to 25. And there is no change (other than passive or gear) to these amounts until you get a leveled enlighten? I don't know what kind of difference enlighten will make since I have not found one in the beta yet, let alone leveled one or got a lvl4 one.

Some others have complained about introducing new tier 1 mods but I have no issue with this, it should be possible over time to find/make things which are more powerful to some degree, as long as it is done in a responsible manner and sparingly as to not completely destroy the value of everything currently in existence. I don't think the number 1 item in any category should be number 1 until the end of time, that is just pointless and I am sure those items now best in class will continue to hold decent value. Those who are super rich can buy/craft the new number 1 items and sell their old number 1 to someone who cant afford the price for those new mirrored items. I know I could make use of many of the current top items even if it becomes possible to get better.

In the beta I am currently in merciless act 3 and was also disappointed to see the changes to the library rewards instead of a choice of one of the better gems, it is now a useless piece of gear? I can only hope this reward has been moved to one of the later quests as I have been forever wanting to get a spell echo. I would like to see less gear rewards and more jewel rewards, with all the possible jewels, why so rare?