State of the Beta - Post #8

Delay release by a week and I'll be happy.

Looking forward to some more explanations (of intentions) and facts on the new mechanics!

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The next patch will include some changes to map drop rates. The end result of the changes should make it easier to get to and maintain mid to high-tier maps. The highest tiers of maps (level 80 to 82) will still be challenging to reach and maintain.

YESSS. Keeping 80+ rare sounds like a much better balance point than making every map over 70 require a blessing from RNGesus.

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We are also doing a rework of map mods. Once done it will be patched in. We will make a manifesto post once the details are close to finalised.

Very interested in this as well. If your goal is to get people to run harder maps, removing pack size and magic mobs as mods and instead tying those to the difficulty of the map is potentially a great way to do it, I think.

Those mods have turned into the old maze and map size mods and they need to go. However, they're nice bonuses to have and they're fun to play, so it'd be cool to still have a way to get them: by rolling your maps harder than you would on live currently.

You really need to revise the way leech mechanics are expressed because it gets more and more confusing each time. If I was someone starting this game today I would really have no idea how leech works and I know a lot of people who've been playing for years also have difficulty.

Looking good GGG, keep grinding away, I'm HYPED for the new content!!! (except new t1 mods those are still lame)

说好的不搞遗产呢？反正S区也是垃圾场，跟台服一样谁玩谁煞笔

cool. cool, cool. July will be a fun month.

knowing my luck, I'll finally get my beta key the day before the expansion goes live. Just works like that for me here lately.

Thank you Carl; you and the other team members are doing an amazing job. Keep up the great work!

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sherkhan wrote:

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We are also looking at increasing the values of the Leech Cap. We will then have two main bonuses affecting leech gained, with Leech Cap bonuses best against packs, and Increased Leech Per Second bonuses best against bosses. Neither will be detrimental to the player.

Hm. I thought the redesigned leech already worked this way.

I'm thinking they will have Increased Leech Rate, so you regen faster, and Increased Leech Amount, so you regen more.

I'm not sure that this will be better for packs vs. single so much as big damage vs. small damage. Big damage will want to leech faster so it can build more stacks, small damage will want bigger leeches since it rarely reaches the cap. My Shock Nova leeches ~0.5% of my life a hit, so as long as I'm hitting less than 40 times a cast I'm nowhere near the limit and making my recovery time 1/8th of a second instead of 1/4th of a second doesn't really matter.