Upcoming Divination Cards
" ... " I don't see the shark jumping. Div card drop rate is already balls. The ability to keep your character a certain level through book of regression can help a bit if you have some really esoteric mission or self restriction, but the drop rates are currently balanced for: 'find one or two cards yourself and trade for the rest'. Cards that give you cards don't change the basic shitty math. -Edit- To the guy below me, yeah I guess that's what I was getting at with what I wrote. So far the premise seems to be: 'incremental farming of increments' is bad. I don't see why. Adding a third tier of increments to the two Mirror cards still wouldn't be objectively 'bad'. It would be bordering on silly, but not bad, or even unhealthy for the game. Your power level in the game, especially the late game progresses occurs by small increments. Why shouldn't your farming (IF you want it to - div cards are more or less an 'opt-in' feature). Last edited by innervation#4093 on Apr 24, 2016, 10:27:59 PM
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" Ok. I will bite. Give me your best hypothetical disaster snowball from this. I am most curious about what you think are the potential bad decisions that can stem from this card. What terrible (or slightly worse) fate can befall us because of this bad precedent. Also, what is the precedent that is bad again, just so we are all clear? |
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" Hi Phillip Its actually pretty clever and a sense of dry humor. Read the flavor text :) "A kings movement is unwavering" Definitions:
Path of Exile; A world where you are free from pay to win. Unlimited builds, vast enemy mods and a strong end game. Unrivaled community in real life and rewarding developers. Path of exile is one of the best ARPGS created/ Died 25 times to 1 boss in Path of Exile and would rip again. |
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" The bad precedent is the Immortal. Card that gives a card isn't great, but not a huge issue. Card that gives a Mirror was always sketchy, but the drop rate is so low that finishing the set is about as common as a Mirror itself, so it sorts out. A card that is basically a Shard of a Mirror Shard, 1/90th of a mirror, is a very bad precedent. The issue with making 1/90 of a Mirror is twofold. One, it encourages GGG to make pieces and parts of actual currency. If we make pieces and parts of actual currency, we end up devaluing ALL currency, as all the currency is linked together. This many Wisdom for an Alch, this many Alch for a Chaos....You start adding pieces of a Mirror and suddenly these start becoming actual currency, in a way they shouldn't, and while ONE isn't terrible, multiple cards like this would wreck the economy in the game. You notice how we only have shards up to Alchs? Nothing higher? Cuz the Chaos is our baseline currency. Well, why IS Chaos our baseline currency? Maybe partly because we can't sell pieces of a Chaos, just a Chaos? Sure, there are other reasons...but that's part of it. The second half of the issue is...Mirrors almost never drop, or even exist in the game. That's INTENDED. That's designed in. And that's a good thing. Having an unnatainable goal helps keep players around. TECHNICALLY, you COULD fill your fancy Currency Stash tab with 5000 Mirrors....Is it ever gonna happen? No. Will people try? Yeah. As long as they're trying, they're playing, and that keeps the community, the economy, and the game alive and well. You add this card, and suddenly people plan on farming the hell out of wherever it drops, not because of good XP, or anything else that drops there, but JUST for this card, in the hopes of getting 90 and getting a Mirror, so they're suddenly rich. Wherever this drops will suddenly quadruple in farming simply because of this card. This card's existence will actively distort the game around it because it offers a chance at getting a Mirror, eventually. Mirrors are meant to be ridiculously rare. This card makes them less rare, and that's a bad move. Think of this card being added as on par to when world governments decided to drop the gold standard. It seemed good in theory, it did terribly in practice, and it let them get away with a lot of hidden economic manipulation and changes that haven't gone well in the long run. It's bad news, man. We can't afford to have more of this happening. - Sheepster |
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Seriously? First the queen and now this...Now uber atziri items are dropping from div cards?? I'm sorry but that is hands down the most idiotic move you guys have made to date. Like WTF do you want to have any challenge at all left in this game?
ProbablyGettingNerfed - L100 Occultist Vinktarded - L100 Pathfinder GoogleDiversityHire - L100 Necromancer 3.13 was the pinnacle of PoE. IVYS+1 Gang 4 Life. Last edited by TheAshmaker#5078 on Apr 24, 2016, 10:57:02 PM
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" Your arguments are sound yet you're only factoring in standard. From my knowledge Temp leagues are much more popular so your point is moot in terms of what drives players to come back to poe. Also, Im not sold on the shard theory. It will still be ridiculously hard to farm these shards anyways and mirrors might become a little more popular. Imo currency works so well because we don't have gold. Gold never worked in D2 either, usually traded in runes and it worked. When players get nothing they leave, that's proven and thats why GGG buffed unique drops rates. People who spend 4000 hours should not be the only ones with some grand excitement. I understand its to make longevity in standard but cmon there is a lot to do and GGG always bring out new content and that is what will keep the game alive. Guys at GGG are smart and dedicated. Have some faith and if concerned, do your research and write an email, im sure they'll take the advice. Definitions:
Path of Exile; A world where you are free from pay to win. Unlimited builds, vast enemy mods and a strong end game. Unrivaled community in real life and rewarding developers. Path of exile is one of the best ARPGS created/ Died 25 times to 1 boss in Path of Exile and would rip again. |
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We have 1/90 of a mirror already. It is called an exalted orb in the temp leagues. Those exalts are broken down many different ways, including an irrelevant 1/10 card.
We can sell pieces of a chaos. There is a divination card called Rain of Chaos...which well..rains. It is an 8th of a chaos orb and irrelevant. |
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@Nssheepster
I don't buy either of those arguments. Currency is already incremental - even if there weren't alch shards. If 100 new players start an account today and they all want to build around one specific item that costs exactly one exalted orb (the seller won't take anything other than one pure exalt), what is going to happen? One of them will get an exalt drop by level 60. The other 99 will incrementally trade up their alts and chroms into fuses and chaos, then trade the fuses and chaos for a pure exalt. To the second point, I don't believe ANYONE is playing this game hoping for a mirror drop. Like, man, once that mirror drops for me I'm out of here and I'm going to keep playing till it does. Like, that's not why people play these games. Do they play for long term goals that seem epic, and somewhat unreachable, sure. But no one looks at something like a mirror and makes that their reason to keep playing. They could eliminate the mirror drop from the game right now and no one would quit over it. |
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" Do those divination cards even drop from anywhere besides Uber Atziri? If it doesn't, what are you even complaining about? |
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If you choose to have faith that The Immortal won;t be an issue, go for it. As I said, I've seen too many games make small mistakes, I've got no faith left on such things. Maybe this'll be the only card like it, and no problem. Or maybe they'll make a ton like it, and the game will die. We'll all just have to see what happens.
This will be a serious factor in me spending any money on MTX now though, because I don't have a ton of faith in the lifespan of POE anymore. - Sheepster |
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