Development Manifesto: Prophecy Changes

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laiel wrote:

I understand that I'm strange, but I actually enjoy the backtracking prophecies. I mean I don't care for going back a difficulty when I didn't manage to complete something in Act 4, but I like occasionally breaking the monotony of maps with traveling back through Merciless difficulty to pickup some things. When the rares simply don't exist, that can certainly be a pain, but otherwise I like having an incentive to travel through areas I've already been. I'd like to see more of that in this game, so I hope these prophecies won't be too rare, although perhaps more compelling incentives could be implemented sometime.

In any case, I've really been enjoying Prophecy and would dearly love to see it incorporated into the core game, with the understanding that some adjustments will need to be made. (Could that make Navali Path of Exile's equivalent of Deckard Cain? The one NPC who's with you in all acts.) While there seem to be balance problems to consider, one of my favorite new mechanics is performing challenges that upgrade low-level unique items to something that can carry you through later levels and difficulties. I would like to see more of this sort of thing.

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ShadowMagnet wrote:

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Chris wrote:

This league is super easy to tweak and add content to, so we're going to continue to solicit and respond to feedback over the next couple of months. It's also a good candidate for being rolled back into the core game in some form afterwards, so we're keen to hit a balance that everyone likes.

Excellent news! I like the idea of making the way up to maps more interesting and don't mind the backtracking that much. As someone suggested, how about giving one free prophecy sealing per day if the prophecy is in one of the lower difficulty levels?

Don't know if it would be possible with the current tech, how about scaling up the monster level of the target map if you get a backtracking prophecy, based on the player level?
Like, the player is level 80, gets a prophecy to kill a rare on the beach in act 1 merciless. When the player enters the area, it's generated at monster level 75, having accordingly mods like a level 75 magic or rare map.

Hmm, too bad that people seemingly don't like Talisman. I really liked that freely configurable mini-boss fight on almost each map. Would love to see that to get added to Standard, oh well.

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Nijicho wrote:

"Some prophecies have been disabled from triggering in problematic unique maps."

So no more possessed Pale Council? :') Was the most painful experience I had so far :D