Developer Questions and Answers

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MurrayTheKay wrote:

Regarding Raise Spectre, wouldn't it be a nice idea to be able to revive stronger monsters? Perhaps this would require a completely different gem, or maybe even a unique gem or vaal gem. It's a little frustrating not ever to be able to revive the stronger rare monsters. Thanks!

Frustrating is getting into a T14 map, finding spectre of choice, raising them, finishing map, and then dc'ing in the next map. Spectres should be like animate guardian, they need to persist across logout.

Hi,

Can we have alternative(gore theme is great) MTX for ALL skills, because:

My eyes are burning after playing for several hours with Arc Lightning(same with other lightning skills and ice crash) character, same case when I'm playing a character with Immortal Call in CodT(skill is cast much more often then usual). It is so serious that playing any character with any of these skills is impossible to me. Say want you want but Immortal Call in CodT is still OP to me, so that's kinda serious problem.

Never had issues like that with any other game or other skill in PoE and I play a lot. I even went to a doctor to learn about - I have perfect sight.

I thought that it might be contrast issue - so I played with display setting but that didn't help. I also tried f.lux, that didn't helped either.

Regards.

1. Then you will start to care for core/main leagues ? (considering of how many different leagues you have implemented in the past, why cant we have for example 1 week of warbands then 1 week of talisman and so on... in standard/hardcore as events ? Its not hard to implement considering you have all the assets from past temp. leagues.

Many of my friends simply left the game bacause they dont care for temporary leagues and you do nothing for core leagues.


2. Summoner spectres problem, will we ever see a permanent solution to this problem ?

3. Can people who like to play summoners expect to see some new good skills in future from your developers who actualy understand the class ? (not something like spirit offering which was introduced recently because the person who did it had no idea what and why he was doing)

4. Can we have premium tab for maps ?:)

Are there any plans to make changes to standard. For pretty much all of my PoE life I have played in the temp leagues and when the leagues are over I take a short break untill the next one drops. Part of me wants to go play on standard because i have a nice collection of gear there now, but it is just really boring after so many leagues. So is there any possible changes that could be made to standard to give some players like me more reason to play there.

One Idea that my guild has had would be to implement a system similar to flash back leagues. In this case instead of running three or four old league mods per week you could just one one at a time per week. Say rampage for a week then tempest next week. In this particular case uniques that dropped in old leagues would still have to be gotten through crafting on maps.

Did you ever think about making items "binds when equipped" and what do you think about that idea, would it help the economy in general?

Did you massively reduce the chance of vendors spawning 6 socket items when you released Act 4?


Has the idea of a permanent Cutthroat league been abandoned?


Has the idea of paid leagues been abandoned?


Temporary Challenge leagues started out as (and remain) testing beds for the main game (permanent leagues). However, development, marketing, and player attention are all aimed at the challenge leagues, with the perma leagues left as an afterthought. Do you have any plans to incentivize playing the full game rather than the testing leagues?


Do you still tinker with currency drop rates behind the scenes? Did you massively increase Exalted drop rates in HC Prophecy?

will fishing ever be more than a trade secret that get people banned for finding out
the truth?

Is it ever a possibility to have certain races be a permanent staple of the game? Like a decent or decent champ map (shortened down of course). Also or alternatively could we ever see Zana mods for Headhunter or BLAMT or other race type mods?

Q5. What was the reasoning behind giving Daresso resolute technique? It completely negates 2 types of defences(eva, dodge), making it extra unfair for dex based classes. does GGG think this is fine for a critical path boss?

Mind to share what tools/software you guys use to develop the games? How hard will be for you guys to debug some issue/bug?