(2.4) Wormblaster the Third (A Herald of Ice build)

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frogemoth wrote:

Another build completely destroyed, I swear every time I try a new build it gets nerfed to the ground. Last 3 builds I played, coc discharge, lightning arrow voltaxic and now wormblaster.

At least I managed to complete my atlas with this build, time for a new build or wait a bit to see if it can be salvaged somehow, maybe with some of the new uniques.

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Jihoko wrote:

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frogemoth wrote:

Another build completely destroyed, I swear every time I try a new build it gets nerfed to the ground. Last 3 builds I played, coc discharge, lightning arrow voltaxic and now wormblaster.

At least I managed to complete my atlas with this build, time for a new build or wait a bit to see if it can be salvaged somehow, maybe with some of the new uniques.

If you don't want the builds you play nerfed to the ground, the simple solution is to not just copy whatever the most popular, OP, and broken meta build is every time. It's totally your right to always choose whatever the most well-known OP build is and not make your own, but you can't expect GGG to never do any balancing. Every build you chose was one that, at the time, had the largest target on its back for the nerf-bat and most people assumed would be nerfed in the next patch. I think it's fine to have builds like this for a season to reward creative theorycrafters like the OP, but they're simply too OP to be allowed to remain indefinitely. One could argue that GGG has already been too generous for not hotfixing this like some of the other obscenely OP builds of the past.

What point would there be to theorycrafting at all if there was already a build that essentially "solves" the game the way this one did? GGG has to nerf these builds or the people who come up with amazing builds like these will get bored and leave, and the rest of the players who just like to copy builds will complain about how hard it is to get gear for a build that half the league is trying to play. Or the people that have a proclivity towards certain skills or archetypes will lose interest because their preferred builds are too much worse than "insert OP build here" to feel remotely competitive.

It may not feel like it to you (or some of the other people in this thread that are upset) now, but GGG absolutely made the right move here for the long-term health of the game and the enjoyment of its players. In fact, even your interest has probably been held longer than if they just let your first build remain OP indefinitely. Most likely, you would have gotten bored completely obliterating the game with CoC Discharge after a while, once you got all the gear you wanted most likely. When the game presents no danger or difficulty and you have nothing left to work towards, that's when boredom sets in.

It's the pursuit of power that makes these games fun and addicting, the little goals you meet along the way to the final goal that provide the satisfaction. Most people assume it's the other way around, because that's how our minds work. Our brains tell us something will make us happy, which is what motivates us to pursue it, but actually playing a stupidly OP build that trivializes the game isn't very enjoyable once you get over the initial thrill (unless you have some long-term goals to work towards). If you managed to read all of that, I hope it offered you a different perspective and you can look forward to your next brand-new build to work on instead of mourning the loss of your current one.

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Jihoko wrote:

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frogemoth wrote:

Another build completely destroyed, I swear every time I try a new build it gets nerfed to the ground. Last 3 builds I played, coc discharge, lightning arrow voltaxic and now wormblaster.

At least I managed to complete my atlas with this build, time for a new build or wait a bit to see if it can be salvaged somehow, maybe with some of the new uniques.

If you don't want the builds you play nerfed to the ground, the simple solution is to not just copy whatever the most popular, OP, and broken meta build is every time. It's totally your right to always choose whatever the most well-known OP build is and not make your own, but you can't expect GGG to never do any balancing. Every build you chose was one that, at the time, had the largest target on its back for the nerf-bat and most people assumed would be nerfed in the next patch. I think it's fine to have builds like this for a season to reward creative theorycrafters like the OP, but they're simply too OP to be allowed to remain indefinitely. One could argue that GGG has already been too generous for not hotfixing this like some of the other obscenely OP builds of the past.

What point would there be to theorycrafting at all if there was already a build that essentially "solves" the game the way this one did? GGG has to nerf these builds or the people who come up with amazing builds like these will get bored and leave, and the rest of the players who just like to copy builds will complain about how hard it is to get gear for a build that half the league is trying to play. Or the people that have a proclivity towards certain skills or archetypes will lose interest because their preferred builds are too much worse than "insert OP build here" to feel remotely competitive.

It may not feel like it to you (or some of the other people in this thread that are upset) now, but GGG absolutely made the right move here for the long-term health of the game and the enjoyment of its players. In fact, even your interest has probably been held longer than if they just let your first build remain OP indefinitely. Most likely, you would have gotten bored completely obliterating the game with CoC Discharge after a while, once you got all the gear you wanted most likely. When the game presents no danger or difficulty and you have nothing left to work towards, that's when boredom sets in.

It's the pursuit of power that makes these games fun and addicting, the little goals you meet along the way to the final goal that provide the satisfaction. Most people assume it's the other way around, because that's how our minds work. Our brains tell us something will make us happy, which is what motivates us to pursue it, but actually playing a stupidly OP build that trivializes the game isn't very enjoyable once you get over the initial thrill (unless you have some long-term goals to work towards). If you managed to read all of that, I hope it offered you a different perspective and you can look forward to your next brand-new build to work on instead of mourning the loss of your current one.