New Sextant Mods in Content Update 2.4.1

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cipher_nemo wrote:

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2pher wrote:

its been so long that immortal call gem has been released yet there's no other gem correspond to it in favor of strength user (...)

Completely off topic of thread, and regardless it's not the only gem/mechanic that's unbalanced in PoE. Plenty of other things that needs to be balanced first. Now back to announcement topic (ie: go post that in feedback instead)...

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fesru wrote:

Looks pretty bad. Horrible mods still left, and how is no reflect a good mod to get? You would either need to have sooo many reflect maps prepared so the odds of having use for the mod when getting it from a sextant is good, or otherwise it might save you a chaos or alt. Sure if its a corrupted map... maybe buy super rippy maps with reflect and be able to do them. But there's not a lot of reward to that anyway. Why even make such a mod? Remove reflect if you know people hate it. Could we get a "blood magic map mod doesn't affect the player" also? And "burning ground does actual damage but doesn't give people performance issues"?

Speed thing-mod seems like a little fun but more dangerous than good. Would be surprised if they don't cause lag, and it's not something needed for a good build anyway, so would be more concerned about quick monsters. This mod seems like a decent one but not good. This is acceptable since it's random and not all outcomes should be all good when adding a sextant.

I think sextants need to add packsize, droprate, xp gain, map drops. It's ok if they are challenging, actually it's very fun if they are. But the reward needs to be something people care about. Rolling double beyond on high density maps for instance is a lot of fun, while also being dangerous. Reward is drops and xp, and the added danger is fun while also feeling worthwhile.
If I get 10% increased damage and take 10% increased damage I'm not really going to notice, except maybe against guardians... and I would rather not take 10% increased damage then. Would not want that trade off.

If there is no reward and only punishment from a sextant it obviously sucks. Either people will run the map without reward and suffer through it, or they will just open the cheapest map affected until the mod is removed. A few people might like to suffer through it but pretty much all players I know of like to be rewarded for doing challenging/drawn out things. The reward does not always need to be huge, but it's a lot nicer to be able to run insane map mods with several sextants if you also get something good out of it. Then people will be interested in making these strong builds maybe not only focused on clear speed.

EDIT: Was disappointed and wrote before reading and thinking too much. Sorry for being perhaps overly negative. I realize now that it might be additional monster also while getting reduced dmg from reflect. That is nice, but I still think it's a weird mod the reflect part.

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Bex_GGG wrote:

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