@GGG - Could someone explain why Mjolner is having its cooldown increased? [new 2.6 changes :P]

Good to have read this thread. I too was bewildered at the need to keep guttering mjolnir. Having made a divination card for it makes me sad.

Glad to see an actual dev answer on this thread, I'm happy to be wrong about the fact that nobody would answer it :>

Thanks

I spent all my money accumulated through years on a mjolner build and now u killed it completely. Ty GGG i hope u company will rip the same way. Not all the player are rich enough to toss hundreds of exalts each time u got a perfomance issue. Too pitiful..

Ok so they just destroyed the item because of performance concerns?
And than no time to fix this or to re design the item? Really???

And than Chris talks about bad decisions regarding CoC changes... lmao.

Well i guess div./ess. tab was my last support for a long time.

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Mordad wrote:

Ok so they just destroyed the item because of performance concerns?
And than no time to fix this or to re design the item? Really???

And than Chris talks about bad decisions regarding CoC changes... lmao.

Well i guess div./ess. tab was my last support for a long time.

Actually most companies wouldn't be so honest.

They streamlined a lot of triggers to happen less often besides other things(you can also see that with the Blade Vortex change, which went from up to 20 hits per second to 5).

I have no problem at all if Mjolner isn't able to trigger discharge anymore but if you do decesion like this don't you think that you should have a least a rdy backup solution / re design for this?

Or at least tell your community that you "disable" Mjolner currently for re design.

And yes i'm looking forward to this re design, maybe Mjolner will trigger its own lighting based spell, something like touch of god. ;)

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Mordad wrote:

I have no problem at all if Mjolner isn't able to trigger discharge anymore but if you do decesion like this don't you think that you should have a least a rdy backup solution / re design for this?

Or at least tell your community that you "disable" Mjolner currently for re design.

And yes i'm looking forward to this re design, maybe Mjolner will trigger its own lighting based spell, something like touch of god. ;)

Well you would want that, but like Qarl mentioned he pressured the team at which point it is hard for them to come up with a good solution in time. And considering that there is a constant shift of uniques being good or bad, I don't think they care that much about Mjölnir being terrible for one or two leagues, some endgame uniques like Montreguls are pretty much crap for years now.

I understand what Qarl wrote you don't need to defend GGG or their descion.

If they destroy items like this and don't care for one or two leagues or at all, well than i don't care too and my € are going to other companies. Really simple.

So performance issues... That's the reason? They worked fine for years together with coc discharge and now it's a performance issue. If it's overload on servers I doubt the 10-20 mjolnir players still out there last patch would have been overloading the server. I bet noone is playing mjolnir now and servers are worse than before. Time to nerf some other skills for 60% damage for performance sake?

Hoooollllyyyy macro... So, I'll jump back in on this issue now that we have an official response and I'm so invested in Mjolner being fixed. Credit where it's due, I'm happy we got an official response at all. That makes me less pissed off.

Now, is this response satisfactory? Eh... not really. Changing it due to performance issues would make perfect sense if it wasn't for the fact that GGG has put in a bunch of new performance-crushing items. Wormblaster was a great example, although it's a little more dated than Malice. However, perhaps GGG really didn't see Wormblaster coming. I didn't, but then again I don't follow meta so ofc I didnt' see it coming. Malice though... how did GGG not see performance issues with that coming? So in short, yes, performance is a reasonable excuse but it's kinda lost on us when so many other things are way more problematic than Mjolner and Malice.

However, the fact that GGG has addressed us and does recognize that this change put Mjolner in the dirt is promising at least to some degree. In regards to my own personal "protest" over this nerf, I'm happy that GGG is at least addressing the issue and I'm not at a point where my will to quit the game entirely will be acted on (see my first comment if you don't know where I'm coming from). But in the meantime, I won't be spending any money on the game until this is fixed because it was my main. Like I said on the new stash tab thread, if GGG makes Mjolner good again I will be buying every one of those new tabs (except bundle which I don't need).

I gotta vote on this issue somehow.

(I still think a %more spell mod on Mjolner to make 4 procs as powerful as 10 procs would be an easy fix to this situation. Same DPS, less strain on the system)