An Update to the Volatile Dead Helmet Enchantment

This is absolutely infuriating. I spent days figuring out how to build around VD because I was lucky and got the enchant. I just spent a ton of my currency buying the other items for this build and it's not like GGG will refund that. So now I'm down to a fraction of my net worth and left with a build a fraction of the power I thought I had.

I don't know what to say except that I am incredibly disappointed and am feeling betrayed. This kind of change is unprecedented to the best of my knowledge.

"Buffing stuff isn't just a matter of typing a bigger number into a box, but often involves re-creating content from the ground up, like with Lightning Tendrils." Chris Wilson

But nerfing is :)

Oops, we accidentally made a skill usable. Better nerf it mid-league. Can't have anyone using a skill we didn't intend to become meta!

This is why I only play one character per league these days.

To be honest, if this enchant made VD pretty much deal double the damage, then this nerf was well deserved, and making it a global nerf was a good choice that GGG made as well.

And to the people complaining about GGG not making the +2 barrage enchant nerf global:
The reason why they didn't nerf the +2 barrage enchant globally was because it didn't make barrage deal double damage, and because it has been around for far too long (meaning there were many, MANY +2 barrage helms in the market). This +3 VD enchant has only been around here for at least ten days, so it is very reasonable that they would nerf it.

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zfate wrote:

10 days into league is not mid-league like all these people say.

People who bought this knew exactly how OP it was and just hoped it would last. There are other things but not as direct as 100% more dmg. They nerfed it to a reasonable range now. If you had enough exalts already, then you'll make it back soon enough.

Good job GGG. It was seen miles away as coming. People would of whined if you did it at the end of the league anyway.

its even worst then midleague, in midleague most people have som currency to cover back, you do understand that 90% people had 0 currency after they bought that enchant? and you obv. talk nonsense for example barrage enchant nerfed after 3league, wanders with wall spam and instant uber kill was more then 3league avilable before it was nerfed, and yes it is not fair and it is not funny, i know som people took a vocation from work to start fresh league and after they invest so mutch into somthing what get nerfed just after they got it? no its not fair at all....
i do own helmet and honesly i do not care because its gonna still remain pretty strong however i cant see any rison to reword existing helmets there is not many of them and they keept enchant like barrage as legacy for example. ohhh yea i have like 20ex so i will survive and i bought helmet when it was 5ex (starkonja) but i feal for all those people who invested ALL currency they worked hard to get and now that item worth 3-4 or maybe 5ex.

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NiobMordodrukow wrote:

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NecroSmokist wrote:

So many whiney babies crying about not being able to be 100% more OP than everything else. What a bunch of spoiled clowns.

The sad thing is: they will continue to buy new supporter packs anyway.

sad thing is, you will continue to play this game anyway :))

I havent even got the memo that its broken AF and it allready got nerfed.
My point is Last couple of months balancing confuses shit the fuck out from normies like me, i bearly can play this game anymore.

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jerkmcgee wrote:

This is absolutely infuriating. I spent days figuring out how to build around VD because I was lucky and got the enchant. I just spent a ton of my currency buying the other items for this build and it's not like GGG will refund that. So now I'm down to a fraction of my net worth and left with a build a fraction of the power I thought I had.

I don't know what to say except that I am incredibly disappointed and am feeling betrayed. This kind of change is unprecedented to the best of my knowledge.

shield charge was also nerfed a week into a league cause it was broken OP at the start as well.
VD is still strong and +1 is still more powerful then a lot of other skills bis enchant.

Nice to see you have the balls to fix shit like this even though a league is stil in progress.

Would be better if you didn't add it to the game in the first place but fuck-ups happen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Don't agree, at all. Yes its strong but why nerf just this when there is plenty of other insane things you brought in with this patch?

This is once again the standard way of nerfing what the meta is playing and what is posted on reddit and then going 'wups', not cool.

Now everyone who bought this helmet is screwed over tens of exalted, myself included. This wasn't a gamble that paid out wrong or some bad RNG, this was farming for days to get something that has now been made 66% less good because of 'wups'.

Why couldn't this wait untill the end of the league? Couldn't this have been found before the game went live?

Sorry to say but I have lost all trust in your balance and testing department.

Its just like the vaal pact nerf:
You remove leech because 'no more insta leech facetanking', then leave life gain on hit exactly as it is and allow people to still facetank endgame content. There is no consistency and definitely no balance.
Not to even mention builds like glacial cascade mines. But if streamers/reddit don't talk about it it flies under the radar just like the infinite leaguestone bug where you had to be called out, pathetic.