Can someone explain the spell block nerf to me pls?

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postrach_myszy wrote:

Probably it was done due to HOGM and some troll "unkilable" builds, which very often prevented players from finishing that map. So GGG first get big pile of money from trolls, then limited their build of abusing game so much.

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Abdiel_Kavash wrote:

This change was made partially to remove some restrictions that impacted design, but also to let spell block be something all characters can have access to, rather than being very powerful for very high block characters and weaker for characters that haven't heavily invested in this.

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Abdiel_Kavash wrote:

Before the change, you could either go full block and have 75/75 attack/spell block, at the cost of heavy investment; or don't care about block and have no spell block at all. Trying to get just "some" spell block was almost impossible - items that convert attack block to spell block were rare, not very effective, and took up gear slots with little other benefit.

Now, if you want to get, say, 30% spell block, you can just pick up a few passives on the tree and you're good. Getting to 75/75 still takes a lot of investment, but you can get to values that matter without having to completely build around block.

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Abdiel_Kavash wrote:

Before the change, you could either go full block and have 75/75 attack/spell block, at the cost of heavy investment; or don't care about block and have no spell block at all. Trying to get just "some" spell block was almost impossible - items that convert attack block to spell block were rare, not very effective, and took up gear slots with little other benefit.

Now, if you want to get, say, 30% spell block, you can just pick up a few passives on the tree and you're good. Getting to 75/75 still takes a lot of investment, but you can get to values that matter without having to completely build around block.

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Abdiel_Kavash wrote:

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666lol666 wrote:

Why would GGG kill block again completely? Makes no sense at all.....

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Spell Block
We've changed how Spell Block is gained, so it is only available from flat sources of spell block. All existing sources of attack block to spell block conversion have been changed to a flat source of spell block, and we've added spell block to more places in the passive skill tree, with higher values than were previously available. The Gladiator passive skill now uses your attack block as your spell block.

This change was made partially to remove some restrictions that impacted design, but also to let spell block be something all characters can have access to, rather than being very powerful for very high block characters and weaker for characters that haven't heavily invested in this.

Source.

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Mich2010 wrote:

I really dislike the dishonesty in the explanation. 30% block (from normal shield) * 0.2 gained as spell block (reckless defense) = 6 spell block, as mentioned before. Flat spellclock on it is 2-4% in the future. So normal builds gain NOTHING.

So this is just a nerf. I dont get why they didnt state: "Yeah we think max block is op, so we nerfed it" and instead we get this bullshit "We buffed it for non-block focussed builds". You would expect that they treat their customers as intelligent people, and not as dumb idiots who need to be lied to, so they feel bad about the nerfs. Either it is that or the balancing team is incapable of doing basic math.
Really sad to see them going down this route.