Can someone explain the spell block nerf to me pls?

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kaepae wrote:

To me it also relates to the state of the game a bit. A poster in another thread mentioned rightfully that the oneshotting makes it feel more arcade than rpg in some ways. There's not too much of a medium when tuning defenses. The fast healing/leech/regen doesn't help much either. When I take a heavy hit, usually I recover very fast and I'll be ok. There aren't many situations where I have to tune defenses to sustain. As in, little less offense, little more defense kind of tweaking.

Well I guess there's some of it, but mostly if you need the defenses they better be really good for those wtf moments. Max block or endurance charges up to the teeth, the soak pool (hp/es and such) good enough to take a big hit. Very much on the reflexes over tuning sustain.

Might be just me.

edit: not other game, but other thread >.>

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1453R wrote:

Or - and here's a difficult thought - don't bust your nuts/the bank trying desperately to cap block.

Get what level of block you can pick up with, as Snork said, a comfortable investment. Maybe that's in the 30% to 40% block range for whichever type of block you're looking for. A'ight. That's a 30-40% chance to just flat-out say "NO" to whatever just hit you. Acrobatics is considered insanely good for doing that as one keystone, even after it ravages your armor and essentially eliminates any chance of running ES on your build. Acrobatics, at 30% "NOPE" chance, is considered super strong after disabling half the game's other mitigation sources.

Why is block complete shit at any level below 75% when it stacks perfectly fine with other sources of mitigation?

As it stands, nothing on the north side of the tree could ever get any level of spellblock. or regular block, for that matter. hanging out in the general Witchy area? No block for you. Hanging out in Duelist area? Oodles of basically free attack block, everywhere you look. The game then allowed you to turn attack block into spellblock, but there was no way to do the inverse, or to allow casters to get JUST spellblock, as their class tropes would suggest they should damn well be capable of.

It was dumb. Now it's less dumb. yeah, I'm surprised at how low the numbers are myself, but that doesn't mean the fundamental system itself, now that it's been fixed, is not less dumb. Just means that much like the Great ES Nerf of 3.0, the numbers got punched lower than they might mebbe should've been. That's an easy enough fix in the future.

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lolerman wrote:

Just play a projectile based build that one shots half a map with a few pew-pews.

This is what this game got reduced to. As someone said, it's becoming an arcade, won't be surprised if they port it on phones soon, who needs a mouse for this.

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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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Oblitus wrote:

Block? Even 75/75 is pretty much useless. One hits are still one hits, degen is still degen. Better invest into soak pool.

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

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Oblitus wrote:

Block? Even 75/75 is pretty much useless. One hits are still one hits, degen is still degen. Better invest into soak pool.

wuutttt???? lol


ur drunk.

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Oblitus wrote:

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

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Oblitus wrote:

Block? Even 75/75 is pretty much useless. One hits are still one hits, degen is still degen. Better invest into soak pool.

wuutttt???? lol


ur drunk.

When I die it is either something simply unblockable or just stuck in a pack. First can be only mitigated by hp pool, second is a rip anyway.

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Phaeded wrote:

What one shot mechanics are unblockable? I'm curious.