What We're Working On

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Shield Skills deal too much damage for how little investment is required and have had their damage unintentionally increased by the buffs to base armour defences in this expansion.

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Lower the flat added damage bonus on Shield based skills, and rebalance the added damage to slightly lower the damage of the skill in general...Overall this is only a slight damage loss for players using a high defences shield.

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Reduced the armour provided by the top end shields, but raised the average defence of other shields so the difference in base defences isn't as extreme. Skills that scale off these stats will be rebalanced to account for these changes.

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Now deals 47 to 70 Base Off Hand Physical Damage at gem level 1 (previously 58 to 86), up to 203 to 304 at gem level 20 (previously 399 to 599).

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We're looking at updating two of the possible Scourge Map modifiers, specifically the "Only Shift into Nightmare on Killing a Rare or Unique Enemy" and "Shift on reaching Full Resource, Killing Enemies Drain Resource" modifiers. The former modifier implies that it is activated on every Rare or Unique kill, and will have its description updated as well as being changed to activate more frequently. The latter modifiers will be modified so that there is a slow Scourge Blood drain over time, so that there is still some time pressure for finding bosses while having a lower Blood drain from kills.

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I don't really see a way for you guys to make krangling gear even remotely worth it, unless you flip the odds completely and make the build enabling, generally strong, and gamebreaking mods extremely common while basically deleting all the build destroying negative mods.

I am not going to spend 20-50 exalts on an item, throw it in the krangler, only to get "+20 life, cannot deal fire damage" at tier 3. This is basically an unfixable problem because making the odds better still doesn't improve the mechanic. There's a ton of worthless gamebreaking mods that effectively do nothing for your build, so you still at its core need to waste dozens of exalts buying a new item (or manually crafting it) over and over until you actually hit a beneficial mod that synergizes with your build.

It doesn't work. If Ritual's variant of Harvest was untouched, I would 100% be fine with this. The egregious cost and investment needed to get the same worthy items that you'd then gamble on krangling is not worth it.

Scourged map detriments are simply insane, and over half the rewards are pure garbage. They're valuable if after dozens of maps of grinding corruption you actually hit reward mods worth a damn, but that's a total crapshoot.

The corruption stack debuff does nothing favorable. Hitting 150%+ more item quantity should result in a noticeable amount of currency dropping, instead there's virtually nothing. You guys almost completely deleted the drop chance of currency from scourged mobs, making the only possible benefit of the debuff worthless.

Literally all you need to do is remove whatever obscene -2000% currency drop penalty you crippled scourge mobs with and I guarantee almost everyone would be immediately happier with the league, disregarding all of its other problems. If I'm going to buff the enemies into one-shot territory every map I damn well expect something more to drop from them than a bunch of whites and several worthless pre-krangled rares.

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KaseyM21 wrote:

"We have no news on how we are going to improve scourge, but here is how we are going to make it worse:"

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We're looking at updating two of the possible Scourge Map modifiers, specifically the "Only Shift into Nightmare on Killing a Rare or Unique Enemy" and "Shift on reaching Full Resource, Killing Enemies Drain Resource" modifiers. The former modifier implies that it is activated on every Rare or Unique kill, and will have its description updated as well as being changed to activate more frequently. The latter modifiers will be modified so that there is a slow Scourge Blood drain over time, so that there is still some time pressure for finding bosses while having a lower Blood drain from kills.