Full Atlas Passive Tree Reveal

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otaser wrote:

Word of the Exarch says "Eldrich currency items found in areas influenced by the Eater of Worlds have 10% chance to be duplicated. Probably either a typo or a whole mistake? The mirror node for Eater of Worlds duplicates items in areas influenced by Eater as well, so it's not like you should take both for some kind of syngergy.

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Egon707 wrote:

Well, probably I'm in minority who's dissapinted by this Atlas Rework.

In 3.16 I could fully specialise into one game mechanic each region (including The Uncharted Realms). Additionaly in the same region I could partially specialise into other game mechanic.
So that was up to 5 full specialisations and 5-10 partial specialisations.

In 3.17 if I'd want fully specialise in some game mechanic, I have to spend like 30-40 mayby even 50 points (depending of the specific game mechanic) mostly for travel throughout Atlas Tree. That's 1/3 or 1/4 of all available points.
So most optimistic scenario would be like a 3 mayby 4 full game mechanic specialisations.

Some of the nodes are great but spending huge amount of available points just for traveling into them feels like a big nerf to players agency.

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And you'll have 15% chance to spawn Blight encounter(with 20% to spawn 1 more), which is pretty high. Also don't forget scarabs, sextants and Kirac's missions. With the ability to extract oils from anointed items and guaranteed anointed item drops you can literally print high-level oils.

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Egon707 wrote:

Well, probably I'm in minority who's dissapinted by this Atlas Rework.

In 3.16 I could fully specialise into one game mechanic each region (including The Uncharted Realms). Additionaly in the same region I could partially specialise into other game mechanic.
So that was up to 5 full specialisations and 5-10 partial specialisations.

In 3.17 if I'd want fully specialise in some game mechanic, I have to spend like 30-40 mayby even 50 points (depending of the specific game mechanic) mostly for travel throughout Atlas Tree. That's 1/3 or 1/4 of all available points.
So most optimistic scenario would be like a 3 mayby 4 full game mechanic specialisations.

Some of the nodes are great but spending huge amount of available points just for traveling into them feels like a big nerf to players agency.

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alex_disp wrote:

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Egon707 wrote:

Well, probably I'm in minority who's dissapinted by this Atlas Rework.

In 3.16 I could fully specialise into one game mechanic each region (including The Uncharted Realms). Additionaly in the same region I could partially specialise into other game mechanic.
So that was up to 5 full specialisations and 5-10 partial specialisations.

In 3.17 if I'd want fully specialise in some game mechanic, I have to spend like 30-40 mayby even 50 points (depending of the specific game mechanic) mostly for travel throughout Atlas Tree. That's 1/3 or 1/4 of all available points.
So most optimistic scenario would be like a 3 mayby 4 full game mechanic specialisations.

Some of the nodes are great but spending huge amount of available points just for traveling into them feels like a big nerf to players agency.

Each individual league or mechanic got buffed if you fully spec into it - for example Shaper/Elder guardian map drop chance is doubled (6% instead of 3%). Synthesis map drop chance buffed by 50% etc.
And you can combine stuff that you couldn't before, like Rituals + Delirium + Beyond.

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Riverwind77 wrote:

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Egon707 wrote:

Well, probably I'm in minority who's dissapinted by this Atlas Rework.

In 3.16 I could fully specialise into one game mechanic each region (including The Uncharted Realms). Additionaly in the same region I could partially specialise into other game mechanic.
So that was up to 5 full specialisations and 5-10 partial specialisations.

In 3.17 if I'd want fully specialise in some game mechanic, I have to spend like 30-40 mayby even 50 points (depending of the specific game mechanic) mostly for travel throughout Atlas Tree. That's 1/3 or 1/4 of all available points.
So most optimistic scenario would be like a 3 mayby 4 full game mechanic specialisations.

Some of the nodes are great but spending huge amount of available points just for traveling into them feels like a big nerf to players agency.

In 3.16 atlas passives were locked behind maven encounters and they only affect the regions they're in.

In 3.17 atlas passives are unlocked upon arriving maps and they affect the entire atlas.

You're probably missing another big thing, you're not wasting points to travel between league mechanics, youre increasing map drops, item quantity, map modifiers...

But thats exactly how passive skill tree works, you cant get every node of your build without spending points travelling :^) and you still arent gonna pick them all because not all of them are valuable for you.

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mrhouston wrote:

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And you'll have 15% chance to spawn Blight encounter(with 20% to spawn 1 more), which is pretty high. Also don't forget scarabs, sextants and Kirac's missions. With the ability to extract oils from anointed items and guaranteed anointed item drops you can literally print high-level oils.

Why not 100%, with only 10% of the rewards as an option...? Why can't I control my own game experience? I actually like building those towers and defending the groove and whatnot. You see, when you look at this as an argp instead of a reward casino, you'll see the gameplay expansions are the actual closest thing to fun in this game, they have a lot more differentiation in gameplay mechanics than just pressing a button over and over for 99% of the time. You don't agree, fine, but why can't others have that option?

Sure creating a build with the rewards was fun too (I play SSF only), but with every expansion build diversity decreases, as if it weren't small enough; I think Diablo 3 has more of it now, you can't create a build of your own, you have to just follow what they want you to build this expansion, or you'll be very frustated. So some of the only fun left, and and actual choice for the player instead of the devs, are those gameplay mechanics. And we can't even control that???