Affliction Speculation Time

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Xyel wrote:

You channel at a the crucible statue affliction totem, getting debuffs in exchange for more rewards, with debuffs scaling exponentially and rewards scaling linearly.

The totem spawns mobs in a circular radius around it.

The tewards are a crafting currency that, in some way, adds scourge affliction modifiers to items, most of which are negative, some of which downright brick the item, but some of which are ultra-strong.

The league boss is the taskmaster shaman, who can spawn after a finished channeling with a 10 % 1% 0.1% 0.01% chance, who has a similar chance to drop that one strong unique of the league.

Since the negative modifiers will have -lightning resist in them, Doryani's Prototype will be back to 50div.

The balance patch will have sweeping nerfs, which will be made up for by affliction modifiers, but those will vanish at the league's end while the nerfs will stay.

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leto2626 wrote:

Back to back leagues starting with the same letter.
It happened 3x before in the history of PoE : Prophecy, Talisman and Heist. Not really promising, is it ;o)

I only recently started appreciating Heist, so it's not all bad though. But I sense a big chance incoming I might be skipping a league, also because I hate bugs, I have only done that 4x since 2013.