Dear GGG: You brought over a MASSIVE mistake from PoE1 to PoE2 and it hurts everyone! Resistance?!

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Beykber#2177 wrote:
Yeah this is a problem but bringing the diablo 3 style resistances is just worse imo.


I'm unfamiliar with how well D3 was scaled. They probably used a shit formula considering what I know about them. Blizzard is notorious for being terrible at balancing games, both OG Blizzard and post Activision Blizzard.

One of the entire reasons to change to a formula is so that re-balancing can be made easier too. It's much easier to tweak a formula value than it is to change the modifier values on everything every time GGG would want to do a balance adjustment. Blizzard probably reverted from using a diminished returns formula in D3 in the first place because they were too stupid, lazy and just plain incompetent to tune it properly.
Last edited by LVSviral#3689 on Jan 12, 2025, 7:47:43 PM
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LVSviral#3689 wrote:
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Beykber#2177 wrote:
Yeah this is a problem but bringing the diablo 3 style resistances is just worse imo.


I'm unfamiliar with how well D3 was scaled. They probably used a shit formula considering what I know about them. Blizzard is notorious for being terrible at balancing games, both OG Blizzard and post Activision Blizzard.

One of the entire reasons to change to a formula is so that re-balancing can be made easier too. It's much easier to tweak a formula value than it is to change the modifier values on everything every time GGG would want to do a balance adjustment. Blizzard probably reverted from using a diminished returns formula in D3 in the first place because they were too stupid, lazy and just plain incompetent to tune it properly.


Armour-style rating - uncapped with diminishing returns.

It worked perfectly well but players bitched about it.
Last edited by Xenus_Paradox#7530 on Jan 12, 2025, 8:37:04 PM
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Armour-style rating - uncapped with diminishing returns.

It worked perfectly well but players bitched about it.


Armour's damage reduction is based on the damage of the enemy hit in PoE so that wouldn't work here.
Last edited by LVSviral#3689 on Jan 12, 2025, 9:22:38 PM

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