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Small question regarding Daresso's Defiance : if i have Endurance cry - Cast when damage taken what happens when i'm hit ? Every charge disappear or am i sometimes left with one charge ?

Should be one charge from the looks of it :P

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Ocylix wrote:

Used to have a 50% cap on crit on the first iteration, but 300% was too strong according to testing, so it was reduced.

The original idea was to deal damage on crit only, but the no damage "feeling" was too weird (like squeezing a sponge). It was then upped to deal 75% less, then the multipier was halved.

Ocylix, I feel like you and I are kinda in the same boat man. My Dyadus was 100% burning damage at first and was brought down to 30% due to testing (I had to push it up to its current 40%). Then they changed ignite, which now works for some fire builds but not that much for melee ignite builds.

I guess sometimes we trust GGG when they say "yeah it's still powerful, don't worry" but it may or may not turn out that way. It could also be that we just haven't found a way to use our uniques the way GGG did in their tests. Who knows?

Ah well. I very much like the thought and concept though! :D

Why does Ev/Ar have so little love for helm choices?

C'mon supporters, we need to rectify this.

I think the problem (if you can call it that) lies in the fact that GGG knows the game mechanics intimately and can "exploit", for want of a better word, how this amulet works. Even if it works for only one specific build, it serves its function as a Unique.

It might take the player base a while before they see what is common knowledge to those at GGG.

I think GGG are smart fellows and wouldnt release a Unique unless everyone was satisfied that it had a viable purpose.

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Chameleon wrote:

I think the problem (if you can call it that) lies in the fact that GGG knows the game mechanics intimately and can "exploit", for want of a better word, how this amulet works. Even if it works for only one specific build, it serves its function as a Unique.

It might take the player base a while before they see what is common knowledge to those at GGG.

I think GGG are smart fellows and wouldnt release a Unique unless everyone was satisfied that it had a viable purpose.

No, they proved that wrong many times.

They don't know all the build possibilities themselves, and they just nerfed it to not get burned again with how Kaom's Heart or Soul Taker was brought. They were OP items and instead of doing a good job on the amulet, they just nerfed it beyond a point of it's usefulness.

Anyways, hopefully it will get buffed. I think Ocylix deserves a better unique than what it is now. Let's face it, it's really bad. I'd rather have an amulet with 30% crit chance and 70% multiplier with some phys dmg / spell dmg, than this useless crap (sorry for language). And with those rolls you can also have ES/Life on top of it. While this amulet, doesn't give any defensive stats and lowers your combat ability. If it applies to maybe that one build, that might use it, it's not like it's not gonna be crap to everyone else (since no one is going to buy it, and the people who use it is gonna be like that 1/1000 that will never buy it off you). I hope GGG will sort this out, the original design was pretty alright I think.

I think that after OB Shavronne's wrappings and Soul Taker GGG will test all new uniques much better. This may be bad thing because then they just nerf strong uniques in alpha to the bottom in live realm. They just confirm it isn't OP, don't care so much about could you really use it. That amulet faced this, it is now on the bottom with other uniques.

I have to say that I understand those drawbacks. Both fit well for the lore of the item. But numbers are too big, 40% or 50% less critical chance could have been enough. I have to agree that if bosses were one shotted because of this item, it was too much. But drawbacks have to be smaller in numbers or either must be removed. Then amulet could be useful again.

Other uniques in this patch are interesting. Both high level uniques are strong, but with playable drawbacks. GGG forgot this that uniques must be playable too.

Immortal Flesh was mentioned as other unique that are too weak. It is strong in certain situation, this isn't never.

Wow. Just wow. 60% less critical chance as multiplier!? Just... Soultaker, CwDT... And now this. Balancing team really need to learn how to get things done right way...

On the other hand - Sword and both Chest's looks really good. Even more - in the event of pure luck (as in "RNJesus suddenly loves me") i would even build around Sacrifice or Defiance :)

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Nice softcore uniques in 1.03!