1.0.0 Balance Changes

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casval776 wrote:

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From the view of a build that's never invited to parties, let me give you a new perspective on this:

Groups have an exp, drop rate, and clear speed increase. Clear speed is simply a product of partying and can vary depending on whoever you're partying with. Depending on builds and composition, sometimes a solo player can clear as fast as a party. Sometimes, the clear speed is so fast that a marginal difference is negligible.

However, the exp and drop rate increase is already attractive enough to party. Given that clear speed is merely a product of farming and groups naturally rake in more exp and drops, now you're clearing faster which results in even more exp and drop rate.

To put this into mathematics:

A solo player has a 1x multiplier to exp and drops. They also clear a given map in 120 seconds.

A full party has, let's just say, a 2x multiplier to exp and drops. They also clear a given map in 90 seconds.

Even if the solo player and full party cleared in the same time, it's still a net gain in exp and drops, which are both extremely important (at least until gems hit lvl 20). So, really, there's no reason not to party if you're able to party. As a summoner, this simply fucking sucks.


In fact, what sucks even more is the change to auras. As an Auramancer, auras make minions better. Minions start out horrible and end up decent, especially in areas like Docks if you're not running Purity or not using Elemental Resists on your minions. However, now that every aura is being changed to percentage based, that means summoners who fully invest into minions have to pick and choose even more.

Running 5 Lvl 20 auras was hard enough, even with EB and 300+ mana cost Zombies. Now that you'll be restricted to even less, it might be even worse. Although that all depends on how strong these auras are buffed by.