Lots of Miscellaneous News

First, im as excited as anyone for the release!

Second, the skill tree is very important to the game, its a core element. The middle looks like a big mess ( i know its not finished and thats also concerning). I really liked taking any character class and creating unique builds by going anywhere on the skill tree, centre allowed it. Now well have Scion sitting in the middle like a boss controlling all access. I have no problem making new characters, but this way it seems i have no choice but to make a scion.
Why not add some access routes so middle wont be a deadend? It looks like upper side and down side of the skill-landscape are clearly seperated. This way there wont be many fun and diverse builds. Also as a scion you cant take attribute nodes to escape starting area, would have to go down predetermined path suitable for certain builds. Keep polishing the middle please. Dont make it a Path of Scion, hope you can balance it before the release.

Thanks for your attention! Good Luck!

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mazul wrote:

It is hypocritical to go "Hey, we know you've worked so hard on your build so we won't reduce most of the stats of your items; you can instead keep those items as "Legacy items" :)" and then next moment go "lololol, so you worked hard on your build, but guess what? The game changes, we change it however we want,and if you are fcked over by the changes, then too bad, lololol.".

release is the last chance to pull this trick for a long time to go.

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DirkAustin wrote:

How does one even become an alpha tester? be invited by ggg

yes. or recommended by other alpha players i guess.

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geradon wrote:

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mazul wrote:

It is hypocritical to go "Hey, we know you've worked so hard on your build so we won't reduce most of the stats of your items; you can instead keep those items as "Legacy items" :)" and then next moment go "lololol, so you worked hard on your build, but guess what? The game changes, we change it however we want,and if you are fcked over by the changes, then too bad, lololol.".

release is the last chance to pull this trick for a long time to go.

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DirkAustin wrote:

How does one even become an alpha tester? be invited by ggg

yes. or recommended by other alpha players i guess.

Here here recommend me ^^ :)

Thanks a lot for the Passiv Tree preview. :) I'm keen to see the DOT changes, but if things still need time, I'm ok with waiting for a good result, rather than seeing rushed, imbalanced change.

About NEW SKILL TREE: charakters like Templar, Witch and Shadow can't create normal builds with Vaal Pact because way is to long. It will destroy a lot of the current builds based on ENERGY SHIELD. I hope GGG will think about it.

why cant i trade standard stuff to the new leauges? That's the only thing that gives standard any use....Would have been nice to know this before I dismantled my character....

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mazul wrote:

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plesi42 wrote:

What about adapting to the changes? Discovering what works now? Creating new builds?

Do you understand simple although subtle difference between "want to try new things" and "be forced to try new things"?

On one hand I love to try new builds, thats why I have many alts, on the other, I hate when something I worked on, finished and proved as working (and sometimes put on shelf just to collect) is invalidated and have to be reworked from scratch.

I have few alts, who are ready for new changes, because were build to use as little auras as possible, so I can just switch to play them, but still I'm disappointed that mechanism that I liked and that I used on some of my characters, vanishes.

That's precisely, why we need legacy skill trees.

It is hypocritical to go "Hey, we know you've worked so hard on your build so we won't reduce most of the stats of your items; you can instead keep those items as "Legacy items" :)" and then next moment go "lololol, so you worked hard on your build, but guess what? The game changes, we change it however we want,and if you are fcked over by the changes, then too bad, lololol.".


They got to pick side, they got to be consistent. Either Legacy for all or Legacy for none.

while I dont like legacy items. Asking for a legacy tree is ludicrous

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peha wrote:

About NEW SKILL TREE: charakters like Templar, Witch and Shadow can't create normal builds with Vaal Pact because way is to long. It will destroy a lot of the current builds based on ENERGY SHIELD. I hope GGG will think about it.

that crap had to be broken. Or at least be made expensive.

Uh oh, according to WIP tree, Shadow loses 2 clusters of life nodes... now why would that be??

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geradon wrote:

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DirkAustin wrote:

How does one even become an alpha tester? be invited by ggg

yes. or recommended by other alpha players i guess.

Not or, but AND ;) I guess there's no (intended) way around an official invitation ^^

legacy tree: I dont expect that they'll ever consider to run 2 different 'official' server setups, and so there's no way to have two different kinds of the tree...

Compare it with D2 - there's never a chance to play non-ladder online with a different patch than the ladder leagues, and all legacy items stay in.

If you worry about your own gameplay, you can always decide to wipe such stuff manually; if you worry about what others (may) do, dont play these leagues.