3.20 Balance Manifesto: Monster Mods and Archnemesis

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wallsh1 wrote:

Sad to see it

Finally poe started going back to being a more difficult game and not just "I just insta kill the screen idk what anything is"

it's like D3 with "inferno mode", people couldn't face roll it with their eyes closed so they wanted it gone.

I understand the rage on Reddit and some entitled streamers was a big part of this and that makes me very sad

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we doubling down for the 5th time baby, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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derfington wrote:

But what about all the useless drops? I dont want 50 flasks. I dont want 200 whetstones. Now i will still get them? I just won't know when?

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In the new system, we have added a significant pool of new rewards to rares, but the reward that is on the monster is hidden (and not associated with a specific mod), so you don't know what kind of rewards you will get until you kill the monster. Rare monsters with more mods are more likely to have these special hidden reward mods. This new reward system smooths out the spikiness that the Archnemesis reward system had.

So... does this new system incentive forcing MF on every character and still playing "goblin hunting" mechanisms? If the amount of loot is still significantly increased by MF and party bonuses its still a bit of an issue even though it should now be less spiky to get one of the "good" monsters. You don't state that you've reduced the amount that MF and party bonuses increases the drop rates here.