1.2.3 Patch Notes

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Haboryme wrote:

Good thing they nerfed the carto, it wasn't fun to find one in every map.

LOL. Best post in this thread. Putting it in my signature.

I'm having a hard time keeping up 70-72 maps, and carto got nerfed...

Less Cart boxes now? Finally someone came to their senses. It is obvious we don't need them with current map drops, better replace them with Chemist altogether already.

On a bit more serious note, I found one Cart box in lots of maps I run. It wasn't even in my map, Zana made that one. Higher map drops are abysmal, no point in investing currency in rolling a good map (I tried that, spent lots of orbs to roll 183% Shrine. Dropped Graveyard and Plateau. Run Plateau blue at 21%, dropped 76 and 77 map. Go figure). I just hope I meet Zana instead.

I still didn't get to Elreon multi mods but I can see it will affect lots of crafting. No more killing exiles from Vorici missions? Yeah that will make them even more boring.
Tora/Haku changes are welcome, finally something different.

It would also ne nice to see resistances with merciless -60% penalty in hideout.

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Alabamak wrote:

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The price of the "of Crafting" mod (which grants the ability to have multiple crafted mods) has been changed from one Divine Orb to two Exalted Orbs.

2 ex?? cman why sooo expensive? :((

Very simple, it was simply too cheap to get multiple mods, theese mods are supposed to be rare, not the main way of crafting an item now. Not sure this will fix it though.

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leto2626 wrote:

Very simple, it was simply too cheap to get multiple mods, theese mods are supposed to be rare, not the main way of crafting an item now. Not sure this will fix it though.

It won't fix it, it only raises the price.

And it is entirely your opinion those mods are supposed to be rare. To most people, it didn't smell rare. It just smelled like a time sink.

2 ex for second crafting mode? Im playing rampage since it started and none dropped for me. Well, good bye dreams of finally crafting something....Was it necessary to make master's crafting expensive too? Seems like crafting is only for people who play in permanent leagues and "no lifer's"

Another slap on the face.
Solo self-found is dead.

Good luck with this game!


...and don't forget to buy those new MTXs, they are on top of the patch notes list again, so they might be the most important thing to read.

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Serleth wrote:

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Shaeltal wrote:

The amount of people I made happy by crafting them a 300-400 dps bow that costed them in total about 1-2 exalts to make was staggering. Why? Because its RIDICULOUSLY hard to find a comparable one yourself.

That's the whole point. It became way too easy to craft a bow you would normally have to pay a decent amount of coin for. What was formerly classified as "great" weapons have been flooding the market, resulting in 300-400 bows (as an example) becoming simply "good." The of Crafting mod unintentionally allowed fantastic items to become simply good, for too cheap a cost.

What they're doing by raising the price of Of Crafting is called BALANCING.

there is no past league where i was kicked out of the ladder with my average time available, rampage did that with an entry level of 82 while being midway through. means, a majority of people are steamrolling content thx to master crafting.

so i agree with you, the game became way too easy and the problem is ggg can't go back to the previous state and make the progression slower. we had that after closed beta ended and everybody complained about "the game not fun anymore" because it got more difficult.

long term implications of this for permanent leagues are rather bad, when normal finds and some master crafting allows the player to easily progress to 72-74 maps, only exceptional items are worth anything at all.

very good patch, thanks GGG !