Balance Changes to Chill, Shock, and Charges

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Elhazzared wrote:

Lastly about threshold jewels. We never got them "easily" and to be honest I feel the vendor was a good idea. Again some "illuminated" brains said that trivialised content. What they fail to realise is that these jewels don't make anything easier. All they do is provide a way to alter the way you play a skill or even may make a skill worth using.

Providing it as a quest reward is one thing but we cannot forget that in many cases you don't just use one of these gems and it's bad form to simply make players create characters just to finish that quest and get extra jewels which are build enabling and are pretty damn weak anyway. The vendor was by far the best solution but of course, GGG listens to those who cry rather than making a decision based on things actually impact the game.

It may be just me (although I'm fairly sure I ain't the only one) but PoE was much better in 2.0, there is in fact no comparison to how much better it was!

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Bishma wrote:

I cant understand the logic of these changes GGG: first you introduce very nice Tinker armour for Trappers which give +% to gain Frenzy charge and second - introduce changes which remove any effect of Frenzy charges from Trapper-builds - what the hell is this?
The same problem with Node which should increase % to gain Frenzy charge with traps - what reason should i have to take that Node now?

Whether i don't know something or don't understand you...
Sadly... I planned to start as Trapper.

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FrancescoV wrote:

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Elhazzared wrote:

Lastly about threshold jewels. We never got them "easily" and to be honest I feel the vendor was a good idea. Again some "illuminated" brains said that trivialised content. What they fail to realise is that these jewels don't make anything easier. All they do is provide a way to alter the way you play a skill or even may make a skill worth using.

Providing it as a quest reward is one thing but we cannot forget that in many cases you don't just use one of these gems and it's bad form to simply make players create characters just to finish that quest and get extra jewels which are build enabling and are pretty damn weak anyway. The vendor was by far the best solution but of course, GGG listens to those who cry rather than making a decision based on things actually impact the game.

It may be just me (although I'm fairly sure I ain't the only one) but PoE was much better in 2.0, there is in fact no comparison to how much better it was!

As many pointed out, the vendor in its current form could be prone to being expolited (not only with corruption, don't forget that in 3.0 we will get a new currency that reforges an unique item into a new random one of the same class, easy and fast acquisition of unique jewels could have been exploitable by someone).

A possible solution would have been to simply raise the price to something like 2c.

Anyway.. maybe we will be awarded with another jewel during ACT 10, so some of you conrcerns will be addressed.

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Destroyer989 wrote:

Was really looking forward to power charges having 4% more spell damage.

Would love to see this added to Elemental Overload to make them useful to noncrit builds.

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Gandicar wrote:

Idea on charges....

Add % Elemental damage based on the charge color. That way it would add even more charge diversity and offset any future nerfs to say crit chance on them. It would also make them more balanced across class build types.

This would also bring them in line with the various gems and jewels that are elemental based on color.

I already posted this idea once before, so I am sorry if it seems redundant. I just think it was ignored like most of my posts on here.

I do have many other ideas for game improvement and balancing but I am afraid to post them due to them being passed over like they are nothing without even another player's opinion on the matter.

I could become a valued poster If people would start taking notice and giving me a reason to take the time to type it all out.

Thank you all for everything, especially GGG for the great game we all play.