Harbinger Content Integration
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That feels about right, really.
I'm going to miss Orbs of Binding; starting from bupkis in a new league is agonizing enough without having to wear whites and/or wait until level 60+ to get decent links set up. But for the most part? I didn't really care for Harbinger and was slightly cringy of its odds of being introduced into the main game. The currency options were cool ideas and I'll miss the currency shards as well - semi-regular Chaos shard drops were a nice way for slow earners like me to pile on a bit of extra spending money over time - but honestly...yeah. Most of the new currency types feel a little forced, or like they have only one worthwhile use (i.e. Ancient Orb-ing to try and grab chase uniques, Engineer's Orbs being useless on anything but white Diviner's boxes, etc). No need to clutter stuff up with Harbinger drip-outs. Annulments being an Exalt-level Scour sort of dealio, where you can try and maybe-get-lucky on scrubbing off the one crap mod on a great piece of gear? That's cool. But the rest of it is ehhhh... 'Course, I didn't really engage with harbinger properly in the first place, I suppose. Found it moderately boring, despite the 3.0.0 release. 3.0.0 is awesome. Harbinger League itself didn't grab me, so I'm glad to see it not take up space that could be used later by a more "Wowzas!" league. Besides. it's not like they can't add "You will encounter a Harbinger" to Sextant mods or the Prophecy system or any of that jazz even outside of Zana mods, ne? Prophecy especially is just awesome for that sort of thing. | |
Great potential but not good enough for you to keep at least the engineering orb around? What a waste.
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I am willing to live with permanent Harbingers in game if that means keeping Harbinger Orbs and Horizon. I really don't agree with GGG on this one even if I don't find Harbinger encounters particularly good. For the majority of players who shape their atlas a specific way, the orbs did nothing, but for everyone like me who enjoys unlocking every map possible and running different tilesets, it was an amazing tool. Plus having a way to get rid of some of the shit tier maps (that shaped atlas-ers don't have to deal with) was fantastic.
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What about the Harbinger Beachhead map? I thought this map would be a nice addition to the few existing unique maps. All GGG would need to do, is change the loot tables so that it doesn't drop the Harbinger League materials that are not being transferred into the core game.
And since the Harbinger's Orb are being removed, keeping Beachhead as the highest xp/hour map is fine, because it will be much rarer if it just becomes a map you can only find from killing monsters. |
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*opens tab*
"...Harbinger will be available from Zana..." *closes tab* Sorry, but say whatever you want about Harbinger or League X. I won't write down more thoughts, when others already have.
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" Yes, exactly what I mentioned from my post last night. Why in the world would they not mention it? Please reply to your whispers for items... Even if you are mapping, in a rotation, in uber lab, or if its sold. Thank you. :D
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No one noticed that the only currency that goes to core game is the only one that has a location in the currency tab ?
"we felt that ... was not of great interest ..." Seriously, it is clear that only annulment orb was planned for core game, and not the others, just from the beginning of the league. Why not assume that and try to explain with arguments that all have been voided in this thread ? Statistics about the use of the orbs has nothing to do with this final "choice". The other currencies were a test to gauge impacts, but not a plan for core game. Remark on the currency tab : the annulment and augmentation orb location should be inverted SSF for ever :) Last edited by LoloTwingo on Nov 2, 2017, 3:33:30 PM
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"The Ancient Orb was not of great interest, except in cases where it provided the most value, and shortcut access to the most chase items. We feel the shortcut it provides is too great, therefore it will not be added to the core game."
YOUR TALKING OF HEAD HUNTER, JUST SAY ITS NAME....... SAY IT! YOUR METRO SEXUAL CREATURES..,! |
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" Yeah, they took away all the boring, useless grind. How anyone could think that's a bad thing is beyond me. And it's not like you couldn't just adjust the drop-rate, you did that before with other league-specifics. I beat cruel, ruthless and merciless and all I got were some maps.
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