Path of Nerfs

Sweet. Looks like no one is playing a bow/wander and everything will be playing duelists.

I have a suggestion! If you raise the amount of exp needed to get to another level, Then i hereby demand you lower the exp penalty on death!

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Odds_ wrote:

straight up mid-20's communist irl

If by "communist" you mean neolib I might buy that. Or you're just being the everyone's a PHD on the Internet cliche.

In reality we both know I nailed it, regardless of what label you claim for social advancement because of context.

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Innomen wrote:

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Odds_ wrote:

Reigning in the extreme BS like this will allow GGG to nerf spike damage and make other functional buffs to players - which we're already seeing via volatile and reflect changes.

Bunch of brats.

As we say in the wiki community: Citation Needed.

If you really believed that you wouldn't be calling people brats, you simply be correcting them and providing some evidence.

The real issue with you, GGG, and all the nerf defenders is control and status quo defense.

It's class mobility that you can't stand. It's the idea of the top tier in any context being supplanted terrifies you.

Your ageist "Brats" comment shows this extends to real life as well. You're clearly the kind of useful idiot that thinks "millennials" are ruining everything but see no problem with literally three Americans owning more wealth then the bottom half of the country and a student loan asset backed securities bubble that going to make the housing crash look like a slow news day.

Every debate is the same debate.

You just think you'll be 0.01% some day.

"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." ~Tyler Durden

You'e clearly still a believer.

The debate is always between the people still mentally plonked in front of that TV and the people that aren't.

No, uh, I'm a straight up mid-20's communist irl, you're just a childish dipshit who's bad at a video game and mad that his hand isn't being held by broken mechanics anymore.

I'm not a fan of some of GGG's business practices - particularly the exploitative loot boxes and skinner box mechanics, but I enjoy the gameplay, so I play.

The reason for the changes is precisely to supplant the top tier builds with fresh new stuff; this reactionary whining only betrays people who have no idea how the game actually works.

I can't tell which parts of this argument are satirical or sincere but you're both idiots

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Chris wrote:

Experience changes for high-level characters
Each league, the race to 100 is over more quickly than the previous one, as players become more efficient and the experience available gets larger. We receive overwhelming feedback (including from top racers) that this process should be made longer. We're going to be careful though, and just adjust it a bit at a time. In 3.1.0, this takes the form of small additional experience penalties at levels 95-99 that have the following effect:

• 95 to 96: 6.5% more experience needed
• 96 to 97: 11.5% more experience needed
• 97 to 98: 18.7% more experience needed
• 98 to 99: 28.25% more experience needed
• 99 to 100: 40% more experience needed

I don't have lvl 95+ characters as of now since it's an awful lot of exping to do. Now I probably won't even have any, which is sad. I understand that going to the game as a second job probably would solve the answer, but I play it more than I should already.

/End_of_sad_post

<3 OP Sh*t Nerfz!

For those complaining they will never hit 100 and it is for the top racers and streamers you are right... They are making it more fun for those players. Level 100 is not meant for casual players... why complain about that if you werent even going to hit 95 in the first place. They could have left that out of the nerfs and 99.99% of their player base wouldnt know. 100 is for 1337 no life but everyone is making a fuss because on the internet you like to act like you are 1337 no lifer. Go put your kid to bed and play abyss when it comes out.

Chris, I once listened to someone interviewing you and one of your statements really stuck with me. You mentioned that you wanted a game for working class folks to come home from work and grind a little before bed. A game where money does not buy you advantages. Your MTX model was genius and you were basically describing me and most of the people I play this game with. They have income to spend on things the find entertaining.

Not a single one of us have ever made it to level 100. Hell, I think I have the highest level character at 96 and it was because I had a long break. No normal person grinds to 100 in a couple days or ever for that matter. Normal people play new patches when they aren't working and buy cool mtx once in a while. There is always the hope that one day someone will make 100. It sits out there as a possible goal. I'm afraid it's no longer possible.

Maybe I don't play enough or use the things you nerfed. None of it matter to me except the experience nerf. As a comparison, I played D3 when it first came out for a while. I was lucky enough to get an awesome drop - Shard of Hate. It was absolutely the best thing I found and I was having a blast for about 2 days. I came home from work stoked to play and there was a patch that day, nerfing Shard of Hate, because some fucking streamer was using it and Blizzard got their panties in a wad. I was so pissed I logged out and refused to ever play that fucking game developed by professional stream watchers again.

You're sliding down a razor over a pool of alcohol with these decisions. This can easily go south, fast. You're getting focused on the minority and not silent majority. Stop worrying about streamers and meth heads, they don't matter to the majority. They will always be around. Punishing the majority for a few is a sure way to piss people off. I'm writing this but most people I know won't because they react with their wallets. They will remain silent, and just like the last US election, you'll be standing there like CNN dumbfounded, confused and wondering what the fuck happened. Keep your devs off twitch and keep the servers healthy. Start talking to the people who never had a chance at 100 because they work for a living.

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Innomen wrote:

The real issue with you, GGG, and all the nerf defenders is control and status quo defense.

It's class mobility that you can't stand. It's the idea of the top tier in any context being supplanted terrifies you.

You just think you'll be 0.01% some day.

lol, the fuck ?

Im a nerf 'defender' and literally nothing you say makes any sense to me. I will never be the .01% simply because I hold a full-time job that require me to work a lot of hours and pull all-nighters sometimes. nor do I want to be the .01%. shit's unhealthy. but I want to play a game that caters to the .01% than the 99.99% of games that cater to popcorn-chewing masses who want a dopamine explosion over a 30 minute session.

its really simple, stop overthinking shit and doing absolutely outlandish generalizations.

how about less nerfs and more buffs. 1 acl uniques SHOULD be buffed regularly and nerfed regularly. the shit gems like flame surge and fucking ice crash SHOULD be buffed by now. i am disappointed.