What Happened with Items

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feike wrote:

From what i read in the post, i agree with many things: yeah, i think few will disagree that beyond needed the nerf, but really, the real problem on the game atm is archnemesis...

Feels like you are completely changing the whole balance of the game around it, i can only guess you have a personal feel for the mechanic, because its a thing the majority of the players hated from literally day 1 and its a mystery why you insist so much on it(or why you dont budge on their damage output). Just in reducing the yellow population to account for AN mods, you are literally forcing an entire rebalance of the loot table to account for a feature that almost everyone hates...

Rare monsters being relevant is one thing, but its pretty much fact AN is overtuned, adressing defenses is okay but their damage is the biggest issue. Like, forget regular map bosses: a yellow monster with a bad combo of mods is literally harder than APEX bosses and thats not even an exageration. I would even say in a sense, AN mods are even harder than uber shaper/maven because how you need every form of defense in the 85%-ish to handle all the diferent combos that can come at you

Map affixes and expedition mods can also brick a character, but those are avoidable, players running unid maps accept the possibility of a map turning to have no leech or no regen. AN mods are not avoidable in the same way, and some combos feel just as punitive as map mods that counters your build

Also, while i agree with many of the reasons on the apology, i have to say: your design phylosophy on AN drops is completely missguided... As many already told, focusing too much the bulk of the loot on a handful of affixes makes mapping in general extremely inconsistent. At this point, feels the drop rates in general were forced to crap numbers to account for the chance a yellow monster to be innocence-touched and suddenly you get massive profit
Thats not okay, the reverse is much better: Make yellow monsters less of a chore to face and if you REALLY want that bad to make the game hard, buff the base monsters instead: Really, it would be prefferable to play a game that is consistently hard than the current state where you are plowing everything then out of nowhere a random yellow nukes you. If you want a hard game, make the whole thing harder, dont just rely on a chance encounter that spikes the diff out of nowhere, and ditto for the loot: Focus on making the whole game more consistent rather than just focusing on improving the lootshower of a monster that "might" have the lucrative affix(and thats not even getting on the point that the lucrative affixes dont even intersect with the rip-ish ones)

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Hatchett222 wrote:

I'm genuinely afraid to tell you what I think right now for fear of getting permabanned

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deadunion wrote:

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ZazenSatori wrote:

Never, ever, ever hide changes from YOUR community.

This is the part that hurt me the most. I've played since closed beta & a change of this scale (the loot changes) has never gone undocumented. It's to the point where I'm willing to believe they purposely deceived us.