Following up on Recent Feedback

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CourtsDawn wrote:

Personally, Overall Like the ideas. Though I do think some tuning is necessary in the end.

It does not seem to be a common sentiment, but I do enjoy rares having the item conversions. Sure its pure random and I cant control which ones spawn, so no direct farming. but when I see certain monster mods, I do like knowing what it is and what will come of it. I also personally like the spiky drops, because to me with the amount I hide on loot filter, most of the time I don't need to stop until after beating certain arch nem mods. So I can move through maps focus on killing things, and after a harsh rare, when I need that relief of relaxation after spending 20 to 40 seconds on or so fighting and dodging. But what I dont appreciate is when I get to that needing relief state when fighting particularly hard combo that takes more then 1 minute; but forgetting it has an on death effect and I just die after reveling in my victory. That really frustrates me.

But those piles of loot at certain intervals are so much nicer then random 1 off items on random mobs. And the fact that they are themed, like all 6 socket, all unique, all fractured (especially love this in ssf). This may be the closest we will ever get to loot vaccum type mechanics in the main game that come with alva/blight and some others where stuff just pops up after killing everything. Personally I would be freaking a ok with all loot just droping from the boss at the end but that may be too concentrated. (but no one sees it this way and i find it freaking baffling, loot vaccums were wanted for so long but I know as a philosophy this game wants us to actually pick items up, so to me with the most interesting loot consolidated to rares we have the closest thing we'll get and now people want that awesome quality of life to go away. I am soooo confused.

AS a SSF character I do love the whetstones and extra flasks but as league progresses they seem to be important to me. BUt I really dont want them to go away fully, since it really did help smooth out the rough mapping start.

as for the lake, compared to mapping it is about the same. So not over tuned or under tuned in my mind. But the only reason I want to even mess with it is for chance of rings. ANd since they are so random what would it hurt to have the mists show up multiple times. I do understand for the ethereal mist it might still need to be rare, but normal mist should show up every few tiles.

Harvesting crafting is fine as it is imo, but the options it provided were so nice. BUt was probably bad they were all so localized in 1 crafting system. I would think bring them back in some form, but spreads' out thematically across crafting options like fossils, bench, new currency item, or whatever.

Eldritch currency is amazing stuff; but it does not fill all the gaps. Other slots need something similar to what we can do on the amour. But also even though influenced Items can be potent, they should also get some love in terms of how they can be crafted with.

ALL in ALL great league really am enjoying myself; there were some flaws, especially with difficulty of some mod combos. But I think you are headed in right direction. Just seems the common sentiment from most people is they just don't like change. Plus I just found it odd how this league and last league addressed to major things people were complaining about or asking for; but now that they have them they don't like it. And that is less irrelevant loot droping with more interesting loot (this league stepped in that direction); and to make harder content and reduce enemy screen clutter (also stepped in this direction). I guess its true what they say:

"You think you want it but you really don't"

And honestly I think after people get used to the current changes, because they were massive they would start to dislike going back to the old way.

bold changes are needed to not let game go stale, I enjoying figuring out all the implications of the changes made.

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In Delve [...]

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Community feedback reports that Archnemesis Modifiers that convert rewards to quality currency and flasks feel bad.

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Also mentioned in our last post was that monsters that can't drop items shouldn't have large numbers of Archnemesis mods and will be capped at two mods. This change has happened internally and will be deployed in an upcoming patch.

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Players have mentioned that when Beyond appears in the Lake of Kalandra, its difficulty to reward ratio doesn't feel right. We're investigating this.

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Currently we feel that general drops from the lake are okay but that past league content that appears in the lake may not be rewarding enough. We are keen for specific feedback around which past league encounters in the lake don't feel quite right in terms of rewards. Please include as much detail as possible around your experiences.

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We're making it so that you can see how much Lifeforce of each type you have available at the Horticrafting Station.

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We are also aware that there is a lot of disappointment around certain Harvest Crafts being removed. Previously, Harvest Crafting was balanced by how difficult it was to get the crafts that you want. Now that crafts are tradeable, Harvest's power was reduced to be more in line with other crafting methods. We understand that there is a call for us to bring those crafts back but it isn't really possible while allowing Harvest to remain tradeable.

While this isn't exactly what you want to hear, I can say that this issue was pushed very hard during discussions to see if any compromise could be made. Harvest's crafting potential without being gated by rarity is just too high.

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We are making it so that Eldritch Exalted Orbs, Eldritch Chaos Orbs and Eldritch Orbs of Annulment will drop in lower area levels. We are also buffing their drop rate.