3.20 Balance Manifesto: Jewels and Ailment Mitigation

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Totgestreamed wrote:

I'd rather have have the choice to not pick em up instead of not having them drop. But GGG you do you. OH you wanted the conquerors efficiency.. get rekt. some of you guys can pog all they want but filtering out worthless jewels is less annoying then chasing shit i need (and not just want).

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PmLeal wrote:

You can't filter out worthless jewels cause they share base type, you need to look at every single one. Oo

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Shppy wrote:

So you're:

-diluting the rare jewel mod pool more

-making some unique jewels no longer capable of being sources of corrupt implicits (cuz the jewels themselves are now a result of corruption)

-taking away unique jewel rewards to instead give players a random rare that has nearly no chance of being useful to them and that they could easily acquire instead by just throwing an alch or chaos at a dropped jewel

- after taking away the ailment mitigation we used to get from harvest jewel implicits you're putting slightly higher values on the explicits no one wants to or will use because rolling a good rare jewel with the right ailment mitigation will be a nightmare and it'll take up an explicit mod we'd rather use on other stats

And you frame it all like you're doing us a favor, despite nearly everything you talked about being a nerf.

You made this far more complicated than you had to and for no real benefit. This could have been much simpler, more effective, and more well-received in just two steps:

-re-add harvest jewel implicits

-re-balance underperforming unique jewels.