3.20 Balance Manifesto: Monster Mods and Archnemesis

but PLEASE TEST THEM WELL!!! take another month if you must. don't throw out garbage plz!

How will HH work with the new System. How many mods does a rare now have that could be stolen with HH? Will they stack again?

Two questions this didn't address in my eyes

1. Does this mean we are going back to the broken aura stacking mod effects or will these mods only effect the mob they are on? That personally was the biggest problem with the first system and the only big upside to AN.

2. This has a few parts but it address the drop changes. Are we going back to old reward design that most content feels rewarding and stacking over lapping effects makes your effort feel more rewarding or does this only effect rarity and rare spawn stacking like it did in 3.19? I personally don't see how hidden reward explosions is going to make things feel better if the bulk of your rewards is still locked behind a single kill instead of having all content feel like it can be equally reward. Smaller but meaningful bonus explosions for a single challenging rare is a nice idea but only if it is that a bonus and not the gate keeper.

Hopefully this fixes it! 💪

sooo
HH will be dead now?

I really like these changes to both the mods and rewards. Hopefully implementation is equivalent to the presentation here.

The one thing that I really think should be implemented though is weighting for specific monster types to give some more identity. So a Singing Siren CAN roll fire mods but is much more likely to roll cold mods and neutral likeliness for some other mods. Seems like leveling would be more thematic and maps/map mods would have increased relevance.

Seriously, are they still there? I do not trust.

-We are the Frog-

-GGG is the Scorpion-

-3.20 will be the River-

Everyone knows where I'm going with this. Let's see what happens a week or so in.
I'm hopeful however..

{Skeptical Hippo Eyes}

Wow, apparently it's true and GGG do listen to their playerbase after all.

Admittedly it takes tens of thousaands of players shouting in their face continuously for a period of nearly 6 months before they listen, but it's a start I guess.

This sounds great! I hate archnemesis. I hate its loot. I am still a little bit anxious about the patch notes, but finally, in a long time, something that gives me hope for this game. I am definitely not skipping the next league start!