the insane investment of charge stackers, and how the balance team failed in regards to it.

yo people ! this is not a complaint post to be clear

3 points,

1- clarifying the problem and why is it a problem
2- possible solutions
3- reasons why i think those solutions must be implemented as soon as next league

1-
this post is questioning the decision of the random rare monster mod in the game that can be found in ANY MAP randomly at all times. and then this rare can in one single hit steal all my 14 frenzy, 14 endurance, and if i had 14 power the monster would steal them in one hit too.
this is a problem because we have , over the years prevented a random rare in a map to completely ruin your build "like rares which had 100% overwhelm or rares that had 9999999% damage reduction to one damage type or even rares with immunities.

2- there are multiple solutions, i will start from what i think is the more suitable and go down from there

first solution: remove the rare mod all together, we already have it as a map mod.
second solution: make it so that a monster cannot steal more charges than their limit, and they can't steal more than 1-3 charges per hit. it's already gonna steal all your charges if it also has soul taker anyway even if it steals 1 charge per hit

three: add easy access ways "such as mods on jewels" that prevents charges from being stolen
for example a suffix / prefix jewel mod that says "35% chance to avoid charges being stolen" so that with 3 jewels we can hit 100%


3- although i already mentioned or implied, the reasons i think those solutions are important are as follows
first it is because charges gear and items are actually rare AND THUS extremely expensive, paying a mirror + worth of gear then ending up getting one shot by a random rare because ALL MY Survival relies on my 14 charge does not make sense.

second, as mentioned above we have moved away form a random rare bricking an entire build in the past and moved it to "map mods" so ppl can just decide to run it or not

third it is NOT FUN

fourth it is limiting EVEN when it's not on the map mod, for example if i think i can manage a valdos, i can't do it because i wont' pay 100 divs to run a valdos where a random rare can one shot me by stealing my charges\
fifth, which is also implied, when a random shitty rare can one shot you and uber pinnacles can't scratch you, it is 100% BAD DESIGN and not fun and tilting.
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