Why lower rarity modifier values?

I was really confused by Jonathan saying this in the ZiggyD interview. He said they have lowered rarity mod values, but haven't changed anything about the rarity formula.

What exactly is the point of this? It doesn't solve the problem in any way. If anything, it puts even more pressure on getting rarity on your gear now, because it's even harder to reach the same amount.

This effectively makes the Ritualist even more desirable due to having an easier time stacking rarity.

There just seems to be a big disconnect here. If they want to make rarity less of an issue, wouldn't it make way more sense to tweak the rarity formula rather than make it harder to get rarity on your character?

Agreed, but more so they said they will remove it when they find a replacement mod. Why not just switch it to gold find?

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PseudoErekt#9714 wrote:

Agreed, but more so they said they will remove it when they find a replacement mod.

Sure, but that doesn't do anything for 0.4