Well when a max juiced 6 man party gets fuck all but crumbs, you know something is wrong.
If a juiced group isn't getting anything, what hope does the average player have.
First off, fuck the group cucks. Even though they are technically not doing anything wrong, it's still disgusting to witness. They are abusing a resource most players simply will never have: friends. It is one thing when Ben wins the Ubers race. Others can look up to him and dream of one day becoming as good as him through practice and knowledge. Or simply admire him and adopt some of his technique to better themselves. None of this is applicable to Empy and his group. I'm glad they left. They shouldn't play a game they don't enjoy. Being a captive audience member is what produces the insanity on reddit. Also I don't think they were doing PoE any favours through that type of exposure.
Second, I didn't notice the nerfed drops except for the Uniques, until I heard about his post. Loot in single player is fine. Group cucks have been meming about player quant being busted for ages. Now the meme is over and they are sad. Big whoop.
Third, you can't implement Smart Loot if the players are accustomed to 20 million rare items dropping per map. I think this is what GGG is aiming for and group cucks were just the collateral this patch, not the target.
TIL that you can boost quality on unidentified armours and weapons to get more chaos...
Are you actually clicking 20 times on each rare just to get 1 extra chaos from the recipe?
I hadn't even thought about the double slam on build variety this league.
Not only are a ton of builds nerfed to the ground, it's super hard to start any build that required a moderately expensive unique.
A herald spider build now requires about 1500c chaos investment to get started (Assuming fang + aegis). Previous leagues you could get that started for 2-3 ex depending on how popular Aegis was that league.
But build variety is up, not down. Spoders is one of those builds that can get away using mostly uniques except jewelry and was naturally going to be a popular choice this league. It was never an easy starter because it required these uniques and Aegis was 8ex last league already.
Empyrian quit. I've never much cared for the guy, but he's one of the biggest whales so it'll be funny to see the GGG damage control.
The community hated Empy and cheered when he got banned in Ultimatum. And he was nowhere close to the biggest whale. I don't think he ever did big Mystery Box gambas beyond the 36 most streamers get as a promo gift from GGG. If there is going to be any damage control, it going to be because of 30% revenue loss like in 3.15. Which may or may not happen. I feel like this time the community is making a big fuss, but they are still going to play and to pay. The disloyal people left a while ago when Lost Ark launched. Ironically, the Lost Ark players like Raiz and Nugi are the few who are not criticizing GGG for the nerfs.
GGG often goes into radio silence when they are in full panic mode.
Did you forget about the 3 podcast appearances Chris did during 3.15? They are more silent this time, because engaging with a tantrum throwing child is pointless. If anything, these nerfs to Archnemesis rares feel like a calculated, careful token gesture and less of a panic "break glass" button.
I also think the current endgame story is the weakest they've had
You think the Sirus saga was better than Maven?
Our resident GGG shill is on a rating frenzy I see.
I'm catching up on the thread. I was busy playing the game.
I'm slowly breaking into T14+. It was pain as squishy Elementalist at first. I resorted to Golems to tie me over. Turns out 500hp/s regen, 20% pdr and minions that take aggro are good for survival. But golems are in a weak spot, so once I had some better gear I ended up re-speccing into standard Bing Chilling node and Convergence. It's fairly good at bossing, but it's still uncomfortably squishy and I wouldn't recommend the build unless you absolutely must play Lightning Conduit. Lightning Conduit itself is fresh and I'm glad I chose it for my starter, but it's not very comfy and I'm already looking forward to rolling something like Maw of Mischief for bossing and a CF Glad for mapping.