Please consider reverting nerf on Shaper's Touch Unique Gloves

Those gloves enable many Int-based builds.

Nerfing the accuracy unnecessarily breaks numerous builds for no reason. They have already been nerfed by the Int-to-ES changes.

Please consider reverting the accuracy back to 4.

Ya, a glove that drops quite frequently that has very little usage on average being made more useless for most builds is a little odd considering boss loot should be fun and interesting. Boss loot SHOULD be powerful, even if its normal boss loot. The boots are a complete joke too.

revert

i dont even use it but was always interested, seems like a sleeper unique

definitely revert

this is another nerf to this item.
was already nerfed in 3.10
+1 maximum mana per 4 Strength (from 2 maximum mana per 4 Strength)
1% increased Energy Shield per 10 Strength (from 2% increased Energy Shield per 10 Strength)

looks like they nerf items based on what kind of shit is meta in a given league. Back then strength stack was powerful so they halved strength stack bonuses.

I play Mjölner Archmage Ball Lightning of Orbiting.

The ES nerf is already substantial as I am Int stacker.
But the nerf to these gloves is just destroying the build as I can't get the accuracy.

I think youre missing the point. They are purposely disrupting the meta.

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Piousqd#0073 wrote:

I think youre missing the point. They are purposely disrupting the meta.

There's a massive difference between reducing the power of a thing to reduce its popularity below other things they want to supplant it in the meta, and pretty much killing it entirely. You can mix up the meta without beating things to death.

nothing is 'destroyed'

builds going from 900m to 350m might hurt but the end effect is less noticeable than what slammers got hit with. and slammers do not reach 100m (unless ofc 'stacking' some shit)

people complaining about no accuracy:
- there are two new accuracy clusters in Templar area
- Accuracy Support is a thing if you need it 'just' to hit things with Mjolnr or whatever. Precision exists as well.

and the nerf's purpose was to make stuff weaker. if you didnt know, ACC/INT stacking was ABSURD and 100/100 deserved to be nuked. INT stacking alone, in big part thanks to Shaper's Touch, got EVERYTHING from one stat. it still gets. just not that much

the proposed solutions ofc cut into damage - THAT IS THE PURPOSE of the nerf ffs and this time i actually do not thing innocents got hurt. 'regular' ES builds lost some %ES scaling but it wont change things much. thats it.

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sidtherat#1310 wrote:

what slammers got hit with

The key difference between slam builds and intelligence stacking builds is fairly straightforward. Slam builds have been clearing essentially all content on minimal budgets with very little friction, so a change was hardly surprising. If anything, it was earned. They will still perform perfectly fine, simply not with the same effortless dominance at low investment.

Int stackers, on the other hand, were never particularly strong on a budget to begin with, and they were far from the most popular picks of the league for a long time. The lower and mid tiers felt the impact more noticeably this time around. At the high end, though, the difference is marginal at best. Much like slam builds, or really any archetype if we are being honest, once a certain level of investment is reached, the outcome tends to converge. At that point, scaling tends to smooth over most weaknesses.

What can be said with confidence is that slams were adjusted because they were disproportionately powerful, especially in low investment scenarios. Int stacking took a comparatively minor hit, yet the reaction around it feels somewhat outsized. It is difficult not to notice how quickly FOMO enters the conversation once something gains even a modest amount of visibility and popularity.
When int stackers were less represented and hardly popular league pick, there was little urgency to frame them as a pressing issue.

It is interesting how perception can inflate certain narratives. Balance discussions present themselves as purely analytical, though at times they seem to track more closely with shifting sentiment. The broader tone of the community tends to follow suit, and not always in the most measured direction.