1.2.0 Patch Notes - Forsaken Masters

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Sori3n wrote:

GGG,

I know you guys probably feel you don't want to or don't need to explain some of the nerfs/buffs to us. I'm of the opinion that we all need to play the game before we freak out. However I do think it would go a long way towards soothing the player base if we understood some of the thinking behind certain design decisions.


For instance the idea behind the life node changes made sense. However it seems to somewhat have had an opposite effect as now when I'm planning builds I find myself going further out of the way to grab nodes and continuing to follow the exact same path for different builds because as a person who prefers life I now have no choice but to go that way.

I also was assuming that maybe some other changes (aside from the base hp increase) would be implemented to make HP more viable again. Maybe you guys have different stats than I do, admittedly my sample size is small but in the 1 month race everyone I knew was going caster/es. Most of my friends abandoned pure hp/melee after the leech nerf. I think a lot of people like myself are having a hard time understanding why ES got a considerable buff when HP is looking about the same if not slightly weaker.

My main concern though is the removal of +max ele resist nodes. When I saw this like others I assumed that maybe top end monster ele dmg was being nerfed a little. I guess this change to me just seems like another that was geared towards balancing group play which is a bit of a bummer to me.

Also class build diversity seems to have taken a bit of a dump in this patch. If for no reason other than witches are almost forced into CI now. We're also forced to travel along the side/bottem of the tree if we want any access to HP nodes. I guess you guys really didn't want marauders/duelists to ever use static blows again.


Anyways, my thoughts aren't really worth shit. A lot of people who post here know a lot more about the game than me and I believe a few of em have valid questions. I'm just hoping that you guys will share some of the numbers and thoughts behind your choices. But who knows maybe all of this whining will be pointless because everything will work out just fine and dandy ( i hope ). (disclaimer this is all coming from a HC point of view)

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CoronaBunny wrote:

Its nice that actually being leveled-up is now more meaningful: choosing str/dex/int should be definitive of course, but you should still be somewhat tough even if naked (to a baddie many levels below you).

But it quite sucks that curses no longer last forever - was this really a necessary change? Does it make that much of a change, tactically?
It was SUCH a blast to run around cursing EVERYONE with temporal chains... and enfeeble... and elemental weakness/ whatever... I will miss thee, oh my Mistress Of "Bite Me!"
Sigh.
Perhaps reconsider this in the future, pretty please? Sucking the glorious joy out of things in the name of [insert whatever] just sucks, ya know? Where once you could gleefully screw over all who would oppose you... now you are on a timer... TT
Maybe make it so that Hex Master keystone lowers (some) curse effects for other players? Or that all curses cast by you cease when you leave the map/ die? Or would that require too much recoding?
Meh, meh, meh.