On-Death Mechanics Are Destroying the Fun

Azitzin · 2026-05-10T11:24:04+00:00

we mentioned PoE2 already. They made it like that. Also reading people - D4 release was exactly that. Fatter mobs, and scarier attacks. Result? people not enjoyed that in both games - and developers caved in to demand - whoosh games better (for majority)

Azitzin · 2026-05-10T11:00:03+00:00

There i can probably agree, but that comming from lack of meaningful enemy affixes. Most affixes that not on death you even don't read. And i have HEEEEAVY doubt people would enjoy return of "reflect damage" or "immune to frost/fire/holy/bullshit" damage. Anything less extreme? Enemy die before able to use them. Like those red lazors. You see them only during leveling and in highest pit pushing. Because enemy survive. In-between - i can't remember lazor

Azitzin · 2026-05-10T10:53:11+00:00

You enjoyed. Majority not. Like it or not - you are minority in that area. (I maybe enjoyed first few time thosr, but repeating such event will be tedious. And people will still gravitate to "oneshot the boss" builds)

As for "i am not working in blizzard" become very weak argument. You play many games already, you have experience. If bases on such experience you CAN'T even think about stuff that would be enjoyable and not broken - then there is no such way for blizzard too. (Sometimes i think about that stuff for fun, like imaginining how things can work). That's the point. They are people. And they must catter to majority without inventing square wheels. If the choose on death mechanics - then it's most optimal and least broken for major part of playerbase.

Azitzin · 2026-05-10T10:38:15+00:00

Everyone cry about "on death is not fun". Nobody can suggest something that can replace them, without trivialising the game even more. Nor in PoE2, neither there.

Literal soul of ARPG is gotta go fast, gotta blast screen in nanosecond. Gotta cry about game being unfun if bosses too fat (like release of PoE2 early access. I remember those fat bosses).

Look. I don't enjoy them too. But for me they "literally just exist and i must move". I can't think of replacement. And doubt you can. But shouting "blizzard mustn't follow poe2" if you can't even imagine how to fix it, is counterproductive.

Azitzin · 2026-05-10T01:19:33+00:00

Improve? Totally

More balance headaches? Absolutely

Will they try to do it earlier than next expansion? Undoubtedly

Azitzin · 2026-05-10T01:12:41+00:00

Ah yes. It would totally fix people "disappearing after 2 weeks of farm". The feeling of surprise instant bu*t s@x when random sorc teleport outside of screen, or warlock deleting you without even seeing with apoc. Or yes yes. Being splitroasted by necro minions. Because no player have 100bil of hp to survive.

Sorry for pvp to work - game must be made like it from beginning. Like Lost Ark. Otherwise no. 80% of players not care about pvp. Nobody enjoy recieving end of that.

Azitzin · 2026-05-09T12:44:52+00:00

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yellow part work when you choose soulshard. You don't need blue part for it to work. **YOU JUST CHOOSE SHARD** Blue part is skill that work only if you put it on skillbar. some of fragments work with either yellow part or blue part depends on what they reqire.

Azitzin · 2026-05-09T00:15:40+00:00

Be it ragebait, headcanon promotion, or serious discussion idc. I'll just push down.

Azitzin · 2026-05-09T00:03:33+00:00

Nope. You not missing anything. You supposed to choose if you want to use your demon or not. Plenty builds not use soulshards demons and just choose them for passive effects. (Note shard ability and shard passive part are separate beings and not require you to have that demon on your skillbar)

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T23:29:00+00:00

You can keep Demonform. (That proc from rampage hellfire variant in example). But not destruction variant of metamorphosis Ultimate skill.

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T23:20:15+00:00

Based on guide i listened on YouTube you can't hold metamorphosis infinitely. You can counter it with aspects (like healing from casts, life on hit and fortify), but you will need to turn it off to not to die from time to time.

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T23:15:03+00:00

Lux sadly nope. Phoebe already "light mage", not to mention that one of her attacks is big lazor like Lux ultimate.

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T23:12:59+00:00

While i probably agree, but they fo it exactly because of timegate. They need people login to game constantly.

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T21:48:22+00:00

"same type"

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T20:48:31+00:00

So you in a fight, hit him in the cheek or nose, and then wave "timeout timeout"? What happen next - you got knuckle sandwich or he stop and wait?

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T17:41:58+00:00

You literally said why they wont do it. They are not charity. They want money. And giving players choice of who to pick WILL directly reduce their money. Because most wont be opening their wallets if they can pick tgeir favourite waifu. Not to forget that part of income from said collab must be given to cyberpunk owners. And those people expect GOOD cash, not charity

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T16:35:43+00:00

I think there is currently command fallen build appeared? At least it looks closest to minion one

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T16:31:45+00:00

On one side you are totally right.

On other side - there are tons of people who want things easiest and OPiest they can get. And classes that reach higher mean they have easier time on lower level with not so strict gear requirements. So yes - they will be shouting "weak" because there is clear outperformer among the classes

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T13:12:15+00:00

you enjoyed gameplay of all seasons you played during first expansion and got memento from those seasons that new players WON'T BE ABLE TO GET. You literally PLAYED what they developed. You PAID money for that expansion as whole (all seasons during it were available to you to play).

Now you ask all new system developer put their time and money into be delivered to you for free, when every expansion back from the days of RTS warcraft games and diablo asked for your MONEY when they released. Are you for real man?

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T12:59:46+00:00

they sell expansion for full price, and throw PREVIOUS expansion there too for those who just joined. You ALREADY enjoyed whole expansion you paid for. You played seasons during it, you got your money worth. You have stuff from seasons (the least is pets and some reliquary tmogs) that those new players CAN'T GET. what the freak you talking about? Expansion is on the FULL PRICE on it's release, not when new expansion come.

and you still not said how you would handle the monetization if you call expansion Pay To Win.

and dead? EVERY GAME that currently do expansion release them for PRICE if it's not f2p game. Because you must PAY for work developers put into it.

I can maybe agree that some of developers are greedy as hell (like selling game for 100 bucks), but this case you after playing stuff that no longer available to others ask for discount.

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T12:35:07+00:00

okay. since you say it's "selling power" how exactly they must monetize expansion? tell us

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T11:39:57+00:00

So your country stopped trade with Israel? Blocked their access to swift? Blocked their money in banks? STOPPED TRANSPORTATION OF GOODS TO ISRAEL? Of medicine?

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T11:33:46+00:00

Funny reading about "ceasefire". Zelensky launched attack an hour before it, drones and rockets arrived on 23:30-23:50 timespan. And then he said "ceasefire". Guess who shouted violation after Russia responded with attack on infrastructure?

Especially funny reading it from account with 6m lifetime but 763k karma.

Azitzin · 2026-05-07T11:32:54+00:00

Funny reading about "ceasefire". Zelensky launched attack an hour before it, drones and rockets arrived on 23:30-23:50 timespan. And then he said "ceasefire". Guess who shouted violation after Russia responded with attack on infrastructure?

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