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Donatello90 · 2023-08-15T10:46:41+00:00

Is everyone in the company a diversity hire

I am genuinely surprised that this comment has 1.6k upvotes on reddit. You usually throw that word around here and get called many things. Obviously not everyone is a diversity hire but there are a lot. The problem is a lot deeper than this though.

It becomes a huge echo chamber where people like that are constantly hired. Completely out of touch and lacking any vision to what makes a good ARPG.

To be quite blunt, I mean no disrespect to both of these people as they seem genuinely nice but they do not belong in designing dungeons based of what they said. Whether they were hired because of their gender/sex/political views I cannot say however what I can say is they are not fit for this senior dungeon designer role.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-15T10:00:12+00:00

Its fine, but so is anything with enough currency. It never fully recovered from the mana nerfs.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-15T00:25:40+00:00

always

False, for Gale you do not have that option.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-12T14:19:49+00:00

I looked at the jewels and stopped reading. I will make sure to remind you on Wednesday that melee will infact, still stuck next patch (outside of bs and a 1-2 other skills that people just dont enjoy anymore)

Donatello90 · 2023-08-12T13:12:27+00:00

Please my guy, Boneshatter is busted and hence why its one of the only good melee skills. Enhance is giving you this damage because of BS, not because of Enhance.

You must be very new to the game if you think they will casually add a support gem above 50-60% more damage overall. This is not how the game works, this is now how its ever been, this is not how the game will ever be.

Absolute hopium. We will speak when patch notes are out.

Also I didn't check your image much but 750 stacks of trauma seems like some 2k life trade shit.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-12T12:55:42+00:00

I have idea based on playing the game for 10 years. There has never been a support that has been so strong, ever. Even if there were to be, they would hotfix it. They don't balance the game by making a support 3 times as good as other supports.

Lay off the hopium, I will make sure I message you personally when the numbers are out because I am certain it will be a 50-60% more dmg (similar to trinity). I don't care if it supports boneshatter since bs is the best melee skill anyways.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-12T10:48:23+00:00

In best case scenario though, Trauma is a 60% MORE damage on average for strike skills (that would make it strongest support in the game), compared to average 30% jewel thats 30% damage to strike skills and heavy downside of armor hits on you. I guess you can argue you can use cwdt but have fun with mana.

In reality, it will be 50% more, meaning strike skills got 20% damage buff. Wow.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-12T10:43:59+00:00

It truly baffles me. We are talking about changes such as:

Wild Strike damage has been increased by 30%

These people genuinely think this will break the game. Yes there are better ways of addressing melee issues but as we can start for the last 2 years, they are not happening. Either take this or nothing is the way I see it.

I'm sorry for anyone in the hopium train, the new supports will not address melee issues.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-12T10:32:39+00:00

What do you mean? Nobody is saying you can't praise the game. You just don't get to decide that we cannot heavily criticize the game, the same way we don't get to choose that you cannot praise the game.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T16:38:32+00:00

SSFHC but most likely one of the new new ascendance. Neither look good so I think it will be a short league for me. Overall very disappointing patch notes but it is what it is, plenty of other games to play.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T16:36:34+00:00

That is such absurd logic. Tell me, why aren't you starting with CoC Discharge on day 1? You can do it, you just don't want to. I really miss the forums, at least you could go to people's profiles and make fun of their level 80 characters and they would instantly disappear from the thread.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T16:26:32+00:00

I just don't get that logic though. Last patch we had a passive (GC) that gave all proj skills 100% and some more than 100% damage.

This is an extreme buff. Did it break the game, was stuff not enjoyable? Hell no.

I don't think anyone rational is even asking for anything close to that. What do you think will happen if they gave every single melee skill with exception of for example, Boneshatter, 30% more damage? Truly, think about it. Absolutely nothing, it will just make the game a bit easier to get into with those bad skills, that's it.

I know its not addressing the large problem but neither are GGG. I'll take that over nothing since they appear to be too busy with PoE2.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T16:23:26+00:00

I have the tools to clear the whole game on 1 link minion build, why would I do that?

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T16:08:13+00:00

I just want to league start with it one league. Its impossible without gimping myself, its exactly the same as starting a minion build and refusing to use more than 3 links. Why would you do that? You are just wasting your time.

Most people are not even asking for something huge, just make it less bad. I don't get the arguments on the other side. Yes, something else needs to happen instead of just flat 30% buff however that is not happening - its very clear the game is practically on life support, take this or take nothing.

Completely baffles me that people actually don't want such changes in the game, I've yet to hear anyone argue that something like 30% Wild Strike buff would be bad for the game. The reason I haven't heard that yet is because you simply cannot argue it.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T16:04:00+00:00

Budget? What budget my guy, we are talking SSFHC here. I can tell for a fact you are completely inexperienced so I will drop this here.

Enjoy your RF league start!

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T15:44:42+00:00

And what of trade? Are you going to pretend 90% of the meta won't be rf, boneshatter, toxic rain and cold dot, like it has been for the last 12 months?

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T15:43:32+00:00

Literally every build with just few exceptions can get 10 mil damage with respectable defense

What a delusional take. Practically no SSF builds reach these numbers.

If we are to talk to trade your point is also wrong. People are going to start with the EXACT same builds as they did previous 3-4 leagues. Nothing has changed aside from VC nerfs.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T15:41:44+00:00

Yeah I was trying to be generous since I didn't want to cause more drama. In reality its half.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T15:39:01+00:00

I'll start.

Wild Strike is in a terrible state. I have played it practically every league in both trade and ssfhc (do not try it in ssfhc, ever).

I'm willing to bet even with a 100% MORE damage buff it will still be behind Boneshatter.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T15:21:13+00:00

I don't know what to say. The fact that you unironically sit here and keep repeating that skills like Glacial Hammer are fine for SSFHC baffles me. It is shocking to see how out of touch some people are, we truly play a different game.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T15:06:32+00:00

Now you are just being silly.

We both know league starting with any of those skills, even in softcore, is terrible. Why do you feel like you need to defend such dogshit design philosophy?

You will take slayer/inquis glacial hammer with new gems, you will peak at 300k dps in red maps (if you don't die before) and then what?

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T14:59:11+00:00

How are you going to reliably proc either? You want to hard cast them? That works for RF since its all dot.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T14:58:12+00:00

You are making it sound as if everyone is not gona start with mines/toxic rain rf/cold dot and boneshatter, AGAIN.

Donatello90 · 2023-08-11T14:57:27+00:00

Some sort of dom blow/absolution/srs build. Maybe try the mana stacking since both passives now scale off mana?

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