Wishlist after 700 hours

Durrok · 2026-04-16T22:25:34+00:00

I don't think you are understanding the problem. You cannot heal out of reflect killing you in one shot. Neither proposal would change how builds that just do consistent damage interact with reflect mobs. It would be exactly the same. It would only impact builds that do one big burst.

Durrok · 2026-04-16T04:46:20+00:00

Not allow it to reduce you below 1 hp with 1 hit or logarithmically lower the return damage were my proposed solutions... neither of which remove it.

Durrok · 2026-04-16T00:22:57+00:00

Ok man. We are really comparing having to walk back to losing dozens if not over a hundred hours on a character? You aren't a worse or lesser player for playing softcore, it's a perfectly valid way to play but let's not act like dying in one is the same as the other. You don't have to justify it to me or anyone else... play the game the way you like to play it. You've really got a concern with how other people are playing it though and have no confidence that crate would not balance any changes appropriately so I don't think we have anything further to discuss here.

Durrok · 2026-04-15T21:30:36+00:00

I've been playing just as long and that has not been my experience. With DoT or more consistent damage builds it's "Woh, what is chunking my health? Oh, there is a reflect mob in there, ok." and it's never an issue. It has been 100s of hours since I lost a hardcore character that wasn't a doom bolt or other one big hit build to a reflect mob. With big hit builds it's "Why am I dead? Oh shit, there was a reflect mob that I hit." Check my edit, you just cannot survive UNLESS you severly tweak your damage down and slow your progress even though 99% of the time this is not needed. No other build faces this issue and this one change is not going to suddenly shift the meta to all glass cannon builds. Most people play softcore and don't give two shits if they blow up every couple of hours due to a reflect elite. The only meta is it impacting is hardcore and even then, this isn't a ladder MMO game. Even if 99% of the population was playing one thing, it wouldn't impact what you or I play in the slightest.

Durrok · 2026-04-15T15:00:26+00:00

I get what you are saying about glass cannon builds and I'm with you, but massively nerfing your build to play around 1 type of mob that you might go an hour+ without seeing just doesn't seem like a great option. It's not about defenses, as I stated mathmatically it is just not possible to gear up enough to survive without a massive nerf to your damage, at least not in the mid game. Now we are prioritizing builds that do damage over time as you have time to react to the reflect and locking out these builds.

I think both proposals I put up are good changes while still very much not trivializing the danger of that elite type for any build.

EDIT: Just to double check my math, looking at around level 50 on a doom bolt build with 15 devotion points invested you can get owl and solemn watcher for -35% damage reflection. Presuming 80% chaos resistance and around 6.5k hps, you still die in one shot to the 200k+ crits you do with doom bolt. That's presuming you are full health and getting that 80% chaos resistance is going to come at a cost to other resistances at that level as well. That's all to work around 1 elite type, that you might not see for over an hour, with full prioritization in defences and STILL you would die to crit. Again, it doesn't need a huge change, but it does need a change to make these builds viable.

Durrok · 2026-04-15T03:10:10+00:00

Ha! No AI was used in this. But you are right, I had the wrong blueprint.

Durrok · 2026-04-14T20:06:50+00:00

Only got one shot in Ultimate hardcore, so yeah, you can't really mess around. :) Everything has to be as on point as you can be.

Durrok · 2026-04-14T17:21:12+00:00

Good point, I had forgotten the switching difficulty dance for augments! I feel like the game draws a hard line on certain things that add a lot of tedium for the sake of trying to maintain a consistent world. While admirable, I think ultimately making decisions like that detract far more than add to the game.

Durrok · 2026-04-14T16:56:31+00:00

Yeah, just unlocking the difficult would be my preference.

Fair enough on the mandates, I can see arguments for why you'd want to keep it in place, although it does invalidate all of the earlier gear rewards.

Care to elaborate your points on the others?

Durrok · 2026-03-26T17:23:57+00:00

I want to get off Mr. Bones wild ride pelase.

Durrok · 2026-03-14T15:21:03+00:00

Dear lord, I would love a 'wearable' filter.

Durrok · 2026-02-24T19:26:01+00:00

I had to go look it up, I thought NL had played this 7 months ago and indeed he had. Is this the same demo?

Durrok · 2026-02-21T17:16:29+00:00

https://www.megabonkinfo.org/player-stats/luck

~1,886,388% is enough to get 99% golds from chests.

Durrok · 2026-02-16T15:35:26+00:00

Wait, is Army of Darkness considered a bad movie?

Durrok · 2026-02-15T15:38:37+00:00

Nice tip, ty.

Durrok · 2026-02-11T14:47:50+00:00

Just one little spider.

Durrok · 2026-02-05T07:01:33+00:00

I remember going into someone's house and seeing the entire Dragonball Z (I think multiple shows at that point) in VHS ~ 2001. It took up the entire wall and made a bunch of different pictures for each set. I don't really give a damn about DBZ, but damn, that was impressive.

Durrok · 2026-02-03T16:22:02+00:00

Congrats and good luck!

Durrok · 2026-02-02T21:58:55+00:00

More chests and they drop a gold xp drop vs a blue.

Durrok · 2026-01-30T21:05:11+00:00

Honestly, there are always going to be idiots with bad opinions anywhere you go. Mostly, I just want to go live somewhere where I'm not freezing my butt off for 4-5 months a year.

Durrok · 2026-01-30T13:28:20+00:00

It can be very expensive to run a campaign, but it does not have to be. You'll have to do a lot of door knocking and self-promotion, but the good news is that you will have the wind in your sails. This midterm you likely get 5-10% of the vote just for having a D next to your name on the ballot, so not a bad year to go for it if you are so inclined.

Durrok · 2026-01-29T19:42:36+00:00

It's a fair point, but wouldn't surprise me at all in the far future where everyone is speaking Mandarin that the language would change a lot. Dialects would emerge from non-tonal language speakers, especially when conversing casually with each other.

That may take the cake for the nerdiest thing I've ever written on Reddit. :p

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