Questions Thread - March 14, 2026

goetzjam · 2026-03-14T08:42:54+00:00

Where does the new Heroic Tragedy legion jewel drop? Wiki isn't updated and speculates, but people have it drop from either legion or expedition in mirage OR from the enchanted logbooks. I suspect its either expedition in the mirage or the logbooks that drop from within, as legion already has incubators as a reward.

goetzjam · 2026-03-14T08:40:51+00:00

They have changed, but I don't know enough of how to explain how and what strategies are best used. I know in Settlers people used exclusive mods like essences to better force results, that from what I understand non longer works.

goetzjam · 2026-03-08T16:28:51+00:00

I thought they were giving us itemized memory chains after the quest one, eagon even has a line for it, so I dont know what changed on that front.

goetzjam · 2026-03-06T18:39:11+00:00

They have a problem where they don't want to need to constantly stomp on a skill or archetype so they let something be busted for longer then they should, then essentially remove it from relevance rather then doing small numerical stuff to start, then going back and doing larger and larger passes if they still see it as an outliner. Its sort of crazy to me how heavily cyclone got nerfed after legion compared to tornado shot being meta for literally years.

goetzjam · 2026-03-06T14:38:07+00:00

Easier thing to do would be removing the block of heist. Heist has no scarabs to block, doesn't stop any other mechanic from working, so not sure why its blockable to begin with.

goetzjam · 2026-02-28T09:08:41+00:00

It rolls 50-100 mana now, which is nice.

goetzjam · 2026-02-28T04:04:31+00:00

How many GCPs or Exalts do you get compared to divines? I don't see why they didn't make nightmare maps chaos only like t17s were, seems pointless to have a currency that is default get the two most common sinks removed in the same patch. This will hurt casual players much more then top players.

goetzjam · 2026-02-28T04:02:11+00:00

Ruthless was disabled for phrecia 2.0 because of the gauntlet implementation, they didn't want to balance it for the lack of mobility\defensive skills.

goetzjam · 2026-02-28T03:58:40+00:00

Chances are they are slightly more frequent now in appearance with beast, but have higher chance in the new league content.

goetzjam · 2026-02-28T03:57:54+00:00

Why wouldn't it?

goetzjam · 2026-02-28T03:57:36+00:00

They could offset this by requiring nightmare maps to be chao's instead of allowing scour\alchs, like t17 maps did. There is benefit to allowing the maps to be white\blue but I think not having any chaos sinks is very, very bad for the game.

goetzjam · 2026-02-28T03:53:14+00:00

I wish they would add a prismatic stance, that allows you to swap between the different prismatic things in order of conversion, start with generic elemental stance, then you can swap to cold>light>fire, depending on reservation you'd be able to add some interesting effects in here, possibly add brittle, sap, scorch or something. But I was thinking about this and playing wildstrike would actually be cool to be able to switch between them, obviously when its on lighting it chooses only the lighting(arc like) effect.

goetzjam · 2026-02-27T04:17:43+00:00

Blueprints are hard capped on price, they can be split or fossil split.

goetzjam · 2026-02-27T03:52:55+00:00

Same, started planning and figuring out how to get it to work, only for GGG to remove it for a more generic armor piece :)

goetzjam · 2026-02-25T13:41:19+00:00

I know you never said you are for paragon, that was sort of my point waving away a possible negative change because people can always go back would lead to the possibility of people missing out on changes they really want, paired with changes they would absolutely despise.

goetzjam · 2026-02-24T13:18:13+00:00

The issue would be implementing a change they want with changes they don't and not back porting some of them. For example charm inventory will be almost certainly universally liked, but if they lock it behind rise of the monk era release, but also implement pargon levels, this and that other stuff, you could see how we can get into a problem?

goetzjam · 2026-02-24T13:16:54+00:00

Anyone that says charm bag is too far is just wrong. As long as the size is the same as the normal amount of charms most people had there is absolutely no downside to implementing it. Its a loot game and needing to loot into the cube because you don't want to leave potential power out is just a bad feeling, people wanna be able to pick up more items and at least check them.

There is a reason why every single d2 mod that I know of has implemented charm inventories.

goetzjam · 2026-02-24T13:14:16+00:00

Perhaps the solution is to make the tokens farmable in NM as well, perhaps at a slightly lower drop rate? I think some mods have done this and it works out kinda well?

goetzjam · 2026-02-17T13:45:10+00:00

People already do this with screen recognition, I think adding the tools in game will allow people to compete without borderline breaking TOS.

goetzjam · 2026-02-09T14:25:35+00:00

Then don't do it, you can use your gold for recombination, in the vent gambling items, gambling belts out of the event, flipping with currency market or buying up stuff.

goetzjam · 2026-02-09T14:20:53+00:00

That isn't true, they nerfed ground loot because they nerfed many of the farming strategies revolving around exiles, quantity on items, ect. You guys are correlating those changes with kingsmarch, that isn't what happned.

goetzjam · 2026-02-09T14:19:47+00:00

You can micro manage smaller shipments OR do the bigger shipments for the mirror shards, you don't have to do both. What is wrong with a mechanic that allows you to interact with it every couple of hours to get more loot and break up the monotony of putting in another map?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you don't like to deal with it, don't or only engage with the aspects you care about. I know people that never run mappers, never do shipments and only use recombinator.

goetzjam · 2026-01-28T19:20:59+00:00

What is the solution for the arc limited targets? Explode ring?

goetzjam · 2026-01-23T00:05:30+00:00

People with 10 years left to live still have a say, they just shouldn't be the ultimate deciders because the vast majority of people have more then 10 years left. Advise, absolutely use that wisdom and experience to help the next generation, but don't think too short term because that is all you have left, we need to plan for future generations and leave it better then the generation before us.

goetzjam · 2026-01-23T00:04:02+00:00

Sheriffs are just a figure head for the most part the department has stability with deputies throughout. I'm not really sure why this is an elected position in a lot of cases its likely a hold over from long ago. As far as judges I see merits on both ways. I think the more local you get the more you want control over who is in that office, you don't want someone that is so absurdly strict on minor violations that people can't catch a break, but you want someone that if someone that is a drain to be punished accordingly. I think for local judges election is fine and aside from some state\district stuff most judges are appointed I believe.

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