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Sev- Haha, this is great! Nerf Mortal Fear fully for all those people who put in grind to acquire them. Once again punishing every one because people duped. Besides, this is just a way for the new team to put a desire on epic greensteel(bet it will work in Reaper). Awesome. It's like the new dev team sits around asking "hey, how can we make our ideas seem good? I know! Nerf everything good so our shit seems less ugly!"


And wtf is up with now renaming Reaper into "Legendary". They decided ripping off Diablo names and ideas is alright if they change the name because most of the forums users never played other games and are too busy smoking cocks to know it.

This is not great.

Rubbinns wrote on Oct 27^th, 2015 at 7:33pm:


I had this feeling when they released champions. You know what is missing? A fucking gambler npc

Piss in x AS (10, 20, 30?) and you get a chance at a random named item or a higher probability to get one in the chest

So let's try to recollect things:
Some stuff happened, they removed autoscaling from EE making them more difficult, they nerfed out toons.
Now they want to assfuck us with a new mode called legendary without letting us use our toys right?

They still don't realize that if players can overcome the greatest challenges the game has to offer they should make worthy ones instead of rolling back toons and preventing the use of hardly farmed gear. Muppets

Rubbinns wrote on Oct 27^th, 2015 at 7:33pm:



Still waiting for this muppet to be re-purposed.......
He needs to go before any more of his decisions affect the game.

Neutralizing TF is just spiteful and stupid.
Sure some was duped, but A LOT of players ground the crap out of those raids to get their gear too.

If Mortal fear is "over performing" (TM) - why wait till now to address it?
Their fear is that Mortal fear as implemented will trivialize Reaper difficulty.  And there only default soln is to quintuple HP of mobs.

A smarter approach would be to say that Mortal fear will be less effective in Reaper, but will still provide a benefit.
Then you can do some testing to find out whether a HP redn of 10-50% is where you're comfortable with, or make it proc less in Reaper.
The idea is that you adjust it and not nerf the crap out of it.

It does very much look like a way to drive people to GS2 gear or Legendary weapons. 

It saddens me to think what these muppets will do with legendary/sentient weapons.  Their idea of end game weapons are undead focussed weapons with abilities that don't affect undead.
They will frack it up so bad as to be completely useless or unbalanced.

Le sigh.

Can we get FoS back?

(Just kidding. Nothing could make me wish for that.)

Asheras wrote on Oct 27^th, 2015 at 9:17pm:


Very true, I have and use GS on several end game toons still, and will into the foreseeable future.

Asheras wrote on Oct 27^th, 2015 at 9:17pm:


Exactly why it will happen.   
Can't say I've seen too many sensible choices since Sev arrived.

My primary observation is that Sev & the team are too focussed on the "system" and have a tin ear/blind spot to the actual player experience.
This is evident in releasing enhancement trees with stupid filler - like someone thinks having half the boxes filled with something is better than nothing.  Also in the loot design - this is quite shameful at the lack of game understanding and appreciation for what players want balanced with what they already have.  I agree that loot should never be a clear best in slot - it should actually make choices tough and allow you to customise to what suits you. not the latest FOTM build.  But this requires a plan that spans multiple updates and avoids making prior loot redundant (especially if only just released in last 12 months).

This really leads me back to hubris.  The prevailing perception of their approach is "we're trained, we know more than the stupid players".
I'm sure they do know more than most players on coding, but unless they've been playing since 2006, they can't possibly know more about the game and its history.

All I can say to this after a long day is: Fuck'em!!!  They have no idea what the hell they are doing.  Asshats.

To be fair, the nerf to crushing blow (Mortal Fear) is also a Diablo ripoff.

Since Bliz spends kazillions figuring things out and correcting mistakes, its not a bad idea to learn from them.

http://www.diablowiki.net/Crushing_Blow

"Crushing Blow was present in Diablo 3 during the Reaper of Souls beta test, but was removed during testing as the developers concluded (probably correctly) that it was overpowered. No matter how low the % chance for it to trigger, it was so powerful against big enemies that every character would have geared up for it. A Hard cap were suggested by players, but that too was rejected by the developers as an adequate way to integrate the powerful modifier into the game."

I sold my all resist legacy nats set for the price of the game and stopped playing for years when they nerfed Tank DH.

To be fair, it is a great free game now that it is polished, well, if it ended up being free for you.


For MF, everyone knew MF was OP and was going to be nerfed before it was even released on live. It was intentionally released OP to make up for non-shiradi arcanes sucking. Turbine should have learned from Bliz and never released it in the first place.

DropBear wrote on Oct 28^th, 2015 at 4:40am:


sounds fun if you have enough amyl poppers.

This is why DC casters suck in epics.  Whats the point in having 90+ DCs when most trash after 24 has blanket deathward and FoM?  Now you can bet everything in reaper will have deathward, FoM, nightshield, and 150% fort.  It makes sense, since we all have it, of course mobs will too.  But it just makes playing a caster such a pain in the ass and now they're gonna nerf all the shiny weapons too.  What's the point of playing at that point?

i like how each and every last faggot that thinks mortal fear is important was also posting in the DPS threads; learn to ddo niggers: mortal fear has nothing to do with it!