Soul Taker needs a nerf

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iamstryker a écrit :

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Inexium a écrit :

Why do you care about what other players are playing/using ?

Thats the same logic people used to justify RMT in Diablo 3. Bad logic is bad.

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pneuma a écrit :

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sluz a écrit :

as they add more content (acts, stronger monsters etc) they will add more affixes, like they already did atleast once. soultaker dps wont change, but rare items will have much higher dps than now, making the drawback obvious (lack of dps). for now those kind of items are bis, but they wont stay that forever

They will not raise the power level over time. Chris has explicitly said that he hates when MMOs come out with new tiers of power and invalidate all the work that had gone into attaining the previous tier.

There will likely be new affix types, but not affixes that keep going up to ilvl100. An item that is powerful now will remain powerful in perpetuity unless it is purposefully weakened.

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fgcewoud a écrit :

It's not like melee is OP in this game. Why does melee need a nerf?

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Inexium a écrit :

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iamstryker a écrit :

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Inexium a écrit :

Why do you care about what other players are playing/using ?

Thats the same logic people used to justify RMT in Diablo 3. Bad logic is bad.

I agree that was a bad logic in D3.

But i can't compare RMAH with op items that anyone, with enough effort, could obtain them.

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iamstryker a écrit :

Anyone can just buy their stuff with real money to. Whats wrong with that? How does that affect you?

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Bozon a écrit :

It is just a beginning, I'm telling ya.

More Eternal Packs, more OP uniques getting done. Apocalypse is yet to come.

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CharanJaydemyr a écrit :

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Bozon a écrit :

It is just a beginning, I'm telling ya.

More Eternal Packs, more OP uniques getting done. Apocalypse is yet to come.

The irony is the 'designer' of Soul Taker had nothing to do with the design. He just said something like 'make it cool' and a certain dev, who shall remain unnamed but really should know better, went and made this ridiculous beast.

Plenty of Diamond/Eternal uber, silly ideas get vetoed. Plenty.

So please don't blame the Diamonds/Eternals for this. Just don't. :)

Oh, and the whole 'its dps isn't that great' argument? That might fly in WoW, but anyone who's made a halfway decent build here will tell you that dps is facile and far from the only factor to be considered.

Important, sure, but not the great measuring stick some folks make it out to be.

As stated earlier, it's not the numbers of Soul Taker that make it ridiculous; it's what it can do. You could halve the damage of Soul Taker and it'd still be a formidable piece of gear. That IAS, the chill on attack, the fact that you can keep on using your insane 200 mana cost attack until the cows come home and possibly die...

It is an embarrassing item, top to bottom. The sad thing is I know the real intentions of it and it makes me genuinely sad to see a great idea burned on a weapon that does nothing but shit on other weapons.

I have also heard, vaguely, that the person who designed Soul Taker (and I'm not talking about siffin/duolc, the Diamond supporter who funded Soul Taker) feels it's not overpowered based partly on possible future game changes.

When I heard that, all I saw was 'I'm a dev and I'm using my inside knowledge to create this thing that is overpowered now but won't be later you'll just have to trust me on that oh and tough shit to all the other diamond and eternal unique designers who don't have such foreknowledge and thus whose designs, not by ME, are going to look crap in comparison.'

Soul Taker is an embarrassment.