The shields of the bosses

[Kulze]

@Scipo0419

You can insult my intelligence all you want,

I don’t, I criticise your ability to comprehend and read. Which has nothing to do with your intelligence.
If your reading comprehension and pattern recognition isn’t enough then the obvious outcome is misconceptions.

I actually wanted to answer in more detail but then I read this:

@Scipo0419

when the developers themselves have told us what it’s meant to do says more about you than me.

Followed by:

@EHG_Kain

The goals of this are the same as the DDR system: that bosses are given a better opportunity to exist and fight back without punishing lower DPS builds that already get this experience.

Bolded even. So I would’ve expected to read and comprehend it at that time.

Can you read? If yes then you can’t comprehend.

@EHG_Kain

without punishing lower DPS builds that already get this experience.

I ask again.

Can. You. Read?

@TyphonBaan

No, I definitely can’t say I loved every PoE seasonal gimmick. I definitely can say that I really appreciate them as a company saying, “we’re going to try weird shit, it’s not always going to work”. I love that about GGG.

Agreed!
I’m not mad at them for ‘trying out new things’.
But GGG sure as hell also heard from me ‘Well, that went like shit, definitely don’t even think about doing that’.

7 years long I’ve called out for asynchronous currency trading, I was ridiculed, talked down upon by the community.
And 3.25 comes around, asynchronous currency trading comes in and now everyone’s going ‘It’s the greatest thing in the world!’
I also got ridiculed for saying that end-game needs player-agency from start to finish when the prophecy and sextant mechanic were there, as well as all side-mechanics being fully random and enforced upon the player.
Then they added the atlas passive tree and everyone went ‘such a great invention!’ as well as the re-work to put all the leftover situations into the scarabs and once again ‘Oh wow, GGG did such a fantastic thing!’.

Yeah, screw that, same shit here. No difference.

I called out campaign progression and perception of progression (Lagon, monolith to empowered monolith, difficulty and gradual rise of it), the loot-drop calculation, the 2/2 affix split on items, Boss Ward and long-term versus cycle-term grinding goal (Blessings are cycle-term for example).

I got talked down here for all of those, nobody sees it.
EHG will likely come around in 2-3 years, fix that stuff upon - finally - realizing it’s become so bad that it negatively affects their game since years (did the first second it appeared but now only the most inept people can ignore it) and then change it… and voila, every time the game will get a sudden general rise in retention.

@TyphonBaan

… that’s a bit dishonest, actually. Players love huge numbers. So, we’re complicit in this issue.

Yes, absolutely.
Going all ‘pikachu face’ because people push and use the methods given is baffling. It’s to be expected. You don’t ‘reign that in’, never do. You see where it comes from and address the root cause, not the direct symptom. This allows people to still push huge numbers, enjoy the outcome but not affect them directly in a negative way.