But what about cold storm bolts ? Are they working as intented ? 'Cause i don’t see them procing from any sources . But yes, fixing overperforming broken builds first .
This thread should be a mandatory read regarding the topic of pop culture, consumer entitlement, and the need for strong objective thinking if you’re a game designer reading ‘feedback.’ Truly ‘enlightening’ to read.
Overperforming bugs should be fixed.
Underperforing bugs should be fixed.
All bugs should be fixed.
I don’t give a rat’s pahtootie when they get fixed, though i will say the sooner the better.
it’d be awesome if they could get fixed the moment they’re discovered but only someone living in a fantasy world would get their knickers in a twist if that does’t happen.
Keep up the great work EHG.
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i built a self made Shaman because i’ve been looking forward to some changes to it for a couple of years now. My build is based all around proccing Storm Bolts and I have lightning going off all over my screen.
What are you using to proc them that you think isn’t working?
Why do you keep quoting me trying to manipulate what I’ve written?
I never said new players should have no voice. Only the entitled spoiled ones. The ones trying to ad-hominem the discussion after not having playing the game for more than a month.
Again, you quoted me when I was replying to someone else, and tried to manipulate my words… Both times my comment was specifically directed to the other guy whose only valid argument is saying what level people are now, which is not exactly a valid argument, but it’s at least correct.
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Tornado and maelstrom. With ‘Frostbringer’ node in Gathering storm skill tree they’re not showing.
Yes, the lord of truth has spoken people, you should listen sarcasm
In the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi: “Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”
While the sentiment of your statement is true (Don’t confuse the truth with the opinion of the majority - Jean Cocteau), it doesn’t apply here.
There is no objective right or wrong, it boils down to subjective preferences. There are pros and cons for mid-season bug-fixes or balance changes.
Decisions were made, some like it, some hate it.
Your genuflection is acceptable. I appreciate the promotion.
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Ah so your converting it. I tested tornado and maelstrom alot but didn’t do a full cold conversion of it. It will change the visual and if you’ve tested and your not seeing little hits everywhere then you’re right it might be bugged. Are you generating enough storm stacks etc? Did you file a bug report about it?
I just reskilled my druid and tested the interaction with Gathering Storm’s Frostbringer and Maelstorm’s Power of the Storm.
Frostbringer changes the lightning from the sky to a much less visible ice spike from the ground.
I let all my storm-stacks run out and then build maelstrom stacks - the ice spikes from the ground appeared, so it works for me.
I specialized in Tornado. Ice spikes appear, works.
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Yep, good luck playing the game where bug is everywhere, and your build might suddenly become shit because some landmine in under the table that you have completely no aware of exist.
“Slippery slope” hogwash. I don’t believe you’re making this argument from a position of good faith. Tell me: what is the threshold of change in a build’s power due to bug correction in order for that build to go from “good” to “become shit”? Is it going from broken and doing 1000 corruption down to “only” 500 corruption? Is it going from doing 1000 corruption with trash gear to 1000 corruption only possible with BiS gear?
No one said it is balanced. It is a S tier build, obviously it is not “balanced”, considering this game is highly unbalanced that most build can’t even get past 300 corruption.
Who ever said most builds are supposed to be able to? Youtubers? I’m pretty sure I saw EHG define somewhere that 300 corruption was the target for average builds. Just because some exploiters got up to 2000+ doesn’t mean that most builds should be that way.
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It’s sort of ironic though. Complaining that they shouldn’t be listening to feedback or polls designed specifically to help them aim their sights on the next changes to be made to the game in a way that implies you’d now want them to listen to you and others like you to revert changes or instead not make changes based on your feedback and reaction to what they decided to do. You’re no better, you’re just on the other end of the argument, wanting the same thing from the devs that we do, our feedback and wants to be heard and responded to with or without changes.
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“The devs shouldn’t listen to the feedback they solicited, they should listen to me instead because only my stance is correct” is an opinion that’s all over this thread.
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Sadge. New age of gamers barely want to build their own builds. Just yoink it from some1 and buy gear via bazaar. Oh yeah and dont forget to buy gold
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Instead, it is ironic that you are unable to understand a very simple concept.
Not all bugs are obvious, and if they are suddenly discovered and fixed, players who have invested hundreds of hours in their characters are penalized for a shortcoming of the developers. How do you think a person would feel seeing their efforts thwarted? This is a blatant INJUSTICE.
Each league has a duration of how many months? 3? 4? More than that? The developers have this LONG time frame to prepare the next league based on feedback received in the current one. If the development team is COMPETENT they must do EVERYTHING they can to ensure the best outcome within their means until release and no later.
Each league has its own unbalanced builds, and that’s the beauty of the isolated bubble that each league creates.
Otherwise you just get a bland game with constant balancing updates and a periodic release of updates that you would like to call “CYCLE” but which has nothing of a cycle because classes and skills are balanced every week and the sense of freshness and substantial change is lost. In the meantime you have done nothing but displease small slices of players, slice after slice until only those who like to do 2 builds a week are left.
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why so many people crying? “EHG you broke my build!” just respec it. also they aren’t touching the damage just the radius, and before I start hearing you know nothing about the build… I am actually playing this build and played the bugged warlock build and plan to respec both soon. If you want to try and make the devs feel bad by saying you quit, so be it then quit but remember you already bought the game.
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All of this about “INJUSTICE.” We aren’t talking about someone offing your dog, this is a video game where bugs happen and bugs get fixed. Regardless of who or how many people responded to their poll about fixing bugs that make builds stronger, the fact of the matter is they got an answer and are rolling with the information they were given and asked specifically for. Stop acting like it’s the end of the world, or at most the end of the game. Last Epoch isn’t even the only game in the genre that does this, balancing mid-patch. This isn’t a new phenomenon, and if it didn’t kill other games, it won’t kill this one. You can be upset, your feelings are valid, but you seem to think your feelings mean their decisions need to align with yours, that isn’t how it works.
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Your entire premise is intellectually dishonest. This is a build that can one-shot packs beyond visual range with impunity. The skill tooltip also clearly states that it increases the area. Simple geometry tells us that a multiplier against the area of a circle is going to result in a much smaller size increase than the same multiplier applied to the radius of that circle. Other area skills have ways to get % increases to their area that don’t scale to the entire screen, much less past it. My Elemental Nova has 700% increased area and doesn’t even cover the whole screen. Max Armed Construction gives 4% increased area per dexterity. Even if I assume an unreasonable 200 dexterity character, that’s an 800% area increase. Not enough for the skill to go the whole screen, but somehow it’s scaling beyond that.
But perhaps you can explain how that’s not obvious.
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read the whole thread and you can find an answer to your mathematical argument. If the balancing is your concern, nobody told that the build is balanced.
It’s not the end of the world, i’m just debating in a forum. If you are bored of the conversation just leave the thread.