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Old 06-21-2012, 11:08 AM   #1247
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Originally Posted by SilverGS View Post
meh. You knew the OP's IAS was going to be nerfed. They are always going to "balance" things out for OP'd strats and you are going to have to adjust. If you spent a ton of money on IAS items you were kidding yourself if you figured it would never change.

No more Whym runs? ah well 5 stack elite and boss runs now which is what the designers were after anyways.

Sounds like Barbs got there fix and seem OP so be careful what you may stack since they will probably balance it at some point.

You may not have as fine control in skill tree selection as D2 but I think for casual gamers they like that.

My takes so far on the patch.

- Act 2 is now much more doable.
- Repair costs went the opposite extreme
- I feel MF should count on treasure chests but ok with it not being on clouds, vases and the like.

I recall a lot of rebalancing and complaints about D2 in the early years as well. It takes time to fine tune these games. In the meantime I am fine with levelling different chars for different play styles and doing 5 stacked valor runs with friends. Not going to worry about every little detail and just enjoy the overall play. If there is an impossible combination of elite once in a while skip and move on oh well. I still want it to be somewhat challenging especially in Inferno otherwise gets really boring.
Clouds are chests, as I see it, and should have MF. If that means you tweak something else in the zone (less clouds, clouds drop less items overall, but MF counts, etc). Making the clouds useless and dropped broken and cracked stuff in the top tier is just idiotic.

Vases and other breakables, I agree with, but I think the better solution is just not having them drop items, rather than messing with MF on them.
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