Polantaris Wrote:The majority of replies to that article ask for an in-game button to switch between two sets quickly. It was there in D2(might have just been weapons in D2, I don't remember), and it's there in plenty of other similar games. It has more use than JUST MF switching, so it makes no sense that it wouldn't be there in the first place. Outside of requesting this feature, I'm not exactly sure what people can complain about regarding MF sets. "People are trying to lessen the grind! Lemme try to get that removed because I didn't think of it first!"

happylight Wrote:Except the best way to farm is not swapping. You take a very large risk of dying when you swap plus a third of your inventory is taken up by gears. The best way would be to have MF on your regular gear that way they're in effect even when you kill regular mobs.

In any case I don't think any of the their offered options will discourage swapping. For options 1-3, swapping will still be better than no swapping. Option 4 destroys anyone who swaps different gear for different mobs. Option 5 is most workable however as it is right now 5 stack NV is only barely better than swapping to max MF set with no NV. People will just resort to farming a single easy elite/goblin with swapping rather than clearing a whole act with 5 stack.

That's just what I think anyway. They probably won't change anything 'cause that thread is filled overwhelmingly with "NO DONT CHANGE!!!!1."

Dusk Wrote:It was just weapons in D2 (and in most games).

That "solution" just makes the problem worse. MF becomes a complete waste of an affix on regular gear, because you're going to switch to your MF set anyway. And it's still really gimmicky and not fun to have to swap gear every time you kill something.

Polantaris Wrote:So the solution is to completely trash MF and/or your options (Like switching gear because you found something new = losing NV) because some people don't the concept of switching out gear? Gear Swapping has been around for ages, and to punish people for using it is ludicrous.

And what about the people who use multiple armor sets for other reasons than MF? They should get punished because they have multiple equipment sets for various scenarios in an already insanely difficult difficulty? Let's punish them for using some strategy.

Polantaris Wrote:So the solution is to completely trash MF and/or your options (Like switching gear because you found something new = losing NV) because some people don't like the concept of switching out gear? Gear Swapping has been around for ages, and to punish people for using it is ludicrous.

And what about the people who use multiple armor sets for other reasons than MF? They should get punished because they have multiple equipment sets for various scenarios in an already insanely difficult difficulty? Let's punish them for using some strategy.

Quote:The first of many developer blogs has just been posted! Check below for a quick bullet point recap. However I strongly suggest checking over the full post! Patch 1.0.4 is currently targeted for the fourth week in August.

• Magic find and gold find will no longer be averaged in multiplayer games.
  
• Monster health will now be a flat increase of 75% health (per player), regardless of the difficulty in multiplayer.
  
• No more enrage timers on elites.
  
• Elites will no longer heal to full health
  
• They are increasing the health of normal monsters (but increasing the drop of magic or rare items by a factor of four), and lowering the health of champions and rares to shrink the gap between them.
  
• They are adjusting fire chains and shielding, and REMOVING Invulnerable Minions.
  
• They want to make all items that drop be good, however this is not something they can fully do in 1.0.4. However weapons of ilvl 61 and 62 can now roll damage that extends all the way to top ilvl 63 weapons
  
• To help with the dual-wielding and two-handers, they will be adding a new set of stronger affixes
  
• Reducing repair costs of high-end items by 25%
  
• Legendary changes will have its own blog post
  
• MANY more blogs to come covering the buffing of unused skills, and big improvements to wd pets.
  

Quote:Fire Chains and Shielding were only provided as examples. We looked at every affix and have made adjustments to more than just those two. For example, we're giving players a temporary immunity to Fear after they've been Feared by a Nightmarish monster.

Keep in mind that the systems preview is more about explaining why these kinds of changes are being made, rather than detailing everything out line-by-line. (That's ultimately what patch notes are for.)

Quote:Just to clarify, we aren't making any changes to the chance that an item will drop. Instead, we're changing the quality of that item when it drops. And when we say we're increasing the likelihood that non-Elite monsters will drop magical items "by a factor of four," it means that those monsters should drop 4 times (or "4x") the amount of magical items as they do now.

So, for example, if doing a full clear of an area currently yields 500 items from non-Elites, it will still yield 500 items after 1.0.4. Whereas you may have only gotten 20 Magic (blue) items and 4 Rare (yellow) item from those non-Elites before, you’ll now get approximately 80 Magic items and 16 Rares.

hadriel Wrote:Helps with the brick wall, but starts to make players avoid the Elites entirely if they can't handle them.

Hadriel

IllegallySane Wrote:In before instead of elite farming it's now mob farming.