06-07-2012, 12:37 AM
To be honest, I think they are making gem upgrades WAY too cheap now. I found Square a little over-priced, and Perfect Square WAY over-priced, but those below were fine. At those prices, they may as well bring back the Horadric Cube and make them free! Two gems for an upgrade seems needless too; I have no shortage of gems to upgrade, just cash to upgrade them with (I have three or four dozen Square gems of every colour because I cannot afford to upgrade them).
The `fixes' to drops do not seem right either. They are only `fixing' Inferno, and they are only making a token improvement. There is absolutely no reason why ilvl30-odd items should drop in Hell; ilvl40-odd should not drop past Act I. From these changes, the overwhelming majority of drops in Inferno will still be FAR below an acceptable ilvl. You already have bad odds of getting the item base-type you want, followed by the modifiers you want, followed by the magnitudes you want: they do not need to artificially soil the water by making the majority of items automatically useless. People would still use the Action House to get perfect equipment, even if the drops were consistently rock solid.
The `fixes' to drops do not seem right either. They are only `fixing' Inferno, and they are only making a token improvement. There is absolutely no reason why ilvl30-odd items should drop in Hell; ilvl40-odd should not drop past Act I. From these changes, the overwhelming majority of drops in Inferno will still be FAR below an acceptable ilvl. You already have bad odds of getting the item base-type you want, followed by the modifiers you want, followed by the magnitudes you want: they do not need to artificially soil the water by making the majority of items automatically useless. People would still use the Action House to get perfect equipment, even if the drops were consistently rock solid.
May the wind pick up your heels and your sword strike true.