Grim Misadventure #176 - So the New Thing

[tqFan]

@Zantai

Many new faces are joining us, and some old ones are coming back from retirement.

Bring back Duchy as well, there are still some Primal Strike variants that don’t have a build guide!

@Zantai

These are the features we are planning to implement:

Awesome, I’m going to use them all, for example I prefer permanent Night since I play w/o shadows for FPS which looks bad during the Day.

@Zantai

Toggled buff effects will be automatically toggled on and no longer need to be on the skill bar.

I like it since it was boring for me to toggle them on on every reset or sometimes I forgot to turn them on, after nullification for example.

@Zantai

Pets will default to an Aggressive stance rather than the Normal stance. This setting can still be toggled on a pet by pet basis as desired

Preferred default behavior by me and I suspect most other players as well.

@Zantai

v1.2

I’ll have to reformat the Beginner Compendium since X.Y.Z.U are shortened to Z.U there and X.Y is assumed to be 1.1

@Res

Toggled skills with energy costs will have those costs removed. - What? Why?

My guess is it could potentially cause a situation where a beginner player has all their Energy drained by Enery cost/s which makes the character unplayable unless you respec or use Energy pot Because now at least the buffs toggles off and you can play w/o it till you fix your Energy management.

@Res

Nerfing arcanes - this may turn a memorable, rage- and confusion-inducing mechanic into an unnoticeable quirk, that’s not worth avoiding.

Well the main challenge of Nullfication is that you die instantly not toggling your buffs back imo.

@Gaurhoth

Speaking of conversion, it would be nice if elemental and individual elemental conversion stacked. So if I have 50% elemental → vitality and 50% fire → vitality, it should result in 100% fire → vitality.

I won’t let you terk er jerbs of explaining this weirdness to new players!

@RektbyProtoss

I agree with this. I think most of the droprates for MIs for bosses felt very fair in 1.1.9.8 and their rates are usually well balanced around the fact how long the run to the boss is and how difficult the boss itself is to kill. Making all have their MIs drop 100% unnecessarily skews this balance imo.

I know it’s more complicated but I have to ask - if greens droprates are balanced then why have you made crafting affixes on greens possible in the League

@Wonky

It also reduces the need to leave the game and google where something comes from if you’ve seen it drop.

Great point and this would improve the experience a lot for new players. However this could be theoretically solved by

@Gumshoe

I think on the MI 100% drops, I would like it to be possible to 100% drop the first time, then work as it currently does afterwards (tweaking for the poor performers like Gollus, Gutworm etc.

but might be hard technically.

@MergosWetNurse

I know I’m beating a dead horse, again…, but more stash space would rly be awesome to have!

Little stash space is my main issue / a deal breaker with Diablo series where I usually don’t have 3rd party solutions for that

@Zantai

MOAR

I’d like to propose a feature

• a toggle in Options that makes various appropriate skills have Force Move (aka no red monster highlight with target lock) by default, for example

  • Vire’s Might
  • Forcewave
  • Phantasmal Blades
  • Flames of Ignaffar

It would enable to charge through enemies with VM easier for skater builds. Easier to send Forcewave in between 2 zombies to catch them both without having to hold the Force Move button. This is especially valid if you play on a controller since then you cannot even target empty space beyond the monsters.

Forcewave could be always cast according to your character rotation imo and now when I’m leveling spam Phantasmal Blades with Mouse and Keyboard, it does work much better for me with Force Move as well. I’m able to hit more enemies with a single shot on average when I have more control over the direction in which I’m shooting.

This might sound exotic but related threads / messages do come up from time to time on the forum / discord or even mentioned in guides.

@MysteryMeat

Against enemies with large hitboxes, you may often find yourself running into them instead of through them, which deals significantly less damage as they won’t be hit by the fire trail from Volcanic Stride. In this case, you can hold down the Force Move key while using Vire’s Might to disable direct targeting, which will allow you to control your movement better.

You can also “toggle” Force Move by binding it to a numpad key and turning off Num Lock, or by binding it to Alt and using Alt-Tab on Windows. Note that you won’t be able to interact with doors and chests while in Force Move mode, so you should experiment with the keybindings and find a setup that’s comfortable to play with.

You can read in this popular Skater guide that its author, an expert on Vire’s Might thought of / tried having Force Move toggled permanently.