Vennnn wrote:Can anyone explain to me why characters with BiS endgame gear should not be able to trivialize boss fights? You see it in every ARPG ever - full geared D2 char could destroy anything by looking at it, same goes for PoE (people reaching 11mil dps, when the boss has 50 mil life). That is where the fun lies - you grind, you get rewarded.
Making a skill which renders any damage gear irrelevant is not good game design. I could see making some bosses extremely hard, so only specific builds could do them quickly (like in PoE - there are farming builds for content and boss killers for hard bosses) - but the main point - gear and skills count, they must always count in an ARPG.
That's only my opinion ofc, im quite new to median and really enjoying this mod, but it is a bit weird seeing all these amazing character optimization possibilities and at endgame it is just... worthless. (that is an overexagerration since there are not many purify bosses, but my philosophy - with BiS gear you destroy all content in 2 secs, that is what makes ARPG's fun for me).
You are right, that's how ARPG's work. But keep in mind that some builds will be far FAR stronger than others. When you bring multyplayer in, then you have the majority playing those builds in order to gather/sell gear or just have easier time.
Complaints start, balance and point of the game gets broken and the dev is forced to destroy those said builds/classes. That is called meta change, because people jump on the next OP thing.
I play poe since 2012 to this very day, and its the same thing, from ES to berserkers, from traps to arc etc etc.
Devs of Median can't possibly cope with something like GGG and even they have constant complaints and for a reason.
Even here you can see people complain about barbs and paladins, this will escalate to hell if purify is removed. Then they nerf those two and guess what?!? nothing... they jump at the next OP thing and the only thing that is accomplished is pissing off people by destroying their class. This isn't a game that can afford to piss people up.
Balance is impossible. Im not defending purify, but i do think it should stay. All it needs is the fights that require it actually have a better usage of it. People pointed up Zorun Tzin for a reason. You have a big arena, you have traps that needs to die from purify before you hit the boss, you have adds you can choose to kite and gather to a side in order to have an easier time etc...Its actually what every purify boss should be. It can't just happen overnight though, but you can't simply remove purify.
People that want balance in ARPG probably never played one or just ignore that fact. Median made a choice which isn't a bad one, it's just not quite there yet.
Also i don't get why people (including me) bring Billion $ worth of companies that are focused on a single ARPG into a forum where a bunch of guys decided to make a mod in their spare time.
EDIT: BIS gear should annihilate everything, but some builds will perform better naked, always. What you are supposed to do with that bis gear doesn't matter. Gear your zealer all you want, a hammerdin with only a wizzardspike will be 100 times more efficient. Purify is fine, bosses that require it are the problem.