[2.0] The Runewords Overhaul

The other thing is that the documentation tends to take a few days to get released after a patch. With all these changes to rws I hope they're planning to get the docs out with the patch - preferably with the patch notes.

Otherwise, how are players supposed to know what the new runewords are? We'll be flying blind. All the low-level rws will be gone and we will just be guessing what might be a rw.

Captcha wrote:The other thing is that the documentation tends to take a few days to get released after a patch. With all these changes to rws I hope they're planning to get the docs out with the patch - preferably with the patch notes.

Otherwise, how are players supposed to know what the new runewords are? We'll be flying blind. All the low-level rws will be gone and we will just be guessing what might be a rw.

We had docs for the beta, so they will probably be available when patch notes arrive or before the launch.

magz_ wrote:This was an extremely bad idea. I'm unsure what you guys were thinking. Oils being nerfed is a big slap in the face for no reason, and the e runes being world drop is horrible.

Oils that get you superior + lucky bonus first time and max sockets instead of spamming 60 times for a decent roll, classic "nerf"

Not being able to downgrade runes kind of sucks but Ol-Xod being world drop is the same as now with Sha-On runes, just more and with different stats... it's not all good or all bad.

Captcha wrote:The other thing is that the documentation tends to take a few days to get released after a patch. With all these changes to rws I hope they're planning to get the docs out with the patch - preferably with the patch notes.

Otherwise, how are players supposed to know what the new runewords are? We'll be flying blind. All the low-level rws will be gone and we will just be guessing what might be a rw.

haven't docs been 2 days before patch ever since sigma started, or am I just forgetting...?

Siosilvar wrote:haven't docs been 2 days before patch ever since sigma started, or am I just forgetting...?

Patch notes 2 days before, docs were after release.

But it's been a while since I needed to check the docs on day one of a patch, so they may have got faster, dunno. With all these changes to rws etc I'd be looking there early on to see what levelling rws there are now.

Captcha wrote:
Siosilvar wrote:haven't docs been 2 days before patch ever since sigma started, or am I just forgetting...?

Patch notes 2 days before, docs were after release.

But it's been a while since I needed to check the docs on day one of a patch, so they may have got faster, dunno. With all these changes to rws etc I'd be looking there early on to see what levelling rws there are now.

Ahh okay, I see what you mean now. Yeah I hope we get the full docs updated today too, or at least day 1 right before launch

I have browsed through new runeword list just now. Honestly felt disapointed overall.
Reason - huge lvl gaps between most of the item types (few exeptions like gloves, body or staves) and it gives no option between lvls 1x up to 7x. Is it expected just to use low lvl runewords and get to act 3 > farm Mephisto for arcane shards and abandone runewords up to end of nighmare ?

Pretty much. No point in overlapping as it just creates more items competing at the same progression level of which only 1 will be best and rest will be useless.

So RWs are mostly for: pre TUs, between TU and obtaining your set/SUs, replacements for SUs for builds which didn't have any.

Why was rune downgrading removed?

Probably because if would you find one highest rune Xod, you basically can have any rune in thousands, as they would just keep duplicating into insane numbers. Just 10 runes lower gets you 2^9 = 512 runes. Downgrading to Ol would give 2^32 of these which is, well a fuckton of runes

, so probably that's why