thanks. Make sure it applies to all items found retroactively.
Just seems like a simple change at this point
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They are not comparable, one is end-game gg rw and the other is an early game rw
Also, Insight can be made with bows
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Infinity being able to be made on spears is to make endgame spears useful. Some spears are quite rare (war pike for example) but they were normally just Charsi food before 2.4, and now they are very good Infinity bases
Insight on bows on the other hand is to promote Act 1 merc. She has in fact become a better choice in early games now because she is more likely to survive being a ranged char while Act 2 merc is much more fragile in early games without proper gears
So both changes have actually made sense
It is very clear you have never made a hardcore character. I don’t really need to say more because its sort of obvious why you don’t understand, but there is no reason in principle to just not make the changes consistent.
Lets just say eth 4 os lances become useful and people aren’t going to be sitting in trade games asking for a base that can’t be used for insight or wasting the runes in it. All the made up justification for preferring a1 vs a2 in the early game is basically about preference and its not like it matters - yet they bothered to change it a bit. In like 99% of the cases you still have act 2 merc dominance that’s unaffected by extending insight to bows in the end game. Its not like you can’t use a bow merc with the insight if more bases become available to an act2, but that’s not the only reason you would use these.
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You obviously don’t understand the value of 4os eth spears these days. A 15ed 4os eth war pike is easily sold at $100~$150 (way more valuable compared to any polearms like giant thresher) even though it’s just softcore, while before 2.4 it was just 35k ingame gold
And like I said, Insight on bows is good for early games. Act 2 merc is too fragile in nightmare/hell without proper gears as a melee, but Act 1 is very easy to survive. This change is very friendly to single players who don’t have the option to get grushed like most players do on battlenet
It was likely a deliberate choice by the devs not to allow Insight in spears, they probably don’t want it to be the 100% allrounder early/midgame weapon for Amazons.
Maybe we’ll see more spear runewords come out with the new ladder, or ideally buffs to uniques that include spear uniques.
I’ve played spear barb several times, and I want the OP weapon. How come only polearm barbs get the OP weapon.
Nobody is running 15 ed 4 os warpikes in hardcore and for good reason. There isn’t much to understand in softcore. Been there, done that, mercs not GM, etc.
As for game design, its just flat out bad. This game needs less arbitrary and hidden rules like hoto cannot be made in scepters despite it being a mace. That’s effectively what this discrepancy is.
As for concerns about zon balancing- u mean like them running around in titans every game?
You know what insight spearzons are in hardcore?
Dead
Do you know what HC population is compared to SC?
Dead.