While I am sad to see ebug go away as it did not overly break the game, rares have their place and can be some of the most valuable pieces in the game if you know what you are looking for.
Yea, hahaha, i laughed too. Defense is only so good. And a few point variated difference… Experience level detected.
At any rate, yes, it was a bug. IMO, they should have left it alone. This ‘bug’ created a chase item, for the l33t item peoples. It added literally no issues to balance, in fact, for the most part is only useful for a merc, and lets face it, mercs can use all the help they can get in this game.
It just humors me, that they actively squashed bugs that aided players, and seemingly, left all the ones that hindered us.
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Agreed, make it a part of the game. It really does not break anything, but adds one more mechanic that adds value to something that would otherwise be useless.
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Sure fixed this bug, but who cares right, all the while everyone is sitting with ===
425 players in queue ahead of you, please hit escape to play offline.
No no dont fix that one, right ?? never fix the queue waiting bug, we love that one, eth armour bug who cares delete it that bug got nothin better to do right ?
fix the dam queue system and disconnects 1st dammit, dont care about a armour boost bug for mercs, not high on priority list, but he blizz has their priorities in check always right ??
Not to mention the bazillion botters in every lobby they wont BAN, which means ==
Your next in queue is 725 now please wait forever. Botters that dont even legit play, they just log in to spam everyone, so you cant have a log in spot to play. screw that mess, blizz.
Ban the dam botters taking up all my log in queue wait time space. THey queue 1000s of bots, but single player me just wants to enjoy the game, cant. Blizz allows scamer botters before legit players in queue all day long.
who do you think is holding up the database reloads causing the lag, all the dam spam botters loging in and out 24/7 = WHILE YOU WAIT IN QUEUE
i dont miss ebug but i miss str bugging.
felt good min maxing with it in mind. now it feels less… deep i guess
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I don’t know. I guess the thing is, that some people enjoy perfect GG etc. The Ebug is a well know, staple part of the old game at this point, kind of a ‘chase item’. In my opinion, i don’t feel it truly caused balance issues, or problems in any way with the game, but actually, created one more item to collect for the die-hards who live by the ‘perfect defense’ rolls on particular bases.
I’m very disappointed that they removed it, and let this product out with so many “new issues” shall we say. >.< But at the end of the day, Blizzard is not about games. The developers they hire are… but ‘Blizzard’ is nothing more than a name, that a few rich guys n gals… well. Blizzard is a machine.
I’ll live with out it though. That’s all.
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bEcaUSe iTs A bUg… okay so why didn’t they fix the Tomb Viper bug in Halls of Vaught? Seems a bit cheap to fix a bug that could help us (literally only helps mercs and no one else considering it’s eth armor) but they keep the ones that are so broken it insta-kills… pretty crap logic honestly. They advertised they were keeping the game to the original as much as possible and now this.
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Old thread, but yeah, it sucks that they removed this.
Just removed complexity and enjoyment from gearing, absolutely no net gain either.
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Is a bug, they solved. Mercs can survive really fine if folks doesn’t use them as stat stick instead of gear them as supposed.
My amazon, barb and paladin never had any issue with their merc. None of them used neither eth neither bugged exploit to survive, because they don’t need eventually some of them got variants of their items as eth but they were fine prior to it.
Give them enough resist and lifesteal that they would be fine. Instead of min max, just improve them with decent gear towards their weakness which are resist, defense and physical reduction.
If def wasn’t a “good thing” folks wouldn’t complaint about it. Is not perfect but helps a lot on their survival, because one less hit taken even if the odds are 5-15% is the difference between being alive or not.
Folks want def on them, but a few use defiance aura merc or rw who provides that, but also neither improves their max res with things like guadian angel against elemental damage.
Merc doesn’t need much to survive, but you need to invest on gear towards them not towards you.
When folks use them as reliable symbiotic hireling instead of stat stick, would relalize that they can even manage to tank and kill most foes, sometimes even act bosses. Without the need of eth stuff.
How many folks have hirelings that can kill trav councils, survive to mep and being able to sustain most of the baal waves? The only sole exception is the baal’s minions because the stunlock, but if you provide help they can manage to survive.
This game is simple and straightforward. If you go full damage you will suffer against who are strong against you or survive your glass cannon build, if you go with huge survivability will only take more time to do the task. One provides risk, while the other you would spend more time. Folks often opt for the first the same goes for farming.
Is not a rocket science, just reality of folks doesn’t caring about hirelings at all. Just want them to be a stat stick instead of something like a ally.
That’s why folks doesn’t like the removal of eth bug, if didn’t provided advantage or benefit folks wouldn’t bother. But again, this thread always “ressurect”. Either you like or not, neither the player neither the merc really needs eth gear to survive any content, but a few would “handle” the burden of choose playing that kind of style towards survivability instead of glass cannon.
Feel free to disagree, but is more easier to my glass cannon character die than my merc die if I build him properly. A friend of mine plays sorc and his merc almost never dies neither on trav, meph or chaos runs.
But again, his merc is geared towards defense and even him knows that he chose particular aura to be a risk as trade-off of his lazyness. He knows that his merc would die even less often than right now, but the commodity of having his current one satisfies him.
Is about choice and accept the consequence of that choice. If you choose survival they will survive, if not eventually they will die.
Each gear on merc towards survival makes you take more time to kill foes, that’s the simpliest rule in this game. That’s why folks complaint about it, because without it either their merc will die because they’re stat stick or you will lose some precious damage on the table.
Infinity and insight is just a few of several examples of that.
i feel dumber now. Why’d u do that to me?
your way over complicating and talking about things nobody uses like defiance aura. idk where to start with this wall of crazy
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If high defense isn’t important to you then why are you upset that this bug was fixed?
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Because it is a really bad bug and must be fixed.
Incredible how much bugusers diablo 2 have… Terrible.
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It didnt became as feature. It was bug which was abused and fixed in D2R.
Yes it does, thats why it was used in the first place.
One of those beneficial bugs that they said they weren’t going to fix but decided to fix anyway, go figure, right?
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no it didn’t. eth armor is still way stronger for use on your merc, or if it’s something with the indestructible tag.
stronger than what? normal, magical and rares? sure. but not than the unique target items for merc that can drop in nightmare. shaftstop and rockstopper are WAY stronger and can already drop from nm mephisto (which is a piece of cake with blizzard cheesing, even with no gear)
not being able to kill the cow king was also a bug. are you okay with that being fixed?
A bug that is bad and affects the player negativity, people whine and complain till its fixed.
A bug that is good and affects the player positively, people whine and complain WHEN its fixed.
Take what was fun and left raw game to stress for no reason. When loader? or i must buy 8 copys to play like before? ppl on fist day have enigma and make game " n ik belt o jah. "
Glad it fixed error when full game. i Hope it repair more in future. I just sad they always take what is good and dont see harder problems…
You’re just complaining to complain. Bugs are just screw ups in the code that shouldn’t be there and Devs and QA are hired to remove bugs. All this particular bug did was drive prices up for trash items and negated the worth of items that should’ve been used for Runewords.
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