Casual player here with a mechanical question about attack power. Just before the new season started, I was consistently clearing T100 dungeons with my fully upgraded legacy items. I then found seemingly better items with greater affixes, and decided to replace, and unfortunately, salvage, my old gear. I now am unable to complete legacy T100 nightmare dungeons, and dying to the pit guardian at T47 despite an attack power improvement of ~30%. The new items are obviously not fully masterworked, but I find it strange that I have apparently made myself weaker when the stat summary shows otherwise and the legendary attributes on the items remain the same. Did I ruin synergies that aren’t reflected in attack power?
im not quite sure about the exact scaling, but just judging from my feeling id say t47 is quite a bit harder than a t100 dungeon.
Of course it became a little harder to obtain damage reduction. You should pay attention to your paragon board, or uniques that offers this for you. Thats also assuming you are dodging the boss abilities that appear in the guardian fight.
dont listen to that stat. go hit some stuff with both things if in doubt.
one of my weapons lowered my attack power from 38k to 36.1k but it’s definitely killing things quicker.
very useless number. i guess they put it as a bit of a guideline but whats the point if it keeps lying.
very fair point. attack power is kind of a weird stat indeed, and im pretty sure some things dont get taken into account in that number.
Thanks so much for the response! It’s not so much the pit that concerns me as it is a relatively new game feature (for me). I wouldn’t be overly alarmed if I struggled, say, in a T1 pit because there is nothing for me to compare this to. My experience in the nightmare dungeons, however, was jarring. I don’t remember having to rely on potions too much previously, but now I am practically dying to the first elite mob I encounter.
My board is unchanged and I’m still using legacy, upgraded uniques.
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yea you should work on changing that asap. also, im not sure if that applies to you, but some people reported that some values on legacy gear changed. I cant really confirm that as i dont care enough to check eternal, but maybe that could be a reason.
in any case, you should work yourself into the new tempering and masterworking system on all of your gears, as thall be a massive boost.
Thanks! I’ll definitely be more careful in the future! My attack power went from 23k to 32k using the new items, so I automatically assumed they were an improvement. I wonder if they could still potentially outperform my old items once fully masterworked. Sure hope so.
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just as a little extra info. dont bother with masterworking on items below 2 greater affixes. its not worth the materials, or the gold.
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