Why would you use +50 allstat against +150 mainstat? Genuine question.
Only thing I can think of is to meet paragon board thresholds.
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depends on class. having extra of a non main stat can be helpful
different stats help different things also. str is armor. wisdom overpower. dex crit. int resist
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Yup. âChoiceâ. Blizzard really has no clue how to create interesting systems where choices actually matter, and you really have to think about which ones truely matter for âyourâ character.
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Some paragon stuff requires a certain stat that isnt your mainstat. Other stats help too like if you are a barb, intelligence helps with resistance. If youre a sorc then strength helps with armor.
Considering Torment 4 reduces your armor by 1000 and your resists by 100%, that might be helpful. Depends on how hard it is to get to those capped at that torment level.
Just my guess.
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I love roleplaying, thatâs why I feel the balance of +mainstat is way out of whack. It seems too good to skip.
Unless something interesting happens to the paraboard stat requirements, itâs hard to skip it.
Yet another gem rework and we still have skulls in weapons as life on kill instead of life per hit?
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I hate this. The removal of +max life, the preservation of +Shield generation just rub me the wrong way. Does anyone actually use Shield gen? ever? As a wizard, not once have I ever wanted. needed, or used this stat. Why would I?
If they change Amethysts to +max life instead of +barrier generation, Iâd be happy. Even if it was shield DURATION, which is useful.
I was wondering about this. So i imagine like in D3 we will be using Main Stat in our armor unless we have runes. This is probably why after we get (i am only assuming next expansion we will be getting the cube) thatll be important to augment our gear to main stat.
I am hoping that socketed gloves, boots, and a belt will be available. 
The reason nobody used plus barrier was cause barriers are based on you life so plus life is also plus barrier but I would prefer that the plus barrier gem was gone over the plus life
Sort of, you are also capped at 100% of your HP in a barrier, which you reach very quickly.
And naturally, Protection ( the sorc passive) is bugged, and doesnât benefit from +barrier.
100k seems pretty damned steep, yikes. Going to be hard to gauge until Friday when they re-enable Hordes on the PTR - I suspect that even if you efficiently farm Tier 7 itâs probably going to take multiple runs for one Grand Gem.
Biiiig L on Ruby change but at the same time I understand why, since it was inherently busted and there was almost never any reason to use the other gems in your armor.
That does remind me of another nitpick of mine that was neither shown during the campfire nor.in the patch notes, and thatâs how Disobedience has basically fallen off completely and even Juggernaut sucks because itâs usually overkill.
Solving armor without using defensive aspects just isnât difficult currently and to be perfectly honest I prefer that to be the case. That said, those two powers should probably be re-evaluated.
That is a ton of life lost for hardcoreâŚ
Great news! This change makes sense because there will be 2 sockets that will make room for RunewordsâŚlike it!
How did they not improve weapon gems with this change? Also, why do they act like all stat is 3x the power of main stat, when itâs actually more like 5% better?
OMG!! So amazing, and only a year later in live development.
and its still a recycled idea from better minds that Rod Ferus will ever attain. Considering everything he touches is the end of that franchise and IP. Heâs not a plant at all. Just look at all the time he didnât sound like Kamala when asked a direct questionâŚ
We also are now restricted to 5 paragon boards and have 100 more points to fill it up so we probably will pick a few more +armor+resist nodes because we wonât what else to use the points onâŚ