Shards of Domination Disabled in Patch 9.2 Eternity's End

We're moving into patch borrowed power LOL. This game is a joke.

Originally Posted by Cracked

We're moving into patch borrowed power LOL. This game is a joke.

basically everyone knew this was going to happen as soon as they announced it and then addressed that it would be happening literally months ago. The real joke is people being surprised by this now

Originally Posted by ZazuuPriest

basically everyone knew this was going to happen as soon as they announced it and then addressed that it would be happening literally months ago. The real joke is people being surprised by this now

You have to be extra dull to take anything Blizzard says at face value at this point. What ends up in the game is the pudding.

Originally Posted by Unholyvamp

Yep, pretty much.
Entitled people are entitled.

Simply having an opinion doesn't mean you're entitled, you probably shouldn't use words you don't know the meaning of.

Originally Posted by Cracked

You have to be extra dull to take anything Blizzard says at face value at this point. What ends up in the game is the pudding.

your brain must be pudding, ultra-smooth, if you're upset that they told you exactly what they were going to do and then it surprised you enough to upset you when they did it.

Borrowed power now only lasting a patch instead of a whole expansion... please keep surprising me

Originally Posted by ZazuuPriest

your brain must be pudding, ultra-smooth, if you're upset that they told you exactly what they were going to do and then it surprised you enough to upset you when they did it.

What gave you the impression I was upset? I'm quite amused by the hole they keep digging for themselves. Who wants to participate in systems that will be completely invalid, null and void, as good as never having existed in 6 months?

Originally Posted by Cracked

We're moving into patch borrowed power LOL. This game is a joke.

What do you think tier sets were/are?

Originally Posted by McNeil

Borrowed power now only lasting a patch instead of a whole expansion... please keep surprising me

To be fair Blizzard is doing everything in their power to make the length of a patch match the old length of an expansion.

Originally Posted by Unholyvamp

Yep, pretty much.
Entitled people are entitled.

or maybe blizz shouldn't make gimmicky systems that can only reasonably last one patch...

Originally Posted by Cracked

We're moving into patch borrowed power LOL. This game is a joke.

How is the shards system any different to tier sets? Tier sets are used for a patch then you get a new tier set in the next patch. That’s the same thing; tier sets are borrowed power and they’ve been done since day 1 but nobody complained about them did they

Originally Posted by MrLachyG

How is the shards system any different to tier sets? Tier sets are used for a patch then you get a new tier set in the next patch. That’s the same thing; tier sets are borrowed power and they’ve been done since day 1 but nobody complained about them did they

Literally not. This is like having a tier set and it not working when a new patch releases. Never been like that.

A more important question is do players want it to work?

Do you want to use a SoD item in your SotFO BiS gear set? Do you want to have alts go back to do SoD for it?

Maybe people do and this would keep old content relevant for them?

Originally Posted by Cracked

Literally not. This is like having a tier set and it not working when a new patch releases. Never been like that.

Which is wrong and not how hte game originally worked.

You see, they keep fucking up, and then they fuck up from the previous fck up. And they simply never, ever learn.

Originally Posted by Cracked

Literally not. This is like having a tier set and it not working when a new patch releases. Never been like that.

Not exactly but it’s not like you held onto the gear anyway when you got the new tier sets. If anything this is less restrictive; back in the day if you got an upgrade that was non tier but replaced a tier piece then you couldn’t equip it because you’d break the tier set. Not the case this time round, getting an upgrade and replacing a domination gear means you won’t lose out

just having new gear not have dom sockets + nerfing any % scaling gems should they be too good >>> disabling them on day1 of new content.

like for real if it's about man hours or something, both of those options are pretty minimal.

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Originally Posted by MrLachyG

Not exactly but it’s not like you held onto the gear anyway when you got the new tier sets. If anything this is less restrictive; back in the day if you got an upgrade that was non tier but replaced a tier piece then you couldn’t equip it because you’d break the tier set. Not the case this time round, getting an upgrade and replacing a domination gear means you won’t lose out

ironically that is the strength of dom sockets compared to set bonusses. it's not all of nothing, you get a bit of power even if you don't meet the set bonus requirements.

if they didn't have the double whammy RNG of needing both socketed gear and the gems to drop i think the dom socket bonus system itself would have been pretty well received. (and if they then also made it affect your rotation instead of just some passive bonus, it might have been a smash hit even.)

Originally Posted by ZazuuPriest

basically everyone knew this was going to happen as soon as they announced it and then addressed that it would be happening literally months ago. The real joke is people being surprised by this now

The problem lies with this as a "replacement" for tier sets. If I can still get my 4-piece and have 1-2 shards, it's going to essentially be locked in as BiS.

If they just hadn't removed tier sets and we had the option of getting the 4-set or double 2-sets, this wouldn't have been an issue.

Originally Posted by Holdodlig

It's kind of stupid. Old raid tier weren't disabled in latest content. They should balance it, instead of disabling it. It's just a proof of failure.

not really, you need spefic sockets to use those dom sockets, we wont be using those domination pieces any longer, i kind of saw it coming

LOL why in the fuck

Shards are not very exciting, but I am so sick and tired of every patch completely devaluing all my stuff.

Fuck that. Everything you do in this game is a waste of time, just wait until the final patch, subscribe for a month and it's all the same. All sense of progression is lost.

Bad game design.