We're moving into patch borrowed power LOL. This game is a joke.
Borrowed power now only lasting a patch instead of a whole expansion... please keep surprising me
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?
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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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.)
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.