Interview with GGG about patch 2.4.0
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GGG staff discusses the content coming in patch 2.4.0 and the Atlas of Worlds expansion
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| 00:00 - 00:05 | Patch 2.4.0 will answer a number of player requests |
| 00:05 - 00:07 | People were saying "Come on, GGG!" |
| 00:07 - 00:10 | "Cast on Crit has been OP for years now." |
| 00:11 - 00:16 | "Fix melee already", and so we did |
| 00:17 - 00:21 | We've increased the damage of most melee skills by 5-20% |
| 00:21 - 00:24 | This is a buff! |
| 00:26 - 00:28 | 5%! |
| 00:29 - 00:31 | This is a buff! |
| 00:31 - 00:34 | And we've nerfed Earthquake in every way possible |
| 00:38 - 00:40 | This is a buff! |
| 00:41 - 00:47 | We didn't want to overdo it though |
| 00:47 - 00:50 | And risk melee becoming FotM |
| 00:50 - 00:56 | So we buffed Fireball's damage by 50% |
| 00:58 - 00:59 | Blade Vortex's clear speed went up by 63% |
| 00:59 - 01:01 | And we even gave 70% to Ice Spear |
| 01:04 - 01:06 | Namelocking isn't fixed either |
| 01:06 - 01:08 | And Fortify is still better on casters |
| 01:13 - 01:14 | And Cast on Crit |
| 01:14 - 01:16 | There were too many CoC builds |
| 01:16 - 01:20 | So we nerfed all trigger builds that aren't CoC Discharge |
| 01:21 - 01:27 | And introduced a new Cast on Cast mechanic for yet more Discharges |
| 01:35 - 01:36 | Now, it's easier for us to balance high tier maps |
| 01:36 - 01:39 | We only have to consider the one build that can do them |
| 01:41 - 01:44 | I mean, seriously, fixing the endgame was hard |
| 01:44 - 01:47 | No matter how hard we buffed red maps |
| 01:47 - 01:49 | People would keep spamming Gorges |
| 01:50 - 01:53 | So we turned Gorge into a red map |
| 01:54 - 01:56 | And gave players a way to turn all T13 map drops |
| 01:56 - 01:58 | Into yet more Gorges to spam |
| 01:58 - 02:02 | The Atlas wasn't even out that people were already min-maxing theirs |
| 02:05 - 02:07 | And the Essence league |
| 02:10 - 02:11 | Since Prophecy, we're testing a new league design |
| 02:11 - 02:13 | A three month race event played on Standard |
| 02:15 - 02:17 | With OP legacy items as race rewards |
| 02:17 - 02:20 | Essence will bring new T0 legacy rares |
| 02:21 - 02:28 | We have to keep the economy abusable, otherwise Lightwoods would go bankrupt, see? |
| 02:29 - 02:30 | And Bladefall Mine? |
| 02:30 - 02:32 | Bladefall Mine is still broken! |
| 02:36 - 02:39 | We did a couple changes that do nothing |
| 02:40 - 02:42 | And kept the massive double-dipping scaling |
| 02:50 - 02:55 | The ascendancy classes aren't fixed either |
| 02:56 - 02:58 | Indeed, you left the Scion in the gutter where it was |
| 02:58 - 03:04 | And fixed the Juggernaut, the Slayer and the Elementalist |
| 03:04 - 03:09 | By making their signature abilities too clunky to properly use |
| 03:09 - 03:11 | It's like we're Riot Games! |
| 03:16 - 03:20 | We even have the spaghetti code |
| 03:23 - 03:26 | Half the patch is about ways to shore up our burning servers |
| 03:31 - 03:36 | Atlas of Worlds is our best expansion yet |