 | Demonic Vessel after the recent Hotfix dont drop anythi(1) | Category: GeneralApril-4-2014 1:52 AM PDT (9 years ago)  |
| Hey, Just asking is it intended that the Demonic Vessel anywhere even in the Rifts are dropping nothing after the recent Hotfix? I thought u just nerfed the Spawnrate and not the Loot. Never had any Demonic Vessel before the Hotfix that dropped nothing. Answer from a Blue would be nice | ||
 | Demonic Vessel after the recent Hotfix dont drop anythi(2) | April-4-2014 1:59 AM PDT (9 years ago) |
Hey, Just asking is it intended that the Demonic Vessel anywhere even in the Rifts are dropping nothing after the recent Hotfix? I thought u just nerfed the Spawnrate and not the Loot. Never had any Demonic Vessel before the Hotfix that dropped nothing. Answer from a Blue would be nice It is intended. The demonic vessels were sharing loot tables with chests by mistake. The developers intend for demonic vessels to be on par with vases, and the hotfix has corrected the loot table accordingly. | ||
| Demonic Vessel after the recent Hotfix dont drop anythi(16) | April-4-2014 6:54 AM PDT (9 years ago) |
I actually share the very same doubts about those "explanations"... Those were some very nice-looking, slow-opening.... vases ... or bone piles... or ... ...well exploited chests. It is obvious that demonic vessels do not look like vases, so I can totally understand why people are skeptical about this. But that doesn't change the fact that demonic vessels were not intended to be as rewarding as actual chests, so their loot table was changed to be on par with the loot table of vases. In before: ... Totally fair feedback (in that, "opening" vessels and vases is mechanically different, so it can feel weird to have vessels sometimes be empty, even though it feels normal for vases to sometimes be empty). Already passed it along. :) http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12412661154?page=5#94 Yup, feedback about the mechanical difference between vessels and vases has indeed been forwarded to the developers. It only took 2 years to notice and fix, though. "Mistake" ;) As unbelievable as this might seem to you, the developers are only human after all, and humans make mistakes, and sometimes it can take a lot of times before those mistakes are noticed and fixed :-( | ||
| Demonic Vessel after the recent Hotfix dont drop anythi(24) | April-4-2014 8:39 AM PDT (9 years ago) |
You do realize that vases don't give any loot, right? I can assure you that vases do give loot, just much more rarely so than chests! The developers realise that vases are destroyed by common combat, aoe fire gone astray killing vases. If you have thunderfury (or similar I guess) vases rarely, if ever, survive you throwing abilities around. The Demonic Vessels are clicked to be triggered and there are about 60 vases for every 1 demonic vessel. The developers realise this indeed, and player feedback that vases and vessels feel different mechanically has been forwarded to them as well. To make rifts and bounties attractive you need to buff rifts and bounties, not nerf overfarmed content... how hard is that to comprehend? There are no fixed rule-sets on nerfing and buffing, especially not when you can do both to achieve a similar result, so these things always have to be evaluated on a case by case basis. Sometimes buffing is better, and sometimes nerfing is better, and sometimes doing both is what is best... In this case both nerfs AND buffs were warranted. | ||
