Seriously though. Massive nerf that touches almost every item and class and goes as far as halving a lot of the effects, combined with game-wide buff to monster armor and penetration, and shit is still too easy? You done fucked up, Obsidian.
What was the console command to force PotD?
Fuck me, no wonder it's so easy, I'm on Veteran.............
Why does Hylea look like a transvestite, lol.
These were very good. I always find it funny when I happen to hear something that clearly sounds like an inspiration for some John Williams theme.I am certainly betraying my bias towards 20th century music. Keep in mind that "classical" musics are meant to be listened to, so they won't be background-y enough for a video game.
In 1.1, when you press a button, something meh happens.Would be better to talk about how it actually plays in the game than how it looks like in the patch notes.
I'll definitely benefit from a course in history of classical music. I know there is so much good stuff there, but I don't know how to look for it. Some time ago I had started reading through Wikipedia's articles on Renaissance and early Baroque and was planning to go through all the periods up to the 20th century, but this got pushed back by other momentary interests. I still did get some general knowledge of French, Italian and Spanish Renaissance music, as well as learned of Henry Purcell and listened to his more "easy listening" famous works.It is well known that John Williams pilfers from Stravinsky, Mahler, Holst and a host of other composers. If you are looking for melodic themes, those are everywhere pre-20th century, it doesn't matter whether it's a concerto, ballet, symphonic poem, sonata or whatever else. The musical convention at that time dictated such things. You can find some in 20th century works, of course, in Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Stravinsky, even Richard Strass and Bartok, but melodies are generally abandoned in more serious 20th century works.
Would be better to talk about how it actually plays in the game than how it looks like in the patch notes.
I'll definitely benefit from a course in history of classical music. I know there is so much good stuff there, but I don't know how to look for it. Some time ago I had started reading through Wikipedia's articles on Renaissance and early Baroque and was planning to go through all the periods up to the 20th century, but this got pushed back by other momentary interests. I still did get some general knowledge of French, Italian and Spanish Renaissance music, as well as learned of Henry Purcell and listened to his more "easy listening" famous works.It is well known that John Williams pilfers from Stravinsky, Mahler, Holst and a host of other composers. If you are looking for melodic themes, those are everywhere pre-20th century, it doesn't matter whether it's a concerto, ballet, symphonic poem, sonata or whatever else. The musical convention at that time dictated such things. You can find some in 20th century works, of course, in Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Stravinsky, even Richard Strass and Bartok, but melodies are generally abandoned in more serious 20th century works.
Seriously though. Massive nerf that touches almost every item and class and goes as far as halving a lot of the effects, combined with game-wide buff to monster armor and penetration, and shit is still too easy? You done fucked up, Obsidian.
The issue isn't the 'nerfs', it's the fact that they need to still do more across the board - targeting specifically broken things like +5 deflection per Intimidate or whatever, the XP handouts, the fact that 2-handers need to be more powerful and dual-wield weaker, etc.
Can't completely agree with this, I think many abilities feel lacklustre, i.e. paladin flames of devotion, priest summoned weapons, etc.It plays fine.
Me, I believe that it just shows that PoE system is such that no matter how much you nerf kewl items and abilities (which also become weaker for enemies and so enemies may end up easier to defeat and less deadly) you won't actually ever adress "real" difficulty, AI, magic play (the lack of high tier inspirations and their use by party and enemies is so surprising; the single 3d level spell can shut down all enemy buffs, arcane or not, with a single cast for whole encounter, etc.) and pacing problems; + the awesome button is still awesome.
You may pluck some holes players drilled with their autism and character building & power gaming, but the ship will continue to leak forever.
You can, you just need some help from team and items. For example there is druid staff +3 all plant & beast power levels.n PotD you can't land Tanglefoot