So UE is considered fine but Morticks was OP?

#1 - April 15, 2015, 7:39 a.m.

I am having a really hard time with this.

I play all the classes, fairly evenly now actually... well except for WD.

Anyways

I recently set out to try the new UE set because it had all the "buzz" surrounding it, and frankly I can see why.

I mean sweet merciful crap.

So if I have this right the set gives you a base 20% damage just for showing up provided monsters aren't around. This seems to be multiplicative.

Then for every 1 point of discipline you get a 15% increase to generators and multishot.

So basically (I could be wrong here) the set is giving you (with max discipline)

81 * 15 *1.2 = 1458% damage boost!??????

Which would be fine except it says "generators", so both chakram and elemental arrow are included given krider or spines of seething hatred. Plus this is without even being able to test deadmans as it's time locked behind seasonal, but it seems like it DOUBLES the damage of this set.

I mean it's complete madness, my multishot is regularly hitting the entire screen for 1.2-1.4 billion damage while charkam is hitting at a "weak" 600 million. I thought the new Tal's changes were amazing, but my wizard looks like a total freaking chump in comparison.

I know the IK set in its original 500% incarnation was crazy OP with mortics, but after watching my DH just look at stuff in GR40 and have it topple over, I have to wonder what the devs consider to be "OP". According to Wyatt it was decided a week before that mortics was overperforming, despite the entire PTR having pages of feedback on the subject.

But UE is balanced?

Come on now devs something doesn't smell right here.

Grimiku

#180 - April 30, 2015, 3:58 a.m.

To understand why Unhallowed Essence wasn’t changed, I think it’s first important to clarify why we decided to hold off on releasing Mortick’s Brace. Here’s the original post from Nevalistis:

04/10/2015 05:57 PMPosted by Nevalistis
In summary, though, we made the decision to remove Mortick's Brace from 2.2.0 about a week prior to the release of the patch. With their removal, we believe each class should be within a couple Greater Rift levels of one another (which would not have been the case if the item had gone live). This is in line with one of our goals for the patch, which was for each class to have two or three competitive builds capable of Greater Rift 50+.

Wyatt Cheng goes a bit more in depth on this decision (and the possible future of this item) in a recent(ish) video interview with Ziggy D, and you can jump straight to that discussion here.

Getting back on topic, while Unhallowed Essence is indeed very powerful, and fun to play, it wasn’t—and currently isn’t —creating a large disparity on the Solo Great Rift Leaderboards like Mortick’s Brace, which is why it wasn’t changed or removed. Even so, we’ll make sure to pass along your feedback about this particular set to our development team.

On that note, thank you for keeping this conversation a healthy one. I’ve been reading along, taking plenty of notes, and just wanted to jump in and let you know that we are listening. :)