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Mortick's Brace vs Unhallowed Essence
An interesting discussion was happening on the official forums. Some users wondered why Mortick's Brace, which activated all the Wrath of the Berserker runes, was removed from the game due to being too powerful while other items or sets stayed despite being quite strong as well. Grimiku clarified the issue explaining what lead to Mortick's being removed. Read below.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Official Forums)
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:
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.
John Yang's Barb
John Yang was always known as the developer that's most engaged in Diablo's end-game. To show that he recently tweeted an image of what seems to be his Spin-2-Win Barbarian on the leaderboards - he achieved rank 36 from a GR 54 clear. Pretty amazing feat - great job!
Kadala Simulator
benstepp developed a very interesting web app for Diablo players - a Kadala simulator. To have an idea what items you could get from gambling items with her, and how many "clicks" it would take to get them. It's still in development, but the current version is quite interesting already. Check it out!
70 k shards for both bul-kathos 1handers as ancient? OK! lets go
Made it to 392,000 blood shards before I saw an SMK. Shocking.
hahah yeah right sounds like it so easy to achieve items here.
That's cute, 577k BS before Ancient SS, and was a trash one...
Can't... stop... gambling...
quit diablo, saw this and instant reminder of why i left, 500k shards and no ancient teleport wand.
game rewards mindless grinding, all i want is to make fun builds with minimal effort, doesnt matter what torment its on. single player would solve all my problems with this game.
did 550k shards... 0 ancient IK BB and 0 ancient Furnaces
no but it was fun
This is evil. I now have carpal tunnel syndrome and 2 ancient furnaces I can't use...
Amazing work, but youve broken my heart with that kridershot
>uninstall D3
>go pro in KS
>?? ?¿
>[/i]profit!
27,000 Blood Shards, 3 Furnaces (One Ancient)... I've yet to ever see one in-game. No Blood Brother yet though.
500k, still no IK Boulder. I concluded you cannot get this from gambling.
I have gotten two Blood Brothers on my wizard and one is an ancient .. go figure .. lol
Needs audio. All i could hear in my head was "Anything could happen. Don't be shy. Fortune favours the bold. What a steal. I didn't even know i had that thing. Ooo that's nice, can i have it back? See you soon."
lol yeah... that would be nice
And maybe a Hearthstone "oahhhh LEGENDARY" sound for when you get those
kadala simulator broke my hand, after spending a large amount of time and shards this is what i noticed: (note from the perspective of a wizard)
1M+ shards 1h mystery weapon:- not a single ancient serpent sparker/wand of woh/rimeheart/aether walker/shard of hate, however did get double figure numbers of non ancient versions of these weapons, within this ~1M shard spend, i had 5 ancient sun keepers/double figure ancient burning axe of sankis/double figure ancient azurewrath/double figure ancient gesture of orpheus.
416k shards 2h mystery weapons:- 1 ancient furnace (4 normal)/ no ancient corrupted ashbringer (4 normal)/ 3 ancient grand vizier (double figure normal)/ 5 ancient valthek's rebuke (double figure normal).
i would have kept going until i saw a single ancient SS/WoW but my finger gave out on me, so based on my numbers, is it ok to assume that even with the changes made to drop rates in 2.1.2 that an ancient SS from kadala is rarer than an ancient furnace?
furthermore, it took me almost 19k shards to see a single ancient pair of DMO shoulders, almost 30k shards for ancient DMO gloves, and a little over 40k shards for ancient DMO pants (reason i use these items specifically is because on live they are the only wizard items i have not yet found ancient).
That was John's progression last season, I assume he wants to beat it. Definitely not his char for S3, lol.
What's the relationship with benstepp and Taylor Swift? Is he a swiftie?