rathma's pastoral

[alsok]

hello. i find this stuff.
but i have a problemm. all spell penetration "-29%"
it's bug.
see

can you say me anything about it?

[Joziff]

Why you think its a bug? Its very nice staff . Im finding now tal rashas set have only crown and belt.

Also how and where did you drop it? Seems hell but MP and diff?

[alsok]

Why you think its a bug? Its very nice staff . Im finding now tal rashas set have only crown and belt.

this stuff for example has "+49" and it's blue color

[Joziff]

Sure but only fire so tell me what you think is wrong ?

Edit: Sorry you mean why all stats have red color instead of blue. Agree its a little bug because instead of increasing penetration it decreasing penetration. Does it function well or not ? Because there is reduces target resistances co it should increase penetration.

[alsok]

Does it function well or not ? Because there is reduces target resistances co it should increase penetration.

now i can tell you what:

rathma's staff increase penetration. yes, it's bug.
need "-29", but now "+29"
all others staff and items have "-%" penetration.

ps. yeah it's set must be awesome =)

[SlapZ]

Apart from the topic: I really think it would be better to turn down spell damage rather than having triple / quadriple immunities and obligatory staves with -enemy resistance.

[BrightLord]

There is plan to rebalance whole game when multiplayer is done to values closer to original diablo1. It hasn't been balanced yet at any point. All stat values are just "guesses".

In my opinion current spell system is very flawed. It's required to redo all the formulas or implement something similar to diablo 2 skill trees. I would like spell damage to be more linked with player items other then just spell books.

[SlapZ]

There is plan to rebalance whole game when multiplayer is done to values closer to original diablo1. It hasn't been balanced yet at any point. All stat values are just "guesses".

In my opinion current spell system is very flawed. It's required to redo all the formulas or implement something similar to diablo 2 skill trees. I would like spell damage to be more linked with player items other then just spell books.

Actually, I love the dualistic system of active abilities in Belzebub:
Not only skills, not only spells, but BOTH.

Perhaps skills and spells need tweaking, but throwing them all into D2-like skilltree would spoil the essence of D1 imho. And it still wouldn't solve balancing problems.

[Sabranan]

Perhaps skills and spells need tweaking, but throwing them all into D2-like skilltree would spoil the essence of D1 imho. And it still wouldn't solve balancing problems.

I agree, I wouldn't mind a synergy system and/or boosts to spellpower from items (we already pretty much have this though in the form of penetration and attrib bonuses).

But I think spells in a D2 style tree form or being mostly dependant on having good items is a big mistake. Being able to aquire any spell from a book at any time (dependant on attributes) is a core part of D1. While the balancing can and should be changed, the actual structure should remain as it is.

[riesa]

I agree, I wouldn't mind a synergy system and/or boosts to spellpower from items (we already pretty much have this though in the form of penetration and attrib bonuses).

That's funny... Something about an hour ago, after 8h session of playing sorc i have same idea that synergies would be usefull. But I'm playing hell now and someone killed diadlo even on torment with sorc so maybe I'm just noob xD But... Items (Staves only) have both - mobs res reduction and boost to spellpower too, so this is already done.