The enlighten drop change, your thoughts?

[NixBoxDone]

When I started the league, I didn't even know they changed the drop rate for enlighten. Only found out a few days ago when I remembered to pick one up to start leveling so I'd be able to run Pride and Herald of Purity + Sand and Stone.
They're currently selling for 1.7 ex.

Confused about it, I checked around to find out why they're so expensive and, apparently, they're now considered a chase item?

People I talked with seem to think this is somehow supposed to stop aura stacking or make it more difficult, but personally I can't really see the logic here.

The kind of teams that run a dedicated aura bot are the people that make the economy. The type that buys and sells things for exalts on day 2 or 3. How is making an enlighten hella expensive supposed to stop these kind of folks from using aura stacking to trivialize content?

From where I'm sitting, it appears that the only people getting shafted are the people that couldn't afford to buy one - i. e., the people that aren't going to min/max a character with 11 auras and run fully juiced delirium maps with the boys to crack open double digit exalts.

Am I missing something here? Curious to find out what the rationale was behind this change. Does GGG not want us to run more than 1 or 2 auras and a support banner/stance anymore?

[Rinko]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Expedition/86Qek8iV
game's hard

[NixBoxDone]

Ah, yes. You're right. I'll just switch my hat that gives me 8 % reduced reservation to everything for one that reduces pride by 15 %, has no freeze immunity, no resists and the wrong main defense.

Jokes aside, I'm not saying that there aren't ways to somehow cram the aura in anyways. If nothing else you can just go gambling on corrupting unique jewels for the reduces reservation outcome.
The problem is that it's a tad more difficult and investment heavy than putting a blue gem into a socket.

Was interested to see what the rest of the community thought about the change and if maybe I was missing a memo somewhere or a dev post that explains what they're going for in more detail.

That health % is kinda tempting though, ngl.
Gonna have to math-fu if the extra aura is worth ditching Alpha's Howl and the cyclone enchant. Pretty sure Alpha's Howl wins on the reservation too, but then again it doesn't bump hp.

[Rinko]

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Expedition/JBLM6pvsl
lol okay

Didn't see the edit but I'll tell you right now running alpha's howl on a cyclone build is pretty terrible, good luck I guess

[NixBoxDone]

Yeah, I just didn't have any cash for something better, wanted to cram in both stances and not have to worry about freezing my nuts off when my flask ran out when I bought it a while ago.

I could probably afford something that isn't garbage now but it has grown on me much like a fungus.
Heck, I could probably swing two reduced mana cost rings if I sell some of the assorted bobs and bits or finally get those 300 effing scythe artifacts to redeem the 5 exalts Tujen has been squatting on like a mother hen for a week now.

Srsly though. I take it you don't mind the change then?

[Rinko]

1. Get ailment immunity
Crystal skin and Thick skin get you 70% just need another 30%
Shaper influenced boots, shield and other passives can help
2. Enduring mana flask of heat, solves mana res problems too
Investing into flasks or reduced flask usage on belt help
3. Put cannot be frozen on boots

[Rinko]

Originally posted by NixBoxDone:

Srsly though. I take it you don't mind the change then?

Don't care everything is easy to get on sc trade aside from things like watcher eyes with specific mods. This really just impacts SSF where again doesn't really matter.

[NixBoxDone]

Yeah, you're not wrong about that. Trade usually isn't too horrible to get stuff on. Guess I'm just pooped because I wanted it but my broke as* couldn't afford it when I needed it.

Not much different from when The Baron was popular that one league and suddenly cost a hundred chaos I guess.

[Rinko]

Originally posted by NixBoxDone:

Not much different from when The Baron was popular that one league and suddenly cost a hundred chaos I guess.

You're probably thinking of harby league where people finally realized how good pre-nerf baron was and GGG nerfed it's dropped rate due to it's power level at the time. I still killed shaper with SRS in SSF without it.

The whole point of me posting in this thread is that most players don't even need an enlighten gem because there's much better and more practical/cheaper options out there.

[NixBoxDone]

Yeah, I kinda forgot that enchant existed. *cough*

[Sgt_RiC0]

I think is the same rate but the difference is the "player retention"
how many people grinding to get Enlighten
the lower people the higher price the higher people grinding the lower price it gets
and trust me when D2R comes out will get to 5 exalts lvl 2

[M]

GGG thinks people have no lives no responsibilities and in their mind grinding for 1% increase in anything should take weeks for them. yeah ♥♥♥♥ responsiblities, family, friends just play 56 hours a day to imrpove your character by 0.01% fair game.

[NixBoxDone]

Originally posted by Sgt_RiC0:

I think is the same rate but the difference is the "player retention"
how many people grinding to get Enlighten
the lower people the higher price the higher people grinding the lower price it gets
and trust me when D2R comes out will get to 5 exalts lvl 2

I'm pretty sure it was nerfed hard. Trying to find mentions though. I've found several threads of people talking about the nerf (just generally confirming that they're very rare now and can no longer drop as higher than lvl 1 outside of the div card for enlighten), but apparently the drop rate nerfs for items aren't mentioned in patch notes.

[dOBER]

Got a lot of enlighten from simulacrum. With a lot i mean 18+

[NixBoxDone]

Congratz on your 25 or so exalts then, I guess. :D
I'm a slow bro, so I'll make my way over to that content. Maybe I'll get lucky!

[dOBER]

Very easy is tropical Island with delerium. Every map you get 100+ simulacrum shards. Since its only T14 you dont need a uber build to get this many shards. 300 simulacrum / 3 tropical maps you have a new try to get even more loot/ex or sell them for 0.8ex. Cant count how many 8 or 12 minion dmg cluster is sold for 50 chaos each.