Guide About spellcosts, intelligence, and wynn 2.0

hppeng · Aug 8, 2022

added notes about patch11

Druser · Sep 19, 2022

hppeng said: ↑

In 1.20.4, the existing “mana batteries” were largely balanced due to being separated by their skill requirements – you couldn’t effectively use Brainwash together with Anima-Infused Cuirass, or with Chain Rule. This kind of item design allows individually overpowered items to act as the “centerpiece” of a build, and can work to some degree as long as it is impractical to combine these centerpieces together. However, this challenge becomes much more difficult as more centerpieces are added, as would be required to promote diversity in build making – or else you risk having the same 3-4 items appearing as centerpieces in any spellspam build.
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Read over the post a second time for fun, would like to slightly dispute this (or arguably concur along different lines). I would say that the main limitation here was not necessarily the separation of mana batteries but primarily cps limitations. With the need for more mana value on items in 2.0 comes a greater focus on taking mana boosts, the meta centralizes around high mana items. Abstracting a bit from the details, if 1.20.4 mana batteries weren't so separated, they still wouldn't really dominate or anything, since for most players within a typical range of cps it's not useful to have more mana anyway. That's what I meant when I was talking about how the fundamental build incentives were the same as with elem revamp.

hppeng · Sep 19, 2022

Druser said: ↑

Read over the post a second time for fun, would like to slightly dispute this (or arguably concur along different lines). I would say that the main limitation here was not necessarily the separation of mana batteries but primarily cps limitations. With the need for more mana value on items in 2.0 comes a greater focus on taking mana boosts, the meta centralizes around high mana items. Abstracting a bit from the details, if 1.20.4 mana batteries weren't so separated, they still wouldn't really dominate or anything, since for most players within a typical range of cps it's not useful to have more mana anyway. That's what I meant when I was talking about how the fundamental build incentives were the same as with elem revamp.
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yeah -- with power of intel, builds in 1.20.4 could get by with "splashed" mana + some strong accessories (or maybe a single mana armor piece, then stack damage, etc)

now more mana has to come from gear so this effect is starting to show.

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Guide About spellcosts, intelligence, and wynn 2.0

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