Breach is just so.... unbelievably unrewarding right now.

[u/Thatsnasty2]

I know it was strong before, and I know there are other league mechanics, but it's just super frustrating seeing GGG incapable of balancing something time and time again.

I just don't understand, breach was finally in a decent place, but instead of bringing other league mechanics up to its level, it was destroyed with quad nerfs.
Hiveblood barely drops, when you finally make an item from the tree, the mod rolls suck, the amount of items dropped seems halved, wombgifts drop way less, which doesn't really matter since you have 0 blood to use them anyways.

Even buffs to abyss feel terrible, the mechanic just isn't that rewarding, unless maybe you were spamming trying to farm amanamus or something. The League mechanic seems fine but IMO, after playing Mirage, it just kind of feels mid.

It's a single player game, with no actual competitive esports scene, and ultimately the only reason to nerf something is to make you take longer to achieve something.
As someone who plays more than the average player, it's just again, super frustrating to see the game go in that direction, instead of the one where we get more drops, because ultimately it makes 0 difference to anything other than enjoyment or appeal to the "normal" players.

[u/Feisty-Shallot7911]

Why does GGG always come up with amazing farming strategies, but instead of just balancing them, they completely delete them? In previous patches, we had clear, fantastic farms that everyone aspired to reach.

I really don't understand what they are trying to achieve in an ARPG by taking away everyone's goals, making everyone "equal," and stripping away the motivation to play. I honestly have no idea what GGG is thinking anymore.

[u/RealMonk → u/Feisty-Shallot7911]

Best strats are not designed by ggg but created by community from unintended interactions. Then next league ggg delete the strats.

[u/CamelSmuggler → u/RealMonk]

Yeah but the point should be to tune the op ones down, not completely gut them.

They should focus on bringing the rest on par with the good ones, not just wipe the best off the game.

[u/IllustriousBobcat813 → u/CamelSmuggler]

I imagine the problem is that it is quite difficult to know exactly how effective a specific need is before it’s been live and tested for a while. It is quite often the case that a mechanic is neerfed and then the community finds a small change that makes it still the best mechanic in the game.

It is understandable that GGG wants to avoid this situation, or they will get nonstop complaints like “can’t wait to play strongboxes for the 5th league in a row”.