There are plentiful 10% dmg relics out there...Some sit unused. OK is a luxury 1 hitting is still possible on every single creature that's not a champion without FoD.
Just catching some of the hyperbole, EP
This statement is more believable.
I don't see this as a "me vs you", by the way. But as with every discussion, people always approach with their own unrecognised axioms and assumptions that affect the conclusions.
Let me go back to the the position I stated when this OP-composing debate first started to take off.
It is *not* that composing is broken (at least from a hunting perspective). It is that composing is stopping us from realising that equipment design is broken.
Of the last 30 normal creatures I hunted, even with level 52 composing, about 20% of them would have had me 2-hitting without FoD. And for that 20% my damage was actually about 25% short, so it wasn't just a little bit short. (And I have searched long and hard to find the best damage set to use, so this is not just being lazy with equipment, either.) To me that says that even pretty high level composing pots are *not* way out of line with what is needed.
Those figures are about to change substantially, as level 2880 brings kit that allows a substantially improved hunting set. But that will be the first susbstantial improvement in hunting gear for many many levels (I think more than 500, but haven't gone back to check). Yet over those levels, the creatures have continued to get bigger and nastier. So there is a major underlying problem with equipment availability, and high (but maybe not highest) level composing just about counters it.
From this perspective, I'd suggest that nerfing composing without putting a *huge* number of new equipment sets into the game would break hunting.
So, should we be pushing HCS to tackle the underlying problem of more frequent and mroe varied equipment sets? Given the long breaks there are from time to time in getting new content out, I really don't want to see what would happen if new content always had to come out with lots of well thought out new equipment too. I really don't think it is practicable for the Cows to maintain across 3000 levels the interesting equipment challenges I faced when I was level 300, and I am glad that they have pitched composing at a level that hides that impracticality.
As a result, I see composing as a pretty well balanced solution to a much bigger underlying problem, and a solution that allows HCS to spend its (less than infinite) resources on more pressing problems for the game.
I do accept that all this is from the perspective of hunting. I do note the comments a number of people have made about the effect of high level composing pots on GVG and PVP. So maybe more thought is needed about balancing the effect of composing on inter-player competition without necessarily affecting everything. There are buffs (like AS and SSI) that are specifically PvE only, so the mechanics are available to nerf buffs for non-PvE activities should people really want that.
Edited by rowbeth, 05 March 2016 - 09:34.