You seem to not understand what "base points" are.

Oh nvm I guess I didn't read it properly. I figured you could hit the tiers with bonus points.

Yeah I need to read it properly next time. I figured they were creating a situation to kill bound demons easily.

I did like some of the changes they were doing as everyone was clamoring for things like sunders dropping randomly like gheeds. But yeah the shield nerf is dumb as hell. I have found multiple high runes close to Zod and not a single good tome and they are forcing tomes? Really? I may have found 5 of the lower level unique tomes but that one isn't used much end game. The ars drop rates either have to be buffed or shields need to be unrestricted w 2h. The fact the tomes are stronger than the shields end game and restricting the shields makes zero sense.

This post was edited by BlakeXeal on Apr 10 2026 04:35pm

Didn't they make weapons now take durability damage from echoing? So trying to scrounge together extra damage from that won't work without zodded eth weapons. Makes me glad I invested in an obsession at least although with the damage modifiers changing it'll be pitiful damage but at least I can use the weapon on another build like fire. What are people going to do with all those ethereal fortitude thundermauls?

This post was edited by BlakeXeal on Apr 10 2026 04:43pm

Rip all my eth fort tm's are useless now

You will be playing ladder, wipe and get new sht anyway

glad i invested in fire & magi gear on NL, for this exact reason i stayed away from ES

When they said they removed conviction aura as one of the bonuses are they saying you can no longer bind a demon with conviction aura and it will remove it too? I feel like that wasn't even the strongest aura they're nerfing if that's the case. Maybe it's only related to the bonus auras for hard points at 15.

This post was edited by BlakeXeal on Apr 10 2026 05:01pm

based on current context and not actually on the PTR server to try out ...
we "technically" should be able to still bind a conviction aura demon IF it naturally spawns conviction (which is still possible for ANY champ/rare/super uniq monster unless they hard code remove conviction from monsters).

So all this does is make u REALLY have to grind for a conviction bind demon since u cant use the random generated aura that is built in with the lvl 20 bind demon skill. So getting a TZ'd conviction super uniq demon for example...will take some work.
You also cannot "despawn" a super uniq, etc and then try to turn it TZ'd with a shard once u already see it. Easily already tested. Go wake up Andy in hell without TZ. Then pop a shard in to turn all act 1 TZ. Andy stays lvl 69 and doesnt become her TZ form. Unless theres some 5 minute wait period u gotta do (which i didnt do). i just popped the shard after i found her (the found her part is having to get up close to them and highlight them to see their HP bar to see affixes), to essentially simulate having to "get a glimpse of a hephisto/Lister" to see if they have correct affixes before i TZ the game... so you cant pre-farm an elite and TZ the game because it is already spawned as Non TZ.

This post was edited by and1balla_7 on Apr 10 2026 05:11pm

I actually enjoyed the whole prefarming concept and being able to terrorize to empower it but if you can't well there goes a good portion of the demon selling market.