"RELIC - Golden Fleece" - BUGFIX

[nemhauser]

Originally Posted by yerkyerk

1. It's introduced with in the bugfix patch, it wasn't there before. The new bonus cannot be considered right just because it is in the bugfix patch (atm).

but this is true for all other fixes. some skills didn't work and now they do :-)

Originally Posted by yerkyerk

2. The mechanics behind -%energy cost existed, it would take some effort to implement another way of reducing energy cost. This hints that the way the bonus worked was how it was intended to work.

descriptions are identical (relic vs items) so it's pretty safe to assume that they were meant to work in the same fashion

Originally Posted by yerkyerk

3. Most items are rather careful with giving -%energy cost (often giving comparable bonuses to -%recharge). Looking at this, a more conservative way of reducing mana costs should be given. This bonus seems misplaced.

well, the argument that mana cost and recharge are usually together is "pro" rather than "agains" but the values on other items are lower so perhaps its an indication that this value is to high (and maybe it should be 15 or 20 at legendary)

Originally Posted by yerkyerk

4. It seems to alter the game mechanics in ways that weren't meant by the developers.

where does it come from? :-)

Originally Posted by yerkyerk

The general idea of the bugfix patch is to avoid such occurences.

fixing recharge on items makes it more "inbalanced" / "overpowered" in my opinion than this

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at the moment i'm still inconvinced that this fix should be removed.