PoE Renewed Rares

Renewed Rares: Defeat 250 Rare Monsters that have four modifiers.

Monster Mods and Archnemesis 3.20

Problem:
Archnemesis monster mods each added a number of stats and buffs to monsters, causing them to feel overwhelming and confusing (especially when multiple mods were present on the same monster).

Solution:

  • Monster mods now only do one specific thing.
  • Here’s an example: The Magma Barrier Archnemesis mod did a whole lot of stuff. It started by putting a magma barrier around the monster, but it didn’t stop there. It converted some of the monster’s physical damage to fire damage, it added some extra fire damage on top, it granted fire resistance to the monster and it gave some physical damage reduction for good measure. It also spawned volatile flamebloods to follow you. The new equivalent modifier just puts a magma barrier around the monster and does nothing else.

Problem:
Keyworded, thematic monster mod names gave an impression of the overall effect of the mod on the monster but did not explain exactly what they granted, requiring players to memorise them.

Solution:

  • Monster mods now say exactly what they do.
  • For example, rather than “Incendiary”, which broke down into six properties, you’d now see monsters with either “Ignites” or “Fire and Ignite Resistant”. Instead of “Deadeye”, which did five separate things, you’d now see “Applies Random Mark”, “Extra Crits” or “Accurate” as separate unrelated mods.

Problem:
The percentage of Archnemesis mods that significantly changed gameplay was high, and combinations of modifiers that required careful play arose too frequently, making content too complex.

Solution:
Since each mod now only does a single thing but monsters don’t have more mods than they used to, the percentage of monsters with gameplay-altering effects is now much lower. Interesting and challenging emergent behaviour from overlapping mods can still happen, just less often.

Problem:
The way Archnemesis rewards were set up meant that many players felt like they couldn’t just kill a monster, they had to consider if they wanted to bring a magic find character in to maximise rewards

Solution:

  • Players are no longer required to do annoying actions to maximise rewards
  • In Archnemesis, rewards were associated with individual mods. This meant that you could tell what kind of rewards you would get in advance. In some cases, you were then effectively required to fetch a magic-find culling character to make sure that you maximised the value of the monster mod that you had found. In other cases, you would ignore a monster completely if you knew that it would only drop rewards that were of no value to you. In the new system, we have added a significant pool of new rewards to rares, but the reward that is on the monster is hidden (and not associated with a specific mod), so you don’t know what kind of rewards you will get until you kill the monster. Rare monsters with more mods are more likely to have these special hidden reward mods. This new reward system smooths out the spikiness that the Archnemesis reward system had.

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