Temple Termagant
Posts: 13
Joined: Wednesday, 11th July 2012, 04:29
Remove Hell Effect Glow
Glow contamination caused by Hell effects is extremely annoying, potentially crippling, but most importantly has no meaningful counterplay. There's no way to avoid it other than going as fast as you safely can, but the player is already going to be doing that as you have no reason to linger in Hell. Its pure RNG whether you get hit by glow and how much of it. A fast player could get contaminated multiple times while a slow one never gets hit by it. Also, none of the other hell effects harm your character in a permanent fashion, so it feels inconsistent. Getting hit by glow multiple times is just incredibly spiteful RNG.
The only way to negate hell glow is to consume cancellation potions, a rare consumable that you really don't want to waste. Plus you need them to cancel petrification in Dis, something that can easily kill even the strongest characters. The result is that I barely ever use these for most of the game because I'm so concerned about hoarding them for Hell, and this is often the correct choice. Having an RNG effect that boils down to a rare consumable check just isn't good design, both for difficulty and enjoyable gameplay.
I can't think of any compelling reason for it to remain.