PSA: Mosaic now works on Non-Ladder

Flatau wrote: 21 hours ago

Wait, wasn't Mosaic removed with the new patch?

No. It's been disabled for ladder, not removed, and also made available on non-ladder. It will remain disabled on ladder until they are done coming up with the new version.

Itachiaurion wrote: 1 hour ago

Do we have any information on what will happen with Mosaic done before the update? Are they gonna stay as is and become more rare than ever and a limited supply, or are they gonna be fixed too?

Blizzard is working on an updated version. We don't know what it will look like. I suspect we'll get news closer to the next ladder reset, but we'll see.

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 hour ago

Itachiaurion wrote: 1 hour ago

Do we have any information on what will happen with Mosaic done before the update? Are they gonna stay as is and become more rare than ever and a limited supply, or are they gonna be fixed too?

Blizzard is working on an updated version. We don't know what it will look like. I suspect we'll get news closer to the next ladder reset, but we'll see.

Is there a single official source for that whole "it'll change" thing?

After all, the one and only thing making Mosaic as OP as it is is the

Charge retention.
Without that and even without 100% of that, it is effectively pointless (see the PTR where it was 50% with 2 of them) and would take MA sins right back into obscurity.
In terms of the item itself, there really is no proper middle Ground for "makes them good but not OP", the entire approach ended up very "OP or pointless, no in between".

What would still make far more sense would be to change MA sins themselves by (random example) introducing a limit for total

Charge count or the like. That'd hardly affect non-Mosaic sins (if at all) as they're limited by design anyways and it'd tone down Mosaic sins noticeably without rendering them pointless. And it wouldn't take a single change to the item.

Either way, per blizz themselves, Mosaic hasn't been disabled "cuz OP and needs reworking" but because it leads to a graphics bug/crash for a fair few folk and it'll remain disabled on ladder until they can fix that.

Schnorki wrote: 22 minutes ago

Is there a single official source for that whole "it'll change" thing?

Here's a source about the reason for it being disabled:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t ... led/172344

That post doesn't outright say that it's going to be reworked, that verbiage comes from MrLlamaSc's article on Icy Veins from last week.

ShadowHeart wrote: 21 minutes ago

Schnorki wrote: 22 minutes ago

Is there a single official source for that whole "it'll change" thing?

Here's a source about the reason for it being disabled:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t ... led/172344

That post doesn't outright say that it's going to be reworked, that verbiage comes from MrLlamaSc's article on Icy Veins from last week.

Aye but that's again just the graphics bug thing.
I have yet to see anything official with regards to it getting rebalanced in any way.

And even llama's comments, if one were to take his word, can very much be read as a visual redesign.

Schnorki wrote: 10 minutes ago

Aye but that's again just the graphics bug thing.
I have yet to see anything official with regards to it getting rebalanced in any way.

And even llama's comments, if one were to take his word, can very much be read as a visual redesign.

Fair

The only other official comment is back from the Q&A Blizzard held before the release in China - Matthew Cederquist answered one question by very directly stating that it will be reworked (that was over half a year ago);

Blizzard wrote:

As for Mosaic, it’s a Runeword designed specifically for the Assassin, and after its introduction, the top three pages of the ladder are dominated by Assassins, so we’re planning to rebalance Mosaic. The Druid is one of my favorite classes—my top favorite is the Necromancer, followed by the non-Mosaic Assassin. I believe

Armageddon is already one of the game’s strongest skills, so we won’t be making any changes to it. That said, for balance, we continuously listen to player feedback, make adjustments, and then gather more feedback in a cyclical process. We don’t have new information to share right now, except that we’re working on rebalancing Mosaic, but we’ll keep monitoring balance closely.