The Blond Brigade - Melee only events: 3v3, CTF, Tournament?

Updated the post, let's get this going!

My character is ready, I'm up for duels from now on.

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Márkusz wrote:

Updated the post, let's get this going!

My character is ready, I'm up for duels from now on.

There's no internet at my new flat yet, once that's sussed I'm game.

14 Grand Spectrum jewels, Haha........

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MullaXul wrote:

14 Grand Spectrum jewels, Haha........

Anyway everyone get your fire talisman + Glitterdisc ready.

i almost took this idea seriously. until I saw them tree loaded with gs jewels.

Edit: Go through the top side for golem's blood. +20str, -20dex

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ctfs wrote:

i almost took this idea seriously. until I saw them tree loaded with gs jewels

yea it s a shame but it s not in the rule set of forbidden items sadly. At least I hope those are non legacy GS.

If it was me, I would also forbid death door to push people using bloodgrip instead + bleed pots.

nope, def legacy gs jewels. Nothing against you markusz, I had a good laugh when I opened up your skill tree. Really hope you are trolling...

I see GS got a really bad reputation because people used to scale non blockable secondary damages like EA and HoT with it, but in context of melee it just one of many ways of scaling damage, which come with multiple tradeoffs:
Comes with a high price (60-80 ex jewels alone) just as traditional high end physical weapons.
My build is squishy af, I have less than 6k life with a Kaom, and besides Acro barely any mitigation.
My build is slow, and lacking aoe, because most of the tree is sacrificed for the damage, I couldn't pick enough speed, and any AoE at all.
Damage is still within reasonable amounts, I did duels with Ahfack and Mulla, and it's still pottable, they could both find ways to beat me.
GS is nowhere near the level of broken items we disabled in the first place like Zerphi or Aegis, it gives very good damage, but for a cost.

I would worry more about the big boy pdps weapons and jewelry some people will come with, but again, we can always balance anybody by arranging team members correctly in 3v3s and CTF.

Come and play the events, this is the best chance you got for some legit PoE PvP, and if there will be complaints afterwards, I will listen, and we can adjust parameters.

Although I am 100% against GS jewels in general, I don't see anything wrong with them in this setting. I think if he had all 4mod rare jewels he would be tankier and have comparable damage.

Markusz, I also had a suggestion that I think is doable for us players without scions. How about you allow other ascended classes, but NO notable/keystone nodes on the ascendancy tree. Profile must be public.

This way someone just has to use regret orbs and not re-run lab etc... And we get the 4small points before any notables.

What do you think?

I don't think that's a good idea, it really looks weird, also some classes only have 3 some others 4 small nodes they could use iirc. In the first iteraction we will try scions only, and if it's not enough we can include more ascendencies, I'm thinking one under each class, probably the weakest from each, but I'm afraid that would hurt the balance.