3.18.0d Patch Notes Preview

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moozooh wrote:

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Reshemin wrote:

The current state of things not only kills build diversity, but also monster diversity.
The exact nature of your opponent becomes close to irrelevant when all of it's innate, basic abilities completely pale in comparison and are plain lost to the overshadowing AN mod it has.
You're no longer fighting Shield Crabs, Porcupines or Skeleton Archers but Storm Striders, Chaosweavers or Mana Siphoners.

I'm so glad you've brought this up.

GGG often tends to slip into the line of thinking that PoE is Dark Souls, a game where you basically duel 1–3 monsters at a time, spatial awareness is high, and the difficulty comes from the need to execute highly tactical counterplay that uses the strong aspects of your build and makes up for its deficiencies against all kinds of content. It's a game that severely punishes you for recklessness and slop but rewards understanding of the enemy and skill in acting upon that knowledge.

But while they're happily thinking that with one side of their brains, the other side keeps making PoE a game where you're swarmed with 100–300 monsters per screen, making all tactics go out the window, specifically limiting kiting to the point of being completely impossible (because content mechanics tend to trap you into chokepoints and small arenas like in e.g. Ritual), reading mods and other forms of visual identification also become impossible because you can't so much as train your mouse cursor on a target, let alone make it out behind all the visual noise. It's schizophrenic by design.

So in the end, you have to adopt one of the two ways of dealing with it: either make all of your builds immune to as many threats as possible regardless of whether it makes sense (such as forcing reflect immunity on DoT builds for Effigy alone which would be otherwise unneeded), or sacrifice defenses more or less entirely for enough DPS to kill everything on sight regardless of map mods. That's it, there's no middle ground anymore because taking the middle ground will get you killed all the time for reasons you can't compensate with skill, knowledge, or effort.

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moozooh wrote:

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namikazemaru wrote:

You are not impressing anyone with this post.

I checked out of curiosity, and naturally, all the "game's too easy, git gud, wah!" players are playing trade SC. Of course game's too easy when you can afford dying and still have any gear you want. They're the ones who don't want to challenge themselves.

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Xystre wrote:

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Rare monsters in past league content is something we'll review for 3.19.

It seems archnemesis is going to stay core for 3.19 and beyond.. that's from reddit because having this kind of things here is too much trouble..

3.18 "big" changes are done if you expected big changes you're out of luck.. try again in 3.19.