3.20 Balance Manifesto: Jewels and Ailment Mitigation

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Players should no longer be burdened with predictable unique Jewel quest rewards but will not entirely miss out on some of the valuable aspects they did have.

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Instead of getting rid of these, we've made them corruption-only unique Jewels.

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Kagari wrote:

So the problem is the constant harasement of ailments from monsters in general because of the amount of shit happening on the screen and all the unavoidable soup of effects thrown at us with no interruption during what is left of combats.

So instead of fixing the root cause, it sounds to me that the solution is dilluting jewels stats even more so that we can hope to reach the soon to become (if not already) mandatory status ailment immunity required to not feel like shit when immerged in the previously mentionned soup.
Ailment immunity that doesnt cover the ever increasing list of effects that are aliments but not ailments cause they have the same effect but an other name.

Some niche but cool unique jewels will have their stats hopefully put on rares so it adds yet an other layer of RNG while making unique ones "chase" items. Chase meaning that most people will never see one outside of the broken things you call a trade system.

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Community_Team wrote:

Problem:
Jewels have modifiers that provide various forms of ailment avoidance or protection. However, because their current values are moderately low, you often need to stack several Jewels in order to have adequate levels of protection. We feel that this is an excessive amount of investment for how necessary ailment mitigation is to a character's build. This issue has been exacerbated by some of these mods being gated behind corruption, making them more expensive and difficult to acquire.

Solution:
We're expanding the pool of mods available on magic and rare Jewels and are making their modifier values more generous so that players have better access to sources of ailment mitigation, with less investment.

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Community_Team wrote:

Some build-enabling unique Jewels can now be found from more deterministic sources throughout Path of Exile. One example is Combat Focus which can now be obtained through a vendor recipe.