Content Update 3.22.0 -- Path of Exile: Trial of the Ancestors

So you just straight up deleted ruthless ascendancies? what the fuck...

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Added a new Strength/Intelligence Support Gem - Guardian's Blessing: Must support both a skill that creates minions which can be damaged, and an aura skill that creates permanent auras around you. Supported Aura Skills have no Reservation, and count as Blessing Skills. They cannot apply Auras on you unless you have Minions from a Supported Skill, but these Minions take a percentage of their Maximum Life as Physical Damage per second while you have an Aura from a Supported Skill on you.

If this support gem is placed on a golem along with an aura and combined with Elementalist's increase effect of buffs granted by your golems, does it boost the effect of the aura on you or does it not consider the aura as a buff granted by the golem?

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v2irus wrote:

To everyone complaining about ruthless:

Ruthless has more players than HC Trade mid-league. Check the trade site in a month or two when player count dropped and you will see how the game mode with 90% less drop chance has more items posted than the HC league. HC Trade is a waste of database storage in that case.
If you listen to streamers, you will even hear the name of the single developer who works on ruthless. If they didn't work on ruthless they would work on PoE2 instead, so you would still have no benefit from them.

If you want to test with a chat mute suspension, go to HC Trade and Ruthless and post Toucan. See which game mode chat gives more praises.

It only proves that HC is also dead. Or maybe that HC has different economy, where players avoid dangerous encounters and items are regularly destroyed when players die.

Next step is to delete ruthless cause POE 2 is basically POE 1 ruthless.

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v2irus wrote:

To everyone complaining about ruthless:

Ruthless has more players than HC Trade mid-league. Check the trade site in a month or two when player count dropped and you will see how the game mode with 90% less drop chance has more items posted than the HC league. HC Trade is a waste of database storage in that case.
If you listen to streamers, you will even hear the name of the single developer who works on ruthless. If they didn't work on ruthless they would work on PoE2 instead, so you would still have no benefit from them.

If you want to test with a chat mute suspension, go to HC Trade and Ruthless and post Toucan. See which game mode chat gives more praises.

Just because nobody plays HC trade doesn't make Ruthless relevant...

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Egyrt98 wrote:

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arlekiness wrote:

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Bracks_ZA wrote:

Legion 5 way exp farming gone.
So many things just gutted and nerfed that make 0 sense.
Just let us have some fun for once ya know?

"Fun detected" method used when changing tree and ascendancies is especially harmful to the game since its the core features.

I'm very interested in your definition of fun. What exactly fun in "exp farming 5way"? It's currency making method (or exp making method), sure, but what it has in common with fun?

Well getting every character after first one from lvl 70 to 95 in 30 minutes was fun you know, playing white and yellow maps when your atlas is completed--not fun

But now you need an hour instead of 30 minutes and twice of divines? Ouch, of course, but not big gamechanger. Still can do it just a little slower or I didn't get the math?

Hoped for more changes into skills :} glhf all and #hyped for new league

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Vaildez wrote:

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v2irus wrote:

To everyone complaining about ruthless:

Ruthless has more players than HC Trade mid-league. Check the trade site in a month or two when player count dropped and you will see how the game mode with 90% less drop chance has more items posted than the HC league. HC Trade is a waste of database storage in that case.
If you listen to streamers, you will even hear the name of the single developer who works on ruthless. If they didn't work on ruthless they would work on PoE2 instead, so you would still have no benefit from them.

If you want to test with a chat mute suspension, go to HC Trade and Ruthless and post Toucan. See which game mode chat gives more praises.

Just because nobody plays HC trade doesn't make Ruthless relevant...

The funny thing is the data he is comparing is a problem. Two opposite things occur in those game modes.

HC trade is popular for a very short period of time. If you wanna play HC trade, you gotta do it in first month mostly. The HC league cycle usually end when Gauntlet start, but it does die off way quicker than SC yes.

Ruthless has the opposite thing going. Many people who do not play there on the first month may decide to do so mid-league when they are done with the league. I saw countless people like that when I played Ruthless in Sanctum league. I was rank 2, I had played there heavily since start of league, there was very very few people who were in t16, almost nobody reach such milestone like having 4 voidstones. But we always had a perpetual flow of new players in storyline buying support gems from the few of us who had stored several tabs of those things already. The permanent long-term ruthless playerbase was much smaller than the many part-time-join-when-done-with-league playerbase was. The game likely grew more popular mid-league than start of league.

So yes, what are you comparing here? Ruthless when it peak in popularity to HC when it already died? HC trade on league start is definitely a populated game mode compared to Ruthless SC trade. That's where it matter. Ruthless grow from people who try it as a fresh start opportunity, basically a "private league" option that is always available.

Lol why remove stun immunity from the only ascendancy where it makes sense bc its art implies that a Juggernaut is heavily armored? (I know its ruthless and lore shouldnt influence gameplay but still...This doesnt make any sense IMO)

Last account statistics from poe.ninja:

Crucible: 96146
HC Crucible: 14348
SSF Crucible: 18751
HC SSF Crucible: 11542

R Crucible: 6059
HC R Crucible: 1688
SSF R Crucible: 4967
HC SSF R Crucible: 5814

Ruthless is more significant in non-trade areas