Patch Notes - Content Update 3.23.0 -- Path of Exile: Affliction - Forum

"Freezing Pulse: No longer has 0-19% increased Projectile Speed." - Okay, so what does it have then? Edit: My bad I thought GGG was referring to quality changes. "With the Speaker of the Dead Keystone Atlas Passive, Players can now Touch up to 20 nearby normal or magic Monsters for each Tormented Spirit Possessing them (previously 50)." - Whoopdy freaking do. All your Nov event showed is that you have to run after the damn Tormented Spirits and get down on your knees and beg them to get into you and they still run the f away from you. So dumb! Great idea, poorly executed - the norm these days sadly. "With the Destructive Play Atlas Keystone allocated, killing the Map boss before The Maven can cast Up The Stakes no longer causes her to leave without summoning additional bosses." - No idea why this is even a thing if the summoned bosses don't count towards witnessing. Again, great idea, poor execution. No keystone for Harbinger (i.e. to make it not sh*t and just used for achievements, which there usually are)? Since adding Fracturing Orbs, and their shards (while also not adding Divine shards), Harbinger is the only league mechanic in the Atlas (Beyond more a map mod) that does NOT spawn at random and have to force it through specing into it on the tree. GGG and their stinginess with currency in a nutshell right there. Last edited by 5K0RP10 on Dec 1, 2023, 2:46:47 PM	Posted by 5K0RP10 on Dec 1, 2023, 2:29:58 PM Quote this Post
I love it!	Posted by farsys on Dec 1, 2023, 2:39:03 PM Quote this Post
" Mirror_Sliver wrote: Hello Iam playing PoE since Breach-League and i love this game. But its firsttime that i write something in the forum, because iam kinda worried about this patchnotes. I really hate the lab... Its ugly, outdated and some builds are just bad for it (ok you can get carry, but its extra work and payment). It was okayish (for me) to do it for the ascendancy, but i never farmed the helmet enchants (i tried, but its boring and not rewarding beside the said enchant). But even so, I think you taking too much freedom from the players (freedom of choice, to fiddle with the enchant/ unique gems and quality and the freedom to choose the content we play. Same for ultimatum and catalysts, because even if didnt played metamorph (personaly i will miss the oneshots xD) we could get them from other sources. I understand that you want to simplify/group some mechanics but why do it this way? Because now its all in one skill-gem and we cant do it step for step. Also lore-wise (ok most people dont care i guess ;) suddenly there are tons of new virtue gems lyinng around in the lab, which was plundered hundred times before... Would be better to tie it to the new mechanic (Azimeri where close to the Vaal, so they could get some virtue gems from them as gifts or steal them. Maybe some shamans/witches would then experiment with this gems years later and transfigure them but also awake this Darkness due a failure. What iam trying to say (sorry/not sorry, english is not my first language): It feels bad to be forced, to do something. And iam feeling forced to do the lab and ultimatum now. Ultimatum not soo bad, because its in maps, but lab... Well, lets wait and see the new gems, items and the affliction stuff Thanks for reading "Stay sane Exiles" You are no more forced to play the lab than you were forced to run unusual gem blueprints (unless SSF in which case you asked for it). Just buy the transfigured gems from players that like to run labs, same as you used to buy alt quality ones from players theat liked to run blueprints. What's the difference? Last edited by Ruddski on Dec 1, 2023, 2:43:53 PM	Posted by Ruddski on Dec 1, 2023, 2:43:34 PM Quote this Post
" zombies99didnothingwrong wrote: My Toxic Rain alive, YAY Thx GGG, good work, as always <3 What's good work for doesn't necessarily mean good work for the others. Stupid PoE2 Particle System Patch... New mute system is another hot garbage. Last edited by y3lw0rC on Dec 1, 2023, 2:56:35 PM	Posted by y3lw0rC on Dec 1, 2023, 2:50:02 PM Quote this Post
THANK YOU !!!	Posted by nikitosinenka on Dec 1, 2023, 2:51:31 PM Quote this Post
" TizeNO wrote: " albusdumbaldor wrote: I don't really understand why they don't want people to play discharge at all cost. I played Discharge like last 5 leagues and i didn't exploit that mega stupid op glitch. So you can still play Discharge if you want. I will probably even play it this league. Ah yea my bad i forgot not a single copy paste streamer build is now open for Discharge, and for some people it's to hard to use their own iq. Well if you checked my profile you would see that I didn't play a Ralakesh build... just wanted to play CoC Discharge, which would be impossible now.	Posted by albusdumbaldor on Dec 1, 2023, 2:57:53 PM Quote this Post
Oh no, my copy paste build that I slavishly follow no longer works in exactly the same way as it did before, and thinking is hard, so I'm going to cry until some streamer tells me how to fix it!!! Come on, just get a grip, change is good, and I very much doubt any build has been truly broken, they will just need a bit of creative thinking to get them back on track, and chances are, with the new ascendancies, we will see some truly ridiculous power. Last edited by Ruddski on Dec 1, 2023, 3:00:20 PM	Posted by Ruddski on Dec 1, 2023, 2:58:39 PM Quote this Post
Can we please get a clearer way to see where to go in the affliction zones? you mentioned it being "lightened up" but i cou;dn't see it at all. maybe im just color blind but all i saw was the circle around the character which didn't tell me where to go for encounters or npcs at all :*(	Posted by Nyalex on Dec 1, 2023, 2:58:44 PM Quote this Post
gg nice changes!	Posted by UnluckyKapper on Dec 1, 2023, 3:09:55 PM Quote this Post
LogIn! A question will Hinekora's Lock still work till new league lunche day? or is it gonna stop forsen double corruption on current league end? Last edited by bado15190 on Dec 1, 2023, 3:30:36 PM	Posted by bado15190 on Dec 1, 2023, 3:30:18 PM Quote this Post